Given the popularity of Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone and Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android phones in the United States, it would be tempting for investors to think the growth story behind the smartphone revolution is almost over. But that’s not the case. In fact, it may be just… Read More

High yields are hard to find these days. A three-year CD is paying about 1.5% on average. A 10-year treasury bond is paying 3.5%. The dividend yield of the S&P 500 is just 2.1%. So, in the current environment, is… Read More

#-ad_banner-#It’s the most consistent way I know to beat the market. Even better, there is rarely a bad time to start investing in these securities. You could have put your money into these stocks at the peak of the tech bubble, or the October 2007 market peak for that matter. Dozens of them are showing a triple-digit profit since then. I don’t want to make it seem you can’t lose money with these unique investments. You certainly can, especially if you aren’t patient. But there’s no doubt the odds are in favor… Read More

#-ad_banner-#It’s the most consistent way I know to beat the market. Even better, there is rarely a bad time to start investing in these securities. You could have put your money into these stocks at the peak of the tech bubble, or the October 2007 market peak for that matter. Dozens of them are showing a triple-digit profit since then. I don’t want to make it seem you can’t lose money with these unique investments. You certainly can, especially if you aren’t patient. But there’s no doubt the odds are in favor of making money, not losing it. We’ve been advocating these types of ideas for years and it has made the subscribers of my newsletter pretty happy… So what are these “magic” investments that have worked so well over the years… despite some of the worst financial turmoil we’ve ever seen? They’re simple. They are “boring” dividend payers that are able to maintain — and raise — their dividends no matter what. They’re among the most lucrative ways I’ve found to make money. Take a look:… Read More

The stock market has seen plenty of ups and downs in the past 25 years. Through it all, hedge fund Baupost Group’s Seth Klarman has managed to stay on the right side of the ledger, racking up an average annual gain of about 20%. Read More

In the past 40 years, not once has the United States’ stock market been the best performer in the world in any given year. At best, American stocks have been finding their way into the middle of the pack, and given enough time, the U.S. stock market’s results are often… Read More

Working for StreetAuthority, I do a lot of different things. In the course of a day, I may be writing an article… discussing potential picks with our staff… researching the next investing hotspot… even going over Stock of the Month article ideas with my colleagues. Read More

I’m a big fan of low-priced stocks — especially those that are under $5 a share. At that level, most mutual fund managers are restricted from owning them. But if growth plans pan out and shares move above that threshold, those same fund managers then have the green… Read More

A profitable investment strategy is to buy into a stock with a major catalyst that can potentially take hold and send a stock price higher. That’s obviously easier said than done, but many savvy investors who identify a catalyst early on can often… Read More

How many ways are there to value a stock? Too many, which is why the market’s participants rarely agree on which stock truly is “the most undervalued” name. That one-dimensional approach, though — where a measure like a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio or earnings growth is used as the yardstick — is the very reason the hunt for value doesn’t always find a winner. A truly undervalued stock looks good by all the relevant measures. Such an approach certainly whittles down the number of truly… Read More

How many ways are there to value a stock? Too many, which is why the market’s participants rarely agree on which stock truly is “the most undervalued” name. That one-dimensional approach, though — where a measure like a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio or earnings growth is used as the yardstick — is the very reason the hunt for value doesn’t always find a winner. A truly undervalued stock looks good by all the relevant measures. Such an approach certainly whittles down the number of truly great candidates, but that’s the whole point. And which stock in the S&P 500 is the most undervalued right now? It’s (drum roll please…) railroad company Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP). To be clear, Union Pacific isn’t more attractive than any other S&P 500 constituent based on any one single criterion. It is, however, near the top of the leader board for the greatest number of criteria, making the sum of those numbers the compelling aspect that makes it worth considering for your portfolio. Take its P/E ratio for instance. Union Pacific’s trailing-twelve-month P/E is… Read More

The stock market always looks ahead. That old axiom has never been more true as investors seek out companies that are slumping now but poised for better days ahead. Just look at the stock charts of Office Depot (NYSE: ODP), H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) and Sandridge Energy… Read More