The table below lists the stocks currently passing my Stock Investor Pro screen.
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An investor who split his investments evenly between the two indexes would have outperformed a foreign-stock investor soundly.
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Although he's a huge fan of FactSet, Petainen screens for stocks at home with Stock Investor Pro from AAII.
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To find these stocks, I created a simple screen in our Stock Investor Pro stock screening program that looks for stocks with four specific characteristics.
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If you are a stock investor, President Obama is your business partner too, because the nature of stocks, as opposed to bonds, is that their value is determined largely by future economic growth.
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If you are a stock investor, consider strategies such as placing stop-loss orders to reduce losses in a volatile market, subscribing to services that email you company specific news as it happens, and setting up loss review trigger points to review your investment.
's stock to investor frustration about a scandal that refuses to go away and concern over the BSkyB deal.
According to the latest Dalbar study, the average stock mutual fund earned a little over 9% a year over the last 20 years while the average stock fund investor earned less than 4% a year over that same time period.
If a Sky Capital investor also purchased or sold stock, could another Sky Capital investor purchase or sell that same stock?
"The important lesson for the outside stock-market investor is to ignore all transactions by large shareholders, " he says.
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Since the stock market reflects investor sentiment, it goes up amid more confidence about the economy and prospects for growth.
On the stock market, investor sentiment is now at extremes of bullishness and confidence regarding 2011, and for good reason.
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Because the ETF trades like any other stock, the investor should also examine the daily turnover of the ETF itself for much the same reason.
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While companies like A123 have been able to raise significant amounts of equity in the stock market when investor sentiment is high, relying upon the whims of the marketplace is not a good financial strategy, particularly when a company does not have a clear path to profitability.
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Shortly thereafter, pundits focused on lockup expiration, and the potential effects of employee and investor stock that had been locked up by the IPO now free to trade. 800M shares were locked up until the beginning of November, and a total 1.3B shares were unlocked and free to trade.
While the calls do not appear to be tied to any simultaneous transaction in the underlying stock, it is possible the investor is already long the stock and selling covered calls.
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Our proprietary stock selection model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor indicates that the stock will continue to outperform over the near term.
However, if an investor had purchased stock in the 30 components of the Dow in 1990 that were all deploying ERP, that investor would have benefited from a 35% decline in General and Administrative costs as a percentage of revenues, a five-fold increase in revenues as automation enabled massive scale, and an almost eight-fold increase in market cap.
If the Republican Party were a stock, the smart investor would start buying it now.
Another stock high on Marketocracy investor lists is Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA).
The average stock mutual-fund investor paid 0.79% in fees last year, according to the Investment Company Institute, a fund-industry trade group.
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Two other top-performing letters, as ranked by Hulbert Financial Digest, recommending the stock are Forbes Growth Investor and Dow Theory Forecasts.
We think Cephalon is a growth stock that a value investor can appreciate, and investors with a long term focus ought to take a serious look.
But as economist Donald Luskin has written, small changes in GDP cause big swings in corporate operating leverage and thus in stock market values, investor animal spirits and consumer sentiment.
This is the third stock within the Forbes Investor, the investment newsletter I edit, which has benefited from news related to increased speculation of possible private equity deals.
And the reason for that is very simple: Public companies are always willing to pay more for a stock than a private investor would, because of something called the liquidity premium.
The stronger U.S. dollar index and U.S. Treasury prices Tuesday morning, along with weaker U.S. stock indexes, suggest investor risk appetite has pulled back a bit so far on the day.
If an individual investor sells stock because they think the market is heading south due to higher personal income taxes, this becomes a buying opportunity for those who are not hindered by the same tax treatment.
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