Symantec Just Became The Perfect Stock For Bargain Hunters

Symantec Corporation (SYMC) February 27, 2013 11:00 am ET Executives Stephen M. Bennett - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Analysts Adam H. Holt - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Presentation Adam H. Holt - Morgan Stanley, Research Division

By Robert Weinstein:Symantec Corporation (SYMC) is expected to report last fiscal quarter's results after the closing bell on January 25, 2012. Let's review how Symantec has performed in recent quarters.

By Bret Jensen:Despite the run up in the markets over the last week or so, there are still some values to be had. Two technology stocks that are currently unloved by the market but are priced at 35% or more under consensus price targets are Symantec (SYMC) and Micron Technology (MU).

By Trefis: Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) announced its FY 2012 results on May 7, and reported revenues of $6.9 billion, up 2.5% y-o-y. The slowdown in growth was a result of the sluggish PC market. However, Q4 results were better than the annual results with 4% growth in revenues.

By WhisperNumber: Symantec Corp. (SYMC) is expected to report earnings on Tuesday, May 7th. The whisper number is $0.37, one cent behind the analysts' estimate. SYMC has a 72% positive surprise history (having topped the whisper in 21 of the 29 earnings reports for which we have data).Earnings history:- Beat whisper: 21 qtrs- Met whisper: 1 qtrs- Missed whisper: 7 qtrs

While many will shrug at yet another "fat finger", we thought it useful to 'know' - as opposed to 'guess' - what really drove a more-than-10% flash-crash in Symantec stock this morning. As Nanex illustrates so clearly, in less than a second, over 500,000 shares were traded in a waterfall across 13 exchanges (and who knows how many dark pools). This triggered a circuit breaker which halted the stock trading for 5 minutes and when it resumed... it had recovered all those losses.

By Dana Blankenhorn: For a decade, Microsoft (MSFT) has been essentially flat. And this is close to true for all the companies in its ecosystem, both hardware companies like Hewlett Packard (HPQ) and software companies like Symantec (SYMC).

By Frank Voisin: A reader recently emailed me touting the value potential in Symantec Corp (NASDAQ: SYMC), the security, storage and systems management solutions provider that most people know as a result of its hit Norton Antivirus product. The company has been transitioning from pure software-based solutions to the cloud, with a growing portfolio of Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.