The auto sector has looked more like a junkyard than a showroom over the past few years. Baird analyst David Leiker believes he has found a couple of diamonds in the rough. Some stocks perform better than others, and given that stocks are grouped into sectors, some sectors perform better than others do. The auto […]
Nestle stock being up 36% this year so far is only part of the story. It’s the way that this stock has risen that is really impressive. Both the present and future look bright. Nestle is the world’s largest packaged food company, and although they sell a lot of products in the United States, the […]
A fair number of people are critical of the practice of companies buying back their stock, with some even suggesting that this practice be limited or banned. We need to understand this first. Public companies both issue stock and buy back stock, according to their needs and strategies. The practice of a company buying back […]
Bank stocks and utility stocks do have some things in common, such as high earnings and good dividends. The two are very distinct in some very important ways though. There are actually quite a few investors out there who call themselves conservative, and at least think that they are, who invest in bank stocks for […]
Good stock selection always involves seeking better than average opportunities. Oil stocks have been way below average for a long time, but is there a reason to be optimistic? It is no secret that the oil and gas sector has fallen out of favor, and it’s no surprise either considering how tied this sector is […]
This week’s trading has been a real ping-pong match so far. On Wednesday, the bears served up another big losing day, with yield inversion fears back in full force. The usual suspects on the bear side were in full force on Wednesday, causing a loss of 800 points on the Dow in the biggest one-day […]
Some IPOs are better than others. Uber’s IPO is definitely in the less exciting category, but things could have gone a lot worse so far. Uber is holding up pretty well but for how long? Uber stock hit the market as a very anticipated IPO back on May 10, opening at $42 a share. It’s […]
U.S. President Donald Trump may have thought that he hit a good serve with his “small” new tariffs, but China returned his serve right into his face over the weekend. The trade war between the United States and China has heated up in a big way over the last few days, and the gloves may […]
Retailers are quick to blame outside factors like Walmart, Amazon, and now tariffs. The reality though is that they just overextended themselves and are now faced with fixing this. Retailers are up in arms about President Trump’s planned tariff escalation set to happen this September 1. It’s not that we don’t have tariffs now, and […]
After the market enthusiastically rose after hearing what normally would bad news, Donald Trump had more bad news for them, and this time the news was unequivocally bad. One day after seeing people’s hope of further interest rate cuts by the Fed set aside, they got some numbers that they could hang their hopes upon […]