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Posted
Sep 15 2009, 01:45 PM
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CAPS Editor
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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
Sep 04 2009, 02:24 PM
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John Reese
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
The investing world is often littered with new theories and new ideas about how best to make money. But over the years, I've found that the best way to produce solid, market-beating returns is to take advantage of the wisdom history's best investors have been kind enough to share. That's why I created my Guru Strategy computer models, and that's why each week I recap what some of the gurus I follow are saying about the market and economy.
This week the theme seemed to be that, while the economic future remains cloudy, it's a good environment for stock-pickers. That's what Mario Gabelli, a Benjamin Graham disciple with an excellent long-term track record, told Bloomberg. While ETFs or sector plays have become all the rage lately, Gabelli says he's focusing on individual stocks that have strong potential for the next three or four years. He gave his thoughts on potential plays in the financial, airline, newspaper, and telecom industries, and also said the food industry is ripe for a round of mergers.
Another top manager, Donald Yacktman, whose two funds are up about 9% per year over the past decade while the S&P 500 has been in the red, says he's focusing on high-quality stocks. Lower-quality firms have made big gains in the rebound, but the best buys now are plays like Coca-Cola (KO), Pepsi (PEP), and Procter & Gamble (PG), Yacktman, a bottom-up stock-picker, told Bloomberg. He says financials are still dangerous, but that he's found a great play in AmeriCredit (ACF).
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Posted
Jun 22 2009, 04:04 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Who needs Advil when it is more expensive than aspirin and probably does no better at reducing pain? Who needs Starbucks (SBUX) when Maxwell House has just as much caffeine?
A new survey of purchasing data from 23,000 stores conducted by the Pointer Media Network shows that many shoppers are simply walking away from their favorite brands because they can’t afford them due to high prices during a recession.
According to Reuters, from 2007 to 2008, of shoppers surveyed “33 percent completely defected to another brand.”
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Posted
Jun 12 2009, 11:22 AM
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Catherine Holahan
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 Can you trademark a chocolate bunny? Swiss chocolate maker Lindt &
Sprüngli thinks so. The confectioner is a bit bitter about rival chocolatiers producing their own chocolate bunnies wrapped in foil. It says that it owns the rights to cocoa bunnies covered in gold foil and is pursuing its case in Europe's highest courts.
Recently, chocolate bunnies have become something of a
legal hot potato. Lindt's case revolves around whether companies can trademark a
three-dimensional shape and not just a logo. As a result, a ruling in Lindt's
favor could have legal ramifications for all manner of businesses. Consumer
products companies could trademark the shape of, say, plug-in air-fresheners
made to look like flowers. Campbell's
could perhaps trademark pasta in the shape of Latin letters. Apple
could trademark the shape of its iPod. Wait, Jobs and
Co. already did that.
Today, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg decided
it didn't want to determine the fate of the popular Easter treat and sent the
case back to the Austrian Supreme Court, according to a
Wall Street Journal article.
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Posted
May 05 2009, 10:21 AM
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James Dlugosch
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Obama the Destroyer strikes again.
First he goes after excessive bonuses from greedy Wall Street executives. Then he targets corporate jets flown by auto executives.
Yesterday, our fearless leader went after the scheming accountants and their greedy corporate clients and their attempts to avoid taxation. Say good-bye to tax havens and winter trips to the Cayman Islands.
Will there be another tea party?
I doubt it; CEOs take to the golf courses, not to the streets. But plenty of feathers are already being ruffled by news of the administration taking dead aim at offshore tax havens. Is nothing sacred anymore?
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Posted
Feb 28 2008, 03:01 PM
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Anthony Mirhaydari
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Recessionary fears have pummeled stocks across the retail sector -- especially those catering to well-heeled females. The fear is that women, who are more likely then men to shop at trendy boutiques, will be forced scale back discretionary purchases of overpriced clothing during economic downtimes. So when the still-unfolding credit debacle first surfaced late last summer, the likes of Liz Claiborne, Talbots, and Ann Taylor nosedived.
All the panic and fear has created a beautiful opportunity to bottom-feed on Limited Brands, one of the world’s largest makers of women’s lingerie, fragrances, and beauty products under the Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works labels. To fully understand why Limited is a great buy, you first need to appreciate the motives behind the purchase of a $50 bra or a $20 pair of underwear.
Nancy Etcoff, the psychologist and author of "Survival of the Prettiest," probably says it best when she argues that "good looks are a woman's most fungible asset, exchangeable for social position, money, even love. But, dependent on a body that ages, it is an asset that a woman uses or loses."
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