Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Illinois Tool Works Dividend Stock Analysis
Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW) manufactures and sells industrial products and equipment worldwide. It operates through seven segments: Automotive OEM; Food Equipment; Test & Measurement and Electronics; Welding; Polymers & Fluids; Construction Products; and Specialty Products. Illinois Tool Works is a dividend champion with a 44 year track record of annual dividend increases. Back in August, the […]
Nasdaq Surges Above Powell-Plunge Highs, Crude Slammed
Cash US equity markets are open and that has prompted the now ubiquitous buying-panic in whatever has some momentum – Nasdaq in this case. The Dow is rolling lower and WTI is suddenly getting monkey-hammered… Nasdaq has surged back above the pre-Powell-Plunge highs… And as Nasdaq surges, WTI plunges, erasing the gains from earlier comments by the […]
Take The Precious Metal Tide Or End Up In Miseries
With global investment markets standing at crossroads, investors have the option to lose it all or to benefit from the biggest wealth transfer in history. I have quoted this passage from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar many times but it is more appropriate than ever for the situation the world is now in: “There is a tide […]
Headline Durable Goods Orders Up 4.5% In August
The Advance Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders released today gives us a first look at the latest durable goods numbers. Here is the Bureau’s summary on new orders: New orders for manufactured durable goods in August increased $11.1 billion or 4.5 percent to $259.6 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This increase, […]
Datawatch’s Future Value
Summary *)The turnaround for DWCH started quarter 4 2015. Near an average of 18% year over year quarterly revenue growth during the past two years. The accelerating growth was after costly strategic mistakes from 2013 to the end of 2015. *)Intrinsic value is improving from the increasing percentage of recurring revenue now at 60% expected to grow […]
BEA Leaves 2nd Quarter 2018 GDP Growth Essentially Unchanged At 4.16%
In their third (and final) estimate of the US GDP for the second quarter of 2018, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the US economy was growing at a +4.16% annual rate, down an inconsequential -0.07% from their previous estimate and but still up +1.94% from the prior quarter. None of the reported revisions were […]
Featured Stock In September’s Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio
Four new stocks make our Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio this month, which was made available to members on September 20, 2018. Recap from August’s Picks The best performing large-cap stock was up 3%. Overall, four out of the 20 Safest Dividend Yields stocks outperformed the S&P in August. This Model Portfolio leverages our Robo-Analyst technology[1], which scales […]
The Two Biggest Threats To This Bull Market
This bull market seems unstoppable. Regardless of short-term events, investors have quickly looked beyond those risks to in a bid to push stock prices higher. For example, in February of this year the markets dove roughly 10% as “trade wars” became a “thing.” Over the next two months, the markets vacillated coming to grips with what “Trump’s war with China” would […]
September 2018 Initial Unemployment Claims Rolling Average Marginally Worsens
The market expectations for weekly initial unemployment claims (from Nasdaq/Econoday) were 210 K to 305 K (consensus 214,000), and the Department of Labor reported 214,000 new claims. The more important (because of the volatility in the weekly reported claims and seasonality errors in adjusting the data) 4 week moving average moved from 206,000 (reported last […]
3 Bull Stocks Driving Analysts Crazy
If you want to know which stocks analysts are getting excited about right now, turn to TipRanks’ Trending Stocks tool. Over the week, TipRanks’ algorithms have churned through all the Street’s latest ratings to reveal the best-rated stocks right now. Here we look at the results on a one-week basis but you can shift this to one […]
