Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
How to Earn 10% From the Safest Company in America / Companies / Investing 2009
By: DailyWealth
Tom Dyson writes: I just listened to Bill Berkley's third-quarter conference call...
Bill Berkley started an insurance business while he was a student at Harvard in 1967 with $2,500 in capital. Today, Bill's company, W.R. Berkley, is the ninth-largest property and casualty insurer in America, with a market cap of $4 billion.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Quality Individual U.S. Companies / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
We generally prefer investment funds over individual stocks to minimize investment selection risk (focusing more on asset allocation as the greater issue). However, when we do look at individual stocks, we focus on quality companies with financial strength, limited leverage, solid cash flow, and growing sales and dividends.
Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Looking for Potential Sinkers in the S&P 1500 Stocks Index / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
This is a practical follow-up to our recent article on volume as an indicator, and on divergence between volume and price action in particular.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Why It’s Almost Time to Buy These Left for Dead Stocks / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
The last time this happened investors made 10 to 20 times their money.
Now an opportunity for similar gains is fast approaching.
Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 12, 2009
Looking Beyond Bankrupt Banks At These Zombie Free Zones / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Quantum Fund co-founder George Soros had it right on Monday, when he said the U.S. recovery would be held back by "basically bankrupt" banks and companies.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Is the United States on Sale? / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes:
When more than $14 billion in merger-and-acquisition deals were announced in a single day last week, U.S. stock prices zoomed as investors embraced a suddenly more-bullish outlook.
As last Monday demonstrated, any increase in dealmaking activity tends to move markets higher: With the chance of windfall profits from a surprise buyout, investors tend to bid up shares of companies that might be buyout candidates. It was the explosion of M&A deals two years ago that helped propel the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its Oct. 12, 2007 record high of 14,093.08.
Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 02, 2009
Good Investment Indicator for Uncovering Bargain Stocks / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: For investors who fear that the markets have soared too far too fast, the thought that some stocks may still be cheap is hard to imagine - especially when it comes to China.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
How to Profit from Three Desperate Companies / Companies / Investing 2009
By: DailyWealth
I heard an interesting story last week from the CFO of an insurance company I follow...
This company had insured a restaurant in Miami last year. It's a modest restaurant with a property value of $1.5 million. It's located six miles from the coast, which makes it "zone one" in terms of hurricane risk.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Explosive Stock Market Alert, Where and What to Buy? / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Jay_DeVincentis
Where and What To Buy
This weekly report helps you find stocks to trade.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
What's Warren Buffett Buying Now? / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes: As shares of Berhshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) plunged over the past year, it became fashionable to ask whether or not Warren Buffett had lost his touch.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Government Stimulus Spending Boosts Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Horacio Marquez writes: Steel maker Nucor Corp.'s (NYSE: NUE) stock has rallied some 51% from its March 3 low of $29.84 a share and has twice bumped against its recent high of $49.91 a share.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Hot Emerging Market Stocks For Global Growth / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes: With sales volume plunging in Western markets, Molson Coors Brewing Co. (NYSE: TAP) and SABMiller PLC (OTC ADR: SBMRY) are tapping into emerging markets for refreshing growth.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Filtered Equity Income Stock Growth Prospects / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
We are increasingly asked about low risk individual stocks that may be suitable for an equity income allocation within a portfolio. This is a general response to that question.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Top List of Companies with Greatest Financial Strength / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
This list of companies selected for top financial strength characteristics could be valuable to do-it-yourself, conservative, risk averse individual stock or bond investors, as a starting place to begin looking for suitable opportunities.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Screening for Dividend Yielding, Growing, Rising Stocks / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
What do you get when you want yield that is growing along with sales and earnings over a period of years, less than sky high valuation, and evidence of a rising price pattern?
The answer today is not very many stocks, and not necessarily the most exciting names. Not every exploration finds gold. Some of the results of this search are interesting, but we aren’t crying eureka.
Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, April 20, 2009
Rising ETFs and Stocks > 200-day Av / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
In prior ETF and stock screens, we did computerized quantitative filtering of the 183 largest ETFs and the 8000+ largest US listed stocks to find those with attractive price patterns using the close, the 20-day average and the 50-day average. Now that so many stocks have passed their 200-day average, we have added one more criterion (close > 200-day average) to the original criteria that searched for short-term upward slant to price patterns.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 17, 2009
Investors Profiting From the One Thing Which Has Not Changed / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
For better or worse, we’re living in a world of change. It’s no secret. There’s going to be a lot of changes in the next few years. Regulations, accounting rules, taxes, money supply, healthcare tech, and on and on – it’s all changing. And it’s changing faster than ever.
Change, while creating opportunity for prudent long-term thinkers, has created a lot of uncertainty in the short term. The markets have reacted the same way they always do to increased uncertainty - negatively.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Learning to Profit: K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN) Flagged For Breakout / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
K12 Inc. (LRN) is one of those companies you salivate over. It's a beaten down stock with fundamental attributes that just make sense. Even the technical crowd would like a piece of the action. But before we get into the nitty gritty details, it would probably serve you well to tell you a bit about the company itself in case you've never heard of it before. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Baron's Top 10 Stock Picks- A Lesson on Sheepherding / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Mike_Stathis
The following piece is a response to SA Editor, Racheal Granby's wrap-up of a recent Barron's article titled "Ten Stocks to Hold Long-Term."
Granby writes, "With the Dow off more than 50% from its October 2007 peak, there's rarely been a better time for long-term investors to pick up stocks on the cheap. Barron's puts together a list of ten great stocks to hold for five years or longer."
Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Investors Plant a Monsanto Seed for Future Portfolio Growth / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
I have a friend who really enjoys science fiction. I asked him the other day, “Do you ever watch anything besides the SciFi Channel?” He replied, “I do. I also watch CNBC.”
I know that my friend is not much of an investor so I asked him why the heck he watches this channel.
Read full article... Read full article...