March 16, 20180Comments

Time to Follow Tesla Executives and Run for the Hills?

More executive departures, more missed production projections, and competitors taking market share have left Tesla’s sky-high valuation with even more downside risk.

by Kyle Guske II

January 29, 20182Comments

New Exec Comp Plan Means It’s Time to Short this Stock

Bold is one way to describe the new exec comp plan. We would call it foolhardy.

by Sam McBride

October 17, 20162Comments

Tesla: Running Out of Energy? – Danger Zone

The escalating promises from Elon Musk are running out of credibility. Words alone cannot fix the fact that Tesla (TSLA) is quickly running out of cash, faces a strengthening...

by Kyle Guske II

July 22, 20160Comments

Long Idea: Lear Corp (LEA)

Impressive profit growth and a valuation well below peers helped land Lear Corp on July’s Most Attractive Stocks list. Even better, aligning executive compensation with return...

by Kyle Guske II

September 17, 20150Comments

Now Is The Time To Invest In This American Business

This week, we’ve found a company the market loves to hate in spite of its excellent operating results. With strong profit growth, prudent management decisions for future...

by Kyle Guske II

January 5, 20150Comments

Danger Zone: Make Sure You’re in These Two Stocks for 2015

Instead of our usual weekly sell/short call, we are going to open 2015 with two of our favorite stocks for the upcoming year. These stocks have strong growth potential in the...

by Andre Rouillard

August 20, 20140Comments

How to Avoid the Worst Sector Mutual Funds

Picking from the multitude of sector mutual funds is a daunting task.

by David Trainer

May 13, 20140Comments

Ford (F) is Hitting on All Cylinders

As long as Ford’s strong profit growth and market share gains continue, this stock has a lot of upside.

by David Trainer

April 8, 20140Comments

Consumer Discretionary Sector

The Consumer Discretionary sector ranks fourth out of the ten sectors as detailed in my Sector Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets my Dangerous rating, which is...

by David Trainer

March 12, 20140Comments

New Stocks Make Most Attractive/Dangerous Lists For March

Momentum chasing is never a good strategy. RCL significantly outperformed the market last year, while F lagged it slightly, but don’t expect those trends to continue in 2014...

by David Trainer

August 2, 20130Comments

Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities – Invested Capital Adjustment

DTAs artificially raise reported assets and do not help generate operating profit while DTLs are like a source of interest-free financing. We remove the impact of DTAs and...

by David Trainer

May 10, 20110Comments

Show Discretion When Choosing Consumer Discretionary Sector ETFs

Retail HOLDRS (RTH) is our top pick for consumer discretionary sector ETFs. RTH is one of 51 ETFs that gets an attractive-or-better rating. We rate the investment merit of...

by David Trainer

March 1, 20114Comments

Red Flag Report: Hidden Expenses/Income: What You Don’t Know Can Cost You

Most investors are not aware that companies hide one-time and unusual charges and income inside normal, operating line items (e.g. “Cost of sales”) on their income statement....

by David Trainer

February 28, 20110Comments

For Ask Matt readers: Ford (F) — Dangerous Rating

Ford gets our Dangerous Rating. This means F has poor quality-of-earnings and an expensive valuation. For example, F's ROIC at 0.6% is in our Bottom Quintile. And the...

by David Trainer