Author: John Ballard Covestor model: Mid-cap Fundamentals Disclosure: Long NFLX, AMZN, ATVI * See important disclosures My goal is to find the companies with the best prospects for long term growth and buy them. The reason why this model is titled a mid-cap model is because I find that typically […]
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Author: Amin Khadiani, Focal Point Management Covestor model: Quantitative Hedging Disclosure: Long IYR, GDX, FDN, IYZ * See important disclosures January saw a continuing rally in the broad financial markets along with a continued decline in volatility. Our portfolios stayed on the long side. A low volatility environment makes tactical […]
Author: American Values Investments Model: American Heroes * See important disclosures At American Values Investments we intend to stick to our American Hero investing strategy. That means during the first quarter we will determine which stocks have the best long term outlook. We will also evaluate our diversification to see […]
Author: Steve Beamer Model: High Earnings Momentum Disclosure: Long NBR, MPEL, OPEN The High Earnings Momentum Model started out well in January and moved up pretty smartly until an earnings disappointment in FFIV took away most of the model gains achieved in the first eight weeks of the model. On […]
Model manager Yinglan Tan looks for venture-backed equities that have the possibility of long-term growth and predictable earnings for his Venture Capital – Aggressive model. This week he added SINA (NASDAQ: SINA), which has a service called Weibo that has been called the Chinese Twitter, to the model. In January, […]
*See important disclosures. Robert Freedland looks for companies with strong balance sheets, consistent growth and hidden values in his Covestor Buy and Hold Value model. This week, he bought shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) for the model. AMZN has a PE ratio of 70.9 (on February 5th according to CNN […]
Author: Gerald Gehman Covestor model: Undervalued Growth Companies Disclosure: Long EZCH Overview EZchip Semiconductor (Nasdaq: EZCH) is a fabless semiconductor company that provides Ethernet network processing units (NPUs) for use in telecom networks, data centers and enterprise backbones. Ethernet technology increases bandwidth, lowers costs and creates uniform technology in existing […]
*See important disclosures. In January, Analytic Investment added additional shares of Material Sciences (NASDAQ: MASC) to its Focus Value model. MASC is now the top holding in the model. Just before Analytic Investment increased its holding in this position, MASC announced that its board of directors had authorized the company […]
*See important disclosures. In Mark Holder’s Opportunistic Arbitrage model, the goal is to look for positions with long-term growth possibilities as well as opportunistic situations that leave companies trading below their intrinsic value. Last month, Holder added Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC) to the model. In a recent post for Seeking […]
*See important disclosures. Analytic Investment added electronics manufacturing services provider SMTC (NASDAQ: SMTX) to its Focus Value model last week. Focus Value is a model that attempts to take advantage of equity mispricing opportunities caused by market inefficiencies. Over the past few months, SMTX has been focusing on growth. On […]
The benefits and drawbacks of offshore drilling have long been debated. But life after BP’s (NYSE: BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill not only brings in an even more heated debate, it also introduces new troubles for domestic offshore drillers in the form of an offshore drilling ban (which ended in […]
*See important disclosures Shares of Renasant (NASDAQ: RNST) were added to Andy Schornack’s Financial Services model last week. In the model, Schornack uses a bottom-up approach while looking for companies with stable dividends. In November 2010, RNST was mentioned favorably in the article “The Smart Money’s Top 8 Banking Stocks” […]