With so many states so behind on their budgets due to the economic slowdown, the lure of increased tax revenue from legalizing Marijuana is starting to look even more tempting. Some investors are starting to get excited about the prospects of the expansion of the Marijuana market in the United States next year, and given […]

Once a dominant player in the oil and gas business, Chesapeake Energy is now barely breathing, with their stock now down 99.9% since 2008 and their market cap down to $129 million. This is not Chesapeake Energy’s first rodeo, as they have taken some very big falls before, almost losing their life, but this time […]

With the huge decline in air travel lately, airlines have been dealt a big blow and have had to come up with ways to survive. Is American Airlines too sick to put money on now? Among the major air carriers in the U.S., American Airlines has held the most debt, but they had a good […]

Hertz has been renting cars for over a century and started out with a dozen Model T’s in 1918. They have flourished through a lot of crises, but were no match for an economic shutdown. Hertz has had a dominant position in the rent-a-car business for a century, from the time they started out with […]

With oil and stock markets already in a panic over the epidemic of virus fear that has gripped the world, Saudi Arabia declaring a price war on top of this was just too much. We already had the weekend’s escalating coronavirus cases to deal with come Monday, but Saudi Arabia had a little extra surprise […]

Many people love to bash corporations, but for the wrong reasons. If we are looking to do this and want to make more sense, we need to attack their actual weakness. It’s not even that clear why so many people hate big public corporations, as opposed to smaller ones or even the actual small businesses. […]

Oil giant Exxon Mobil has increased its dividend for the last 17 years without fail. They want to increase it again this year. They don’t have the money, so they are going to borrow it. Stock dividend payments are a way that companies pay profits directly to their shareholders. When a company earns money, they […]

Companies these days are borrowing at unprecedented rates, although the real threat here isn’t so much default as it is sacrificing future profits for shorter-term stock love. If you are holding stocks these days, which a lot of people are, you just have to love what companies are doing with their balance sheets in this […]

The market always does its best to price in risks with its stocks. Boeing has had quite a bit of risk priced in already, but we may be underestimating the total cost of this fiasco. The two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that fell from the sky and killed everyone on board has resulted in the […]

Broadridge Financial should be as stable of a company as they come. They make their money in both good and bad times. The company’s stock is far from stable though. Sometimes we may wonder if they send analysts out in the wilderness to live in isolation and send their reports about their neck of the […]