It was a rocky day on the Dow today as stocks began the day itching for another rally, but quickly sunk after depressing consumer confidence news was released. You might remember that back in June we mentioned that the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index® had fallen for the first time […]
Covestor model manager Richard Moore uses a buy and hold approach in his Market Comparables model. When choosing positions, Moore looks for price movement and valuation and then examines each potential position’s financial forecast to determine whether there is any hidden value or prospect for growth. One of the first […]
Author: Bob Gay – GEARS Disclaimer: Bob Gay owns RFMD, LSI and MHO in his Covestor Earnings Surprise Model. It was a light week for filings last week with only 4% of the GEARS company population presenting their most recent financial statements. The fundamentals improvement continues and cash flow growth […]
Author: Vivian LewisDisclaimer: Vivian currently owns GSK in her Covestor International Yield Model. Mellanox (NYSE: MLNX) is the Israeli maker of connectivity devices for servers, ethernet and financial data centers, storage systems, cloud computing, and supercomputers. On July 21, 2010 MLNX reported after the market close 2Q2010 revenues at $40 […]
Disclaimer: Robert Freedland does not own DPS in his Covestor Buy and Hold Value model. We have been having a heat wave in Boston, Southern California, in fact much of the United States, including New York City, as well as overseas in London, and across Russia. Putting it plainly, it has been a hot […]
We have recently run a survey which supported our own evidence that 2010 is the year that Investment Advisors really embrace the internet. Held back by concerns about compliance they now seem to be looking to sites like our own to help them find and better engage with clients. Some […]
The United States Department of Commerce released a statement today discussing the results of new residential sales for single-family homes in June 2010. The statement explains that single-family home sales jumped 23.6% in June 2010. Since expectations were for a 3.7% increase this news was happily received by investors as […]
General Electric Co (NYSE:GE) announced today that they would be raising their dividend by 20%, motivating investors to bump their price by just over 3%. While this means their dividend is still lower than it was in 2009 before they were forced to reduce it, the increase indicates a positive […]
Visit Global Equity Analytics and Research Services (GEARS) on Covestor Disclaimer: The Covestor Earnings Surprise model owns ETM, SLAB, VECO) The earnings surprise pattern in fundamental data has a history. Over the past 15 years since filings began to appear on the Internet, we have observed many thousands of surprise […]
Author: Robert Freedland Disclaimer: Robert owns ECL, CHD, MCD, MMM, SYY, T and TJX in his Covestor Buy and Hold Value Model. July continued the recent pattern of volatility, but the bias has been to the upside as the S&P which opened near 1,000 at the beginning of the month […]
Capital Ideas, Inc Authors: CJ Brott & Karen Burns Disclaimer: Capital Ideas, Inc owns F and MFB in their Covestor Macro Plus Income model. We decided to target a few stocks as long side plays for the current round of earnings releases. Among those chosen for inclusion in our portfolio […]
Today let’s look at the new positions added by two different mangers—one who looks at cash flow and liabilities before adding positions and one who looks for under-priced companies that pay dividends. We’ve talked about Covestor manager Donald Jowdy’s Suncoast Equity model here. This week, Jowdy added Visa Inc (NYSE:V) […]