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Q3 2019 Veracyte Inc Earnings Call …read more […]

Legendary investors such as Jeffrey Talpins and Seth Klarman earn enormous amounts of money for themselves and their investors by doing in-depth research on small-cap stocks that big brokerage houses don’t publish. Small cap stocks -especially when they are screened well- can generate substantial outperformance versus a boring index fund. That’s why we analyze the […] …read more […]

“Since 2006, value stocks (IVE vs IVW) have underperformed 11 of the 13 calendar years and when they beat growth, it wasn’t by much. Cumulatively, through this week, it has been a 122% differential (up 52% for value vs up 174% for growth). This appears to be the longest and most severe drought for value […] …read more […]

We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through October 17th. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 45% and 39% respectively. Hedge funds’ top 3 stock picks returned 34.4% this year and beat the S&P […] …read more […]

The 700+ hedge funds and famous money managers tracked by Insider Monkey have already compiled and submitted their 13F filings for the second quarter, which unveil their equity positions as of June 28. We went through these filings, fixed typos and other more significant errors and identified the changes in hedge fund portfolios. Our extensive […] …read more […]

Is The Chemours Company (NYSE:CC) a good bet right now? We like to analyze hedge fund sentiment before conducting days of in-depth research. We do so because hedge funds and other elite investors have numerous Ivy League graduates, expert network advisers, and supply chain tipsters working or consulting for them. There is not a shortage […] …read more […]

Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday lowered its previously reported third-quarter profit by $3 billion to account for a proposed opioid settlement payment. The proposed deal will need broad support among all the state attorneys general and local governments that have sued the companies over the opioid crisis. J&J, which is facing thousands of lawsuits over a variety of products, lowered its reported profit to $1.8 billion, or 66 cents per share, from $4.8 billion, or $1.81 per share, and said there was no impact to its adjusted earnings numbers. …read more […]

We know that hedge funds generate strong, risk-adjusted returns over the long run, therefore imitating the picks that they are collectively bullish on can be a profitable strategy for retail investors. With billions of dollars in assets, smart money investors have to conduct complex analyses, spend many resources and use tools that are not always […] …read more […]

“Since 2006, value stocks (IVE vs IVW) have underperformed 11 of the 13 calendar years and when they beat growth, it wasn’t by much. Cumulatively, through this week, it has been a 122% differential (up 52% for value vs up 174% for growth). This appears to be the longest and most severe drought for value […] …read more […]

Hedge funds are known to underperform the bull markets but that’s not because they are terrible at stock picking. Hedge funds underperform because their net exposure in only 40-70% and they charge exorbitant fees. No one knows what the future holds and how market participants will react to the bountiful news that floods in each […] …read more […]

Tesla has returned to profitability after the company surpassed estimates for the third quarter. Here’s Yahoo Finance’s Jared Blikre, Jen Rogers and Myles Udland. …read more […]

Tesla Inc posted a surprise quarterly profit on Wednesday, making good on Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s promise, and said it was “highly confident” in exceeding its target of delivering more than 360,000 cars this year. Shares of the company shot up 14% to $291.39 in extended trading after Tesla also confirmed that it was producing vehicles on a trial basis at its Gigafactory in Shanghai. “We have cleared initial milestones toward our manufacturing license and are working towards finalizing the license and meeting other governmental requirements before we begin ramping production and delivery of vehicles from Shanghai,” …read more […]

Tech takes the spotlight Thursday when three big names gear up to report quarterly results: Amazon, Twitter and Intel. …read more […]

Oftentimes, it pays to watch the day-to-day trading actions of “Sharp Paper” traders.
That’s what I call big money traders who are willing to commit large amounts of capital playing directional calls or puts.
For instance, here’s a hypothetical…
Say a trade crosses the tape showing someone just bought 500 calls on Home Depot for $700,000 just before its earnings report.
Is this something you’d pay attention to?
Heck yeah it would be!
Does this Sharp Paper buyer have inside information?
Do they know that Home Depot is about to make a big upside move?
Who knows? Anything’s possible…
I’m certainly willing to take a very close look at …read more […]

New York and five other states have reached a $700 million settlement deal with Reckitt Benckiser over allegations that the drug distributor improperly marketed a drug to treat opioid addiction, New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Wednesday. Reckitt in July agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to resolve U.S. claims that its former pharmaceuticals business Indivior before it was spun out carried out an illegal scheme to boost sales of an opioid addiction treatment, Suboxone. As part of the agreement, New York’s Medicaid program will receive more than $71.9 million in recoveries, with more than …read more […]