Just had to have that bleeding edge PowerBook G3 in 1997? Well, if you had plunked down the $5,700 it ran you on Apple stock instead of the Apple laptop (with its massive 5GB hard drive), that stock would be worth over $330,000 today. Kyle Conroy put together this chart […]
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For his Mid-Cap Fundamentals portfolio, Covestor model manager John Ballard uses a long term buy-and-hold strategy. Ballard averages 19 trades per month, and this portfolio’s current top holdings include Markel Corp (MKL), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Apple (AAPL), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC) and Seabridge Gold (SA) (as of end of day […]
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is set to make a major announcement at a special media event at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on March 2. Expectations are high, with many expecting the release of the iPad 2. With Motorola’s (MMI) release of the Motorola Xoom last week, many […]
*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 […]
*See important disclosures. John Ballard uses a long-term buy and hold strategy in his Mid-Cap Fundamentals model. A buy and hold strategy generally results in fewer instances of short-term capital gains tax penalties. But because little attention is paid to the short-term price movements of the equities in a buy […]
The day after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs announced that he would be taking a leave of absence from the company, the stock fell 2.16 percent to $340.95. Jobs’ health concerns are not news to investors. Over the years, anyone watching the stock has learned that announcements regarding his […]
New model manager Sasa Persic derives his investing acumen from non-mathematical methods. On his website he states, As our background is purely non-mathematical, that separates us from a typical quant algo shop. Systems we create and trade are results mostly of trading experience, not study of mathematics. Our basic thesis […]
With a model like Dividend Growth, one of the goals is to find equities paying high dividends—but another is to look for positions that have the opportunity to grow and create greater returns for investors. To that end, model manager James Hofmann has added additional shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) […]
If you were alive and old enough to be aware of trends in the early 1980’s, then you probably remember the big stir caused by the Commodore VIC-20, an affordable personal computer that was the first PC to sell one million units. That may not sound like a big number […]
Capital Ideas added additional shares of Alcoa Incorporated (NYSE: AA) to its Macro Plus Income model last week. Today, analysts at Deutsche Bank raised AA from a hold to a buy. Investors drove AA’s stock price up from its December 31st closing price of $15.39 to $15.80, according to Yahoo […]
December 23rd and at the same $7.78 on December 29th. United Continental Holdings (UAL) had a closing price of $23.41 on December 23rd and $23.46 on December
The Bottom-Up Analysis Agg model managed by Epic Advisors is the result of financial analysis and market timing. The model is a combination of day trading positions and core positions that are held until the stock reaches intrinsic fair value. The goal for market timed day trades is a return […]