S&P Stocks
Polar Vortex a Boon for These Three Stocks
Well, the weather outside is frightful … …but to some companies, it has been a financial windfall. One of the coldest winters in recent memory has been bad for… Read more
Q4 Earnings Season By the Numbers
Entering the new year, there were rumblings on Wall Street that the holiday shopping season wasn’t as fruitful as expected. Investors held their collective breath as fourth-quarter earnings results… Read more
Is It Time to Buy Lululemon Stock?
Imagine there’s a company with $588 million in cash and zero debt. The company’s earnings per share have more than doubled in the last three years, and nearly quintupled… Read more
Is Candy Crush IPO Zynga 2.0?
I must have deleted 50 invitations from my Facebook (NYSE: FB) “friends” to play the online game Candy Crush. But not everyone finds them annoying. In fact, 93 million… Read more
Three Tips for Avoiding Risky Stocks
Stocks have pulled back since the calendar flipped to 2014. But fresh off a banner 2013, many stocks remain overvalued. Wall Street pundits have been calling for a pullback… Read more
Why Tomorrow May Decide the Fate of Stocks in 2014
It hasn’t been a good first month for stocks. As of this morning’s market open, the S&P 500 is down more than 3.5% in January. Ordinarily a 3.5% pullback… Read more
Will News Corp. (NWS) Get a Super Bowl Bump?
The Super Bowl is big business. And especially for the network that airs the game. Fox has the honor this year. Rupert Murdoch’s network – owned by News Corp…. Read more
Apple (AAPL) Extends Underwhelming Earnings Start
Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) disappointing earnings yesterday were the latest in what has become a disturbing trend this earnings season. While the world’s largest company didn’t technically fall short of… Read more
A Contrarian Strategy that Beats Wall Street
It’s a fact that Wall Street professionals are horrible at predicting market performance from year to year. Yet, every January hordes of highly paid experts continue the annual tradition… Read more