Author: Peter Kurata Covestor model: CANSLIM Disclosure: None In a first ever post-Fed meeting press conference, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said QE II will continue to be supported after June. This news helped sparked the NASDAQ to move to a new new 10-year high, giving the March 29th rally new […]
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Author: Peter Kurata Covestor Model: CANSLIM Disclosure: Long SLV, GLD March continued to head fake and fool investors. Inflation has been most obvious at the gap pumps, and while we consumers complain about $4/gallon gas, the government simply turns its head the other way, as energy is not included in […]
Online retailer Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched a cloud-based music locker on Wednesday. From the company’s press release, the service is designed to enable customers to securely store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are. Customers can easily upload […]
Author: Robert Freedland Covestor model: Buy and Hold Value Disclosure: Long AMZN, COP, JCI, PRGO) *See important disclosures After waiting patiently with several positions that were lagging the market, I chose to ‘swap out’ several holdings that had short-term issues and moved into new positions in what appeared to be more […]
Author: John Ballard Covestor model: Mid-Cap Fundamentals Disclosure: Long ACTI, MKL, AAPL, ATVI, NFLX, AMZN, ROIC, Y, SA, PHYS * See important disclosures In February I liquidated several small positions that I considered, overall, somewhat speculative. They were my least favorite ideas and therefore were the first to go as […]
*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 […]
Shares of online auction site eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) jumped today after its quarter four 2010 financial results were released. The company reported a 5 percent increase in revenues year-over-year and a 10 percent increase when excluding Skype’s financial results. At $2.5 billion, EBAY’s actual revenues beat the average estimate of […]
*See important disclosures. John Ballard looks for the best companies within under-capitalized sectors in his Mid-Cap Fundamentals model. This month, he increased the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) holdings within the model. AMZN, like other online stores, is benefiting from an increase in the popularity of online shopping. A recent example we […]
In the Precedent-Based model, manager John Ward combines fundamental analysis with market timing strategies that come from the daily tracking of technical action. Ward’s objective for the model is to minimize risk. The model becomes more diversified when the market is trending down and also holds inverse ETFs at times. […]
Most of life’s encounters, good or bad in social welfare, present us each individually with the opportunity to choose our own long term benefits and detriments. By circumstance, I was exposed professionally to see Mary Meeker’s high times at Morgan Stanley while the ink was still wet on my undergraduate diploma. I’ll call loosely the phenomenon “Mary’s World”. In the spirit of the Holiday Season, I’d like to offer “Thanks” for the wisdom provided by a youthful exposure to Mary’s World.
Today, the Department of Commerce released its report on New Residential Sales in October 2010. The report (found here) shows an 8.1 percent decrease in new single-family home sales from September numbers. This decline was likely influenced by a lack of home-buying tax credit incentives in 2010. The Department of […]
The Mid-Cap Fundamentals model managed by John Ballard is a long-term model that holds the best companies within under-capitalized sectors. Recently, Ballard added Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) to the model. NFLX has a high price to earnings ratio compared to peers, but the company has basically no competition in the […]