I don’t know what will happen in the world, but I just looked over my regularly updated Annual Review spreadsheet… and it looks like about a dozen of the stocks I owned as of last February are in my “buy” range right now. Those are in many cases contextual, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to […]
Infrastructure week! Looks like there’s a big ol chunk of cash that will be rolling downhill in the coming years for all the construction companies, broadband companies, materials companies, etc. after Congress finally passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill that they’ve been sitting on for months. Certainly our roads and bridges and public transport systems and […]
This article was originally published as part of the Friday File for members of the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars on October 8. We’re opening it up to all readers now, but it has not been updated since it was first posted a month ago. There has not been a huge amount of news from the company […]
Last weekend I was on an airplane for the first time since March of 2020, thanks to a family wedding, so I got a personal experience with a couple trends that we’re hearing from other people: First, travel is back in a huge way, every flight is completely full, and many airports are even more […]
This is the meat of earnings season for my holdings, so I’ve got a lot of fairly minor updates for you today in this one-day-early Friday File (OK, call it a Thursday File… sorry for the schedule change, but I’m traveling to Las Vegas, the Land of Good Choices, for a wedding this weekend, and […]
I’ve had several readers ask me about the Trump Media deal, which is an announced plan to take a new company, Trump Media & Technology, public through a merger with a SPAC called Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC). It has generated a lot of attention for sure, and the stock price has soared, but so […]
I thought we’d start out today with a quick teaser solution — Altimetry, one of the Stansberry/MarketWise publishers, is selling Joel Litman’s Microcap Confidential for $2,000 (“on sale” from $5,000, naturally, no refunds), and they’re doing so by hinting at a high-potential buy… here’s the intro: “Forensic Accountant who’s been followed by the Top 10 […]
Your Friday File is in two parts today, this piece includes updates on half a dozen or so of the companies in the Real Money Portfolio, including a few add-on buys and some other little tidbits of note… and part two is a teaser solution, which also happened to lead in to a new purchase […]
Today we’re starting with a little update on the portfolio, and that’s going to give me a chance to follow up on some reader questions about gold and cryptocurrencies. Then we’ll move on to Toast (TOST), a company I like but a stock that I can’t justify yet, a bunch of other minor updates on […]
Let’s start with the bad news this week. Activision Blizzard (ATVI) is a pretty reasonably valued company, valued at about 20X forward earnings now and with a predicted earnings growth rate (by the average analyst) in the 10-15% neighborhood. It’s one of the dominant game publishers in the world, it’s a large company (market cap […]
Happy Friday! We’re coming to you pre-open instead of after the close today, for a little change of pace. I’ve mostly got some relatively optimistic comments to share, including a bunch of small purchases I made as stories shifted a little, so I thought I should start you out with some pessimism from someone else […]
Two of our companies got some good news on Monday, Brown & Brown (BRO) and Match Group (MTCH) will be joining the S&P 500 index, along with Ceridian (CDAY), replacing Unum Group (UNUM), NOV (NOV) and Perrigo (PRGO), which will be bumped down to the MidCap 400 (I don’t own those other four, to be […]
The hardest thing to do is nothing, and I again failed in that task this week. I added a new position to the Real Money Portfolio earlier this week in Match Group (MTCH), added a new position in a new company to the Lock Box at the close yesterday, and I’ll get to all of […]
Perhaps the most glaring reminder of the current investor mindset is that the new exchange approved by the SEC a couple years ago, the Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), designed to help build long-term relationships between companies and their investors, has just now formally gone live with its first two listed companies at launch, Twilio […]
So what’s up this week in the Real Money Portfolio? Quite a bit of news for our companies this week, so I’ll spare you any ranting about politics or current events for the moment (you’re welcome!) First, the ugly news. GAN (GAN) reported pretty much what they said they would report, strong growth fueled by […]
I’m of many minds about the market, depending on how I feel in a given moment, so I try to avoid prognosticating… but if you want to force yourself to think about risk, as we all should do at least some of the time, one of the best go-tos is John Hussman, who has a […]
I’m celebrating my birthday tomorrow, so this Friday File comes to you a bit early — call it a Thursday File, I guess. That means I won’t be catching any interesting news that might come out of this evening’s conference calls, as earnings season continues to progress, but I’ll catch up with those next week… […]
Is the world going to hell in a handbasket? I get essentially that question all the time, particularly as the newsletters who are more prone to fearmongering ads begin to pepper our inboxes with panic about debt and social collapse and government overreach and, well, whatever things happen to be scaring the people who are […]
I pull together these thoughts for the Friday File throughout the week, and sometimes that means I end up feeling almost bipolar — the market sentiment on Monday was so wildly different than the sentiment this morning that our emotions can get a little whipsawed. Which means, of course, that I should be tuning down […]
The Gumshoe family had a fun adventure over the past couple weeks, covering about 4,000 miles on our first big road trip since 2019… and every town and state we saw was a little different. Hotels are full, but wildly understaffed in a lot of places — we stopped at a beautiful historic hotel in […]
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