Very few things in the stock market are certain. Share price, earnings, market sentiment, and breaking news stories are all variables that are constantly changing on a day-to-day or month-to-month basis. However, there is one thing that is a certainty and guarantees you a consistent return: dividends! But before you stuff your portfolio with high-yielding…
A friend of mine asked me today, “So now that you are writing for the Motley Fool and your articles are linked on CNN Money and Yahoo Finance and the like, are you going to keep updating your website? Won’t you just be linking to your articles on Motley Fool?” I must admit, I was…
Investing in banks has normally brought me consistently great returns because the business model of a bank is, at it’s core, very simple, and the services that they offer will always be in demand. With the S&P 500 up over 140% in the past five years, however, it’s getting harder and harder to find undervalued stocks worth…
No matter how inexperienced you may be when it comes to the stock market, chances are you’ve heard of Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and is one of the most famous market investors of all time. In my book, Beating Wall Street with Common Sense, I have an…
So apparently someone at Motley Fool was impressed enough with my writing to hire me on as a freelance stock analyst! My first article (that might seem a little familiar for anyone who is a tradingcommonsense.com regular…) was published yesterday here: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/05/01/is-it-time-to-own-china-in-your-portfolio.aspx and my second article was published today here: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/05/02/is-bank-of-americas-4-billion-error-overblown-or-a.aspx And, for the record,…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote two articles about the CCAR portion of Federal Reserve’s stress tests for the big banks. The results and the subsequent stock price action were relatively good for my only big bank holding at the time, Wells Fargo (WFC). WFC stock reacted especially well to the results when compared to…
RF Micro Devices is reporting its Q4 earnings tomorrow after the market closes. As I discussed previously, I bought RFMD in January at $4.50 per share, and I was along for the ride when they announced a merger with Triquint Semiconductor (TQNT) in the end of February. RFMD’s share price immediately jumped after the merger…
It had been a while since AAPL shareholders such as myself were really blown away by a positive earnings report, but yesterday’s was a doozie! Yesterday before the earnings release I wrote about why I am an AAPL shareholder and why I believe the stock was a worthwhile investment for me at $488 per share. Since…
The past couple of days I’ve written about the dynamics of bull markets and bear markets and the investor sentiment cycle, so today I’d like to discuss one of my larger holdings, and one of the most polarizing stocks in the entire S&P 500: Apple (AAPL). Today is a big day for Apple because the company…
I posted yesterday about the cyclic nature of the stock market, and I wanted to take some time today to go into further detail about market cycles. If you look at a historical chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, you see that the motion of the stock market is far from smooth. The gradual climb…