Once a dominant player in the oil and gas business, Chesapeake Energy is now barely breathing, with their stock now down 99.9% since 2008 and their market cap down to $129 million. This is not Chesapeake Energy’s first rodeo, as they have taken some very big falls before, almost losing their life, but this time […]

Retail investing has experienced a surge since commissions have disappeared. This should only be seen as a good thing, but only if you are not very confused about investing. We should find the criticisms that are being made about the increased participation of retail investors pretty amusing, where critics lay bare all sorts of fundamental […]

Chipotle Mexican Grill was one of our top 5 stocks for 2020. Then the lockdown happened and it really got creamed. The cream does rise to the top though. People tend to be afraid of stocks that are performing very well, and especially with those performing extremely well like Chipotle. This stock grew by 289% […]

Hertz has been renting cars for over a century and started out with a dozen Model T’s in 1918. They have flourished through a lot of crises, but were no match for an economic shutdown. Hertz has had a dominant position in the rent-a-car business for a century, from the time they started out with […]

Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s enthusiasm for raising taxes may court favor with a lot of the electorate, but it’s only because few people know the real consequences of this. With all the things that we teach kids in school, there definitely needs to be more focus on economics. We’re not talking about teaching them all […]

AQR Capital Management founder Cliff Asness wasn’t a big fan of value stocks, but he changed his mind last fall, feeling that they are now due. He is still waiting patiently. For a couple of magical weeks last September, value stocks were all the rage in the financial media when it was discovered that value […]

AMD outperformed every other stock in the market last year by a huge margin. While this scares some people, especially in the face of a big pullback, AMD continues to shine. There is a strong belief among many investors that stocks that go up a lot are ripe for a correction, where they somehow see […]

Warren Buffett wants investors to turn away from their massive losses in Q1, calling them “unrealized gains and losses.” His shareholders are certainly realizing them though. We typically do not show any favor for those who don’t do a very good job in the investment world, as it’s at least as important to show how […]

We sometimes hear concern about how top weighted the S&P is, with 20% of its value in the top 5 out of 500 stocks. This actually makes sense, and is not a misrepresentation. The S&P 500 has been around for 63 years now, and a lot of people have invested in it and continue to […]

Demand for oil has dropped off so much from the current slowdown that the recent agreement to cut production by 10 million barrels a day hasn’t come close to fixing this. We invest in stocks presumably to make money, although when we look at how oil stocks have done over the last 6 years, there’s […]