In the day trading model, Management Access, manager Douglas Estadt buys the stocks of small to mid cap companies with credible growth stories and recent news that can affect stock price. Recently, he added Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) to the model. In the seemingly endless wireless communication showdown, VZ has […]
The High Growth model managed by Joseph Mjelde is focused on stocks with consistent revenue and earnings growth of 20 percent or more. Mjelde also looks for those stocks that should have continued growth due to the trends of their respective industries. The model keeps 10 or more holdings and […]
In his Deep Fundamental Analysis model, manager Tab Buford reviews quarterly and annual reports and looks for companies that have a demonstrated ability to grow sales, book values, earnings and cash flows over many different economic cycles. One of the top holdings in the model is The Hershey Company (NYSE: […]
Analytic Investment has been adding many new positions to their Focus ETF model recently. Last week we told you about the model and a few of the new positions they had added, and this week we’re back to tell you some more. On October 18th, they added shares of iShares […]
Opportunistic is a model managed by Jafet Mendoza that may contain any U.S. major exchange-traded equity. It is diverse, holding the stocks of companies in many different industries, and is also aggressive, opportunistic and flexible. Last week, Mendoza added several new positions to the model, including Eldorado Gold Corp (NYSE: […]
The Department of Commerce released their National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2010 advance estimate today. According to the report, GDP increased at an annual rate of 2 percent from the second to the third quarter, which was a greater rate than the prior quarter and […]
Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Lakshman Achuthan and Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer Anirvan Banerji co-wrote and submitted an op-ed piece on CNN which ran today. In it, they stated that the double-dip recession many have feared is actually, “not going to happen.” According to […]
The Scarecrow Trading model managed by Leonard Fox looks for five signals that indicate market exposure and trades leveraged ETFs. This week, Fox added ProShares UltraShort QQQ ETF (QID) to the model. QID’s goal is to provide results equal to 200 percent of the inverse of the NASDAQ-100 Index, an […]
At GEARS we have developed unique tools to find improving fundamentals companies when their share price is depressed and identify deteriorating fundamentals companies when their share price is extended. To perform that analysis, we have created an accurate set of fundamental performance metrics and a share price volatility calculator.
The Commerce Department released both new residential home sales and durable goods data from September today. According to the reports, new single-family home sales increased in September by 6.6 percent, but were 21.5 percent below September 2009’s sales, likely due to the lack of home buying tax credits available this […]
The Mid-Cap Fundamentals model managed by John Ballard is a long-term model that holds the best companies within under-capitalized sectors. Recently, Ballard added Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) to the model. NFLX has a high price to earnings ratio compared to peers, but the company has basically no competition in the […]
Via Bloomberg, Valero Energy Corp., the largest U.S. oil refiner, beat analysts’ estimates and reported its second consecutive quarterly profit after rising prices for gasoline and other fuels outstripped the cost of crude.