Over the last several months, the Aerospace industry, which includes commercial airlines has been one of the biggest, unquestioned losers in the stock market. Yes, the biggest portion of that drop comes from the reality that the industry took some of the biggest drawdowns in the market starting in February as commercial travel dried up […]
Read MoreIf you listen to analysts and talking heads on popular news media, the best places to be in the stock market include the Technology sector, which makes a certain kind of sense since Tech stocks have generally been the highest performers since the market hit a bear market bottom in March of this year. A […]
Read MoreJust about all of the attention of market analysts and talking heads this year has focused on just a couple of economic sectors as the best places to find opportunities for growth in the stock market. Given the fact that the entire world has had to deal with the effects of the coronavirus epidemic, and […]
Read MoreThe market is focusing most of its attention on an expanded list of companies reporting earnings this week, with investors eager to see if earnings provide indications that corporate America is weathering the pandemic storm successfully and to measure the odds that the economy will continue to recover. News over the weekend that lawmakers in […]
Read MoreThe market seems intent on rebounding from last week’s break in bullish momentum, with the major indices at the beginning of a new week all moving higher. That looks like another sign that investors generally want to emphasize the positive and be hopeful. Indications over the weekend that the federal government could approve a second […]
Read MoreOne of the big challenges during any economic period of being a value-oriented investor isn’t merely finding stocks that are trading at a discount to valuation metrics like Book Value. It is determining if the stock’s discount is due to temporary market forces like investor sentiment, which is often influenced by short-term uncertainty more than […]
Read MoreThe 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 niche, there were significant challenges even before COVID-19 became a global pandemic. Declining revenues […]
Read MoreOver the last week, the market has been set on pushing to new higher highs, with the Nasdaq setting a new all-time high at the beginning of this week and the S&P 500 breaking above its last pivot high in May. The start of a new earnings season seems to have lifted investor sentiment, as […]
Read MoreThe Materials sector is one of the more interesting sectors of the market, because it encompasses a pretty wide range of business types. It’s also an industry that the average consumer probably doesn’t think much about, I think primarily because as consumers we tend to be aware of just the finished goods and products that […]
Read More2020 has been a rough year for energy stocks. Even before COVID-19 became a global health crisis, the sector was rocked by an all-out price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia. At the beginning of the year, Brent crude – the benchmark for oil exported from OPEC and OPEC+ countries – was around $70 per […]
Read MoreMy approach to value-oriented investing can’t really be called pure value analysis. The main reason for that is because traditional value investing doesn’t worry about what a stock’s price has been doing; it is only concerned with what the stock’s price is now versus what the combination of fundamental and value metrics suggest it should […]
Read MoreCisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) is one of the most recognizable and established companies in the Technology sector. With a market cap of about $200 billion, they are also one of the largest, if not THE largest player in the Networking & Communications segment. They are, without question, the standard that all other networking businesses are […]
Read MoreEven as the stock surges higher, one trader says Tesla shares aren’t a buy until they fall to this level.
Read MoreThe market seems intent on keying off of encouraging news on the vaccine front, using it as the primary reason to keep pushing the market higher this week. It’s tempting to think that a fast-tracked vaccine is good news across the board, and so you should be “all in” on the market. I think that […]
Read MoreOil prices were among some of the most dramatically impacted components of the global economy at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. As businesses were shuttered, and shelter-in-place orders ground economic activity everywhere to a halt, demand for crude oil cratered; both West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent crude fell to shockingly low levels. […]
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