The August Industrial Protection and Capacity Utilization report from the Federal Reserve was released today and showed a disappointing .2 percent increase in industrial production for August. This comes after a .7 percent increase in July that the report states was due to a sharp jump in demand for motor […]
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U.S. markets ended the week on a high note with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining 47.6 points to 10,462.84, the Nasdaq rising 6.28 points to 2,242.48, and the S&P 500 climbing 5.37 points to 1,109.55. This week, between the news about European bank stress tests, the Federal Reserve’s September […]
August 30, 2010: The S&P 500 index is down 4.94% for the month of August through August 26, 2010. I see a lot of good values among the top ten stocks in the S&P 500 by market cap. Exxon Mobil (XOM), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Proctor & Gamble (PG) are the top four and trade at comparatively low forward earnings estimates. Apple is the only one on the list with significant growth prospects over the next ten years or so and it trades less than twenty times trailing earnings as of August 30, 2010.
Visit Global Equity Analytics and Research Services (GEARS) on Covestor The positive surprise pattern is traced in fundamental data. Companies with rising sales growth, higher gross profit margins, lower fixed costs to sales, lower financing cost, and rising profitability are more likely to announce a positive surprise. The Earnings Surprise Model […]