Top Insider Purchases: 12/31/07
January 1, 2008
One of the most important things to look for when investing is management friendliness towards shareholders. There are countless companies out there who are very adept at promoting their stock, but as we’ve seen with Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, etc., following such advice is a very bad idea. Read more »
Wall Streets Worst Performing Stocks: 12/25/07
December 25, 2007
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
December 23, 2007
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
December 16, 2007
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 »