Apple shared some news which the market after the close Tuesday, with their announcement of their quarterly results, and the market expressed its approval on Wednesday. On a day where stock markets were decidedly negative, nothing stood in the way of the side party that the markets had for Apple on Wednesday. Apple gapped up […]

Price to earnings is relied upon by a lot of people in deciding a stock’s outlook. The idea is to hope that we’ll get a reversion to the mean. This isn’t how stocks work though. We have a natural tendency to want to oversimplify things, and this certainly extends to how we view the movement […]

While there is much speculation on whether Chevron or Occidental will win the bid to take over Anadarko Petroleum, you can’t just necessarily go by the size of the bids. Takeover bids with companies aren’t always decided by the size of a company’s offer, and it just may not be in the case of Chevron […]

After a terrible 2018 which saw 3M stock lose 20%, 2019 was shaping up much better, until Thursday that is. The stock lost most of their 15% year to date gain on a single day. It’s usually not nice to disappoint the street with your earnings estimates. Current estimates become digested by the market so […]

Procter and Gamble’s stock has done very well over the last year, up 43% from where it sat last April. Barclay’s believes that it should go even higher, based upon its solid earnings. Procter and Gamble may not quite be a household name, but many of their products sure are. The company has been making […]

Microsoft has been right up there with Apple as far as the biggest stocks in the world go. They got there from their tremendous rise in stock prices, and are ready to deliver more. Microsoft’s IPO in 1986 has gone down in history for a number of reasons, not the least of which is how […]

We’re often told to diversify a lot with our stock positions. While some diversification can make sense, if we’re picking our stocks ourselves, how much of this do we need? Phil Fisher is considered by some to be among the greatest investors of all time. Warren Buffet, who is widely regarded to be in this […]

Some investors are becoming concerned about the fact that while major stock market indices are nearing all-time records, the volume of shares traded is going down. The significance of trading volume is one that a lot of technical analysts struggle to really understand, or at least gain a reasonable understanding of them. There are some […]

2019 has started out pretty bullish for the overall stock market, but with many health care stocks, it’s been a year to forget so far. Things don’t look like they are changing. United Health Care serves as a good example of how health care stocks are starting to really get swatted by the bears out […]

According to U.S. President Donald Trump, the stock market should be 10,000 points higher than it is today if not for the Federal Reserve not acting to support its growth enough. Whether or not people think Donald Trump is sufficiently qualified or suited to be President of the United States is to a large degree […]