Institutional Buying and Selling of S&P 500 Stocks by Sector [View article]
I wouldn't necessarily call those stocks institutional investors lightened up as losers. In some cases they made the wrong choice and will have to buy them back if the market runs up or the stock outperforms. Institutional investors mean big money but not necessarily smart.
Stocks with the Most Buy and Sell Recommendations [View article]
The biggest buy ratings always go to the largest cap companies, the companies most likely to do a stock, bond, or other corporate finance deal, and companies that have a history of good prior performance.
It shows nothing asides from the general behavior of analysts. We can draw the following conclusions about them 1) they like money and don't mind licking corporate boot to get it, 2) they are intimately tied in with corporate finance even though there is suppose to be a Chinese wall separating them, 3) they rely on companies to feed them information thus can't afford to let big companies be dissatisfied with them, 4) they won't stick their necks out to like unfavorable stocks, 5) they rely on herd mentality, 6) they tend to follow trend blindly except when the trend changes (then they like the new trend and claim they are brilliant for following it over the old trend).
Show me a guy who depends 100% on analyst views and I'll show you a guy who underperforms the market 100% of the time.
Mark Fisher: Analysis Doesn't Matter in This Market [View article]
I think it depends on the market sector. Definitely if you are picking tech or healthcare stocks you need to know the technology behind it, the benefits and risks associated with them, cost to market, and business model. If you are in banking or mining/equipment market sentiment dominates more.
If you just want to see what goes up or down or ride the market then yes, you're not a fundamentalist at all and it's not worth arguing the semantics of corporate fundamentals.
Coverage Ratios: What We Can Uncover in the S&P [View article]
Debt is not a bad thing in modest proportions. Without it we wouldn't have any money for one thing.
Business debt is fundamental to the healthy growth and expansion of the economy. Essentially, it is applying utilization of current resources to derive value add in the future. What do I mean by that? It is using assets to create goods and services in the future. Only this allows assets to be used for something called consumption of new things. Without allowing healthy business debt, we would most likely only be able to buy used clothes and other people's unwanted goods on e-bay.
Sure, a few rich companies can make some goods and services without debt. But prosperous the world would not be if every business didn't use debt. Nor would the world be as rich or efficient as it is today.
Best Performing Stocks Since Election Day [View article]
Thanks for the chart summation. Once again financials get pwned and deservedly so. A few of them should be 100% loss as in bankrupcy please. Only then will we know we are nearing a bottom.
Some will say, sure it's bad for the market. That would mean you are thinking short term. In the long term it is valuable and neccesary to clear out the bad, especially when they are draining public coffers to survive. When companies are rewarded for good behavior and punished for bad that's how the market recovers, not when the bad get rewarded for gluttony (like Bank of America and Citibank trying to become a global banking superpower by overextending themselves or acquiring everyone they can and then asking for $80 or more billion dollars) at the cost to all good taxpayers.
3 Stocks With A Positive 5-Day Expectancy [View article]
Institutional Buying and Selling of S&P 500 Stocks by Sector [View article]
Stocks with the Most Buy and Sell Recommendations [View article]
It shows nothing asides from the general behavior of analysts. We can draw the following conclusions about them 1) they like money and don't mind licking corporate boot to get it, 2) they are intimately tied in with corporate finance even though there is suppose to be a Chinese wall separating them, 3) they rely on companies to feed them information thus can't afford to let big companies be dissatisfied with them, 4) they won't stick their necks out to like unfavorable stocks, 5) they rely on herd mentality, 6) they tend to follow trend blindly except when the trend changes (then they like the new trend and claim they are brilliant for following it over the old trend).
Show me a guy who depends 100% on analyst views and I'll show you a guy who underperforms the market 100% of the time.
Mark Fisher: Analysis Doesn't Matter in This Market [View article]
If you just want to see what goes up or down or ride the market then yes, you're not a fundamentalist at all and it's not worth arguing the semantics of corporate fundamentals.
Coverage Ratios: What We Can Uncover in the S&P [View article]
Business debt is fundamental to the healthy growth and expansion of the economy. Essentially, it is applying utilization of current resources to derive value add in the future. What do I mean by that? It is using assets to create goods and services in the future. Only this allows assets to be used for something called consumption of new things. Without allowing healthy business debt, we would most likely only be able to buy used clothes and other people's unwanted goods on e-bay.
Sure, a few rich companies can make some goods and services without debt. But prosperous the world would not be if every business didn't use debt. Nor would the world be as rich or efficient as it is today.
Best Performing Stocks Since Election Day [View article]
Some will say, sure it's bad for the market. That would mean you are thinking short term. In the long term it is valuable and neccesary to clear out the bad, especially when they are draining public coffers to survive. When companies are rewarded for good behavior and punished for bad that's how the market recovers, not when the bad get rewarded for gluttony (like Bank of America and Citibank trying to become a global banking superpower by overextending themselves or acquiring everyone they can and then asking for $80 or more billion dollars) at the cost to all good taxpayers.