This time around I thought I’d get into some more detail for you on a stock I’ve written about before, and which I own personally — but I think it’s underappreciated given its potential for inflation protection and dividend growth. April’s Idea of the Month is shares of Retail Opportunity Investments Corp (ROIC). That ROIC […]
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“Renegade” Alternative Investments from Jim Rickards — better than BitcoinI’m just copying this all from the promo because I can’t figure out what it means. What it promises definitely might look promising, perhaps. Herewith, my paste: 26 years before the birth of Bitcoin, three rogue entrepreneurs created a radical new investment. A venture that turned every $10 stake into $11,899 over 19 years. It […]
Getting a bit of your usual Friday File commentary out on the early side this week, since I made a personal purchase that I thought might interest my favorite Irregulars. And by purchase I mean “dumb speculation,” really — I picked up some shares of a junior miner that’s way too small to take seriously, […]
This is a little unusual, because typically I let investments percolate for a while before deciding whether or not they make sense. But today, I think the best idea for investing is one I wrote about just this week at StockGumshoe.com — Hanfeng Evergreen. In case you’re wondering about that title, Han is the ethnicity […]
A couple weeks ago I started my annual navel-gazing exercise of looking back at past “idea of the month” stock (and other investment) suggestions — that first look covered the first year or so of these more formalized ideas for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars, from 2008 to mid-2009, and now we’ll try to catch up. […]
As we enter mid-February and a slow week in Gumshoeland next week, I’ve got a few personal buys of stocks that we’ve mentioned before, and a new “Idea of the Month” candidate that’s maybe not quite ready to buy just yet (we’ll be closed on Monday, and will probably publish less than usual during the […]
The market is down hard over these past couple weeks, thanks to worries about relatively steep valuations, the likelihood of an interest rate hike from the Fed next month and, much more than anything else, a full-on panic about the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency that would, one fears, bring an almost endless stream […]
A couple weeks ago I started my annual navel-gazing exercise of looking back at past “idea of the month” stock (and other investment) suggestions — that first look covered the first year or so of these more formalized ideas for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars, from 2008 to mid-2009, and now we’ll try to catch up. […]
A couple weeks ago I started my annual navel-gazing exercise of looking back at past “idea of the month” stock (and other investment) suggestions — that first look covered the first year or so of these more formalized ideas for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars, from 2008 to mid-2009, and now we’ll try to catch up. […]
This is a little unusual, because typically I let investments percolate for a while before deciding whether or not they make sense. But today, I think the best idea for investing is one I wrote about just this week at StockGumshoe.com — Hanfeng Evergreen. In case you’re wondering about that title, Han is the ethnicity […]
Yep, I’m writing about another insurance company. And you’ll have this to chew on for a while, I’ll be on vacation for most of next week so we won’t have a Friday File (unless something dramatic pulls me away from the beach) or many new articles of any sort on the site next week. So […]
I’ve got a new buy to go into in some detail today, but first let’s go through some meaningful earnings reports that shook up the Real Money Portfolio this week and sent some questions my way… The Trade Desk (TTD) beat the analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings this quarter, but not in a […]
We’ve seen a long stream of earnings reports and other worthwhile bits of data on Real Money Portfolio stocks since I last wrote to you, including some that actually included some interesting news, so prepare for a lot of quick updates…. Medical Properties Trust (MPW) reported another quarter of ho-hum… pretty much met the forecasts, […]
This week I’ve got a lot of thinking to catch up on — there are several stocks in our Gumshoe Universe that have reported or generated some news of late, many of which I own, and I’ve got some thoughts on a lot of them to share with you. I started with my reaction to […]
While we wait to see what Berkshire Hathaway’s quarter looked like, how’s the rest of the portfolio holding up? Holy Cow, Starbucks (SBUX)! Haven’t seen that stock take this big of a pop after earnings in a long time, and sentiment seems to have changed so quickly to a “this is a safe capital return […]
Before I jump on today’s teaser unveiling, a few notes: There’s been some news and movement this week in a few of the stocks that I follow closely and that I know a lot of my readers find interesting — the Sandstorm Gold (SSL.V SNDXF) share consolidation went through as expected, and it did end […]
So… anything happen this week? 🙂 We’ll start with a few headline-grabbers from the Real Money Portfolio in the technology world, slide into a little teaser solution for you, and then share some updates on a couple small buys I made, plus some additions to the watchlist, along with the usual blather… Xilinx (XLNX) had […]
One of the ideas that I’ve been coming back to again and again is infrastructure — not necessarily just the kind of physical infrastructure that I talked about last month with Ferrovial, or things like power and highways and pipelines, but the basic kind of underlying businesses that keep other businesses operating. And in the […]
It seems like I’m starting to get into a bit of a rut — many of the stocks I’ve profiled for you recently have been somehow involved in the commodities space, whether little oil stocks, or oil services, or what have you. And despite my fondness for a number of other stocks right now, including […]
Today is a fun day for every value investor out there — it’s the day Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders comes out. So for God’s sake, don’t waste too much time with your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe if you haven’t read that one yet. You can get to it here if you’re curious, or check […]
There are many significant trends and themes that you can use to develop investing ideas, but one of them stands out above most: The population is growing, and people have to eat. Add on top of that the fact that more people want to eat more protein, and the demand for agricultural products should grow […]
I remain entirely surprised by the extent of the stock market rally this year, and by the optimism of the investing punditocracy as they predict massive gains ahead in the markets as the economy improves in 2010. I’m no macro maven, and I certainly can’t predict the future any better than anyone else, but I […]
I remain entirely surprised by the extent of the stock market rally this year, and by the optimism of the investing punditocracy as they predict massive gains ahead in the markets as the economy improves in 2010. I’m no macro maven, and I certainly can’t predict the future any better than anyone else, but I […]
Peter Schiff’s newsletter for his Euro Pacific Capital brokerage firm usually includes a couple “teaser” picks — of course, to get the name of the stock you’ve got to talk to one of his brokers. And what is the job of a broker? To sell you something, naturally … so if you don’t feel like […]
If you’ve been around the halls of Stock Gumshoe University for a while now, you might know that your friendly and munificent Dean has a soft spot for teasers that invent special coded terms for ordinary investments — so today, I couldn’t resist taking a gander at what the folks at Personal Finance are calling […]
How’s that for a promise, eh? 1,173% — not just a great return, but a remarkably specific prediction. Will it come true? Well, let’s see if we can figure out what they’re talking about — the ad is for a special report that Sara Nunnally is pitching, published by the folks at Taipan, called “Gain […]
“The TRUTH About the Obama Stimulus… “When Ronald Reagan signed his $750 billion stimulus plan in 1981, it snapped the U.S. out of a deep recession, ignited a high-tech revolution, and signaled the start of the greatest bull market in history… “Today, Obama’s stimulus plan could offer even more potential for investors. Because this little-understood […]
Yesterday I looked at Conrad’s latest teaser for his Canadian Edge newsletter, and I promised to follow up today — if you want the big picture and the broader look at trusts in general, start with yesterday’s article here, but if you’re ready to just look at a couple teasers and sniff out the companies […]
Many of you have heard of Roger Conrad, he runs a few newsletters that are largely focused on income, including Utility Forecaster and Canadian Edge, both of which have been ranked pretty highly by my readers (you can see their reviews here) — this tease of his is for Canadian Edge, a newsletter that focuses […]
Well, again we’re talking electric cars — today’s teaser from Horacio Marquez for his Money Map VIP Trader newsletter ($995 — “on sale,” naturally) is all about the coming crunch of demand for the “3rd element” as electric cars take center stage and dramatically increase prices for this critical battery ingredient. And yes, the “3rd […]
Every once in a while I take a look at StreetAuthority’s “Income Security of the Month” — I know a lot of my readers are income and dividend-focused, and I have a certain fondness for getting my returns in cash on a nice, regular basis, too. So on this rainy Friday on the nation’s capital, […]
Every once in a while I take a look at StreetAuthority’s “Income Security of the Month” — I know a lot of my readers are income and dividend-focused, and I have a certain fondness for getting my returns in cash on a nice, regular basis, too. So on this rainy Friday on the nation’s capital, […]
That’s how Keith Fitz-Gerald describes the “China Winner #1” stock that he’s been teasing in a recent email. The email is actually a good fun one, too — the copywriters were busy, with my favorite part being the headline: “To All the Panda-Bashers Out There: “Shut the ‘H’ Up! “Their rank ignorance has already cost […]
Bitterness over the financial bailouts seems to have waned a bit, but there’s certainly a strong vein of anger to mine … and that’s exactly what copywriters are paid to do. This time, it’s in an ad for Jim Nelson’s Lifetime Income Report — and this is the investment idea he’s got for you: “This […]
I don’t usually write about the same editor twice in one week, but in a land where ads like this hit my mailbox every day I can’t have any hard and fast rules along those lines … and I couldn’t resist taking a look at this latest ad from Chris Mayer, and again it’s for […]
Here’s how today’s ad opens: “The biggest opportunity of the new world economy… “‘Hard Luck’ Scheele’s Discovery Could Quadruple Your Money by July 14, 2010 “Every country in the developing world needs this 231-year-old discovery, but… “Only 10 companies in the world have it… “Only 3 of them are pure plays… “Only ONE can actually […]
Just to be clear, when I include that “3-to-1 Gains Guaranteed” in the headline, that’s a quote from the ad — your friendly neighborhood Stock Gumshoe doesn’t guarantee anything, except that I’ll continue to do my best to dig into these fabulous teaser ads … you keep reading, I’ll keep writing, that’s the deal. Today’s […]
This ad sounds a little bit like a very popular one we looked at a few months back — then, it was for $1 “Silver Shots”, and it was a teaser for a leveraged derivative trade on silver futures (or, in plainer speak, it was for long-term call options on the SLV ETF). If you […]
I find it hard to be a true contrarian investor, buying a stock that most people hate — though of course, it’s often hard to say what a “contrarian” is anymore, what with the majority of investors and pundits claiming, with a straight face, that they stray from the herd even as they tout the […]
I find it hard to be a true contrarian investor, buying a stock that most people hate — though of course, it’s often hard to say what a “contrarian” is anymore, what with the majority of investors and pundits claiming, with a straight face, that they stray from the herd even as they tout the […]