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Posted
May 22 2008, 10:26 AM
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Matt Koppenheffer
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Earth to Angelo: learn to use your email!
Maybe the fact that Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo hit "reply" rather than "forward" when typing his "disgusting" heard-round-the-world email isn't all that outlandish. After all, if you google "email blunder" you get well over a million hits -- most of them telling embarrassing stories of how a mistyped or misaddressed email put the sender in a precarious position.
But of course this isn't any Tom, Dick, or Harry who has sent an email to his boss accidentally disclosing that he's still drunk from the night before. This is the chief executive of a multi-billion-dollar company that is embroiled in controversy, about to go to trial, and trying to make sure a proposed takeover doesn't fall apart.
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Posted
Dec 27 2007, 02:37 PM
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Matt Koppenheffer
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Was bringing Dell back to Dell the right answer after all?
It's been a rough few years for Dell, as competitors like HP and Apple have been chomping away at its market position and its stock is 40% off the highs it hit back late 2004. It got bad enough that early this year Michael Dell stepped back in as CEO after stepping down in 2004.
Based on the stock price at least, it'd be hard to call 2007 an extraordinary success as the stock is roughly flat for the year. Dell (Michael that is) has been active, though, and is bringing some interesting changes to the company. In the Spring the company announced that it would start selling computers at Wal-Mart, and since then it has announced that it will be entering other retailers, including Best Buy
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Posted
Oct 24 2007, 03:13 PM
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Matt Koppenheffer
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Stock ratings on CAPS favor those companies that CAPS players are unanimously bullish on. This is why a stock like Ford, which has a bull/bear split of 56% / 44%, ends up with a lowly one star rating.
One star or not, though, there are still 1,755 players on CAPS that are bullish on Ford. Why you ask? Good question. The prevailing wisdom on the bullish side seems to be that Ford:
1) Is too big / established / important to go bankrupt.
2) Its new cars are going to help it turn the corner.
3) The stock is cheap at the current price.
Now I'm all about a cheap stock, but I definitely fall on same side of the line as CAPS player PSRUDY, who quipped "Henry would not be pleased with what you've done!"
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Posted
Sep 15 2009, 01:45 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Morgan Housel.
"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."
Hard to argue with that seed of wisdom from Warren Buffett, isn't it?
Despite the recent rally, there's still plenty of fear out there. The beauty of it is how much opportunity it's creating for investors patient and diligent enough to reach for the babies thrown out with the bath water.
For help in finding such companies, I turned to the MSN CAPS investment community and the CAPS stock screener tool. I was after a list of companies with the following characteristics:
- A five-star rating on CAPS, signifying that it's considered best-of-breed by the community.
- Estimates of profitability in the year ahead.
- Terrible performance over the past 52 weeks.
Yes, most stocks satisfy this last condition, but what I'm really looking for are stocks with the bullish consensus implied by the stocks' five-star ratings and still cheap despite the market's run-up over the past six months. Among the stocks that came through the screen are seven with values so paltry they demand a closer look. None are formal recommendations, just good starting points for you to dig deeper.
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Posted
Nov 21 2007, 03:33 PM
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Matt Koppenheffer
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
With Valero up almost 26% over the past 12 months versus the paltry sub-3% return of the S&P 500, it seems as good a time as any to question whether the stock can continue to deliver market-beating returns.
Though refiners like Valero don't directly profit from higher oil prices, rising prices do tend to boost the crack spread that refiners do profit from. And though oil fell back from the highs that it touched earlier in the day, it is still breathing down the neck of $100 per barrel.
On The Motley Fool's CAPS service, Valero has managed to score a perfect five-star rating from an aggregate 2,740 investor ratings (2,640 bulls versus just 100 bears). Though other refiners such as Delek and Alon share similarly high ratings, Valero blows both out of the water in terms of the total number of players bullish on the stock.
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Posted
Oct 14 2009, 05:36 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Matt Koppenheffer.
I am always looking for a good deal, whether that means buying an extra box of Golden Grahams when they're on sale or pouncing on undervalued stocks.
The idea that anybody would sell a stock for less than it's worth seems silly, but legendary value investor Ben Graham (no relation to the cereal) tells us, by way of allegory, how we can spot these situations.
In "The Intelligent Investor," Graham introduces readers to a wacky chap named Mr. Market. Mr. Market's game is to pay house calls, offering to sell you interests in businesses he owns or buy interests in businesses you own.
Sometimes Mr. Market is excited when he arrives, offering premium prices for your holdings; other times, he's inconsolably depressed about the future, selling what he's got for pennies on the dollar.
Bing: Get more on value investing
To find stocks that make Mr. Market despondent, I've turned to the MSN CAPS investor community. I'm looking for companies that had five-star ratings (the highest) from the community within the past month and that could be considered undervalued despite the rally that pushed the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) to its 2009 high today.
Here are our stocks, all but one of which have a five-star CAPS rating:
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Posted
Oct 31 2007, 04:51 PM
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Matt Koppenheffer
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
KB Home is down 51% from its high for the year. And it's not alone.
Beazer Homes: down 77%
Levitt Corp: down 88%
TOUSA: off 94%
I could continue.
Are there any homebuilders out there that are still worth the paper that their stock certificates are printed on? On The Motley Fool's CAPS service, blogger floridabuilder -- an insider in the industry -- suggests that there are a handful that will be winners if we avoid a full-on recession.
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Posted
Sep 09 2009, 06:04 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This post comes from Rich Duprey at partner site The Motley Fool.
Some stocks are one-hit wonders, making a big splash when they first appear before quickly fading into obscurity. But for other stocks, that initial run-up is merely a preview of bigger and better gains to come.
Today, we've compiled a list of 10 stocks that spiked in August. We then paired the names with the ratings for each company issued by the MSN CAPS community. The higher each stock's rating, the greater CAPS members' faith in the company's ability to continue beating the market.
We're looking for stocks that might stay hot as the summer winds downs.
Bing: What does MSN CAPS do?
Here's our list:
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Posted
Jun 05 2008, 02:50 PM
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Matt Koppenheffer
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Are we going to get an encore showing of "The Amazing Disappearing Investment Bank?" Now that Bear Stearns is no more, the banking bears and short sellers have turned their attention to fellow investment bank Lehman Brothers.
With the massive leverage ratios that the investment banks have propped themselves on, creditor confidence has become a prized asset -- maybe the prized asset. There was plenty that was going haywire over at Bear, but it ended up being a complete and rapid drying up
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Posted
Aug 19 2009, 02:47 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This post comes from Rich Duprey at partner site The Motley Fool.
Some companies are obviously great investments -- in hindsight. Yet for every stock screaming "Buy me!" others simply give us a nudge and a nod.
How can we isolate tomorrow's great investments from the thousands of pretenders? At MSN CAPS, these opportunities are frequently found among four-star stocks.
Top-rated five-star stocks obviously have bullish consensus, but we've found that stocks moving up from three stars to four are likely being driven by "smart money." By getting in early, investors may be able to eke out a few extra percentage points of gain from these equities.
That's why it's worthwhile to sift through the CAPS database to find four-star companies that could be on the cusp of achieving a bullish consensus among investors.
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