Piper Jaffray released a research report Friday that mentioned technology company Nanometrics (NASDAQ: NANO) may benefit from Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) increased capital spending in 2011. In 2009, INTC represented 10.4 percent of Nano’s revenue, so the impact of its increased capital spending could be substantial. As a result of this […]
This week we spoke with Paul MacNamara of Strategic Investment Partners Wealth Management about his firm and his Capital Appreciation ETF with Covestor. *See Important Disclosures Covestor LIVE: On the Strategic Investment Partners (SIPCO) website, it states that your firm uses an investment strategy for equity portfolios that is, “…based […]
*See Important Disclosures In the Deep Value model, manager Analytic Investments uses a set of valuation factors to determine what stocks to add to the model. These factors include low price to earnings ratio and high dividend yield. On their website, Analytic Investment talks about their method of portfolio management: […]
Merck (NYSE: MRK) stopped its clinical study for Vorapaxar, its cardiovascular drug developed to treat patients with acute coronary syndrome. The announcement issued by MRK mentions that the trial is going to continue for those patients who do not have acute coronary syndrome but have either had a previous heart […]
model this month. Some believe that airlines in emerging markets are in for a surge of business as travel to the regions they serve becomes more popular. This
In Covestor’s American Heroes model, manager American Values Investments (CEO Carter LeCraw pictured at left) employs a proprietary methodology to determine what companies should be considered “American Heroes.” The firm defines an American Hero as “a public company that highly reflects the American values of Integrity, Humility, Diligence and Caring.” The […]
Author: Yale Bock, YH&C Investments Covestor Model: GARP Disclosures: Long GIGM, DGI, NDAQ, CASS, CLGX, JMBA December 2010 was a month of low volume and was overall pretty non eventful. A new fiscal year brings a fresh outlook for portfolio managers, and outperformance is the goal. There are varying opinions […]
Walk down the drinks aisle in an American supermarket and you encounter a broad wall stacked high with hundreds of varieties of colorful liquid bearing dozens of brands. So much to choose from! But this seeming diversity is misleading at the business level. Just three companies – Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and […]
Undergraduate yearly tuition at Yale is now $49,800 and at Berkeley it’s $35,000 (out of state), but you can skip that and the keg parties and audit some of these fine institutions’ most interesting courses online for free. Open Culture editor Dan Colman aggregates links to free online university courses […]
Earlier this week we addressed Sara Lee’s (NYSE: SLE) decision to break up its meat and coffee businesses into two separate companies. Last week, we mentioned that Motorola was doing the same thing by spinning off its mobile device business and creating two new companies—Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE: MMI) and […]