Top-Yielding Stocks Dominate UBS Equity Focus List for September
In a new research report from the UBS CIO Wealth Management Research team, they continue to have a very favorable view on the U.S. equity market,
In a new research report from the UBS CIO Wealth Management Research team, they continue to have a very favorable view on the U.S. equity market,
Insider selling takes many different forms, but investors may want to see if any of these names reside in their portfolios and need to be trimmed.
With insiders committing capital at record levels in the indices, some interesting opportunities may be available.
ThinkstockRetailers and the consumer discretionary sector as a whole have had a very dismal year. It is even more dismal when you compare the sector performance to some of the other top S&P 500…
ThinkstockWith the biotech space having its usual volatile ups and downs this year, the analysts at Stifel have stepped back into the coverage world and have reinitiated research analysis on some of the top…
ThinkstockThe energy sector has had a very solid 2014 as money has continued to chase some of the top large cap leaders in the area. As the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) has…
Wikimedia CommonsOne thing you don’t always get with Wall Street research and research analysts, is a large consensus of agreement. Whether it is clashing metrics, or just disagreements on the overall balance sheet strength…
ThinkstockMost firms we cover on Wall Street have quantitative strategies for their clients, and often they use similar formulas to arrive at what belongs in the top quintile versus the bottom. Cash flow is…
A new research report from the Internet team at UBS has a list of companies that may end up to be among the top Internet e-commerce winners in the future.
ThinkstockIn what was yet another very volatile week for the markets, insider selling and insider buying has been active. We have evaluated some of the top insider selling transactions this last week. It is…
ThinkstockInvestors love to see insiders at high corporate levels purchasing their own companies’ stock. That is particularly true if the stock has performed well and has traded to higher levels. With the stock market…
ThinkstockWall Street often operates inside what seems to be a vacuum, and once an idea becomes hot, everybody seems to want to follow it. One big trade that became hot earlier this year when…
ThinkstockThe staggering growth of the Internet has created companies that over the relatively short lifespan of the information highway have come to dominate their specific sectors. While many companies have tried to challenge them,…
Consumer discretionary stocks were big leaders in 2012 and 2013, but they have been downright horrible this year. In fact, the retail index is down by almost 10% year-to-date, even as the S&P 500…
ThinkstockThe semiconductor market has had extraordinary two years after being a market laggard ever since the market hit bottom in March 2009. In fact, last year, the semiconductor SOX index was up a whopping…
ThinkstockThe days of the solar industry being a pipe-dream that only eco-friendly green activists support are long over. When prices of polysilicon, one of the main ingredients used to make silicon wafers for solar…
ThinkstockIf any asset class has disappointed investors over the last three years, it has been gold. Many on Wall Street are just now starting to reexamine gold for investors’ portfolios. Years of quantitative easing…
ThinkstockIn less than a decade, consumer demand for a lightning fast Internet has changed everything. From e-commerce, social media to web search and more, this massive Internet use can cause latency, and the goal of…
ThinkstockAfter being absolutely rocked back in the spring, the biotech sector has bounced back smartly. Even a bubble comment from the head of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen didn’t stop the return of the biotechnology…
ThinkstockThe big market sell-off got some extra additional selling as some insiders decided it was time to lighten up on their holdings of their own companies. One interesting note from this week, while it…