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Danger Zone

briggs and stratton
April 27, 20151Comments

How Can an Industry’s Leading Company Also Be Its Worst Stock?

While investors have been busy paying attention to this company’s EPS, they have been ignoring two realities: that this company has become significantly less profitable as its stock price has risen, and that the company’s management team has failed consistently on several counts.
by Andre Rouillard
April 27, 20150Comments

Netflix Remains a Risky Investment

New Constructs CEO David Trainer discusses his valuation of Netflix and the concept of risk versus market expectations.
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
energy
April 22, 20150Comments

Why We’re Cautious About the Energy Sector

The Energy sector ranks dead last out of all 10 sectors in our most recent 2Q15 sector ratings report. This is because 67% of Energy ETFs and mutual funds earn our Dangerous or Very Dangerous ratings.
by Andre Rouillard
energy sector
April 20, 20151Comments

What’s Wrong With Energy Sector Funds?

While energy prices look to have bottomed out at this point and it may be tempting to bet on a broad turnaround in the sector, the funds in the Energy sector simply do not provide compelling investments.
by Andre Rouillard
riskiest ETFs
April 14, 20150Comments

How Can an ETF be Risky?

In this podcast, David Trainer will reveal a few of our riskiest ETF picks and talk about how an ETF, which usually tracks an index, can be risky.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
athenahealth
April 13, 20150Comments

This Cloud Stock’s Bubble Could be About to Pop

It’s hard to short cloud stocks in this environment, and we’ve been burned before. However, there are a few tailwinds that this stock has been benefitting from that have disappeared, making this stock’s short prospects even better.
by Andre Rouillard
tech ipo
April 10, 20150Comments

Why Investors Should Beware Recent Tech IPOs

In this podcast, CEO David Trainer sits down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com to talk about why we put recent Technology IPOs in the Danger Zone.
by Andre Rouillard
Tech IPOs
April 6, 20150Comments

Beware These Three Letters

Thanks to these three letters, investors have lost billions of dollars this year, and could stand to lose even more.
by Andre Rouillard
wayfair
March 30, 20151Comments

This Stock is Another Sign We’re in a Tech Bubble

This stock reminds us of Box (BOX) in many ways. This company went public in October in an IPO that was largely overshadowed by the Alibaba (BABA) IPO. We think that little more than speculation is propping up this company’s crazy valuation.
by Andre Rouillard
March 30, 20150Comments

Investing is Not Like March Madness

March Madness is like investing, however, investing is not like March Madness.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
March 24, 20150Comments

Hedge Fund Holdings That May Surprise You

In this podcast, CEO David Trainer will give further thoughts on these 10 companies including their valuation in the current market.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
EL POLLO LOCO
March 23, 20150Comments

Is This Restaurant the Next Chipotle?

We believe that investors who think this restaurant is going to become the next Chipotle are willfully ignoring the company’s history and its current growth track.
by Andre Rouillard
valuation
March 20, 20150Comments

Important Items You’re Probably Leaving Out of Your Stock Valuations

Recently, we published a special report on the 10 companies with the biggest adjustments to their valuations across all of the adjustments we make to each company. In this podcast, CEO David Trainer will explain some of these adjustments using the companies that we talked about in our report.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
pinnacle foods
March 16, 20150Comments

This Food Producer is Growing Sales, but Danger Lurks Beneath the Surface

Despite this company's sales growth and market leading brands, we think this stock has a rocky future ahead of it.
by Andre Rouillard
Bob Evans
March 4, 20150Comments

Revealing the Footnotes Research Behind our Bob Evans (BOBE) Danger Zone

In this podcast, CEO David Trainer will explain how our unique footnotes diligence powered our successful sell call on Bob Evans, which is down 22% today.
by Andre Rouillard
Men's Wearhouse
February 23, 20152Comments

Investors Should Be Worried That This Acquisition Isn’t Delivering

This is the story of a clothing retailer looking for growth and pressured by an activist to undertake an expensive and value-destroying acquisition. Shares are down 10% since the acquisition closed last June, and the stock has the potential to fall much further.
by Andre Rouillard
mutual fund
February 16, 20150Comments

How High Fees Can Drain Your Mutual Fund Returns

While this fund has a good number of quality holdings, its high costs land it on our list of the five worst mutual funds in the Health Care sector. We’ll show how investors can be better served by paying less for very similar (or better) holdings in other funds.
by Andre Rouillard
February 16, 20151Comments

David Trainer Explains How High-Frequency Trading Can Rip You Off

In this special webinar, David Trainer uses trading software to demonstrate how high frequency traders are cheating the market and skimming off the top of your trades.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
February 13, 20150Comments

David Trainer Provides His Best Pair Trade Idea for 2015

In this podcast, CEO David Trainer provides a pair trade for 2015 with two technology stocks that could not be more different from one another.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
February 9, 20150Comments

This Telecom Stock Puts You on the Wrong Side of the M&A Frenzy

This week's Danger Zone stock may look good with its attractive dividend, but that dividend — and investors' capital — are increasingly at risk.
by Andre Rouillard
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