Finding the Best Stocks for All Kinds of Markets
This month we’ve explored a few of my favorite fundamental criteria, like free cash flow and operating margin, to name a few, for picking safe stocks with great upside potential. Let’s keep it going, and look at two other boring-sounding numbers that can spice up your returns: assets-to-liabilities and the fixed charge coverage ratio. Trust…
The Secret to Staying Safe in This Suddenly Wild Market
The markets started the week half-asleep, but yesterday, when Fed Chairman Powell took future rate cuts off the table, they woke up terrified and fell right out of bed. A lot of leading stocks, like Tesla and Nvidia took massive, multibillion-dollar haircuts in a matter of minutes. A lot of investors considered these safe -…
This Fundamental Factor Can Boost Your Trading Game
We’ve been spending time on fundamental analysis, which is really the absolute best way to get a handle on a company’s medium- and long-term prospects. Is it worth your money? That’s a question this kind of analysis can help you answer. Last week, we looked at free cash flow. In tonight’s video, we’re going to…
Everyone Overlooks This… Until Their Dividends Start Exploding
In this morning’s Live Chat session, we talked about free cash flow. (You can check that session out below). I know, “free cash flow” doesn’t sound like a thrill a minute, and it certainly doesn’t generate headlines, even in the financial media, the way that mergers and acquisitions, innovative products, or boardroom scandals might. But…
The Data Shows Three Market-Jolting Forces on the Move
Maybe they thought we wouldn’t notice, what with it being the day before Thanksgiving and all, but we got more than 15 major and minor economic data reports today - everything from GDP to jobs to crude oil stocks inventories and just about everything in between. Not everything in the reports was big news, and…
The Market Is Betting on a New U.S. Manufacturing Boom
After spending decades dismantling and exporting American industries, the folks in D.C. are suddenly all about bringing them back. And they’re having some success, to be sure. From where I’m standing, the market agrees. In fact, it looks like this trend is only going to accelerate. Industrial stocks, as tracked by the Industrial Select Sector…
How the Trump Bump Could End In a Slump
We saw the markets take off like a shot in the wake of Trump’s decisive election victory last week. You’d think this reflects widespread optimism about the prospects for the U.S. economy. And you’d be right, more or less. But there’s another side to this, and it’s not making so many headlines right now. Trump…
Here’s What We Really Got from the Fed Today
We got another cut today, and parsing out its statement is unusually easy… because they’re some of the shortest-ever remarks ever released around a rate cut, at least in recent memory. “Recent indicators suggest economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace… labor market conditions have eased… unemployment has moved up but remains…
Tricks and Treats: Stagflation… And How to Profit From It
For economists, especially those who’ve studied or even lived through the Seventies, there’s no scarier word than… stagflation. The mere mention of it fills market-watchers with dread. The word, and the concept, are a British import from the Sixties - probably better it was just the Beatles - during a prolonged stretch of low-to-no economic…
It’s All About Oil and Energy Versus Gold and Inflation
What a week - after fighting up to all time highs, it’s like the market keeps banging its head on higher highs and then shrinking away. It’s done that every single day this week, not really selling off, but not powering through, either. There’s a lot of low volume, and when you couple that with…