The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as many as 68 points just moments after the market opened this morning. The Dow recovered most of those losses after The Federal Reserve released its July 2010 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices which indicated that banks had finally loosened […]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
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This week, in his Suncoast Equity model, Donald Jowdy added Visa Inc (NYSE: V). Jowdy focuses on things like cash flow when deciding what to add and V’s net cash flow has been increasing steadily since 2006. In quarter two of 2010, their net cash flow hit $1.2 billion, up […]
The below text is licensed to Covestor Ltd. (“Covestor”), by Dan Plettner. Such text may be disseminated only by Covestor. Dan Plettner invests and receives income for securities research, including “buy-side” research. Dan licenses his own real time trading data to Covestor Ltd. (“Covestor”). Covestor is a Registered Investment Advisor […]
There is no shortage of impressive models and returns on Covestor.com. One top model is run by manager Alejandro Paschalides, who’s Energy model has done very well so far this month. In order to get an idea of the steps Paschalides had taken to achieve these results, we sent him a few questions […]
Trading was lackluster today after the Census Bureau released its July Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and Food Services (MARTS) report today. The report (which can be found here) showed a .4 percent increase in July retail and food service sales and a 5.5 percent increase over July 2009. […]
Fly Leasing Ltd (NYSE: FLY). FLY buys and leases aircraft worldwide. The company has consistently increased their revenues and net income since their inception
It looked like it was going to be another severe hemorrhaging session for the Dow Jones Industrial Average this morning when the market opened and the Dow immediately fell over 100 points. This drop may have been influenced by the Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO) CEO who commented that the […]
Disclaimer: Carter LeCraw (American Values Investments) owns SJM in his Covestor American Heroes model. August 5, 2010: I am deeply grateful for JM Smucker (NYSE: SJM), a public company that stands out as a light in the American marketplace. Even though most Americans readily recognize and respect the Smucker brand, […]
In June we discussed David Fried’s Diversified Buybacks model and went over some of his top holdings within the model. This week Fried made some changes to Diversified Buybacks by buying many new positions. One of the positions Fired purchased this week was Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd (NYSE: AHL). According […]
The below text is licensed to Covestor Ltd. (“Covestor”), by Dan Plettner. Such text may be disseminated only by Covestor. Dan Plettner invests and receives income for securities research, including “buy-side” research. Dan licenses his own real time trading data to Covestor Ltd. (“Covestor”). Covestor is a Registered Investment Advisor […]
Covestor model manager Cheng Yuan’s diverse Value with Catalyst model is filled with positions that are deeply discounted and that Yuan feels have a possible catalyst in place that will further unlock their value to shareholders. Yuan does not restrict the model to any particular sector. Reviewing the fund’s top […]
Tuesday’s statement by the FOMC that economic growth in the U.S. was slowing and their plan to buy long-term treasuries as a means to help the economy did little to settle investor’s nerves on Wednesday. Even further unsettling news was released in the Bureau of Economic Analysis report which showed […]