We don’t generally find stock analysts changing their ratings on stocks to be all that interesting, but analysts becoming more bullish on Spotify right now does stand out. The first thing that you need to understand about the work of stock analysts is that they don’t really speak to the goals of investors anywhere as […]

Stocks go up by 4.3% on average during the fourth quarter. If you like to bet on the average of what happens over many years, you can find yourself in trouble on off years. The fact that the stock market tends to go up in the fourth quarter by a fairly nice amount, 4.3% on […]

The more a stock gets beat up, the more the bargain hunters salivate. These mouths have plenty of reason to water with American Airlines, but should this meal be served? Bottom picking stocks can be a challenging task, but if you can get in at the right time, these plays can turn out to be […]

The fact that “value” stocks on the whole outperformed “growth” stocks last week shouldn’t really raise any eyebrows, but this sure did. Was this really that interesting? The biggest story last week in the stock market was how “value” stocks outperformed “growth” stocks on the whole. It actually only took a couple of days for […]

Dividends are a nice bonus with a stock, but with common stocks, the bigger part of the story is always going to be price movement. We need to be careful to enter at the right time. Back on July 11, Barron’s ran an article on how nice Prudential’s 4% dividend was looking, and had some […]

President Trump’s tweet about trade talks set to resume between the U.S. and China might have been wishful thinking, but this particular wish has now been granted. There has been a lot of back and forth in the stock markets over the last month as it fended off concerns about the economy possibly weakening too […]

Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investor position indicator has turned bearish for the first time since January. That apparently means that stocks are bearish and we should buy. There are a lot of different indicators that people look at to look to be shown the way as far as where the price of a stock […]

The auto sector has looked more like a junkyard than a showroom over the past few years. Baird analyst David Leiker believes he has found a couple of diamonds in the rough. Some stocks perform better than others, and given that stocks are grouped into sectors, some sectors perform better than others do. The auto […]

Nestle stock being up 36% this year so far is only part of the story. It’s the way that this stock has risen that is really impressive. Both the present and future look bright. Nestle is the world’s largest packaged food company, and although they sell a lot of products in the United States, the […]

A fair number of people are critical of the practice of companies buying back their stock, with some even suggesting that this practice be limited or banned. We need to understand this first. Public companies both issue stock and buy back stock, according to their needs and strategies. The practice of a company buying back […]