Throughout the course of the last couple of years I’ve found the Consumer Staples sector, and specifically the Food Products industry a good place to find useful investing opportunities. In 2018 and 2019, a lot of that was being driven by international trade concerns that increased uncertainty in the marketplace. 2020 made the industry a […]
Read MoreIf you think strictly about price performance and what the price of a stock is now relative to where it was in the past – in particular, relative to where it was on a pre-pandemic basis – it’s pretty easy to understand why so much attention has been paid to Tech stocks that make remote […]
Read MoreBeing a contrarian investor can mean a few different things. To some, contrarian investing is correlated with value investing, and I think that makes sense in a lot of ways. For one thing, being a contrarian means recognizing that all price trends – up or down – are finite in length and duration. That means […]
Read MoreUncertain economic conditions have proven to be a good time to think about stocks that most people tend to overlook because they’re “boring.” These are stocks that also tend to operate in counter-cyclical fashion. It’s been interesting – but not surprising – to see a bit of a resurgence in stocks in the Food Products […]
Read MoreGetting ready to close out a year that most of us are probably anxious to put behind us and look ahead to the future has been a common theme lately on social media. I think it’s certainly true that exhaustion about COVID and everything associated with it has most people hoping for better things in […]
Read MoreGood news about continued vaccine approval and deployment, along with Congress’ approval of a second stimulus package over the weekend has the major indices very near the highs they set last week. There is a not-too-surprising temptation to think about the end of the pandemic and start looking for all of the ways that the […]
Read MoreGiven the way the market – and let’s face it, just about all of us – have been focusing all year long on pandemic-related news, including the prospects for practical vaccines, it’s safe to say that this week could see some uncertainty coming back into play. Positive news about clinical trials for a couple of […]
Read MoreUncertain economic conditions have proven to be a good time to think about stocks that most people tend to overlook because they’re “boring.” These are stocks that also tend to operate in counter-cyclical fashion. It’s been interesting – but not surprising – to see a bit of a resurgence in stocks in the Food Products […]
Read MorePlus, Merck is buying OncoImmune, Gap got an upgrade, and Cineworld shares skyrocket on financial lifeline news.
Read MoreOver the last month or so, the market has struggled to establish a clear direction. Increasing COVID cases across the country are finally starting to cause concern, especially heading into the colder months of the year, while the political arena has only gotten more divisive and contentious in the weeks ahead of the presidential election. […]
Read MoreIt may seem a bit incongruous, but the truth is that value investing tends to be counter-intuitive to the mindset that most investors take to the market. I say incongruous because, at its most basic starting point, the principle of value investing fits well with rule #1 of investing in the stock market – buy […]
Read More