More than two decades of experience as a student of the markets have taught me that while the market is generally resilient, there is one word that always seems to automatically put the market on edge: change. The COVID-19 pandemic was the start of the most recent example. After a decade of practically uninterrupted growth, […]
Read MoreAs a conservative-minded, value and fundamental-driven investor, my natural tendency is to shy away from stocks that market experts and popular market media analysts tend to talk to the most about. Another way to describe this mindset uses the word “contrarian,” and it’s a mindset that I think has even more importance the longer market […]
Read MoreThere are too many stocks in the marketplace for one person to pay attention to at any given time. I don’t try; instead one of the best tools I’ve found to filter through the market quickly for fundamental strength is dividend payout. Dividends are one of the simplest ways for a company’s management to express […]
Read MoreCal-Maine Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces, grades, packages, markets, and distributes shell eggs. The company offers specialty shell eggs, such as nutritionally enhanced, cage free, organic, and brown eggs under the Egg-Land’s Best, Land O’ Lakes, Farmhouse Eggs, and 4-Grain brand names, as well as under private labels. CALM $59.2900 1.1600 % 2.0000 […]
Read MoreContrarian investors and bargain hunters are cut from a different kind of cloth than growth-focused investors. When everybody is buying, we tend to get more cautious, and when everybody is running for the exits, we start finding more and more attractive opportunities at great prices. 2022 has been a rough year for just about every […]
Read MoreMore than two decades of experience as an investor and market analyst have taught me that while the market is very resilient in the long-term, there is one word that always seems to automatically put the market on edge: change. The COVID-19 pandemic is a good example of what I mean. After a decade of […]
Read MoreAs a conservative-minded, value and fundamental-driven investor, my natural tendency is to shy away from stocks that market experts and popular market media analysts tend to talk to the most about. Another way to describe this mindset uses the word “contrarian,” and it’s a mindset that I think is becoming more and more attractive the […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — As summer winds down and the holiday season nears, California’s $1 billion walnut industry is gearing up for its busiest shipping season. The problem is getting nuts out the door. Farmers started the new marketing year Thursday with a massive backlog of product as they prepare to harvest what could be a bumper […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The US is set to harvest its smallest corn crop in three years, dashing hopes that one of the world’s largest agricultural exporters would give some relief to a global grain supply crunch and a break on higher food prices. The corn harvest in the world’s biggest producer will total 13.759 billion bushels, […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Worries over surging global food costs are easing as prices of everything from cooking oils to wheat and corn tumble to the lowest levels in months on increasing physical supplies and as investors reduce their bullish bets on futures markets. Palm oil, the world’s most consumed edible oil, has plunged more than 40% […]
Read MoreGrowth investing leans heavily on the principle that “a stock tends to follow the direction of its previous trend,” which may just be a nerdy way to say that the longer a stock has been going up, the more likely it is to keep going up. It is also why growth investors shun stocks that […]
Read MoreAfter COVID-19 dominated headlines through 2020 and 2021, there is one word that can sum up market concerns this year, and it isn’t pandemic. Inflation is one of those words that tends to stoke fear in the marketplace, because it is usually tied so closely with the ebb and flow of interest rates. The reality […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Rising food prices and turbulent global commodities markets are fueling a surge in wealth for the billionaire family behind America’s largest closely held company. Three more members of the Cargill family — siblings James Cargill, Austen Cargill and Marianne Liebmann — have joined the ranks of the world’s 500 richest people thanks to […]
Read MoreAs a conservative-minded, value and fundamental-driven investor, my natural tendency is to shy away from stocks that market experts and popular market media analysts tend to talk to the most about. That means that my investments rarely look very sexy – but I’m far more interested in being able to keep my money working for […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Two crops dominate U.S. farming: corn and soybeans. The former requires massive amounts of fertilizer. The latter requires very little. Which is why the astronomical surge in fertilizer prices — they’re up some 27% this year and 130% over the past year — is causing farmers to quickly re-calibrate the amount of each […]
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