Category Archive: Finance
3 Real-World Case Studies: How Spinoffs Unlock Shareholder Value
Investors sometimes face the peculiar scenario of one of their holdings spinning off selected assets as a new, publicly-traded security. Often, there is uncertainty surrounding these new estimates. Since markets hate uncertainty, one might expect that spinoffs underperform the market… This is not the case. There is a statistically significant body of research to support the belief […]
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., AT&T Inc. Shares Rise On Earnings
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) and AT&T (T) released their latest earnings reports after closing bell tonight. Chipotle posted earnings of $1.60 per share on $1.07 billion in sales, compared to the Wall Street estimates of $1.29 per share and $1.05 billion. In the same quarter a year ago, the fast-casual dining chain reported 88 cents […]
Will Margins Revert To The Mean?
As was mentioned in a previous article, the 12-month earnings which includes Q1 2017 are below the Q3 2014 peak. This 6.3% decline cannot be emphasized enough given misleading headlines about earnings growth driving stocks higher. If earnings falling didn’t push stocks lower, you can’t make the case that earnings growth is pushing them higher. […]
Daily Trading Opportunities – Thursday, April 26
During the session on Wednesday, we get a handful of announcements that could move the marketplace. Of most interest will of course be the Crude Oil Inventories announcement considering how soft oil has been over the last several sessions. WTI Crude Oil West Texas Intermediate Oil has struggled over the last several sessions, and on […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Dear Mr. Fantasy – Precious Metals Option Expiration
Another ‘risk on’ day after the French have seemingly chosen a neo-liberal businessman for their front runner, and our own version of this, with less panache, has signaled as intention to cut the US corporate tax rate to 15%. If that 15% became like an Alternative Minimum Tax for corporations it might be a good […]
Trade War Sparks Stock Surge Amid Biggest Short Squeeze Since Trump’s Election
This… Stocks continue to soar… but once again it was the overnight gap open – Trannies were red on the day but Nasdaq record highs above 6,000; Dow over 21,000, Small Caps record high Nasdaq broke above 6,000 to new record highs.. because fundamentals… Despite further collapse (to 10-week lows) in ‘soft’ survey […]
Homebuilders Fall As Canadian Lumber Tariff To Impact Profitability
Shares of homebuilding companies including PulteGroup (PHM), Lennar Corporation (LEN), and Toll Brothers (TOL) are falling in the midst of a strong broader market rally new tariffs by the Trump administration on Canadian softwood lumber imports will raise costs. SOFTWOOD LUMBER FROM CANADA: Monday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the preliminary determination in […]
A Short List Of Short Setups To Short
All my bullish swing trading setups to follow this week Bulls are back to being in full control of this market. We got today what we haven’t gotten in a long time from the market and that is follow through. Follow through from a previous day’s rally. Follow through on a break through a key […]
The World’s Largest 50 Companies By Revenue
Today’s data visualization comes from Datashown, and it compares the world’s largest companies by their 2016 revenues to really help put the size and scale of these companies into perspective. As just one example, despite being worth more than the majority of brick and mortar retailers combined, Amazon ranks just #44 in terms of global revenue to […]
Qualcomm: 4.3% Dividend Yield, With NXP Acquisition A Major Growth Catalyst
A 4%+ dividend yield is hard to find in the technology sector, which makes Qualcomm (QCOM) that much more appealing. Qualcomm stock possesses the rare combination of a high dividend yield, along with high dividend growth as well. It recently raised its dividend by 7.5%, which pushed its dividend yield up to 4.3%. Qualcomm is a Dividend Achiever, […]
