For information on the stock market I usually use two sites. The first being
Yahoo Finance as I believe they have the easiest and one of the most complete sites. Secondly, I visit
Google Finance as I love their charts with markers which allows me to find news events.Recently, Google Finance added a s
tock screener [...]
The story of United Parcel Service (UPS) is synonymous of the American Dream. The company started by Jim Casey and $100 in capital, and formerly known as American Messenger Company, is now the world’s number one delivery package company. Recently the stock price of UPS hit a snag as its closest competitor FedEX (FDX) [...]
Without a doubt this weekend’s news was the major spike in oil and the stock markets huge loss on Friday. Of course, when these types of days happen, CNBC has to do some sort of special to show us how the world is going to end, in this case they did a special on America’s [...]
Peter Lynch is a huge advocate of buying what you know. To take advantage of this, one has to constantly be on alert for opportunities and further investigate the story and numbers behind the stock. Blindly purchasing stocks on the basis you love their products is a dangerous game and could result in major losses. [...]
Very few industries have been beaten down like the Health Care industry. The DJ Health Care Providers Index is
down 21% in the past 6 months and
down 15% in the past 3 months. There are various reasons the health care industry has sold off, but I think this is a classic example of an [...]
What a week for value investors. First, Buffett and his cult following headed for Omaha for the annual meeting and then
McGraw-Hill announces they will publish 75th Anniversary Edition of Graham and Dodd’s Security Analysis. Of course, the former received more media attention than the latter but in my opinion, the latter is of greater [...]
Like many individuals, after reading Joel Greenblatt’s The Little Book That Beats The Market I was a bit confused on what to do next. The
Magic Formula site provides a screen but does not rank the stocks as stated in the book.They are simply put in alphabetical order. I am not going to invest [...]
Surprisingly, Value Investing at one point did not exist. At the turn of the 20th century, Wall Street was a place where insider information and speculation ruled.It was until a man by the name of Benjamin Grossbaum brought structure to a rather lethargic Wall Street. Below is a list of defining moments that in my [...]
It is amazing what a volatile market can do. As I experience my first market correction of my short investing career, everything that I have read has prepared me in finding the bargains. The big financials are the obvious choices but finding a small well-run company is where the big money is made. I could [...]
It has been a while since I done security analysis on stocks with a market cap this size. Currently Mr.Market is valuing Vineyard National Bancorp “Vineyard” at less than 100 million. The million dollar question is whether Vineyard warrants this type of valuation. As Buffett has quoted before “Price is what you pay, Value is [...]
