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Insider Buys And Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:39:37 GMT

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the owners and executives of those companies themselves, along with major institutional shareholders.[More...]

Tickers For The Latest Portfolio Reshaping

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:45:21 GMT

Fortunately my portfolio management methods don’t revolve around frequent trading. One of my kids came up to me recently and said, “What did you do today, Dad?” I said, “I made one trade, and I did a bunch of research.” He then asked, “How often do you trade?” I answered, “That was my first trade in a week, and I haven’t traded much in the last two months, but that’s not normal. There is no normal for me. When the market is really volatile, I trade a lot more, selling when stocks are rising, and buying when they are selling off. When the market is relatively placid, I don’t do much.” He looked at me, kind of smiled, and moved on. Information overload from Dad. Most people and investment managers trade too often. They sell their winners too rapidly, and panic too soon on their losers. Now, I’m not advocating “buy and forget,” or Buffett’s statement, “Our favorite holding period is forever.”[More...]

Financially Healthy Stocks With Attractive Valuations

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:56:39 GMT

Value Expectations teaches professional investors how to make more informed investment decision evaluating stocks on the basis of corporate performance, valuation, management quality, earnings quality, and other proprietary variables. These variables inevitably help identify companies that are potential long-term investments while avoiding potential torpedoes. However, during the financial crisis, leverage and a week balance sheet played a significant part when investors evaluated a holding. To help our institutional clients navigate the environment The Applied Finance Group (AFG) developed the risk analysis template specifically to model the healthiness of a company’s balance sheet. In addition to the risk analysis template we also developed a template that calculated an Altman Z-Score developed to identify companies that are most likely to go bankrupt. As professional[More...]

Looking For Solid, Growing Companies In A Recession

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:33:44 GMT

In dedication to my recent posts on value investing vs. trading strategies, I decided to focus this week’s screen to the market’s favorite word: growth. Specifically, the criteria used was positive revenue growth for the next fiscal year. Of course, this does not translate to earnings growth but management teams should have figured out there’s (...)[More...]

S&P 500 Stocks

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:35:00 GMT

The S&P 500 comprises of 500 large cap common stocks actively traded in the United States. The largees public companies that are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ are included in the S&P 500 index. The S&P 500 index was lunched in 1957 and is a value weighted index which is based on the 500 American stocks with the largest market capitalizations. The S&P 500 is the most widely followed index After the Dow Jones Industrial Average index and it is considered a barometer for the American economy. The S&P 500 index is included in the Index of Leading Indicators. There are the number of trading vehicle that are designed to follow the S&P 500 index. Hundreds of billions of US dollars have been invested in this index. The SPY (Exchange Traded Fund) is one of the most actively trading stock over the world. The Rydex,[More...]

Precision Castparts Announces - Analyst Blog

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:47:00 GMT

Precision Castparts Corp. (PCP) released Q3-09 results Tuesday. Total Q3-09 sales were $1,614.7 million, down 3.2% from Q3-08 sales of $1,668.2 million. Q3-09 sales in the Investment Cast Products and Forged Products segments were significantly impacted by the lengthy Boeing strike, with a lesser impact to the Fastener Products segment. While Boeing (BA) aircraft production rates are resuming, PCP does not expect recovery to pre-strike levels in its fiscal '09 fourth quarter. Consolidated segment operating income in Q3-09 was $374.6 million, or 23.2 percent of sales, versus $371.9 million, or 22.3 percent of sales in Q3-08, thus overcoming the leverage lost from[More...]

Subscriber Pick: Precision Castparts

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:38:00 GMT

We started the month of December with the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declaring that the recession we are currently in started in December 2007. The Dow reacted with a massive 679...[More...]

Cheap On The Lows

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:21:00 GMT

As the economy deteriorates, one of the first casualties will be corporate profits.? Earnings estimates have been falling very fast for 2009.? Recently estimate cuts for 2009 have been running at about 8x the number of estimate increases.? P/E-based valuations become tricky in such an environment -- you are shooting at a moving target.? One way around this is to focus on the low (or most pessimistic) estimate, rather than on the mean estimate.? Assume that everyone else will move to where the biggest pessimist is now. This is not to say that the most pessimistic analyst today can't be too optimistic, but at least he will be closer than most. On this basis, there are some very compelling values out there.? Below we present a list of the cheapest S&P 500 companies based on 2009 low estimates.? Since I simply do not trust the numbers, I have excluded from the list all firms from the financial sector.? However, I would note that we classify the health[More...]

Thursday Watchlist

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:22:00 GMT

I am finding more charts that look good on the long side, although most would benefit from a low volume pullback. Here is the my watchlist, all long: TNH, APWR, PXP, PDO, MTL, DO, SMH, AG, ZEUS, CLS, RRC, RIO, CNQ, FCX, AUY, TBSI, EXM, GPOR, XEC, CCJ, CHL, CRS, BEAV, WAG, ATI, PCP, APA, WW, EGLE, MPEL, RAH, ADCT, EGY, RIG, ENER. While the watchlist is dominated by long picks, I am not fully in the bullish camp yet. Yesterday's end of day selloff created some long upper wicks on candlestick charts, generally a bearish indicator. Let's take at the SPY chart as an example: [More...]

Election Will Determine Defense Outlook

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:18:00 GMT

In today's Zacks Analyst Interview, staff writer Mark Vickery interviews John Nelson Simon about the following companies: Boeing (BA), Hexcel Corp. (HXL), Ladish Co. (LDSH), Moog Inc. (MOG-A), Precision Castparts (PCP), Curtiss Wright Corp. (CW), Triumph Group (TGI), Oshkosh Corp. ([More...]

Earnings roundup: United Airlines, UnitedHealth

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:51:00 GMT

Among the earnings stories for Tuesday, Oct. 20, from AP Financial News:
United Airlines parent UAL Corp. reported a money-losing third quarter on Tuesday but said it is beginning to see signs that business travel could pick up soon.
Managed care company UnitedHealth Group Inc. saw its third-quarter profit jump 13 percent, as growth in several businesses helped balance another enrollment decline and fight off a touch of swine flu.

: iStockAnalyst.com Symbols Feed

Insider Buys And Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

Tickers For The Latest Portfolio Reshaping

Financially Healthy Stocks With Attractive Valuations

Looking For Solid, Growing Companies In A Recession

S&P 500 Stocks

Precision Castparts Announces - Analyst Blog

Subscriber Pick: Precision Castparts

Cheap On The Lows

Thursday Watchlist

Election Will Determine Defense Outlook

Earnings roundup: United Airlines, UnitedHealth

Boeing, Oshkosh, Immunomedics are big movers

Precision Castparts Sales Down 24 Percent for Quarter

Precision Castparts 1Q profit drops 13 percent

CORRECTION: Seattle Times' Annual Ranking of Northwest Companies Comes Up Short of Usual Top 100

Precision Castparts' Stock, Jobs Take Hit

Oregon Index Took Beating; Worst Loss Was 94 Percent of Value

RidgewaterEquity.Com Free Fundamental Sector &Amp; Market Research on PCP, NVS, SPR, MUR, PG and OSK

wRatings Ranks Most Competitive Travel & Transport Companies in 2009

Precision Castparts Corp. Broadens Forged Products Capabilities With Acquisition of Carlton Forge Works

BenchmarkJournal.Com Free Analyst Review for FTR, MMM, ODP, RRI, BG and PCP

Precision Castparts Declares Dividend At Quarterly Board Meeting

Precision Castparts Corp. Drives Further Operational Performance Improvement in the First Quarter of Fiscal 2010

Precision Castparts Corp. Sets First Quarter Fiscal 2010 Earnings Release Date

Precision Castparts Declares Dividend At Quarterly Board Meeting - May 27 2009 4:06PM

Precision Castparts Declares Dividend At Quarterly Board Meeting

Precision Castparts Corp. Presents Business Update At the Macquarie Aerospace & Defense Conference 2009

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