February 09, 2009 –
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RELATED TICKERS: DIS
, CEC
, HAS
My wife and I are expecting baby number three this week. It is scary to think about the spending involved in a new child right now. Forget college, I have to put together a savings plan for pre-school. You want to know where to put your investment dollars right now. Try "kiddie" stocks, NSRGY.PK, JNJ, CEC, DIS and HAS. (for those without kids that would be Nestle, Johnson & Johnson, Chuck E. Cheeses, Disney and Hasbro)
December 29, 2008 –
150 Retailers on the Wall, 150 Retailers [more]
September 26, 2008 –
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RELATED TICKERS: ETFC
Everyone knows that cash is king. Either you have it, you can raise it or you don't survive. It doesn't take a financial genious to look at what has happened this year to easily find a few companies that will struggle to survive. For banks all yo uneed to do is look to the bad assets vs liquid capital available. If there are more bad than good then there is a good chance that the bank is in trouble. For details on how to do this google "Texas-Ratio" and you will find an easy to use technique. It is not to say tha this is 100% the way to do your research but it is highly correlative to the recent failures. We can also expand this knowledge to many other companies. Just look at the recent trend of capital and retained earnings. If the company is steadily shrinking then make sure to pay close attention to the footnotes related to the companies long and short-term debts. If there is too much debt and earnings are going the wrong way then you have just found yourself another candidate for failure. It's too bad the SEC won't let us profit off of poorly run management in the financial sector but that doesn't mean you can't use basic research techniques to find good and bad companies elsewhere. [more]
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