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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Model manager Sean Hannon added two new positions to his RIG), an offshore drilling contractor. The company’s quarter two results have shown weakened revenues, reduced income and a higher earnings per share than the previous quarter. The company has a low price to earnings ratio and its stock price seemed […]
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. […]
The U.S. Department of Labor released a statement today that the unemployment rate in July remained at 9.5%. This means that though the private sector reported an increase in jobs, it was not enough to combat the 131,000 jobs lost in July and create a reduction in the unemployment rate. […]
Walter Lu, manager of the Covestor model Flexible Value, added the gaming company GigaMedia Ltd (NASDAQ:GIGM) to his value focused model. The company’s gross profit and operating income declined in 2009 as did their total assets and stockholder equity. During the beginning of July the company announced that it would […]