The market’s recent surge in bullish momentum, driven by trade optimism, generally better-than-expected earnings, and lower interest rates appears to be giving investors lots of reasons to be as bullish as ever as we start the week. Monday the S&P 500 set a new all-time high, something that from a technical standpoint could mark the […]
Read MoreAs a value-oriented investor that uses fundamental analysis to screen the market for attractive opportunities, I’ve had to learn over the years how to differentiate between a stock that looks like a good bargain versus those that really are. The irony of that statement is that just as no stock investment is ever guaranteed, the […]
Read MoreOver the last couple of days, I’ve focused my attention in this space on stocks in the Beverages industry of the Consumer Staples sector as defensive-oriented stocks that smart investors might want to think about working with under current market conditions. Volatility has been the word of the past month or so, with the market […]
Read MoreI find it pretty interesting that despite all the hand-wringing about trade, many of the companies in industries that are most directly affected by tariff uncertainty, including semiconductors, have performed incredibly well this year. Technology companies are among those that everybody recognizes are the most directly impacted by trade, and since tariffs between the U.S. […]
Read MoreIf you’ve followed my posts in this blog for very long, you know that my preference when considering a stock as a new investing opportunity is to look at it from a combination of fundamental strength as well as value. It isn’t enough to simply find a company with a strong book of business and […]
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading my daily posts for very long at all, you should be pretty used to seeing me evaluate companies throughout the market on the basis of both their fundamental strength as well as their value proposition. That’s because in the search for good investing opportunities, I’ve learned to rely on a few […]
Read MoreThere are a lot of factors that a smart investor should consider when thinking about using a stock for a long-term investing opportunity. A company’s fundamental strength and relative value are two of the primary elements that I pay attention to, but along with those I also factor in technical factors like the stock’s long-term […]
Read MoreWhile a lot of sectors in the market are showing a heightened level of volatility and sensitivity lately, many of them remain up quite nicely year to date, or over the past year. Trade concerns have become more and more heightened lately, spreading volatility throughout the market and pushing the curve between short-term and longer-term […]
Read MoreAs it relates to trade, most analysts agree that the sectors that are the most sensitive to pressures from tariffs, currency devaluations, and geopolitical tensions include Industrial stocks. As trade concerns have mounted in the last month, the Industrial sector has dropped by almost -5, and is mostly flat over the last twelve months; however, […]
Read MoreTrade tensions, which have persisted for well over a year, have worked to amp up market tension at different periods throughout the year. The prospect for trade compromise helped the market rally strongly from the beginning of this year until mid-July, when the Fed’s more modest-than-expected interest rate cut, along with the cold reality that […]
Read MoreThere are a lot of ways to look at a company and evaluate them for fundamental strength. Traditional metrics, including many of the ones that I rely on for the stocks that I analyze, measure everything from sales and earnings growth to how much productivity the company realizes per employee. You can break down the […]
Read MoreThe energy sector is one of the most cyclical sectors of the economy, primarily because of its reliance on oil. Oil prices are often highly volatile depending any number of factors, ranging from geopolitics to weather phenomenon to simply supply and demand. A good example of that volatility was seen in the latter part of […]
Read MoreCisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) is one of the most recognizable and established companies in the Technology sector. With a market cap of nearly $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 MoreAs trade tensions have restored volatility to the market, sectors like Industrials and Technology appear to be on the bleeding edge of risk exposure. That’s because the longer tariffs remain in place – and both the U.S. and China keep drawing their own respective hard lines in the sand about trade – the more the […]
Read MoreMarket volatility has come back in a big way over the last two days. I don’t think it should be all that surprising, given the way that trade and tariffs have dominated market commentary for most of the last year and a half. Even as officials from both the U.S. and China resumed negotiations last […]
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