Wall Streets Worst Performing Stocks: 12/25/07

The vast majority of investors, both individual and professional, become interested in a stock when it is breaking through it’s 52-week high. It’s not very difficult to determine why this happens - prevailing sentiment on Wall Street is that when something is going up, it will continue to go up. Read more »

Stocks with Low PEG Ratios: 12/23/07

The price-to-earnings-growth (PEG) ratio is primarily a growth investing metric that measures the price-to-earnings ratio in relation to the growth rate the company will experience in the future. This metric is useful for determining if a company is under-valued when compared to its expected growth rate. Many growth investors use this figure when performing research, but few value investors believe it yields any useful information. Read more »

Stocks Ben Graham Would Like: 12/16/07

Benjamin Graham is widely regarded to be the founder of modern value investing. His greatest student, Warren Buffett, attributes much of his success to Graham’s teachings. Though Graham believed that much research is necessary and that no stock screening methodology is perfect, he did give us some guidelines on how to perform initial screening techniques to limit the number of investments that should be researched further. The following is a list of the attributes he suggests investors look for first. Read more »

Have Commodities Stocks Peaked?

The commodities sector has been on a momentous run-up in the past year. Now that it is not rising as quickly, some people have begun to think that the sector could be topping out. I am of the opinion that commodity stocks have not hit a ceiling; rather, I believe they are simply taking a breather. Read more »

Jim Cramer’s New Book

Let me start by saying that I have not yet read through Jim Cramer’s new book: “Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer)”. I have, however, read through the excerpt that Amazon provided and there’s one particular sentence that makes me concerned for those taking his advice without obtaining a second opinion. Read more »

The Best Investment Advice You Won’t Follow

Even though you have all heard this a million times, and it has been proven over and over, many of you will not heed this advice and will lose a lot of money in the long run for a shot at the big bucks. I, too, am guilty of not using the following as guidelines for my investing, but I am actively correcting my actions. Read more »

How to Play the Feds’ Upcoming Rate Cut

On November 29th, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the worsening credit crunch and rising energy prices will keep the Fed policymakers “exceptionally alert and flexible.” Many on Wall Street, including myself, believe that his statements suggest that a rate cut on the December 11th meeting is almost assured. Read more »