Capital Ideas added additional shares of Alcoa Incorporated (NYSE: AA) to its Macro Plus Income model last week. Today, analysts at Deutsche Bank raised AA from a hold to a buy. Investors drove AA’s stock price up from its December 31st closing price of $15.39 to $15.80, according to Yahoo […]
The big news today was the Institute for Supply Management’s December 2010 Manufacturing Report. The report shows PMI rising to 57, up .4 percent from November’s 56.6. This didn’t quite beat analysts’ expectations of a PMI of 57.3, but it does show economic growth thanks to increases in new orders, […]
In their Suncoast Equity model, Suncoast Equity Management uses its SEM-DIS (Suncoast Equity Management-Disciplined Investment System) method to help pick appropriate holdings. The SEM-DIS system is based on the same investment principles utilized by Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Suncoast Equity focuses on choosing businesses rather than stock picking. A […]
Agata Oleksiak, at 3am one night a couple weeks ago, did a rogue crochet job on the Wall Street bull. Here’s the video: OLEK AND THE CHARGING BULL ON WALL STREET from olek on Vimeo.
NYT’s DealBook broke the story: Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation Data: Google Finance 1/3/11 premarket, as of 12/31/10 price and shares outstanding Dan Frommer, BI: “Goldman Sachs got a little extra: It’s now in the driver’s seat to eventually take Facebook public. Beyond whatever it makes on […]
In the Performance with Protection model, manager Leif Eriksen takes a top-down, fundamental approach and generally favors large and mid cap companies. He recently bought the natural gas ETF (UNG), an interesting choice given nat gas’s underperformance in 2010. While most commodities showed considerable strength over the past twelve months […]
Via Finviz: Commodities and precious metals had particularly strong years, with palladium at the top of the heap. Some drivers behind the near doubling of palladium prices in 2010: An exchange traded fund linked to the metal launched in New York in January, granting much easier access for retail and […]
Here’s a well produced, hour-long documentary on statistics and their presentation, from the BBC: The Joy of Stats. It features the effervescent Swedish statistician and global health researcher, Hans Rosling.
Raise the banner and wave the flag—last week, jobless benefit claims dropped by 34,000, which was enough to bring us to the lowest level we’ve had since July of 2008. One company that clearly benefited from this news was workforce consultation and human capital provider Volt Information Sciences Inc (NYSE: […]
Epic Advisors added Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) to their Bottom-Up Analysis model this month. BBY has been the subject of some investor apprehension lately for a few reasons, among them: There was a concern that the free shipping promotions offered by competing retailers would make BBY seem less attractive to […]
When we interviewed J. Stephen Castellano of Ascendere Associates last month about his Systematic Long-Only model, we found his take on consensus estimates interesting. Consensus estimates (see definition) are provided by most media outlets like Yahoo Finance that have financial news and stock information. What was interesting about the Ascendere […]