As a reformed academic, I have it hard-wired in my brain that work should cease for the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day — Stock Gumshoe will be running on autopilot starting this afternoon, and we’re not likely to have much in the way of new articles posted until next year (unless you want […]
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Canadian Edge is a newsletter that generally has given a lot of attention to energy and utility stocks and other companies with decent dividend yields, so my first thought when I saw they were teasing an “afterthought stock” was that it must be some misunderstood energy company that’s just beaten down because oil and gas […]
I’ve spent the past couple weeks going over my updated opinions on all of the past “Idea of the Month” stocks (or at least, those that haven’t already been dropped from coverage over the years), and I promised to put them all in one big list in order of likingness (yes, I know it’s not […]
I’m shaking things up a bit this time around — every year, I spend some time early in the year going over all the past suggestions I’ve made as “Idea of the Month” picks, and we’re doing the same once again starting today … but this time instead of a chronological listing I’m going to […]
The markets are debt-obsessed once again, I’m afraid — not corporate debt, as they were in 2008 and 2009 when any company with leveraged was thrown out the window, but gummint debt. I don’t know whether this will be a real “reckoning” for the US government, when we really take stock of our obligations and […]
A couple weeks ago I started my annual navel-gazing exercise of looking back at past “idea of the month” stock (and other investment) suggestions — that first look covered the first year or so of these more formalized ideas for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars, from 2008 to mid-2009, and now we’ll try to catch up. […]
The folks at StreetAuthority are running a teaser along the same lines of several they’ve run in the past, one that touts the “rarest securities on earth” — these are Enhanced Income Securities, they are sold by different names but essentially are just stapled securities, a high-yield bond tacked on to a share of stock, […]
Before I get into today’s thoughts about New Flyer and some similar income securities, I should just mention that two of the stocks I’ve profiled as “Idea of the Month” picks reported news-heavy earnings today — one spectacular and including a dividend increase and a 10% jump in the share price, one terrible, including a […]
I’ve been asked many times to try to streamline my comments a bit, so we’ll see if I can’t get this Idea of the Month out in a couple fewer words than I’ve had the habit of producing … keep your fingers crossed! New Flyer Industries is a leading bus manufacturer in North America, with […]
I intended to work some more on Peter Schiff’s picks today, but the level of interest in that piece yesterday was, well, underwhelming — so I’ll work on something else for a bit and come back to our friend Mr. Schiff a bit later. Today I wanted to take a look at an ad that’s […]
Who can resist a headline like that? High yields, low risk … that’s pretty much the holy grail for investors these days (well, except for those who haven’t yet given up on finding the next Google, or the next Seabridge Gold). So what is this all about? Today I’m working with just a wee snippet […]
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