The Consumer Discretionary sector includes stocks that cover a wide variety of the Retail industry. Because there are so many retail companies that offer different products to consumers, it’s hard to pinpoint any kind of specific niche. In the sporting goods category, there were significant challenges even before COVID-19 became a global pandemic. Declining revenues […]
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 pass the value list because the massive amount of […]
Read MoreThere are any number of dynamics that come to play in the markets at any given time, which means that the ebb and flow of a nation’s economic health can be tied to a lot of other societal elements, including political and geopolitical shifts, social perceptions and changes, and as we have seen for almost […]
Read MoreOne of the market trends that has been getting an increasing amount of attention for the past few years is in electric vehicles. It’s easy to focus on companies like Tesla, Inc. (TSLA), NIO Inc. (NIO) and others because they are the companies producing the final product – the vehicle you get to slide behind […]
Read MoreOver the last three years, I’ve used economic uncertainty – first from a year-long trade war through 2019, and then of course the COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020 – as the basis for a lot of the analysis, and certainly some of my own investments in the marketplace. I think that when economic conditions become […]
Read MoreOne of the most successful investors in the entire history of the U.S. stock market, and arguably the most famous of our era is Warren Buffett. His annual reports for Berkshire Hathaway have long been considered required reading for any serious fundamental or value-oriented investor because of the way he outlines his views of current […]
Read MoreThere is a lot of fundamental data that I rely on to help paint an overall picture about 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, I prefer to expand my view of a company’s […]
Read MoreIn market terms, one of the natural side effects of the COVID-19 health crisis has been an elevated focus on stocks in the Healthcare sector. That covers a wide range of industries, from health insurance to biopharmaceutical and healthcare equipment and supplies. All of these companies have spent the last eighteen months not only coping […]
Read MoreThrough a big portion of 2020, one of the areas that I was able to find some interesting valuations to work with was in the Telecommunications industry. Some of the largest players in the industry do much more than just telecommunications. For example, AT&T Inc. (T) has, of course long been one of the largest […]
Read MoreThe Tech sector has been one of the top-performing areas of the market for the past year, which isn’t too surprising given the way Technology has enabled the corporate world to shift operational models to remote, work-from-home, and flexible working arrangements because of the ongoing pandemic. As analyst, I’ve been interested to see how it […]
Read MoreFor the stock market, 2021 clearly appears to reflect investor’s desire to move away from the pandemic-dominated conversations of 2020 and look ahead. One of the ways that has been seen over the last few weeks is in a pretty broad rotation away from conservative, defensive-oriented stocks in sectors like Consumer Staples and into more […]
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 MoreIntel Corp (INTC) is a stock that I’ve followed for quite some time, and that I’ve written about in this space quite a bit over the last few months. 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 […]
Read MoreIf this week is any indication, I think it’s a good bet to say that volatility could be the most accurate description of market activity for the next few weeks. Late in Tuesday’s trading session, all of the major indices turned sharply lower after President Trump tweeted an order to Republicans to halt all talks […]
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 […]
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