As a value-focused investor with more than a bit of a contrarian bent, I tend to get nervous when stocks keep making one new high after another, and I like it when I see stocks trading at or near historical lows. That’s pretty different than the mindset of most investors that focus on growth first, […]
Read MoreSurveying the stock market right now is an interesting mix of contradictions. It seems that with very few exceptions, every industry in almost every sector has had to absorb some kind of impact from the global pandemic that that plagued the world through 2020, and remains an ongoing concern even as the first practical vaccines […]
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 throughout 2020. 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 MoreWhile most of the Tech sector has been leading the market throughout the year, there are some stocks that have definitely not kept pace. That is always true in any sector, not matter what the broad sector momentum looks like, there are always individual companies that will diverge from the normal pattern. In 2020, the […]
Read MoreI like to keep a pretty broad watchlist of stocks that I can check up on every day. That watchlist feeds most of the investments I end up making; that also means that many of those stocks have become “good, old friends” that I’ve used on multiple occasions. Another advantage of keeping a watchlist of […]
Read MoreFor many investors, value investing is a useful to analyze potential investment opportunities because of the way that it naturally gravitates to stocks that are generally already at or near historical low prices. That sounds counter-intuitive to most of us, because the overwhelming majority of analysts and talking heads always talk more about stocks that […]
Read MoreOne of the really remarkable stories about 2020 in the stock market is the way that the Tech sector has led the way after a pandemic-induced drop to bear market levels back to new highs. The biggest winner over the last eight months has been the Tech sector, where a number of stocks not only […]
Read MoreOne of the more interesting narratives throughout the year from a functional standpoint as an investor is where the most profitable opportunities have been found this year, even as businesses across the world have been forced to shut down, or at best, significantly adjust the way they do business. When you consider the sheer scope […]
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 MoreOne of the things I like about value investing is the way that it naturally gravitates to stocks that are generally already at or near historical low prices. Under normal circumstances, that usually means that the downside risk aspect of buying a stock is minimized simply because the market is usually more likely to push […]
Read MoreOne of the traps that a lot of investors tend to fall into comes from the idiom “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In the broadest sense, the implication is that when the broad market is going up, stocks in general should be going up. The concept also drills down to individual sectors and industries […]
Read MoreCisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) is one of the most recognizable and established companies in the Technology sector. With a market cap of about $167 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 MoreAs a value-focused investor with more than a bit of a contrarian bent, I tend to get nervous when stocks keep making one new high after another, and I like it when I see stocks trading at or near historical lows. That’s pretty different than the mindset of most investors that focus on growth first, […]
Read MoreWhile the Tech sector has been a bit depressed over the last month, most analysts continue to expect Tech stocks to lead the market for the foreseeable future. That is especially true for stocks that specialize in the technologies that enable remote networking and cloud-based operations. If you follow the sector, or this particular trend, […]
Read MoreThe last few weeks appear to have brought uncertainty back to the market. Rising infections in a number of states seem to coincide with the reopening of schools, with the demographics showing most of those infections coming among teen to college-age young people. To some, that might not sound like a big deal, but it […]
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