No matter whether you prefer to focus on short-term trading strategies that emphasize a stock’s current price momentum or longer-term methods focusing on fundamental strength and a stock’s value-based price, there are a myriad number of issues that come at you and demand attention. Some of those elements can be foreseen to a certain extent; […]
Read MoreOne 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. It’s often called the “reopening trade,” referring to the industries and stocks that may be best positioned […]
Read MoreUncertainty in the financial markets, and in the economy is usually considered a bad thing, because it makes things more difficult and stressful for everybody. Even though the major market indices have been pushing to new all-time highs for the last month, for example, there is still plenty of concern about the pace of inflationary […]
Read MoreOne of the big recovery stories this year has come from the Aerospace industry, which includes commercial airlines. It comes as no surprise, really to say that in 2020 and the early part of 2021 the industry was one of the biggest, unquestioned losers in the stock market after commercial travel dried up to practically […]
Read MoreAs a value investor, the search for stocks trading at useful values never really stops, no matter whether the market is sitting at new all-time highs such as what we’ve been seeing since mid-October, or if it has been following a sustained downward trend. Extended conditions tend to elevate valuations across the board, which makes […]
Read MoreTraditional, growth-oriented investing puts most of its emphasis on stocks that have already started moving up. That makes sense when you consider the popular technical idiom that a “stock tends to follow the direction of its next longer trend.” That means that when you can clearly see a stock going up, it should continue to […]
Read MoreNo matter how tired we get of hearing about COVID-19, there is no denying that ever since the virus found its way to American shores, a lot of media attention has been given to the Healthcare sector – and especially to the Biotechnology industry, where many of the biggest names across the world worked nonstop […]
Read MoreOver the course of my investing career, I have learned to rely on a lot of fundamental data to paint a picture about the underlying strength of any stock I might consider using for a value-based investment. While some fundamental investors prefer to work with easy-to-reference, quick-glance data like earnings per share and price-to-earnings ratios, […]
Read MoreFor most of the past two years, stocks in the Health Care sector have drawn a lot of attention from investors and analysts. That includes stocks in the Pharmacy/Drugstore industry; these were names, like Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) and CVS Corporation (CVS) that worked actively in the early stages of the crisis as a critical […]
Read MoreOne of the big challenges for average investors is sifting through the mountains of information that comes from the market on a daily basis. I think that may be the biggest reason that so many investors have learned over the course of decades of market activity to rely on analyst estimates for a company’s future […]
Read MoreIntel Corp (INTC) is a stock that I’ve followed for quite some time, and that I’ve written about in this space periodically for quite a while. This is one of the 600-lb gorillas of the Technology sector, after all, and the company that is easily considered the gold standard of companies in the Semiconductor industry. […]
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 MoreFor most of the last two years – even before the pandemic started – one of the areas that I have been able to find some interesting valuations to work have come from the Telecommunications industry. Some of the largest players in the industry do much more than just telecommunications; AT&T Inc. (T) has, of […]
Read MoreThe yield on Walgreens stock is far above the average for the S&P 500. Courtesy Walgreens Boots Alliance Walgreens Boots Alliance, MSC Industrial Direct ,and Ames National each scored a recommendation as a stock to consider for a safe dividend portfolio, nudging out other reliable dividend payers offering lower yields. New Constructs, a stock research […]
Read MoreThe market pushed to a new, all-time high to start finish last week, as the most recent earnings reports seem to have given investors hope that some of the questions about inflation, interest rates, and other issues that have weighed on the market since early September may not carry a long-term impact. Economic indicators suggest […]
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