A quickie for you here today, as your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe deals with a tooth emergency and a feeling of impending doom about Christmas shopping… Michael Robinson is pitching the Metaverse as “The Next Tech Rush,” and teasing two stocks and one cryptocurrency as plays on that theme, all in ads for his Nova-X Report, […]
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Travis Johnson is an individual investor who founded Stock Gumshoe in 2007 as a way to air his dissections of overhyped marketing pitches... and to share the "secret" stocks that stock newsletters hype to get your attention and your subscription dollars. His thinking? If you already know what the "secret" stock is, you can make a much more reasonable and thoughtful decision about whether or not to commit to an expensive newsletter subscription. (And if you don't pay for the info, you'll be more free to think for yourself about whether or not the investment is worth your money.)In his charmed life he has been, among other things, a university faculty member, a fundraiser, a writer, and a world-champion ice-cream scooper. Now he runs Stock Gumshoe for you, allowing us all to discuss and dissect the latest overheated stock ideas... as well as review and talk about investment newsletters and enjoy the commentary and opinions of Stock Gumshoe's other special contributors and the discussion with our unusually attractive, erudite and polite readers. He lives with Mrs. Gumshoe and all their little Gumshoes in the wilds of Western Massachusetts.
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December 16, 2021
What’s Carr’s “Ultimate $10 Growth Stock”?
This article was originally published in October, but we’re getting more reader questions about it and Matthew Carr has a second version of the ad that focuses a little less on Apple and the iPhone, so we’re re-sharing our solution below. What follows is based on a slightly different ad, but the “secret” $10 growth […]
December 15, 2021
What’s the “Miracle Mineral” that could “Hand Investors up to 16,335%?”
The Outsider Club folks are pitching a junior mining stock again, and this time it’s all about phosphate — not the drink that was wildly popular in soda fountains 100 years ago, but the mineral that forms one of the basic ingredients in modern fertilizer. They’re calling it the “Miracle Mineral” in this particular ad, […]
Here’s a little lead-in to the ad we started to see rolling on Friday from Empire Elite Growth ($5,000/yr, no refunds “on sale” for $2,000): “This the first page of a 49-page document officially released in the same year that President Trump promised “a new American moment.” “The document struck down a federal law, which […]
Let me start with a special welcome to our new Irregulars who came aboard this week, during the still-ongoing Charitable Membership Drive (tell your friends, the campaign goes through December 15!) — thank you for supporting Stock Gumshoe, and I hope you can grow to tolerate, and sometimes even enjoy, my lengthy Friday blatherations. I […]
December 7, 2021
Takeover Trader
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December 6, 2021
Rogue Investing Daily
Entry level service from Rogue Investing. Offers daily trade ideas and commentary, often inspired by anonymous contributor “Mr. X”
Mike Barrett has been an analyst for Dan Ferris’ Extreme Value newsletter over at Stansberry for several years now, and apparently he has also suggested several other high-return investments that ended up being recommended by other Stansberry newsletters. And now he’s getting his own newsletter, with a pretty splashy teaser presentation to introduce it — […]
December 6, 2021
10X Investor
New upgrade service launched by Mike Barrett and Dan Ferris, who also partner on Extreme Value from the same publisher. Focused on finding early investments in companies who have “10X” potential, often because they are early on in their development but have intellectual property that Barrett forecasts will be very valuable in the future. Launched […]
December 3, 2021
Friday File: DocuSign Craters… What to Do?
This week, as I check in on my portfolio and my watchlists, I feel a little greedy… there seems to be a bit of panic in the air, and that means I want to buy a little of almost everything. It’s a bumpy time in the markets, for sure, and I have no idea what […]
I’ve gotten a ton of questions about Alex Koyfman’s “AirTesla” pitch over the past week, so we’ll spend a moment on that today. This all ends up being a “next Tesla” pitch to a large degree — essentially, saying that if Tesla can create this trillion-dollar company to lead the electric vehicle revolution, and grow […]
Happy re-entry day! The Thanksgiving holiday break didn’t give investors a lot of reasons to give thanks this year, but your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe is back in the saddle and ready to sniff out some more teaser picks for you. And since most of the newsletters jumped on the “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” themes […]
November 29, 2021
Motley Fool Everlasting: Firecrackers
Part of the Fool’s “Everlasting” lineup of portfolio advisories, this one focuses on identifying and buying a portfolio of microcap stocks (market caps well below $1 billion).
November 23, 2021
2021 Turkey of the Year
For our 14th annual Turkey of the Year we’ve got a little something new… I always include my worst pick of the year when I’m covering the Turkey of the Year, too, to be fair… but this time around, they are one and the same. I too bought the Turkey, and I too paid the […]
November 19, 2021
Friday File: Money Flows to Data Centers
I don’t know what will happen in the world, but I just looked over my regularly updated Annual Review spreadsheet… and it looks like about a dozen of the stocks I owned as of last February are in my “buy” range right now. Those are in many cases contextual, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to […]
I’ve seen this ad circulated so many times, with adjusting deadlines, that I didn’t realize I hadn’t specifically covered this pitch for my favorite readers… at least, not in its current iteration with a new company in that “Day Zero” position. “Day Zero” is now trumpeted as being December 9, 2021, but a year or […]
November 14, 2021
Motley Fool Canada Microcap Mission
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November 12, 2021
Friday File: Metaverse Gainers, Quarterly Updates and more…
Infrastructure week! Looks like there’s a big ol chunk of cash that will be rolling downhill in the coming years for all the construction companies, broadband companies, materials companies, etc. after Congress finally passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill that they’ve been sitting on for months. Certainly our roads and bridges and public transport systems and […]
November 11, 2021
What’s NICI’s teased “The next IIPR and a 1,400% return?”
The National Institute for Cannabis Investors (NICI), a publishing subsidiary of Money Map Press, is pitching its entry-level membership now ($39/yr) by dangling the promise of a “next IIPR” stock… and that’s a stock I own and have written about a lot over the years, so the ad caught my eye. Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR) […]
November 10, 2021
Friday File Unlock: “Microsoft’s $20 Microcap Match?”
This article was originally published as part of the Friday File for members of the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars on October 8. We’re opening it up to all readers now, but it has not been updated since it was first posted a month ago. There has not been a huge amount of news from the company […]
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Several SMRs are in early stage development, none of the US ones are permitted or under construction yet. BWXT works on most of the naval reactors and does other nuclear contracting for the government, including building a microreactor for military bases,[...]
Posted on September 11, 2024
Could be, a lot of the smaller defense contractors have been acquired over the years. Don't know if any of their technology is particularly valuable or proprietary, but they are doing some interesting things with rocket engines and other stuff in addition[...]
Posted on September 10, 2024
Indeed, that's certainly the flavor of the month... there won't really be any SMRs in operation for five years or so, though, even if they proceed without hiccups it will take quite a while for them to be meaningful contributors to the grid.[...]
Posted on September 10, 2024
It wasn't the permit that drove it up to $8, it's been moving up pretty steadily for a few months -- they just didn't bother to update their ad.[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
I imagine a lot of folks still doubt the permitting will come through, so maybe that doubt will ease over the next 6 months or so. But investors often find it hard to hold on to mining stocks once it gets "real" -- when they're borrowing and spending and[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
Could be, though if they can really borrow $1.8 billion and the terms are friendly enough, they could perhaps go it alone. I hope it works out for you in the end, either way.[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
Yep, a 12,500% return would mean it grows to a $63 billion market cap. I guess it's theoretically possible someday... but no.[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
I think Apple has used ARM's basic chip design tech every since they designed their first chips. Whether they're using "more" of it for this latest chip, or ARM is more involved in Apple's chip design for this one than usual, I have no idea, but the big d[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
Apple has acquired several voice-enabling technologies over the years, but if they haven't used SOUN to this point it seems unlikely that they need to -- it seems like auto companies are partnering with SOUN so they can avoid having to be captive to Apple [...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
They often throw their promo Picks into "special reports" Instead of the actual model portfolio, but some letters also keep using stocks as teaser picks even after the pundit has "sold" them.[...]
Posted on September 9, 2024
There's certainly risk of the brand plateauing. I think it's still looking pretty solid, but only time will tell, I guess.[...]
Posted on September 7, 2024
I haven't been following this management team long enough to have a great handle on their investor relations skills, but I was surprised that they just mentioned that number and didn't seem to realize it was a bombshell of an announcement that would have m[...]
Posted on September 5, 2024
Haven't suffered through the latest Altucher pitch yet, but Credo was the stock he was similarly touting back in June. (https://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/luke-langos-innovation-investor/answers-apples-silent-ai-suppliers-who-are-luke-langos-three-tin[...]
Posted on September 4, 2024
Del Real is out pitching this story again, though with a preamble that one of the three stocks has been acquired for about $3 billion -- so that confirms that the copper stock that I did not unearth above was indeed Filo Corp (FIL.TO, FLMMF), which is bein[...]
Posted on September 4, 2024
Welcome aboard, Chet -- the pitchmen love to get us revved up about quick gains and juice those gambling urges... but sadly, one telltale sign of a great long-term investment is that you don't have to decide whether or not to invest within five minutes. S[...]
Posted on September 4, 2024
Those are the super-levered ETFs that are designed to either generate large options income or one-day levered gains to a single stock. The YieldMax ones are pretty prominent, but there are a lot of others that can let people bet on short-term moves or tak[...]
Posted on September 3, 2024
He's run similar ads all year, though I think he swapped out some of the "secret" partners in more recent ads. First time around it Was TSM, ARM and (maybe) SMCI... in later versions it looks like it was ANSS, ARM and maybe VRT, though they could have sha[...]
Posted on September 3, 2024
Interesting, new one to me -- thanks![...]
Posted on September 3, 2024
Not really, I handle situations on a case by case basis... there are some companies that I primarily own because I see a shorter-term opportunity to make a profit, and I might own that stock for just a few years (or even just a few months, in rare situatio[...]
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That one has certainly demanded some patience. I remain somewhat assured that Nolan Watson has been saying that they've already bought their growth, so they'll likely just be paying down debt and holding off on major deals for a while... but there's alway[...]