Lisa is a stock analyst with nearly 25 years of investment research experience. She earned a MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago in 1987 and began her career in investment research that same year as part of the equity research team at Kemper Financial Services. In 1989, Lisa joined the Financial Relations Board, a large investor relations consulting firm, rising to the position of director of financial analysis.
During her tenure with FRB, Lisa was a consultant to Boston Market, MGI Pharma, Devon Energy and other Fortune 1000 companies. In 2000, Lisa left to become director of investor Relations for a NYSE-listed REIT, serving in that position until the REIT was acquired. Since then, Lisa has worked as a stock analyst for independent research firms, investment newsletters and financial websites.
Analyst Articles
Last year was a record year for spin-offs, with deals worth an estimated $116 billion completed. There are even more expected in 2012. Spin-offs occur when companies want to shed units that are performing poorly, undervalued or unrelated to the main business. Instead of selling to a… Read More
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Today, I’m going to do something different… As the chief-investment strategist behind Game-Changing Stocks, I normally spend hours poring over a multitude of newspapers and financial journals to bring my readers the market‘s next groundbreaking trend. While… Read More
And so the game continues. Heading into every quarter, analysts tend to tamp down their earnings forecasts, helping many companies to exceed the newly-lowered estimates modestly. During the past few years, this has enabled roughly 55% to 60% of companies beat the consensus estimates… Read More
“Safe” and “mid-cap” probably aren’t words investors use together very often, since mid-cap stocks are generally riskier than the stock market as a whole. For instance, if you invested in iShares S&P MidCap 400 Index (NYSE:… Read More
The best opportunities arise when there is a “divergence from the consensus.” This phrase often refers to analysts’ profit forecasts, and the wide range of estimates spells opportunity if you know on which side of the fence to land. Yet there… Read More
As investors have become more and more sophisticated, the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio has begun to be viewed as a less-sophisticated, overly-simplistic tool. But sometimes, there’s power in simplicity. The fact of the matter is, the P/E ratio is still the ultimate “… Read More
Just as a rising tide can lift all boats, a falling tide can also sink them. As I’ve been writing for the past few months, investors should be thinking about opportunities for profit-taking after the market made a virtually uninterrupted upward… Read More
The market is on the move. An April 2 article in The Wall Street Journal noted that “the eurozone has stepped back from the brink of collapse, the U.S. economy is showing continued signs of life,… Read More
They’ve become wildly popular. Their assets grew more than 30% a year during the past decade. For comparison, mutual funds saw their assets rise just 5-6% per year, according to McKinsey & Co. And there are no… Read More