August 17, 20200Comments

This Online Retailer Is Furnishing Investors With Risk

Investors in this firm are betting on a growth story that surpasses Amazon’s even as competition with Amazon and the firms that survived the retail apocalypse only gets tougher.

by Matt Shuler, Investment Analyst II

August 10, 20200Comments

Earnings Distortion Scorecard: Week of 8/17/20-8/21/20

For the week of 8/17/20-8/21/20, we focus on the Earnings Distortion Scores for 24 companies.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

May 11, 20200Comments

Earnings Distortion Scorecard: Week of 5/18/20-5/22/20

For the week of 5/18/20-5/22/20, we focus on the Earnings Distortion Scores for 27 companies.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

September 11, 20191Comments

Doomsday Valuation Makes This Retailer a Buy

The expectations baked into this retailer's stock remain overly pessimistic in the face of the company’s strong fundamentals.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

July 24, 20190Comments

Micro-Bubble Winners Continue to Outperform

These “Micro-Bubble winners” remain undervalued and we expect them to continue to outperform.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

January 9, 20190Comments

Long Idea Lowlights From 2018

We’re going to examine some of our worst-performing calls from 2018 and determine which picks were bona fide mistakes and which only offer more upside.

by Sam McBride

December 12, 20180Comments

Three Safe Stocks for a Bear Market

These companies provide a margin of safety during downturns and can still deliver strong performance in a bull market.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

August 16, 20180Comments

Micro-Bubble Winners

This report presents a list of long ideas for stocks that should rise when the micro-bubble stocks we listed in our last report fall.

by Sam McBride

August 6, 20180Comments

Bursting the Micro-Bubble – Part 1

There is a “micro-bubble” in certain tech stocks, where valuations reflect expectations for future cash flows that would require unrealistically high margins, growth, and market share.

by Sam McBride

August 6, 20180Comments

Position Close Update: Synchrony Financial (SYF)

Even though SYF’s valuation remains cheap, its declining fundamentals and the risk of further contract losses make the risk too high to remain in the stock.

by Sam McBride

May 31, 20180Comments

Successful Danger Zone Pick Continues to Outperform

Since our original Danger Zone report and being added to our Focus List – Short Model Portfolio, this stock has significantly outperformed as a short position.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

April 23, 20184Comments

The Impacts of Operating Leases Moving to the Balance Sheet

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) introduced a new accounting standard (ASU 2016-02) that requires companies to recognize operating lease assets and liabilities on the balance sheet.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

December 18, 20170Comments

Danger Zone: Value Destroying Buybacks

Companies often buyback shares when their stock is at the highest point, and they sometimes pass up profitable investments or even go into debt to do the buybacks.

by Sam McBride

November 29, 20172Comments

This Financials Company Gives You Growth and Value

With a track record of high profitability, significant growth opportunities, and a cheap valuation, this stock could offer significant upside for investors.

by Sam McBride

November 17, 20170Comments

Hasbro Mattel Merger Could Produce Big Profits

A Hasbro/Mattel merger could create significant profit growth opportunities through cross-licensing, increased bargaining power, and cost control.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

October 26, 20170Comments

High ROIC Business Model with an Undervalued Stock

With strong fundamentals and an undervalued stock price, this firm not only finds itself in October’s Most Attractive Stocks Model Portfolio, but is also this week’s Long Idea.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

October 10, 20170Comments

See Us on CNBC Discussing Wal-Mart

New Constructs CEO, David Trainer, joins CNBC’s Closing Bell to discuss Wal-Mart’s business, the competitive landscape, and its current valuation.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

April 19, 20170Comments

10-K Filing Season Recap

During filing season, our robo-analyst technology read through 2,139 10-K (or international equivalent) filings and collected 49,862 data points. Our analyst team used this data to make 49,862 adjustments with a dollar value of $16.1 trillion.

by Sam McBride

January 3, 20170Comments

Stock Faceoff: Giants of Retail

On the back of a strong holiday season, retailers are back in the spotlight. To start out the new year, we want to take the time to circle back to two of our previous long ideas on some of the giants in the retail industry.

by Sam McBride

October 31, 20160Comments

Danger Zone: Overstock.com (OSTK)

With negative profitability, rising costs, and an overvalued stock price, Overstock (OSTK) is on October’s Most Dangerous Stocks list and is in the Danger Zone this week. Could OSTK be the next victim of the retail market?

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

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