Earnings Season Recap: Corporate Earnings Flat but Analysts Still Bullish
With positive U.S. economic data hitting the wire on an almost daily basis, we thought this would be a good time to gauge the state of corporate earnings for U.S. companies and look ahead to how improved economic reports might be impacting analysts’ estimates. More specifically, we’ll look at expectations for the current quarter and […]
MarketGrader Sentiment Index, At All-Time High Suggests Caution
With the U.S. stock market at or near 52-week highs, depending on which benchmark you look at, and an uneasy complacency among investors seemingly setting in, we thought an update on our MarketGrader Sentiment Index might serve as a reality check. For those not familiar with the index, or MGSI as we call it, we […]
Value Focus: Power-One, Inc. (PWER)
With the stock market up 20% since October (MarketGrader Sentiment Index Flashes ‘BUY,’) we thought this would be an appropriate time to highlight some of our best values stocks, available this week to MarketGrader.com guests in our featured Value Honor Roll. One company in particular that caught our attention this week is Power-One, Inc. (NASD: […]
Contrarian View: Buy European Stocks
With the stock market off to a solid start two weeks into the new year and following a string of mostly positive economic reports, investors have warmed up pretty quickly to U.S. equities. This, of course, has been playing out for a couple of months as market pundits and equity strategists developed and announced their […]
What Do Netflix and MF Global Have in Common?
Being a successful contrarian investor takes skill and preparation; yet many talented and hard working contrarians are often proven wrong for too long before eventually being proved right in the long run, their portfolios paying a steep price in the process and often jeopardizing hard-earned gains–John Paulson comes to mind here. In a market as […]
The MarketGrader Sentiment Index Flashes ‘BUY’
We have written somewhat extensively in the past about our Sentiment score as a measure of, well, general investor sentiment surrounding a stock, irrespective of the company’s fundamentals. In some cases we have found it to be a decent leading indicator indicative of short-term price performance, especially in cases in which the qualitative story outweighs […]
10 Value Stocks With Rising Sentiment
While company valuations seem to have taken a back seat to global macroeconomic concerns in Septmeber, investors would be well served by identifying buying opportunities among stocks that in addition to having strong fundamentals are also showing resilience to the market’s recent turmoil as measured by investor sentiment toward their stocks. In this vein we […]
The Best Three Major Banks in the United States
Major bank stocks in the U.S. and Europe fell on Wednesday following Moody’s downgrade of Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America and the FOMC’s announcement of further monetary stimulus measures in the face of a worsening economic outlook. Financials in general fell again yesterday in sync with a global equity sell-off. Investors rightfully fear […]
Top Health Care Stocks With Solid Fundamentals and Strong Sentiment
With almost three quarters of the year already in the books, the stock market sits three to five percent below where it ended 2010, depending on the benchmark you use. With correlations between all sectors of the economy, as represented by S&P’s sectors, near 1% and with stock markets in Emerging and Developed economies moving […]
