2020 has proven to be a remarkable year, to be sure. The global pandemic has been an ever-present specter that has colored just about every major storyline for the year, whether you’re talking about politics, economics, social trends, or just about anything else. As it relates to investments, the market’s plunge from late February to […]
Read MoreThe massive rally of the last week appears to have begun to taper in the last couple of days, which really shouldn’t be surprising at all. It’s pretty normal for the market movement moderate, or even move back in the opposite direction of quick, rapid moves to either the upside or downside. One of the […]
Read MoreIt’s a bit interesting to me to see that while Healthcare stocks in general have performed well this year in no small measure due to the ongoing pandemic, the gains don’t extend to every single stock in that sector. That’s isn’t altogether unusual; after all, no matter what direction the trend of a given sector […]
Read MoreIn the early stages of the arrival and spread of COVID-19 in the United States, I wrote in this space about my belief that one of the best places a smart investor should focus their attention is on healthcare stocks, including companies in the pharmacy space. This week has seen the pandemic take center stage, […]
Read MoreOver the last month or so, the market has struggled to establish a clear direction. Increasing COVID cases across the country are finally starting to cause concern, especially heading into the colder months of the year, while the political arena has only gotten more divisive and contentious in the weeks ahead of the presidential election. […]
Read MoreIt may seem a bit incongruous, but the truth is that value investing tends to be counter-intuitive to the mindset that most investors take to the market. I say incongruous because, at its most basic starting point, the principle of value investing fits well with rule #1 of investing in the stock market – buy […]
Read MoreThroughout the last several months, it has been interesting to sit back and observe the dichotomy between price action in the stock market and actual economic growth. Increasing infection rates across the United States along with still historically high unemployment numbers showing that economic recovery is much slower than the market would prefer to see. […]
Read MoreIf you think strictly about price performance and what the price of a stock is now relative to where it was in the past – in particular, relative to where it was on a pre-pandemic basis – it’s pretty easy to understand why so much attention is being paid to Tech stocks that make remote […]
Read MoreOne of the interesting threads that comes out of periods of market volatility is a wave of investor rotation into “defensive” sectors, which usually includes Utilities, Consumer Staples and other pockets of the market that investors tend to think of as safe havens when market uncertainty is high. Another favorite topic analysts seem to like […]
Read MoreIt’s kind of funny to see how popular opinion among investors shifts under different conditions. A stock market that has recovered in record time from the fastest plunge to bear market low in recorded history, in the face of the pandemic that prompted the downturn in the first place continues practically unabated, has prompted investors […]
Read MoreWhile investing strategies fall in and out of favor with popular market news media types and talking heads depending on the shifting winds of opinion and popular preference at any given time, I think value analysis provides the best way to find stocks that you can work with in any market or economic environment. That […]
Read MoreUncertain economic conditions have proven to be a good time to think about stocks that most people tend to overlook because they’re “boring.” These are stocks that also tend to operate in counter-cyclical fashion. It’s been interesting – but not surprising – to see a bit of a resurgence in stocks in the Food Products […]
Read MoreThis morning I was a little surprised to see a couple of reports that had analysts saying that since there is no precedent for current market conditions, there is no limit to how much higher the market can go. That kind of capitulation from the analyst side of things – essentially saying “all the rules […]
Read MoreI seem to be noticing a new trend, not just among average consumers and investors, but even among people that I think should be hard-wired to know better, and that’s a desire to just write off 2020 and hit the reset switch. A lot of the commentary and debate among talking heads and market news […]
Read MoreThis week, I’ve turned my attention back to the Pharmacy industry – but specifically focusing on the distributors that supply the biggest pharmacies in the U.S. Understanding how some of those relationships work for a company you may have been following for a while can help identify new opportunities to think about. Over the last […]
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