companies approached their targets and may be sold in the near future. Additionally, some energy stocks may soon be sold to lower the portfolio’s exposure to
XOM
ASB Investment Management is the equity and fixed income management division of ASB Capital Management. Offices are in Washington, D.C. and Chicago. With $6.3 billion under management as of January 2011, ASB Investment Management has a long record of managing equity and fixed income. ASB’s new Covestor model, Large Cap […]
Author: Bristlecone Value Partners Covestor model: Large Cap Value Disclosure: Long DELL, XOM, VMC, APOL, PFE, CSCO, WMT, NRG, CX, S, EOG, MXIM *See important disclosures In February, the portfolio roughly matched January’s return, rising approximately 3% again, slightly lower than the S&P 500’s return for the month. Year-to-date as […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Domestic Dividend model from Harvest Financial Partners is comprised of high quality companies that pay dividends and are well managed. The top position in the model, MasterCard Inc (NYSE: MA), had a dividend yield of .27 percent on September 29th, 2010. In 2009, the company’s net revenues grew to […]
As of the date of this report, the S&P500 has managed to rally substantially over the past week and a half. There were some less dire economic reports that came out that pushed the market up. To give some insight to my thinking in August and going forward I am going to spend a little time with some trades I made.
In their Large Cap Value model, manager Bristlecone VP focuses on those large cap companies that are trading at a discount to their intrinsic value. The model is long only and its manager uses a research-intensive process to identify intrinsic value and noticeable discounts. This week, they added Vulcan Materials […]
The Resource and Commodity model managed by John Rodgers utilizes a macroeconomic approach to commodity and resource investing. To further refine his choices he uses a fundamental and discounted cash flow analysis. The top holding in the model is Exxon Mobil Corp (NYSE: XOM). XOM’s net revenues fell from $425.1 […]
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.
It seems that investors may be unable to shake their concerns over the economy this week because even in light of some positive news today, U.S. markets still ended the day with losses. The Labor Department announced today that unemployment claims had fallen slightly. And even though the drop was […]