Month: October 2019

Udi Mokady has been the CEO of CyberArk Software Ltd. (NASDAQ:CYBR) since 2005. This analysis aims first to contrast… …read more […]

Health authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo will introduce a Johnson & Johnson Ebola vaccine in November in the country’s eastern provinces, to counter the current outbreak, they said. The J&J vaccine will complement another vaccine manufactured by Merck, which has been administered to more than 225,000 people. It requires two injections eight weeks apart, unlike the Merck vaccine, which requires a single shot. …read more […]

Every investor in Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. Institutions… …read more […]

Q: Hey, Andy. You’ve written about sectors you like. How about sectors you don’t? Are there sectors I should avoid investing in?
A: Yes and no. Okay, here’s the “no” argument…
Dismissing the smallest sectors (antique cars, for example)… the most boring ones (making pencils)… or the oldest ones (agriculture, anyone?) would be a mistake. Any of them could become the star of your portfolio.
Listen, I’m the first to admit I like big, fast-growing, exciting, new and different markets. But I’ve also seen unlikely sectors give birth to startup superstars. Take Uber (taxis) and Harry’s (men’s shaving), for example. Neither sector was …read more […]

Some say volatility, rather than debt, is the best way to think about risk as an investor, but Warren Buffett famously… …read more […]

Many investors are still learning about the various metrics that can be useful when analysing a stock. This article is… …read more […]

A look at the shareholders of CGI Inc. (TSE:GIB.A) can tell us which group is most powerful. Institutions will often… …read more […]

Economists are divided about when the next U.S. recession will arrive, but they largely agree on this: the country will need to fight it with a massive fiscal program, and be ready to swallow deficits that may eclipse the trillion-dollar shortfall run by the Trump administration this year. Past discussion has focused on the Federal Reserve as the more powerful first responder, and how rising U.S. debt carries its own risks. Now talks are about how much money ought to be spent and where it should go – whether to infrastructure, programs to counter climate change or direct …read more […]

Today we’ll do a simple run through of a valuation method used to estimate the attractiveness of AdvanSix Inc… …read more […]

We often see insiders buying up shares in companies that perform well over the long term. The flip side of that is… …read more […]

The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says… …read more […]

Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL) is about to trade ex-dividend in the next 4 days. Ex-dividend means that investors… …read more […]

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie blasted Facebook’s continued influence after its widely publicized data scandal, …read more […]