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FILTER RESULTS ►Five Stocks Insiders And Billionaire Ken Griffin Are Bullish On
By Insider Monkey: By Matt Doiron Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund managed by billionaire Ken Griffin, has filed its 13F for the first quarter of 2013 with the SEC (see the full filing on the SEC's website). Our database of 13F...Show More Summary
Hedge Fund Tiger Global Has Invested $50 Million In Blogging Platform Wordpress
Tiger Global has invested $50 million in web developer company Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.
From Automattic's president/founder Matt Mullenweg:
Anyway, wanted to get in front of the news that will inevitably come outShow More Summary
Book Review - 'Investing: The Last Liberal Art'
By CFA Institute Contributors: Reviewed by Martin S. Fridson, CFA Consider the following: The food-locating strategy used by Native American hunters and Norwegian fishermen is the same as that used by ants. Human neurons operate several orders of magnitude more slowly than silicon chips. Show More Summary
Green Fleet Roundup: Network Rail, UQM, Waste Industries, Halliburton, PacLease
Network Rail has invested in two Mercedes Benz Vito E-Cell all-electric minibuses (pictured) that ferry its employees to and from the train station. The 8-seater minibus has an 80-mile range between recharges. Network Rail says it’s the first battery-powered light commercial vehicle built at a mainstream production facility. An 82 hp (60 kW) electric motor [...]
If You Only Know 5 Things About Investing, Make It These
The core principals.
If You Only Know 5 Things About Investing, Make It These
I own one finance textbook, and I occasionally open it to remind myself how little I know about finance. It's packed with formulas on complex option pricing, the Gaussian copula function, and a chapter titled, "Assessment of Confidence...Show More Summary
Invest in Housing Without Breaking the Bank
Invest in Housing Without Breaking the Bank
Should I Invest in British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (BSY)?
LONDON — To me, capital growth and dividend income are equally important. Together, they provide the total return from any share investment and, as you might expect, my aim is to invest in companies that can beat the total return delivered by the wider market. To put that aim into perspective, the FTSE 100 has [...]
Jerrold D. Green: Obama, Take Note: Wireless Revolution Is Coming in Myanmar
Threats still exist for foreign telecom companies looking to enter the market in Myanmar -- from regulatory risk to civil unrest and political concerns. These are very real considerations for companies making investment decisions.
This Metric Says You Are Smart to Buy CBS Corporation (CBS)
CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS) has seen an increase in hedge fund sentiment in recent months. According to most traders, hedge funds are perceived as unimportant, old investment vehicles of yesteryear. While there are more than 8000 funds trading today, we choose to focus on the aristocrats of this club, close to 450 funds. It is widely [...]
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (CHD): The Hundred-Year Dividend
Many dividend-seeking investors like to screen for sky-high yielding companies when looking for their next possible investment opportunity. While there is nothing inherently wrong about this strategy, high yields alone can often mean little if the company lacks the financial strength to maintain and continually increase their dividend payouts. Show More Summary
British American Tobacco PLC (ADR) (BTI), Philip Morris International Inc. (PM): Emerging Tobacco Ideas
BlackRock’s chief investment strategist believes that the market is starting to rotate out of typically defensive sectors and into more cyclical industries. To find a few investment ideas, I took a look at BlackRock Global Dividend Income Fund. While I was looking for cyclical names, I was surprised to come away with a list of [...]
Does Apple Inc. (AAPL) Still Have It?
Dear Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock, We first met a long time ago. At first, I was hesitant to buy you. I was relatively new to investing, and you were on a roll. I wasn’t sure I could handle such a hot commodity. But eventually, in January of 2010, you won me over, and I bought [...]
Health Care REIT, Inc. (HCN), Realty Income Corp (O): Searching for Attractively Valued Real Estate Investment Trusts
It’s a frustrating time to be an income investor. The combination of historically low interest rates and rising equity markets has brought yields down significantly in recent months. One asset class that has received extra attention over the past couple years, because of their tendency to provide solid income above and beyond the yield available [...]
10 Friday AM Reads
It does not look like the best weather this weekend, so I expect to be around to keep you entertained: • The Smart Money Is Still Bullish (Barron’s) • Notes from the PIMCO Investment Summit with Mohamed El-Erian (The Reformed Broker) Is this the dumb money? • With ‘Abenomics,’ Japan catches a sense of revival...Read More
Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (RDS.B), Total SA (ADR) (TOT), Eni SpA (ADR) (E) – BlackRock Sees Market Rotation: Part 1
BlackRock’s chief investment strategist believes that foreign stocks and the energy sector are both good places to look right now. To find a few names, I reviewed the latest semi-annual report for BlackRock Global Dividend Income Fund. Three names that stuck out were Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.B), Total SA (ADR) (NYSE:TOT), and Eni SpA [...]
How Seadrill Will Get Back on Track
On Tuesday, Seadrill will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever inevitable surprises arise. Show More Summary
15 Things I Wish I Knew As A First Year Investment Banking Analyst
I was writing an email to a fellow monkey who is about to start as a banking analyst in the summer. It's been a little over 5 yrs now since I was a wee young first-year analyst in restructuring for one of the Moelis /Houlihan/ Evercore...Show More Summary
Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) Stock Is a Good Investment (According to Merck)
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) just can’t get enough of its stock. And the pharma wants it now. The company announced Tuesday after the close that it had set up an accelerated share repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) to buy $5 billion worth of Merck stock. The agreement calls for Goldman Sachs [...]
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (CHRW): High ROIC Makes This Stock an Attractive Long-Term Holding
The chief aim of substantially all business ventures is to invest cash in a manner that returns a larger amount of cash than could be earned in another endeavor of equal or lesser risk. For investors, return is measured by compound annual gains or losses of a particular portfolio. For businesses, the return is often [...]
