NYSE: DE) announced an increased in sales for quarter three as well as an earnings per share number that beat analysts’ expectations. Unfortunately, their
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This week we’d like to introduce three new managers with models on Covestor. Let’s start with Kevin Stewart who is a CFA as well as a Harvard Business School and Wharton School graduate with 25 years of experience in the investment industry. His Covestor model, Top Internationals, is an opportunistic […]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT) announced its second quarter results today and they were mixed. While revenue was less than expected and same-store sales fell 1.8 percent, earnings per share and quarterly profit beat analyst’s expectations. Home Depot Inc’s (NYSE: HD) also released their quarterly results today and they held […]
In his Price Volatility Volume model, Covestor manager William Smith uses a proprietary system to look for equities across all sectors that are overbought and oversold. He looks for volatility, volume and price and attempts to time the market to buy just before each stock hits and “all-time high.” The […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Investors were nervous today as was evidenced by the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s drop of as many as 141.46 points before 10 AM. Anticipation of The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting notes and concern over the action the Fed would to take to help boost the economy […]
Covestor model manager Czar Reyes developed Only the Best with the goal of creating a model filled with excellent businesses purchased at fair prices. He uses a value approach and his goal for the model is to own shares of between 11 and 20 businesses. Let’s take a look at two of […]
It was a mixed bag of economic news today as McDonald’s Corp (NYSE: MCD) announced a 7 percent increase in global sales in company restaurants that had been open for at least 13 months. Analysts expected growth of 5 percent, so this cheered investors and McDonald’s stock rose 1.78 percent. […]