…purchased organic meats company Applegate Farms in May 2015 for $775 million. Our Warren Buffett investment methodology likes HRL’s earnings predictability and growth as well as its low leverage, and…
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Shopping for Dividend Yield Without the Traps
While high dividend yields (yield defined as dividend divided by stock price) are appealing, they become less so if they’re a function of a low stock price that reflects underlying…
Gundlach and Others Offer Market Perspective
…be able to get his protectionist ideas through Congress. If so, then it would exacerbate market volatility, and Oberweis advises buying “insurance in the form of puts on the S&P…
Oakmark’s Bill Nygren Talks Value
…that fixed-income investors have gone for “low-risk business models with limited growth that pay out most of their earnings through dividends.” He does have some appetite for oils stocks, however….
Remember Ritholtz's Advice During Next Market Sell-Off
…that “markets have on average swung 2 percent up or down once every 11 days since the year 2000”. Therefore, he asserts, the volatility in the wake of the Brexit…
Siegel Says Stocks Will Higher
…in part to lower oil prices. However, he contends that earnings may be primed to rise by 10 to 12 percent as the global economic environment continues to stabilize, and…
Looking for Value in Un-Love Small Cap Stocks
…the company’s liquidity, low leverage and strong earnings-per-share, and our Lynch-based model gives high marks for the price-earnings-growth ratio of 0.47 (under .50 is considered the best case scenario. Marcus…
The Passive Investing Tsunami in ETFs Continues
…is low cost. The average cost for passively managed funds last year was 0.18 percent versus 0.78 percent for actively managed funds (primarily mutual funds). ETFs offer more flexibility because…
There’s a Hole in the CAPE Ratio
…regression results in an extremely low return forecast (1.9%) and a low R2 (.21) as outlined in the following chart: Note: R2 (in parentheses below the return percentage) represents the…
Bargain Shopping in Europe
…billion. Robust earnings growth (13.96%) and best-case P/E/G ratio (0.39). Free cash flow-to-price ratio of 35.37% a bonus. Cash flow per share of $3.15 is more than double the market…