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Monthly Archives: July 2010

A Stock Hitting New Highs

July 19, 2010
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Five stocks on my watch list broke out to new highs last week (the most bullish thing a stock can do is hit new highs) and today I want to tell you about one of them. It’s OpenTable (OPEN), a California company that provides the world’s leading computerized restaurant reservation service.  Started in San Francisco in 1998, OpenTable served more than 11,487 restaurants in the U.S. as of March 31, as well as hundreds more in Canada, Japan, Mexico and parts of Europe. The service is free to diners; restaurants pay for the service.  I’ve been a user for...

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Stock Market Analysis Video: Green Light

July 18, 2010
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Now on to the weekly Stock Market Analysis Video with Cabot Market Letter Editor Michael Cintolo. Mike says that there is good news this week as one of Cabot’s key market timing indicators turned positive. He also discusses methods of finding good stocks going into this new market action. Stocks discussed include Baidu (BIDU), VMWare (VMW), Salesforce.com (CRM) and Dr. Reddy’s Labs (RDY). Click here to watch the video.

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A Stock for the Smart Phone Revolution

July 17, 2010
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I’d been planning to write something about Apple’s new iPhone 4 for some time, but I wanted to wait until I actually got mine, which finally happened last Thursday. So far, so (mostly) good with the iPhone. I was previously a Verizon (VZ) customer with a non-smart phone, which served me well over the years. But there came a point when I just felt I needed an iPhone, to check email on the go and to get directions, among other functions. I also love that it has a camera—one less gadget for me to carry around. So far, besides...

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A Stock in an Industry with Great Potential

July 16, 2010
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A Stock in an Industry with Great Potential

As I mentioned yesterday, I applied the Net Current Asset Value formula to my database of stocks and found a few stocks selling below their NCAV values. One stock stands out, because the company is in an industry with great potential. HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries (HQS) is a leader in the aquaculture industry in China. Aquaculture includes the farming of fish and aquatic plants in fresh water or ocean enclosures. The aquaculture industry supplies one-half of the world’s fish and shellfish needs. Aquaculture is the fastest growing segment in the food production system and has been for the past...

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How to Find a Bargain Stock

July 15, 2010
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How to Find a Bargain Stock

Everybody loves a bargain, but some bargains seem too good to be true.  How can we figure out which bargains are for real, and which ones are not? I rely on time-tested analysis to improve my odds: Analysis that relies more on a company’s history, than on unreliable predictions of future operation. I also look at the background and success of the person who devised the analysis. There is no better analyst to turn to than Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing and the creator of the stock analyst profession. Mr. Graham created several investing methodologies, which are...

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