Value Investing

Over at my premium newsletter, Game-Changing Stocks, we often concentrate mostly on younger companies — those whose profit-making days are just beginning. But as investors, we cannot ignore inexpensive stocks. —Recommended Link— Christmas Savings Event — 85% Savings On Fast-Track Millionaire Until midnight tonight, we’re offering a special savings event. Fast-Track Millionaire is opening up 50 seats at an incredible 85% discount. Join hundreds of other investors already using this simple yet powerful system to generate millions. This year give yourself the gift of financial peace of mind. Remember, only 50 readers will be able to claim this incredible… Read More

Over at my premium newsletter, Game-Changing Stocks, we often concentrate mostly on younger companies — those whose profit-making days are just beginning. But as investors, we cannot ignore inexpensive stocks. —Recommended Link— Christmas Savings Event — 85% Savings On Fast-Track Millionaire Until midnight tonight, we’re offering a special savings event. Fast-Track Millionaire is opening up 50 seats at an incredible 85% discount. Join hundreds of other investors already using this simple yet powerful system to generate millions. This year give yourself the gift of financial peace of mind. Remember, only 50 readers will be able to claim this incredible discount. Don’t miss out. Click here for the full details. This month, I’m on the hunt for attractively-valued companies. Some of these bargains might have become cheap because of the recent market volatility, and for some, the attractive valuation would only be an indicator of deteriorating business or other issues. But you won’t ever know which one it is unless you start looking.  Because of the many possible ways of defining “attractive” valuation, and because of the wide stock universe, I first needed to set a few restrictions. #-ad_banner-#First: only technology companies. That’s because these are the companies whose missions… Read More

Successful investing requires discipline, focus, and a healthy skepticism of quarterly and annual reports. But it’s this last idea that counts the most. For if investors fail in their duty to look beneath the surface of corporate reports, they have nobody to blame but themselves for making poor investment decisions. —Recommended Link— URGENT NEWS: Experts Warn Your Pension Is ‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’ Save your retirement from miserly interest rates and an overstretched stock market with our special “Executive Dividends” Program… Learn more inside. Take Target (NYSE: TGT), for example. Many investors looking for an entry point for… Read More

Successful investing requires discipline, focus, and a healthy skepticism of quarterly and annual reports. But it’s this last idea that counts the most. For if investors fail in their duty to look beneath the surface of corporate reports, they have nobody to blame but themselves for making poor investment decisions. —Recommended Link— URGENT NEWS: Experts Warn Your Pension Is ‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’ Save your retirement from miserly interest rates and an overstretched stock market with our special “Executive Dividends” Program… Learn more inside. Take Target (NYSE: TGT), for example. Many investors looking for an entry point for the stock may have found it after the stock declined behind the company’s quarterly earnings announcement last month. As you can see from the chart, the stock took a nosedive on the report — wiping out an entire year’s gains. Now, it’s true the stock has since regained about 2% since the decline, but clearly, investors didn’t like what management had to report. The Catalyst Ostensibly, the catalyst for Target’s stock decline was lighter than expected growth for its third quarter. Analysts’ expectations were for the company to report same stores sales growth of 5.5%. Instead, the… Read More

A robust bullish argument can be made for the stock market going into the first half of 2019.  Not only are there multiple fundamental and technical reasons, but the recent sell-off has resulted in many stocks and the overall market trading at relative deeply discounted levels. “Wait a minute!” I can hear many of you exclaiming. “Didn’t this guy just author a scathingly bearish article concerning the stock market’s future?” Yes, that is correct. Allow me to explain the seemingly contradictory stance. —Recommended Link— The SAFEST Way To Make Triple-Digit Gains In Blue-Chip Stocks… Forget options and penny stocks. Read More

A robust bullish argument can be made for the stock market going into the first half of 2019.  Not only are there multiple fundamental and technical reasons, but the recent sell-off has resulted in many stocks and the overall market trading at relative deeply discounted levels. “Wait a minute!” I can hear many of you exclaiming. “Didn’t this guy just author a scathingly bearish article concerning the stock market’s future?” Yes, that is correct. Allow me to explain the seemingly contradictory stance. —Recommended Link— The SAFEST Way To Make Triple-Digit Gains In Blue-Chip Stocks… Forget options and penny stocks. The market’s BIGGEST profits come from its safest investments – you just have to know where to look. Find out how to cash in HERE. The hallmark of all successful investors is the ability to view the market from both sides. Understanding both the bullish and bearish argument helps to keep your personal biases in check and thus see the market objectively.   #-ad_banner-#In practical terms, understanding the other side of the trade enables one to make better decisions, be more confident, and switch sides should the preponderance of evidence shift. Not to mention to understand your side better, regardless… Read More

Last month, I ran a stock screen to see which companies seemed attractive to insiders in the month of September, with the market trading near its all-time highs. One stock from that screen has already made it to our portfolio — after doing further research, I added it in the latest issue of Game-Changing Stocks. —Recommended Link— Are you missing the mark when it comes to beating the market? Our newly released report “Top 10 stocks for 2019” is your definitive guide to beating the market in the coming year. Complete with 10 heavily researched stock picks… from multiple… Read More

Last month, I ran a stock screen to see which companies seemed attractive to insiders in the month of September, with the market trading near its all-time highs. One stock from that screen has already made it to our portfolio — after doing further research, I added it in the latest issue of Game-Changing Stocks. —Recommended Link— Are you missing the mark when it comes to beating the market? Our newly released report “Top 10 stocks for 2019” is your definitive guide to beating the market in the coming year. Complete with 10 heavily researched stock picks… from multiple sectors, this report could bring in hefty double-digit gains in 2019. Click here to discover the picks now. But as you know, in barely a month the market changed. October brought us nearly a 7% decline in the S&P 500, a 5% decline in the Dow Industrials, and a better than 9% decline in the Nasdaq Composite Index. #-ad_banner-#Last month’s screen showed us which stocks were considered bargains by insiders in a strong, climbing market. The same or similar methods should work with a weaker market, too. Therefore, I recently set out to determine which stocks are considered bargains by… Read More

Remember the elation when the Dow Jones Industrial Average first hit 20,000? It happened in January 2017, not that long ago really. Since then, the venerable benchmark blew through 21,000, 22,000, 23,000, 24,000, and 25,000. After a powerful run like that, you can expect many stocks to be overvalued. —Recommended Link— The Only Pot Stock Worth Owning This summer, Canada will completely legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use — sparking an $8 BILLION industry.  Our experts have their sights on a company that’s been granted a virtual monopoly by the Canadian government – a moat that would make… Read More

Remember the elation when the Dow Jones Industrial Average first hit 20,000? It happened in January 2017, not that long ago really. Since then, the venerable benchmark blew through 21,000, 22,000, 23,000, 24,000, and 25,000. After a powerful run like that, you can expect many stocks to be overvalued. —Recommended Link— The Only Pot Stock Worth Owning This summer, Canada will completely legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use — sparking an $8 BILLION industry.  Our experts have their sights on a company that’s been granted a virtual monopoly by the Canadian government – a moat that would make Warren Buffett jealous. Get in early on this exceptional triple-digit opportunity before the law goes into effect. Click here to learn more. And indeed, many are. The S&P 500 is currently trading at 15.6 times forward earnings. While not excessive, that’s a sizeable premium to the historical 10-year average of 14.5. According to Morningstar, the average U.S. stock is priced at 102% of its fair value — and that’s after the October swoon. Nobody goes to a car dealership (or anywhere else) looking to pay 2% above sticker price. Not only do current valuations limit the upside, but as we’ve… Read More

Most investors instinctively know that value stocks are generally less expensive relative to earnings and book value. They are typically mature, well-established businesses that can afford to distribute more of their profits as dividends. Common examples include drug maker Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), and wireless provider AT&T (NYSE: T). —Recommended Link— Watch Your Safest Stocks SOAR 83% In 28 Days! What if you could know at a glance which blue chips will move most in the next 90 days? Would you be ready to cash in? Read more. By contrast, growth stocks… Read More

Most investors instinctively know that value stocks are generally less expensive relative to earnings and book value. They are typically mature, well-established businesses that can afford to distribute more of their profits as dividends. Common examples include drug maker Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), and wireless provider AT&T (NYSE: T). —Recommended Link— Watch Your Safest Stocks SOAR 83% In 28 Days! What if you could know at a glance which blue chips will move most in the next 90 days? Would you be ready to cash in? Read more. By contrast, growth stocks are companies that typically reinvest most of their earnings back into the business, so there is often little (if any) left on the table for dividends. Wherever the dividing line falls, investors have shown a clear preference for growth. But smart money naturally flows into pockets with optimal risk-adjusted potential rewards. So it’s rare for one group to stay at the top (or bottom) for more than a few years. The last time value stocks were this hated was the late 1990s. I remember it well, because I was a financial advisor trying to convince clients to allocate a portion… Read More

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. In the August update issue of High-Yield Investing, I pointed out that a narrow group of six tech stocks had accounted for virtually all (98%) of the market’s year-to-date gains. I’ve seen this behavior before, most recently in 2015, when the ten largest stocks in the S&P 500 represented more than 100% of the index’s return while the other 490 were net losers. —Recommended Link— There Are 6,568 Investors On “The List…” Will YOU Be Next? Introducing the exclusive system guarantees you get a paycheck delivered to your mailbox an average… Read More

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. In the August update issue of High-Yield Investing, I pointed out that a narrow group of six tech stocks had accounted for virtually all (98%) of the market’s year-to-date gains. I’ve seen this behavior before, most recently in 2015, when the ten largest stocks in the S&P 500 represented more than 100% of the index’s return while the other 490 were net losers. —Recommended Link— There Are 6,568 Investors On “The List…” Will YOU Be Next? Introducing the exclusive system guarantees you get a paycheck delivered to your mailbox an average of every single day. Sometimes more. Full story here… It’s easy to forget about dividends at times like this. Who can get excited about a 4% annual income stream when stocks like Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) soar 69% and 92%, respectively, in just eight months? But then the Dow surrendered nearly 1,400 points in two days in October, throwing some cold water on those red-hot gains. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) fell 5.5% in the market swoon. Amazon retreated 8.1%. And Netflix plunged 9.6%. #-ad_banner-#That doesn’t mean these highfliers are about to crash and burn. In fact, they’ve already… Read More

Even as the broader market has rebounded from its October slump, a few sectors remain in correction territory, and value plays have emerged from the summer’s frothy market. Shares of companies in the materials sector have plunged 13.1% so far this year, the worst performance among the 11 sectors. Within materials, chemicals have underperformed on geopolitical and macroeconomic worries but these products are the building blocks of the economy. —Recommended Link— The Only Pot Stock Worth Owning This summer, Canada will completely legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use — sparking an $8 BILLION industry.  Our experts have their… Read More

Even as the broader market has rebounded from its October slump, a few sectors remain in correction territory, and value plays have emerged from the summer’s frothy market. Shares of companies in the materials sector have plunged 13.1% so far this year, the worst performance among the 11 sectors. Within materials, chemicals have underperformed on geopolitical and macroeconomic worries but these products are the building blocks of the economy. —Recommended Link— The Only Pot Stock Worth Owning This summer, Canada will completely legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use — sparking an $8 BILLION industry.  Our experts have their sights on a company that’s been granted a virtual monopoly by the Canadian government – a moat that would make Warren Buffett jealous. Get in early on this exceptional triple-digit opportunity before the law goes into effect. Click here to learn more. There are already signs of a rebound with 3Q earnings from chemicals producers one of the few bright spots this season. While geopolitical worries may drag for a few more quarters, this could be the contrarian play of the year and the best time to position in these value plays could be now. Why Basic Materials Are Taking… Read More

It felt as if somebody just flipped a switch. On September 28, the last trading day of the third quarter, everything was hunky-dory: major indices were trading near records and investment managers were about to put yet another great quarter to bed. In retrospect, the market rally had already been showing some signs of cracking, with bonds falling and stock leadership changing. But something negative almost always hides beneath the market’s surface — they don’t call it a “wall of worry” for nothing. As you know, though, markets usually climb this proverbial wall by ignoring the negatives and concentrating on… Read More

It felt as if somebody just flipped a switch. On September 28, the last trading day of the third quarter, everything was hunky-dory: major indices were trading near records and investment managers were about to put yet another great quarter to bed. In retrospect, the market rally had already been showing some signs of cracking, with bonds falling and stock leadership changing. But something negative almost always hides beneath the market’s surface — they don’t call it a “wall of worry” for nothing. As you know, though, markets usually climb this proverbial wall by ignoring the negatives and concentrating on positives. —Recommended Link— THE LIST — The Only Growth Stocks You’ll Ever Need If you’re ready to start bagging triple-digit winners like it’s no big deal, then you have to see this… Last year’s picks are beating the S&P 500 3-to-1, and we’ve recommended dozens of multi-baggers to our readers over the years. THE LIST is jam-packed timely picks including: Our #1 Biotech Stock, Takeover Stock, Pharmaceutical Stock, and many others. Click here to see them now. Not this time, however. In the first few days of the fourth quarter, a mini-crash sent many investors scrambling for the exits. Read More

After a spectacular, virtually volatility-free bull run, equity markets are a little jittery these days. The excuses, like in the classic film by the same title, are the usual suspects. The Fed is raising rates too fast. The trade war. The jobs reports are too good, and the result will be wage inflation. George Soros. —Recommended Link— Firm With 1,588% Gains Worthy Of Legacy Portfolio? We’ve come across a 167-year-old materials developer that’s been part of everything from Edison’s first incandescent bulb… to optics in the Hubble Telescope… to the iPhone’s Gorilla Glass. It’s been making fortunes for investors… Read More

After a spectacular, virtually volatility-free bull run, equity markets are a little jittery these days. The excuses, like in the classic film by the same title, are the usual suspects. The Fed is raising rates too fast. The trade war. The jobs reports are too good, and the result will be wage inflation. George Soros. —Recommended Link— Firm With 1,588% Gains Worthy Of Legacy Portfolio? We’ve come across a 167-year-old materials developer that’s been part of everything from Edison’s first incandescent bulb… to optics in the Hubble Telescope… to the iPhone’s Gorilla Glass. It’s been making fortunes for investors for generations and has seen its stock rise 1,588% since 2002. That’s a full 1,350% more than the S&P–and a return of $170,000 for investors who were smart enough to put 10k into it 16 years ago. But here’s the thing… even this success wasn’t enough to earn it a spot in our Legacy Assets Portfolio. Click here now to discover the seven companies that did make the list. I could go on. But I won’t. The market has been knocked around a little. The falling leaves, cooler temperatures and the re-emergence of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) pumpkin spice… Read More