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October 19, 20150Comments

Danger Zone: Saratoga Advantage Trust: Financial Services Portfolio

This week, Saratoga Advantage Trust: Financial Services Portfolio funds are in the Danger Zone due to charging egregiously high fees while closet indexing.
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
October 12, 20152Comments

Danger Zone: Proofpoint Inc. (PFPT)

As hacks or data breaches seem to occur almost daily, the cyber security sector is receiving significant attention across the globe. When we focus on fundamentals and cut through the “sector theme” noise, we find some weak links in the cyber security industry. This week's Danger Zone is one of those weak links.
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
October 8, 20150Comments

David Trainer Discusses Why Marketo Is In The Danger Zone

CEO David Trainer sat down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com to talk about our Danger Zone pick this past week: Marketo (MKTO).
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
October 5, 20150Comments

Danger Zone: Marketo (MKTO)

This week we’ve identified another highflying cloud company that exhibits many of the problematic traits we saw in DWRE and SPLK. Revenue growth can only support a stock for so long and this week’s Danger Zone stock, Marketo (MKTO) has plenty of room to fall.
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
New Constructs
September 24, 20150Comments

David Trainer Discusses The Problems With Snyder’s-Lance

CEO David Trainer sat down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com to talk about our Danger Zone pick this past week: Snyder's-Lance (LNCE)
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
September 21, 20150Comments

Healthy Food Won’t Make Snyder’s-Lance A Healthy Business

Companies often use hollow acquisition-driven growth to mask deterioration in the underlying business, i.e. efficiency. This week’s Danger Zone stock fits this description to a tee. Add in extremely high profit growth expectations and it’s easy to see why Snyder’s-Lance (LNCE) is in the Danger Zone.
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
New Constructs
September 17, 20150Comments

David Discusses the Merit Behind Placing Expedia In The Danger Zone

CEO David Trainer sat down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com to talk about our Danger Zone pick this past week: Expedia Inc. (EXPE)
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
August 25, 20150Comments

Wall Street Analysts Find Themselves in the Danger Zone

The cat is out of the bag. CFOs admit that they manipulate accounting rules to “misrepresent earnings”. They also say that Wall Street analysts play along. This week we’re putting Wall Street analysts in the Danger Zone.
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
August 20, 20150Comments

David Trainer Shines Light on Why SolarCity Belongs In the Danger Zone

CEO David Trainer sat down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com to talk about our Danger Zone pick this past week: SolarCity (SCTY).
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
August 18, 20153Comments

SolarCity’s Light Is Fading Fast

SolarCity Corp (SCTY: $50/share) wants to change the way Americans obtain electricity. So far, this goal has been extremely unprofitable, and the future profit outlook remains clouded.
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
August 11, 20150Comments

David Trainer Discusses Why Planet Fitness Fits in the Danger Zone

CEO David Trainer sat down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com to talk about our Danger Zone pick this past week: Planet Fitness (PLNT).
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
July 28, 20150Comments

A Small Cap Fund You Should Avoid

CWSVX, effectively the worst fund in the worst style, is in the Danger Zone this week for a number of reasons.
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
July 9, 20150Comments

David Trainer Discusses Why Splunk Belongs in the Danger Zone

CEO David Trainer sat down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com to talk about our Danger Zone pick this past week: Splunk (SPLK).
by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA
New Constructs
January 14, 20130Comments

Danger Zone 1/14/2013: Fulton Financial Corp. (FULT)

Check out my lastest Danger Zone interview with Chuck Jaffe of MarketWach.com.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
New Constructs
February 28, 20120Comments

Top Fund-Indsutry Expert: New Constructs’ Predictive Ratings Are Gaining Following

Competition for Lipper and Morningstar is "heating up" according to fund-industry expert Chuck Jaffe. Research based on past performance is losing favor as investor recognize its lack of rigor and value.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
September 16, 20110Comments

MarketWatch Features New Constructs’ Rating on Fidelity’s Magellan Fund

MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe feature's New Constructs mutual fund rating system, which has a "neutral" rating on the Magellan fund. Our fund rating system is the same as our stock rating system, which has received many accolades for its predictive power.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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