One of the themes of most of 2021 has come as investors and economists have tried to look past the difficult conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and forecast the best places to look for new investing opportunities is the “reopening trade,” referring to the industries and stocks that may be best positioned to take […]
Read MoreI find it interesting that even when conditions are uncertain, there are companies in normally cyclical industries that find new ways to succeed. Sometimes that is planned, and sometimes it happens to be the opportunistic happenstance of being in just the right place at the right time. Some of the most obvious examples of what […]
Read MoreOver the last year or so, it has been interesting to see a number of normally unremarkable, under-the-radar stocks get a lot of attention in the marketplace for different reasons. Earlier this year, the so-called “meme stocks” were getting a lot of buzz, as investors used social media platforms like Reddit to compare notes about […]
Read MoreNo matter what current market conditions may be at any given time, one of the primary questions any long-term focused investor – whether you prefer a growth or value approach – should be whether the strength of the underlying business is strong enough to justify a stock’s current price. For growth-focused investors, the question is […]
Read MoreInvestors can be divided into a lot of different categories. Day traders, swing traders, long-term investors these are just a few broad description you often hear used to describe some of the different attitudes about how to find and take advantage of opportunities that emerge in the marketplace. Even among long-term investors, there are important […]
Read MoreOver the last few months, much of the commentary we’ve been seeing on market media and among analyst reports have revolved around the “reopening” theme – what stocks you should focus on as business and economic activity starts to shows signs of coming back from the long, pandemic-driven drop we all had to deal with […]
Read MoreWithin the scope of long-term investing, there are two primary methods most investors use: investing for growth, or looking for value. I write a lot in this space about value-oriented investing, because more than two decades of study and hard experience have taught me that it is the investing method that suits me best. It […]
Read MoreI write a lot about value investing in this space; each day, I like to try to to identify areas of the market where I think good value lies, as well as where some significant investment risks lie. If you listen to a lot of talking heads on TV, when a popular, well-known stock starts […]
Read MoreThe past year and a half has provided a lot of interesting case studies not only in how corporations have evolved to survive and get by, but also in how consumer behaviors and trends have shifted. Broad-based shutdowns that shuttered businesses all over the U.S. at the beginning of the pandemic sent people home for […]
Read MoreLooking for value in the stock market is something that I have found can be done in any market condition, but it is something that tends to get dismissed by most pundits simply because it isn’t very sexy. Names like Tesla, Netflix, and Amazon practically never make the value list because the massive amount of […]
Read MoreOne of the best-performing areas of the economy over the past year has been the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has increased in value by about 38% over that period, as measured by the S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary Sector SPDR ETF (XLY). Much of that bullish move was driven by the consumer shift during the restrictive […]
Read MoreOne of the sources of a lot of conversation among talking heads and market analysts in general lies around the “reopening” concept. With social and business restrictions easing across the United States, many of the activities we all enjoyed prior to the global pandemic are coming back into a vogue. The most recent Memorial Day […]
Read MoreRecessionary economic conditions tend to challenge a lot of different segments of the market. Some sectors of the economy are commonly seen as smart, defensive places to put your money to work in when the health of the broad economy is uncertain. Consumer Staples stocks in the Food Products industry, Healthcare stocks of all types […]
Read MoreAs COVID-19 continues to fade as a primary concern in the U.S., analysts are naturally starting to talk about the pace of recovering economic activity. That includes just about every sector and industry that has been impacted by the pandemic-driven restrictions on social gathering, mask-wearing mandates and more, including the Consumer Discretionary sector, which includes […]
Read MoreInvestors can be divided into a lot of different categories. Day traders, swing traders, long-term investors these are just a few broad description you often hear used to describe some of the different attitudes about how to find and take advantage of opportunities that emerge in the marketplace. Even among long-term investors, there are important […]
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