Intel 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 past year. 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 […]
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 MorePlus, Apple delivered a massive earnings beat, Altria shares are down on mixed earnings results and Biden administration plans to ban menthol cigarettes, and Ethereum rose to a new all-time high.
Read MoreThe last year has seen a lot of different storylines emerge. Companies around the world found ways to evolve, but even so there are still significant challenges ahead. COVID is still a thing, even while pandemic-driven restrictions begin to ease, and that means that a complete “return to normal” as we tend to think of […]
Read MoreOver the last year, COVID-19 has forced businesses in just about every segment of the economy to find ways to adjust. The adoption by corporate America to work-from-home models helped keep a lot of people working, and one of the most intriguing success stories that I think will continue to be told for years to […]
Read MoreMore and more this year, consumers have been thinking about the activities they’ve been deprived from enjoying because of pandemic-driven restrictions, and what they might want to do as the economy starts to reopen. For the market, that’s good news that has prompted investors to start paying more attention to companies in industries that traditionally […]
Read MoreBeing a value-oriented investor means that seeing stocks trading at or near all-time highs is actually a demotivating factor; that’s because value-based analysis compares the value of the company’s book of business against the stock’s current price. Since the market tend to inflate stock values, upward trends typically outpace the growth in profitability. That means […]
Read MorePlus, Nikola shares are up after announcing a collaboration on hydrogen fueling stations with TravelCenters of America, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines reported earnings, and Amazon could soon bring its cashierless checkout technology to its full-size grocery stores.
Read MoreThe market’s resilience over the past year can be considered a few different ways. A skeptic, or even just a conservative investor can point to the stock’s massive rally off of March 2020, bear market lows as an indication of investor’s desire to look beyond pandemic-driven pressures and concerns to the eventual, long-anticipated recovery and […]
Read MoreWithin the scope of long-term investing, there are two primary methods most investors use: investing for growth, or looking for value. I write a lot in this space about value-oriented investing, because more than two decades of study and hard experience have taught me that it is the investing method that suits me best. One […]
Read MoreSometimes there are forces that affect a sector or industry in such a way that it creates a storyline that extends into not merely weeks, or months, but years. These can be positive or negative, but one of the things that I find interesting as an analyst is to look for those threads and try […]
Read MoreOne of the things about value investing that I think makes it hard for most investors to embrace is the fact that value-based principles tend to be counter-intuitive to the mindset that most often gets presented about the market. The first, most basic principle of value investing fits well with rule #1 of investing in […]
Read MorePlus, Fed Chairman Powell said the U.S. economy is at an “inflection point” in an interview this weekend, Apple is reportedly building a new Apple TV device, and Uber reported record gross bookings in March.
Read MoreEnergy prices – particularly in crude oil – 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 cratered; both West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent crude […]
Read MoreUnprecedented fiscal stimulus and an impending end to the pandemic could see an economic boom “easily run into 2023,” according to JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon in his annual letter to shareholders out this week.
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