Stock Picks
Investment Ideas: NPBC, CEDC, HF, COP
In defiance of the marketwide selling, and despite the terrible performance over the past twelve months, investors are flowing into National Penn Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:NPBC). Perhaps these buyers are focused on - and rightfully so - the projected next twelve months.
National Penn Bancshares is expected to return to profitability again in 2010, earning $0.27 per [...]
Market, SPDRs (SPY) Now Taking on Water
The S&P 500 SPDR ETF (NYSE:SPY), though not yet even close to falling out of its recent bullish trading range, may have just done something far more alarming. The support line that extends back to July (and arguably to March’s bottom) failed to act as a floor today. The ETF is under it for the [...]
Tuesday’s Unusual Volume Activity
Rallying is one thing, but rallying on high volume is altogether different - and much more bullish. That’s what makes Humana Inc. (NYSE:HUM), American Medical Systems Holding Co. (Nasdaq:AMMD), IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq:IPCM), Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq:AMED), and Vivo Participacoes S.A. (NYSE:VIV) are Tuesday’s standouts…. big gains, on massive volume. The reason for the [...]
Tuesday’s Market Round-Up: All You Really Need to Know
Slow down a minute Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:ENDP) - there’s already a generic Lipoderm skin patch like the one you just submitted an NDA (new drug application for). At least that’s the story from Watson Laboratories Inc. (NYSE:WPI), which recently notified Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings of the overlap.
Watson Laboratories Inc. invoked a ‘paragraph IV’ [...]
The Pros Picks, and Why: T, IBM, KFT, HPQ, MSFT
He gets zero points for creativity, but a few points for being bold enough to be boring. Tom Forester - portfolio manager of the Forester Value Fund has recommended Microsoft Inc. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) as his top tech picks right now…. a sector he’s keen on as a way of avoiding [...]
Trade-Worthy: AnnTaylor Stores Corp. (NYSE: ANN)
About the only thing AnnTaylor Stores Corp. (NYSE: ANN) shares have going for them at this point is how anybody who’s thinking about shorting the stock, or buying put options on it, has a good chance at making some money.
Between the Motley Fool pointing out how unpopular ANN is on their CAPS site, the downgrade [...]
Swine Flu Finally Bears Fruit for Pharma
Remember April’s global outbreak of swine flu? A few promising pharmaceutical stocks went ballistic…. even before their companies actually developed a vaccine. Ironically, though a few of these companies are selling vaccines, the H1N1 hysteria is so dated that investors have lost interest. Too bad too… the payoff is just now materializing.
First, But Not [...]
Investing in Coal Requires Paying Attention to Details
It wasn’t that long ago that tapping into the red hot uptrend of coal stocks simply meant buying some of the Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL) and being done with it. After a politically-charged economic recovery though – paired with a renewed (even if spotty) social interest in the environment – [...]
2010 Dogs of the Dow – Use Strategy With Caution
With 2009 coming to a close, and a new year around the corner, many investors are rightfully thinking about cleaning the slate and starting with a fresh portfolio for 2010. One of the stock-selection tactics used to fill in the missing portfolio blanks is the increasingly popular ‘Dogs of the Dow’ [...]
Five Stocks You Can’t Turn Your Back on Yet
The economy may well be in recovery mode, but it isn’t taking all stocks along for the ride. Earnings results are going to remain erratic simply because we’re still shaking of a recession. For a few companies though, the problems may be bigger than mere lingering economic weakness.
U.S. Steel Corp. (X) [...]
