Few companies have a true monopoly in any market. More common are “virtual monopolies” or “near-monopolies” that exist due to geography or brand recognition. When consumers hear the term monopoly, the first…
Picking stocks for a decade is no easy task. It might as well be for a lifetime because there probably will be two more bear markets and two more bull markets between…
The bulls ran for cover today as commodities and financial stocks are pulling the market lower. After two huge ‘sell the news’ earnings reactions were followed by even more ‘sell the news’…
Water is the source of life. Many futurists believe it is the largest concern of the world in the years ahead. The water sector is also not the easiest to invest in. …
These are some of the top research calls for analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday: American Water Works (NYSE: AWK) Cut to Neutral at HSBC.…
Investors usually flock to defensive stock names during a bear market or when they are concerned that the market may not run much more. Whether this is becoming a bear market or…
Investing in water is one of the trends that investors have gone after for years and years. After all, the future of the world and life depend entirely upon the availability of…
Jon C. Ogg Companies seemed to prefer share buybacks in 2007 and 2008, and maybe part of 2009. Why not, if the stock is cheap? But then 2009 came and many companies were derailed by…
It was early in October before earnings season kicked off into full thrust when we first reviewed many large or actively traded stocks which had not participated in the stock market rally…
This morning we have a syndicate bonanza with a very solid IPO pricing and many secondary offerings getting priced. Fortinet, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTNT) priced 12.5 million shares in IPO at $12.50, above…
Here we are going into yet another earnings season. We saw Monday how the market has rallied significantly from the March lows and the major indexes are even up in positive territory…
It is one thing that we had two fairly large IPOs this week. But the flood of public secondary stock offerings is almost running at alarming levels when you consider that these…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades this Wednesday morning in early trading. American Water Works (AWK) Started as Buy at Brean Murray. CardioNet (BEAT) Cut to Hold at Citigroup;…
We have been investigating several of the “safe sectors” for investing to identify which ones may have seen the worst or which ones could continue to have issues regardless of whether or…
These are some of the positive analyst calls and upgrades we are seeing early this Tuesday morning: American Water Works (AWK) Started as Buy at Societe General. Black & Decker (BDK) Raised…
