There’s been no shortage of surprises in the past month. The biggest involved our holding Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO) and their western epic Red Dead Redemption. I suggested in April that the consensus analyst estimates (that the game would sell between 2 and 3 million copies) were certainly reasonable, but […]
In Atlas Advisors' MergerArb model, manager Jonathan Tunney looks for U.S. companies that could be the focus of a takeover. He then looks at their liquidity, share price and other factors to determine whether or not to invest. This week Tunney bought Hewitt Associates Inc (NYSE:HEW) a human resources consulting […]
The Federal Reserve released the minutes from their June Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting today and the results may not be what investors were hoping to hear. The minutes reveal the expectation of the committee for a modest economic recovery to continue all the way through 2011. They also […]
With an eye toward creating a high yield portfolio with international stocks, closed-end funds and preferred shares, Covestor model manager Vivian Lewis has developed the International Yield model. Within this model, one of her top positions is Cenovus Energy Inc (NYSE:CVE). CVE is a Canadian oil and gas drilling and […]
Earnings season got off to a great start today with the earnings announcement from Alcoa (NYSE: AA) and CSX Corp (NYSE: CSX) making headlines. Both companies recorded an earnings surprise pattern in their fundamentals last quarter. The Earnings Surprise model owns Alcoa (NYSE: AA). The positive surprise pattern in the […]
Exceeding analyst’s expectation in your quarterly profits is a great way to get the market up, as Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) proved to U.S. investors today. Not only did Alcoa’s increased profits cheer investors, but the indication that the demand for aluminum is increasing (hence the increased profits) was another positive […]
Incentive Features The Latest Apple® Innovation, Citing Similar Goals Of Making Life Easier For Today’s Investor NEW YORK, April 13 /PRNewswire/ — Drawing a direct correlation between the way the Apple iPad is expected to lead the evolution of Internet use and the way its own service is leading the […]
Covestor model manager Robert Gay of Global Equity Analytics and Research Services (GEARS) runs his Bluenose model as a Canadian dollar model. He invests in Canadian companies that are listed on exchanges in the U.S. He then looks at the individual stocks in terms of their longevity and recent improvement […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained mostly stable today alternating gaining and losing small amounts throughout the day. Ultimately, the Dow settled with an 18.24 point gain closing at 10,216.27. Quarterly earnings reports that indicate how the economy may or may not be rebounding are due out soon, and that […]
In June, international markets recovered some of the ground they had lost during May. South America was not an exception, and neither was this model. The upturn was driven by the partial recovery of the general market, although some positions deserve special mention. Banco Santander Chile (SAN), which we enlarged […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained up today closing at 10,197.72 points, an increase of 58.73 points from Thursday. Between the early announcement of State Street Corporation’s positive earnings per share, the Institute for Supply Management’s report showing growth in June of non-manufacturing economic activity, and the International Monetary Fund’s […]
Today we are going to look at some of the new positions added to the two models managed by Dan Plettner. It is interesting to see these two different models at work. Trading at a small discount to net asset value (NAV), SunAmerica Focused Alpha Growth Fund Inc (FGF) makes […]