Core Fore Investing 2009 Returns
By Will Ashworth | January 30, 2010
I finished up my calculations for 2009 and it was an average year for the 66 stocks that continue trading. They generated a total return of 28% versus 26.5% for the Wilshire 5000. While not terrible, they should do better and have in years past. Next week I’ll have the January returns and will be […]
Topics: Core Fore Investing | No Comments »
Core Fore Investing Stock Analysis 2002-2009
By Will Ashworth | January 28, 2010
I’ve completed my updates for end of the year stock prices. My key findings as well as individual newsletter stock picks and their results are available by clicking on Core Fore Investing at the top of this page. I’ll have 2009 results for the 66 stocks that still trade as well as three portfolios that […]
Topics: Core Fore Investing | No Comments »
High Flying IPOs Five Years Later
By Will Ashworth | January 27, 2010
There were 58 initial public offerings in 2009, up from 43 the year before. The five best performing IPOs averaged a 110% return, which is excellent. However, when compared to IPOs that went public five years ago, the first-year returns are paltry. In 2004, the average for the five best performing IPOs was 226%, twice those of […]
Topics: Free Financial Feedback | No Comments »
4 Reasons To Buy Audiovox
By Will Ashworth | January 27, 2010
A nationwide study conducted in 2009 revealed that investors believe the U.S. stock market will average annual returns of 13.7% over the next decade. This belief isn’t unrealistic; it’s downright idiotic. Since 1926, the U.S.markets have earned 9.8% annually, 400 basis points less than current investor expectations. But assuming some miracle occurs and the markets do meet investor expectations, micro […]
Topics: Free Financial Feedback | No Comments »
4 Stocks You Could Buy Instead Of Apple
By Will Ashworth | January 27, 2010
Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) delivered its most profitable quarter ever on January 25, which is likely to send the $200 stock higher still in the coming weeks. Some suggest it’s overvalued despite all the good news and you certainly have to wonder when its enterprise value is 18.6 times EBITDA - much higher than Google(Nasdaq:GOOG) and Research in Motion (Nasdaq:RIMM). Overvalued, undervalued, I can’t definitively say. What […]
Topics: Free Financial Feedback | No Comments »
Hunting For Value In The Furniture Heap
By Will Ashworth | January 26, 2010
In the case of Ethan Allen (NYSE:ETH) and the rest of the furniture industry, the past couple of years haven’t been good ones. A lot of red ink has been shed, and more is likely to follow. The question to answer then is whether value exists in this furniture heap.
Click here for the rest of the article.
Topics: Free Financial Feedback | No Comments »
5 Consumer Discretionary Stocks Ben Graham Would Love
By Will Ashworth | January 25, 2010
Ben Graham is known as the “father of value investing”. He was also Warren Buffett’s teacher and mentor. Graham’s famous rule for picking value stocks was that a stock’s price-to-earnings ratio multiplied by its price-to-book ratio should equal less than 22. It’s not groundbreaking research, but this simple formula does make for a good stock screen. Here we look at five stocks Graham would have approved of.
Click […]
Topics: Free Financial Feedback | No Comments »
Banking On Small Business
By Will Ashworth | January 25, 2010
This past May, President Obama proclaimed the week of May 17 through May 23, “Small Business Week.” In his proclamation, he noted that small business in the U.S. creates 70% of all new jobs. Given this statistic, it may be said that real economic recovery will be a result of small business turning on its job creation engine and getting America working […]
Topics: Free Financial Feedback | No Comments »
Whose Cash Management Is Better Than Best Buy’s?
By Will Ashworth | January 22, 2010
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) appears to be undervalued given expected future earnings, but it’s not time to declare it the winner among electronics retailers just yet. First, we’ll compare Best Buy’s cash management with major competitors RadioShack (NYSE:RSH), HH Gregg (NYSE:HGG) and Conn’s (Nasdaq:CONN) as well asAmazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT). If its cash flow and balance sheet stack up against those of the competition, I’ll gladly crown it cash management champion. […]
Topics: Free Financial Feedback | No Comments »
Retail’s Adjusted Book Value
By Will Ashworth | January 22, 2010
I’m currently reading “The Little Book of Value Investing” by Christopher H. Browne, a former managing director and now special advisor at Tweedy Browne, an investment management and stock brokerage firm that has been around since the 1920s and part of the Browne family for the last 64 years. Strict value investors look to buy stocks at […]
Topics: Free Financial Feedback | No Comments »