Over the last few months, the Aerospace industry, which includes commercial airlines has been one of the biggest, unquestioned losers in the stock market. Yes, the biggest portion of the fact that the industry is down more than -37% since February is because commercial travel has dried up to practically nothing because of global shutdowns […]
Read MoreHealthcare stocks remain a prime area of focus for my analysis right now, and will continue to be as all of North America struggles to find a justifiable reason to get national economies restarted. I think that the basis for any kind of reopening of businesses has to come from evidence not merely that infections […]
Read MoreThe market appears to finally be taking notice of the swan dive in oil prices. Lost in the frenzy and angst of COVID-19, shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders, at least until now, was the price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia that began at the start of the year and saw West Texas Intermediate crude prices […]
Read MoreOver the last few weeks, I’ve been turning my attention more and more to companies in the Health Care sector, simply because as COVID-19 quickly turned from a distant, overseas problem to a global crisis that has now impacted the world on multiple levels, health care is among the few areas of the economy that […]
Read MoreThis week the market has followed last week’s precedent pretty strongly, moving higher to mark the strongest one-month increase since 2015. Investors have seemed anxious to look for reasons to start buying stocks again, and while it can be argued that a lot of risks remain in place, this really looks like a case where […]
Read MoreBeing a contrarian investor can mean a few different things. One is that contrarian investing is often correlated with value investing, and I think that makes sense in a lot of ways. That includes the reality that all price trends – up or down – are finite in length and duration. That means that eventually, […]
Read MoreWith the entire country on a lockdown that most experts aren’t expecting to end quickly – even as indications are that the infection curve is indeed starting to flatten in the U.S. and cities, states, and even the federal government starting to work on plans to get the economy restarted, and to determine when the […]
Read MoreInvestors, like the entire the market, and like all of us seem anxious to find some kind, any kind of reason to see hope in the future – either for the prospect of seeing some form of a “return to normal” for the U.S. at large. Get the kids going back to school, churches open […]
Read MoreYears ago, as I began my career as an investor, I read a book by Peter Lynch. Mr. Lynch had made his name, and his fortune, as the manager of Fidelity’s flagship Magellan fund in the late 70’s and ’80’s, and his incredible performance was one of the big reasons Magellan, at the time, was […]
Read MoreAs I’ve studied the market over the years, one of the intriguing contrasts comes in the way different analysis methods take in the “big picture” of the market. That includes the way that fundamental investors and analysts look at the market versus those that prefer to work on strictly technical terms. I like to work […]
Read MoreWith the entire world’s focus – financial market or otherwise – turned almost exclusively to coronavirus, social distancing, and how long it is going to take for the world to return to any kind of normalcy in the foreseeable future, it isn’t all that surprising to see market commentary emphasizing health care. I’ve spent enough […]
Read MoreThis stock could be a great defensive play according to Goldman Sachs analyst Brett Feldman.
Read MoreAs an investor that prefers to focus on value, my preference is to emphasize stocks that are currently trading at significant discounts to their basic valuation metrics. That usually means that most of my attention is directed on stocks that are also trading at or near to yearly or historical lows. That also means that […]
Read MoreFor the last few weeks, I believe that one of the biggest reasons investors, and the public at large have been so uncertain is simply because the scope of the spread of COVID-19 infection really is. Shelter-in-place orders in some cities and states followed stay-at-home and self-isolating policies that have taken place pretty much everywhere […]
Read MoreJust a few weeks ago – as concern about COVID-19 was rising, but hadn’t quite reached the panic stage that officially propelled the market into the first bear market in more than a decade – I profiled Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN) as a stock you should be watching. At the time, the stock had declined […]
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