The Census Bureau released its new residential construction data from September today. While building permits for privately-owned homes were down 10.9 percent compared to September of 2009, they were up from August 2010. Single-family housing starts were up 4.4 percent and single-family completions were up 4.8 percent from the previous […]
GameStop is the largest video game retailer in the world and sells new and used video game software, hardware and accessories for video game systems from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. In addition, the company sells PC entertainment software, and related accessories.
Although the model was just recently launched (inception date of August 25, 2010), the Craigmillar Global Clean Energy-Clean Tech strategy has five years of live performance and is benchmarked to the WilderHill Clean Energy Index (ECO-P). The ECO-P index also has an ETF attached with the symbol PBW and has been trading in the open market since the 3rd Quarter 2004. Both portfolios focus on the long-term trends of renewable energy, power delivery, energy storage, energy conservation and clean fuels all of which lead to energy decarbonization.
Friday afternoons and weekends have long been observed an opportune time for low profile public companies and Closed-End Funds to disseminate undesirable but market-relevant news. The conspiracy theory explanation infers that if nobody is around on Friday afternoons, the news will be ignored or forgotten by the time Monday rolls around. I’m not a big believer in the theory, but I attempt to be alert at all times.
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 National Association of Homebuilders released their Housing Market Index stats today and showed that the number of housing starts and building permits obtained in October had increased right along with builder confidence. One concern mentioned in the report (which you can access here) was that while consumers seem more […]
AthenaInvest added a couple of new positions to their SBI International model recently. In the model, AthenaInvest uses their patented investing methodology to invest in 20 international stocks that are held by the top equity managers. One of the new positions they added was Yanzhou Coal Mining Co Ltd (NYSE: […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Consumer Price Index Summary for September today (you can access the release here). The data shows a 1.1 percent unadjusted increase over the past 12 months and an increase of .1 percent during the month of September. The Census Bureau also released September […]
Investors got some negative news today on the never-ending seesaw of economic data. The Department of Labor’s weekly Unemployment Claims Report released today (which you can read here) showed an increase of 13,000 claims last week. Also released today were the September Producer Price Indexes (see them here). The index […]
In the Cash Flow model managed by Jose Betancourt, the focus is on fundamental analysis and free cash flow with negative net debt. He uses bottom-up analysis and doesn’t restrict his investment choices to any particular industry, country or market capitalization. The top holding in the model is ChinaCast Education […]
Earnings growth for our portfolio companies remains overshadowed by volatility and the manic-depressive behavior of the markets. Our portfolio holds considerable appreciation potential based on prospects of our businesses and the substantial relative value versus bonds.
The month of September was a surprisingly great month for the overall market with indexes showing strong gains. The portfolio also performed well in the month.