Authors: Robert Preston & Clark Gates, Craigmillar Equity Covestor model: Global Clean Energy-Clean Tech * See important disclosures The Craigmillar Energy Model has maintained healthy allocations to the major sectors: Industrials, Energy and Materials. These sectors were in the top half of the performance of the S&P 500 for 2010. […]
Author: John Ballard Covestor model: Mid-cap Fundamentals Disclosure: Long NFLX, AMZN, ATVI * See important disclosures My goal is to find the companies with the best prospects for long term growth and buy them. The reason why this model is titled a mid-cap model is because I find that typically […]
Author: Amin Khadiani, Focal Point Management Covestor model: Quantitative Hedging Disclosure: Long IYR, GDX, FDN, IYZ * See important disclosures January saw a continuing rally in the broad financial markets along with a continued decline in volatility. Our portfolios stayed on the long side. A low volatility environment makes tactical […]
Author: American Values Investments Model: American Heroes * See important disclosures At American Values Investments we intend to stick to our American Hero investing strategy. That means during the first quarter we will determine which stocks have the best long term outlook. We will also evaluate our diversification to see […]
Author: Steve Beamer Model: High Earnings Momentum Disclosure: Long NBR, MPEL, OPEN The High Earnings Momentum Model started out well in January and moved up pretty smartly until an earnings disappointment in FFIV took away most of the model gains achieved in the first eight weeks of the model. On […]
Fortune Finance reported Friday that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was about to get serious about the measures it’s taking to revamp unpaid loans with its mortgage modification program and foreclosure activities. In order to do so, BAC has formed a new department, called the Legacy Asset Servicing Unit. This […]
*See important disclosures. 401 Advisor’s Covestor model Dividend and Income Plus was designed to provide a stable value with a high target yield of 8 percent. 401 Advisors makes sure to help the model evolve by updating its holdings when necessary. In their January 2011 investment report 401 Advisor states […]
Model manager Yinglan Tan looks for venture-backed equities that have the possibility of long-term growth and predictable earnings for his Venture Capital – Aggressive model. This week he added SINA (NASDAQ: SINA), which has a service called Weibo that has been called the Chinese Twitter, to the model. In January, […]
*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. […]
*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 […]