Hot Stock Commentary: Oracle Corporation (ORCL)
Oracle Corporation (ORCL) is our hot stock this week and earns an Attractive rating.
What We’re Reading This Morning — September 19, 2014
Why is no one skeptical about Alibaba’s accounting?
All Cap Blend Style
The All Cap Blend style ranks third out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my Style Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report.
10 Wonderful Companies That Are Bad Stocks
Sometimes, a great company can actually be a risky stock when it gets significantly overvalued.
Danger Zone: Workday (WDAY)
Momentum was the only thing supporting WDAY’s stock, and now that the momentum is gone, look out below.
Danger Zone: Callidus Software (CALD)
Compared to its competitors, CALD has less scale, inferior profitability metrics, and fishy accounting to boot. The stock’s valuation is so high that our DCF model can hardly make sense of it. The stock seems to be trading largely on the hopes of an acquisition.
Danger Zone: salesforce.com (CRM)
There are too many competitors out there for CRM to grow revenue and expand margins simultaneously to the extent that the market valuation already implies. Too much downside risk is in this stock.
Outstanding Employee Stock Options – Valuation Adjustment
Without careful footnotes research, investors would never know the amount of employee stock options that decrease the amount of future cash flow available to shareholders by diluting the value of existing shares.
Danger Zone 6/3/2013: Perma-Bears and Bubble Alarmists
I am optimistic about the U.S. economy and I don’t believe we are in bubble. Too many investors and economists are looking at the economy the wrong way.
Why I’m Bullish And We Are Not In a Bubble
I believe the US economy is undergoing a restructuring where we, as a society, are becoming radically more productive. I think that we are entering a new economic paradigm of productivity in both our corporate and labor markets. In this new paradigm, we achieve enough gains in productivity to offset the inflationary forces of QE.
Investment Style Rankings For ETFs & Mutual Funds
No fund style earns better than a Neutral rating at the beginning of the second quarter of 2013. My style ratings are based on the aggregation of my fund ratings for every ETF and mutual fund in each style.
Buy Oracle And Capitalize On Big Data Discount
Take advantage of the cloud and the fact that ORCL is the cheapest it has been in 14 years.
How to Find the Best Style Mutual Funds
Finding the best mutual funds is an increasingly difficult task in a world with so many mutual funds. Investors cannot trust mutual fund labels or names. They do not tell you enough about what you are getting when you buy a mutual fund.
Rating Breakdown: Best & Worst ETFs & Mutual Funds by Style
This report identifies the “best” ETFs and mutual funds based on the quality of their holdings and their costs. As detailed in “Low-Cost Funds Dupe Investors”, there are few funds that have both good holdings and low costs. While there are lots of cheap funds, there are very few with high-quality holdings.
Best & Worst ETFs & Mutual Funds: Information Technology Sector
The Information Technology sector ranks second out of the ten sectors as detailed in my sector rankings for ETFs and mutual funds. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 27 ETFs and 146 mutual funds in the Information Technology sector as of October 9, 2012.
Best & Worst ETFs and Mutual Funds: All-cap Growth
The all-cap growth style ranks fourth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my style roadmap. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 2 ETFs and 457 mutual funds in the all-cap growth style as of April 24, 2012.
Best and Worst Funds: Large Cap Growth Style
The large cap growth investment style ranks third out of the twelve investment styles as detailed in my style roadmap. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of fund ratings of all 771 funds in the style.
Sector Roadmap For Best and Worst Funds
For those investors interested in rigorous research, I offer my roadmap to the best stocks and funds in the market by sector. The full sector roadmap is here.
Picking The Diamonds Out of The ETF Rough
Having too many choices can be intimidating. And there are definitely lots of choices when it comes to ETFs. For example, in the equity market alone, there 30+ technology sector ETFs, or 35 ‘large cap value’ and 20 financial ETFs. A very healthy selection abounds for every category of ETF.
The problem is that these ETFs are not made the same even though they may be in the same category. There are major differences in methodologies between funds, which results in drastically different holdings even within a given sector. See Figure 1.