Dear Mr. Culp, I wish you the best in your new challenge. This Motley Fool article about your... Read More

Dear Mr. Culp, I wish you the best in your new challenge. This Motley Fool article about your background is encouraging. Why am I writing this? During the Jack Welch era, GE contracted with my... Read More

In show business, you’re only as good as your last hit whether it’s a play, movie, or... Read More

In show business, you’re only as good as your last hit whether it’s a play, movie, or song. Oddly, the pharmaceutical business used to be the same way. As a young pup in the mid... Read More

By all accounts, it was a productive holiday season for retailers across the country. Mastercard... Read More

By all accounts, it was a productive holiday season for retailers across the country. Mastercard (NYSE: MA), which is uniquely qualified to monitor spending habits, estimates U.S. holiday spending... Read More

When markets are rocking and rolling, pundits and soothsayers love to throw around the phrase,... Read More

When markets are rocking and rolling, pundits and soothsayers love to throw around the phrase, “priced for perfection”. This means that a company’s stock is priced correctly (usually too high)... Read More

As of late December, earnings growth for 2018 was expected at 20.3%, the highest since 2010 and the... Read More

As of late December, earnings growth for 2018 was expected at 20.3%, the highest since 2010 and the highest revenue growth (expected 8.9%) since 2011. Profit margins surged last year with the S&P... Read More

Over at my premium newsletter, Game-Changing Stocks, we often concentrate mostly on younger... 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... Read More

Successful investing requires discipline, focus, and a healthy skepticism of quarterly and annual... 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... Read More

A robust bullish argument can be made for the stock market going into the first half of 2019. ... 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... Read More

Last month, I ran a stock screen to see which companies seemed attractive to insiders in the month... 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... Read More

Remember the elation when the Dow Jones Industrial Average first hit 20,000? It happened in January... 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,... Read More