Today I wanted to feature two lifetime dividend achievers. Each company has demonstrated a noteworthy corporate dedication to consistent and hefty dividend growth. Read More
Analyst Articles
The Device That Will Make The Transistor Obsolete
Sales in this technology are poised to go from basically nothing to a whole lot in a very short period of time, which means it needs to be on your radar screen. Read More
To make money in stocks, you need to tie together various threads of information to see what it might mean for your investments. Right now, a pair of disparate data points has caught my attention: rising oil prices and a trio of unloved stocks that may really benefit from it. Read More
This Small Cap Could be the Next Wal-Mart
While it’s unlikely that anything will unseat Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) as the king of retail in our lifetime, that doesn’t mean there aren’t major opportunities to meaningfully penetrate the discount-store space. Take Target (NYSE: TGT), for instance. Despite Wal-Mart’s annoying domination, Target has capitalized on the inherent… Read More
This Oil Stock Could Double Your Money Every 2.5 Years
The world is undergoing a frantic search for new sources of oil. The reason is simple: World-wide oil supply is dwindling while demand is soaring. The planet is estimated to have 1.3 trillion barrels of proven reserves — only enough for 40 years at current consumption rates. Read More
A Stock I Told You About is up 28% in 2 Months. A Similar Move Could Happen This Spring…
When Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) announced plans in mid-January to spend an eye-popping $9 billion on capital spending, tech analysts sat up and took notice. Many of them have been lukewarm on chip stocks for so long that they simply didn’t see it coming. And when Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM) followed up with similarly aggressive plans for 2011, it became apparent that the entire chip industry was now in full-growth mode. The prime beneficiary of the newfound momentum in capital equipment spending: Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT). I told readers to buy shares two months ago,… Read More
When Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) announced plans in mid-January to spend an eye-popping $9 billion on capital spending, tech analysts sat up and took notice. Many of them have been lukewarm on chip stocks for so long that they simply didn’t see it coming. And when Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM) followed up with similarly aggressive plans for 2011, it became apparent that the entire chip industry was now in full-growth mode. The prime beneficiary of the newfound momentum in capital equipment spending: Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT). I told readers to buy shares two months ago, as there was simply too much pessimism around the world’s largest semiconductor capital equipment firm. And it looks as if The Street is still underestimating this tech powerhouse. The recent 28% spike in the stock was impressive, but I see another 25% or so move coming this spring. On its way to $20? As I’ve noted in the past, analysts tend to move very slowly, judging stocks by how the next quarter will fare. Price targets are raised and lowered based on updated 90-day forecasts. But when… Read More
3 Reasons Why This is a No-Brainer Stock to Own
While there are many high-growth tech companies, these can be tough investments to own. It’s often the case that they are one-hit wonders and competition will eat away at the core business. Yet there are some tech companies that are “built to last,” such as Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), IBM… Read More
Chart of the Day: The Worst Investment We’ve Ever Seen
If a CEO oversaw this sort of performance, they’d be ridden out on a rail. A fund manager? You better expect a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and prison time. But there’s something different about this investment. It’s lost 99% in the past two years, yet it’s rarely in the news and it hasn’t been shut down. In fact, it still trades 30 million shares a day. Meet the Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ). It takes the crown as the worst investment we at StreetAuthority have… Read More
If a CEO oversaw this sort of performance, they’d be ridden out on a rail. A fund manager? You better expect a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and prison time. But there’s something different about this investment. It’s lost 99% in the past two years, yet it’s rarely in the news and it hasn’t been shut down. In fact, it still trades 30 million shares a day. Meet the Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ). It takes the crown as the worst investment we at StreetAuthority have ever seen. The fund is built to triple the Russell 1000 Financial Services Index… in the opposite direction. So if the index is down 1 point, FAZ rises three points. During the financial crisis, buying a few shares would have actually been a nice hedge for your portfolio. But these highly leveraged short funds are time bombs if you hold them too long. Once the rebound took hold, owning FAZ meant disaster… FAZ has its place — if you’re a trader or if… Read More
2 Ways to Profit from This Deep-Value Stock
About 15 years ago I was held prisoner of war in Hartford, Conn., at a large, rookie broker re-education facility. While trudging to class each day, I passed by the headquarters of quite a few famous insurance companies. All were familiar except one: Phoenix. I did some research and learned that, at the time, it was a mutual company (owned by the policy holders) and not publicly traded. However, its investment management arm did trade publicly via master limited partnership (MLP) units. They were clearly trading at a deep discount… Read More
About 15 years ago I was held prisoner of war in Hartford, Conn., at a large, rookie broker re-education facility. While trudging to class each day, I passed by the headquarters of quite a few famous insurance companies. All were familiar except one: Phoenix. I did some research and learned that, at the time, it was a mutual company (owned by the policy holders) and not publicly traded. However, its investment management arm did trade publicly via master limited partnership (MLP) units. They were clearly trading at a deep discount to their actual value, so I bought what few shares I could. In less than a year, after collecting a couple dividend payments, Phoenix bought back all of the units they didn’t own and I made a nice little profit. Fast forward to now. Phoenix (NYSE: PNX) has long since demutualized. The investment arm was spun off a couple of years ago as a free-standing entity: Virtus (Nasdaq: VRTS). Phoenix’s common shares trade at an abysmal sub-$3.00 level The company just can’t seem to get out of its own way. The… Read More
Quick spurts of 50%, 75% or more aren’t uncommon. HiSoft Technologies (Nasdaq: HSFT) has surged 200% since it happened to their stock. JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is already up more than 155%… in a matter of less than nine months. The best news?… Read More