*See important disclosures. Hengfu Hsu, founder of Analytic Investment, has multiple models on Covestor. One of its newest is the Deep Value model. In this model, the goal is to buy stocks priced at a deep value with low P/E ratios and high dividends. The model generally holds 100 stocks. […]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
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*See important disclosures. Robert Freedland looks for companies with strong balance sheets, consistent growth and hidden values in his Covestor Buy and Hold Value model. This week, he bought shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) for the model. AMZN has a PE ratio of 70.9 (on February 5th according to CNN […]
Author: Gerald Gehman Covestor model: Undervalued Growth Companies Disclosure: Long EZCH Overview EZchip Semiconductor (Nasdaq: EZCH) is a fabless semiconductor company that provides Ethernet network processing units (NPUs) for use in telecom networks, data centers and enterprise backbones. Ethernet technology increases bandwidth, lowers costs and creates uniform technology in existing […]
Shares of CVS Caremark Corp (NYSE: CVS) fell 4.99 percent today, from $34.65 to $32.92, after it released its fourth quarter 2010 financial results. The company beat analysts estimates but its EPS and revenues fell from the prior year. This comes just a few weeks after the company, which had […]
With the barrage of information and advertisements hitting consumers through social media, television and radio, it can be difficult for a company to get consumers’ attention. This causes many companies to think outside the box for their advertising and promotion ideas, and adopt creative viral marketing tactics. While this can […]
*See important disclosures. In January, Analytic Investment added additional shares of Material Sciences (NASDAQ: MASC) to its Focus Value model. MASC is now the top holding in the model. Just before Analytic Investment increased its holding in this position, MASC announced that its board of directors had authorized the company […]
ADM had a 30 percent increase in their EPS, an unexpected rise partially due to reduced global grain supplies. Some are still concerned that ADM might miss
*See important disclosures. In Mark Holder’s Opportunistic Arbitrage model, the goal is to look for positions with long-term growth possibilities as well as opportunistic situations that leave companies trading below their intrinsic value. Last month, Holder added Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC) to the model. In a recent post for Seeking […]
Days between October 1 and December 31, 2010: 92 ExxonMobil (XOM) earnings for this period: $9,250,000,000 XOM earnings per day during this period: $100,543,478 Remember, this is earnings – not revenues. HT: Eddy Elfenbein
When buying a new car is cheaper than buying a used one – Edmunds.com The best time to buy an airline ticket – WSJ Don’t get an MBA – Philip Delves Broughton, The Economist Why we use debit cards instead of credit cards – David Evans
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced today that the recently released Intel® 6 series support chips, which have been highly anticipated for months now, were issued with a design issue that has now been fixed. In the world of business, there are mistakes–and then there are mistakes. In INTC’s case, this faulty […]