We have selected the companies that have indicated that they will make their earnings announcement in the next few days and created four categories.
Strategies
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In the Under-Capitalized model, manager John Mooney attempts to invest in equities within sectors that other investors aren’t interested in and are, therefore, under-capitalized and have lowering price to earnings ratios than they may have when their sectors were popular. Recently, Mooney added Cal Maine Foods Inc (NASDAQ: CALM). CALM […]
The rally in Closed-End Municipal Bond Funds has taken a breather, if not corrected as money has poured into the most traditional risk assets since late August. Even the price of my current favorite Closed-End Municipal Bond Fund, Western Asset Municipal Partners, Inc (MNP) has fallen from $15+ at the end of August to a price below $14.50.
In the Global Clean Energy—Clean Tech model by Craigmillar, the investment strategy is to earn positive net annual returns over the long-term by putting a focus on companies that have an involvement in developing alternative energy because these companies will benefit from global energy decarbonization over the long haul. Recently, […]
Micheal Arold’s Technical Swing model uses technical indicators to view market movement and looks to create profits on short-term price swings. He recently added Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc (NYSE: POT) to the model. POT has had some pretty wild price swings lately. On October 13th, it closed at $148.47. […]
Index Fund (THD), a fund that attempts to mirror the performance of the MSCI Thailand Investable Market. In order to do so, 90 percent of the fund’s underlying
We have selected the companies that have indicated that they will make their earnings announcement in the next few days and created four categories
In her International Yield model, manager Vivian Lewis looks for international closed-end funds and stocks with a high yield. Recently she added ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: CKSW) to the model. CKSW provides automated software and workforce management solutions to businesses. The company recently released a new application for appointment management […]
Model manager Analytic Investment added two new positions to their Focus Value model recently. In the model, they use algorithms to look for equity mispricing as a result of market inefficiency. The first position they added was senior, community, nursing and assisted care living facility operators Five Star Quality Care […]
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.