Stock & Investing Ideas

Are retail stocks beginning to tell a more positive economic story? The economy is soft and consumer spending is cold, but something interesting is happening in the stock market: many consumer-related and retail stocks are hot.   While stocks as a whole have done reasonably well in the past month, retailers are outperforming the broader market. Believe it or not, there are 41 retail and ... read more

So much attention is paid to the large cap names in the stock market often small companies with solid operating metrics go overlooked. As such, I ran a search using the following criteria: U.S.-based companies Market cap between $1 - $10 billion dollars Stock up >20% this year Max price to earnings ratio of 10.00 Max PEG ratio of 1.00 Paid a dividend as of last reporting ... read more

Interesting chart from Doug Short on the comparison of the last few big rallies in poor markets and economies. The point the authors make is that the last few times we have seen these types of sharp market moves up in otherwise sour economic times, stocks generally don't return much more than they have already. In other words, history says there may not be much more upside in stocks. read more