NYSE: DE) announced an increased in sales for quarter three as well as an earnings per share number that beat analysts’ expectations. Unfortunately, their
This week we’d like to introduce three new managers with models on Covestor. Let’s start with Kevin Stewart who is a CFA as well as a Harvard Business School and Wharton School graduate with 25 years of experience in the investment industry. His Covestor model, Top Internationals, is an opportunistic […]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT) announced its second quarter results today and they were mixed. While revenue was less than expected and same-store sales fell 1.8 percent, earnings per share and quarterly profit beat analyst’s expectations. Home Depot Inc’s (NYSE: HD) also released their quarterly results today and they held […]
In his Mid-Cap Fundamentals model, John Ballard focuses on small and mid-sized companies with high return on capital and strong balance sheets. This week, Ballard added Dynamic Materials Corp (NASDAQ: BOOM) to his model. BOOM provides explosion-welded clad metal plates and other metal fabrications to industrial projects. BOOM’s balance sheet […]
In his Price Volatility Volume model, Covestor manager William Smith uses a proprietary system to look for equities across all sectors that are overbought and oversold. He looks for volatility, volume and price and attempts to time the market to buy just before each stock hits and “all-time high.” The […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as many as 68 points just moments after the market opened this morning. The Dow recovered most of those losses after The Federal Reserve released its July 2010 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices which indicated that banks had finally loosened […]
This week, in his Suncoast Equity model, Donald Jowdy added Visa Inc (NYSE: V). Jowdy focuses on things like cash flow when deciding what to add and V’s net cash flow has been increasing steadily since 2006. In quarter two of 2010, their net cash flow hit $1.2 billion, up […]
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There is no shortage of impressive models and returns on Covestor.com. One top model is run by manager Alejandro Paschalides, who’s Energy model has done very well so far this month. In order to get an idea of the steps Paschalides had taken to achieve these results, we sent him a few questions […]
Trading was lackluster today after the Census Bureau released its July Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and Food Services (MARTS) report today. The report (which can be found here) showed a .4 percent increase in July retail and food service sales and a 5.5 percent increase over July 2009. […]
Fly Leasing Ltd (NYSE: FLY). FLY buys and leases aircraft worldwide. The company has consistently increased their revenues and net income since their inception
It looked like it was going to be another severe hemorrhaging session for the Dow Jones Industrial Average this morning when the market opened and the Dow immediately fell over 100 points. This drop may have been influenced by the Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO) CEO who commented that the […]