Trading Ideas

Some of the world’s best investors stick to dividend portfolios. They know that a steady stream of income is a top wealth building strategy. And finding the best deals is vital. So today, we’re going to take a look at Verizon’s dividend history and safety ahead of its third quarter earnings conference call this Friday, October 25, 2019…
Business Overview and Highlights
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is a $253 billion business based out of New York. It employs 144,500 people and last year Verizon pulled in $131 billion in sales which breaks down to $906,000 per employee.
The company operates within the communications …read more […]

Thousands of homes and businesses in California could find themselves in the dark as Pacific Gas & Electric said it will shut off power in parts of 17 counties for up to two days, as a preventive measure against wildfires. The shutoff is expected across 17 counties in Northern California, impacting 179,000 customers, PG&E said in a statement. PG&E said it is also possible that customers may be affected by a power shutoff even though they are not experiencing extreme weather conditions in their specific location. …read more […]

Unionized workers at Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, said they will start a general strike on Saturday to press for higher wages as they negotiate a new contract. A group representing 12 oil worker unions said in a statement on Wednesday they were fighting for their rights and that Petrobras was proposing a yearly raise that was below the expected annual inflation. Another group representing another five oil worker unions said their members would also strike. …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 […]

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 […]

Before we spend days researching a stock idea we like to take a look at how hedge funds and billionaire investors recently traded that stock. Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) lagged the larger S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by more than 10 percentage points since the end of the third quarter of 2018. This means hedge funds […] …read more […]

The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. We at Insider Monkey have gone over 730 13F filings that hedge funds and well-known value investors are required to file by the SEC. The 13F […] …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Brazil’s Senate took the final step in the approval of a long-awaited pension reform that’s the centerpiece of President Jair Bolsonaro’s plans to cut government debt.Lawmakers on Wednesday gave the final go-ahead to legislation that will save public accounts approximately 800 billion reais ($197 billion) in a decade. They also backed an amendment benefiting employees under harsh work conditions that may reduce those savings, although its impact wasn’t clear. While the government had initially forecast a fiscal impact of as much as 23 billion reais, a new law regulating access to the benefit may change that estimate.The new …read more […]

Is PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) a good place to invest some of your money right now? We can gain invaluable insight to help us answer that question by studying the investment trends of top investors, who employ world-class Ivy League graduates, who are given immense resources and industry contacts to put their financial expertise to work. […] …read more […]

Is KKR & Co Inc. (NYSE:KKR) 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 […] …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 […]

If you want to know who really controls Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:RYTM), then you’ll have to look at the… …read more […]

The stock is retreating ahead of earnings, as the firm’s CEO is leaving for Nike …read more […]

Today we will run through one way of estimating the intrinsic value of Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTEN) by… …read more […]

Charles Schwab has built himself into a massive success – and he’s No. 63 on the Forbes 400. So what’s the secret of wealth according to Chuck?
Mark Skousen recently interviewed him to find out.

“I have always believed in giving investors choices, and with those choices the freedom and power to make their own decisions.”
– Charles Schwab, founder and chairman of Charles Schwab Corporation
Earlier this month, my wife, Jo Ann, and I had the pleasure of sitting down with one of the great innovators on Wall Street – Charles Schwab, the founder of the famous discount brokerage firm and No. …read more […]