$105.32 0.28 (+0.27%)
11/6/2009 4:00 PM

iShares IBoxx $ InvesTop Invest Grad Cor (LQD)

CAPS Rating: 2 out of 5

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Current Price $105.32 Mkt Cap $3.01B
Open $105.03 P/E Ratio 20.40
Prev. Close $105.04 Div. (Yield) 5.71 (5.40%)
Daily Range $104.65 - $105.32 Volume 693,086
52-Wk Range $87.00 - $107.19 Avg. Daily Vol. 1,120,000

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wcmurphy (< 20)
Submitted March 06, 2009

Stock are going nowhere except maybe down, but high quality corporate bonds should offer a good return

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OtherOracleOfOMA (99.60)
Submitted January 14, 2009

Bonds no good all bad.

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Member Avatar JackCaps (< 20) Submitted: 10/3/2009 2:13:23 PM : Outperform Start Price: $103.74 LQD Score: +1.33

LQD provides investment grade income at a nice rate with reasonable volatility.

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Member Avatar jaygatsby49 (99.20) Submitted: 9/15/2009 2:38:16 PM : Outperform Start Price: $104.69 LQD Score: -1.32

I am predicting bond will outperfrom equities for the next few years. My reasons are as follows:

The S&P is way overpriced, the P/E ratio is above the historic median.

David Rosenberg points out the S&P has priced in 4% GDP growth for 2010 while the bond market has priced in 2%.

More than 100% of the economic growth we have seen in 2009 has been the result of government spending. This cannot continue forever. If you take away government spending in 2009 real GDP would be down around 6%

While firms have been "beating" earnings estimates those estimated have been DRASTICALLY cut down over the past year.

Lastly if you look at the S&P 500 earnings have been made by cutting costs, as revenue is down. You can only cut costs (lay off people) for so long, eventually you have to sell more.

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Member Avatar shreebs (22.71) Submitted: 9/2/2009 4:35:04 AM : Underperform Start Price: $103.74 LQD Score: +6.27

Bonds have gone a little bit too far with spreads back to pre crisis days,which while reasonable is not discounting enough defaults to cover any room for error and very little further upside for sure..

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VCBaller (88.33) Score: +35.24

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Pick 		Member Name Member
Rating 		Start
Date 		Call Time
Frame 		Start
Price 		Stock
Gain 		S&P
Gain 		Score Commentary
VCBaller 88.33 7/24/2007 Outperform NS $96.74 +8.87% -26.36% +35.24
orlbrit 87.23 5/23/2007 Outperform NS $98.79 +6.61% -25.80% +32.41
FollowTheLoser 73.26 9/6/2007 Outperform NS $97.60 +7.92% -23.78% +31.69
NYCGarbageman 51.25 4/23/2007 Outperform NS $99.83 +5.50% -23.67% +29.17
grfrancis 69.75 8/16/2007 Outperform NS $96.64 +8.99% -19.33% +28.31
CapsContrarian < 20 6/18/2008 Outperform NS $95.18 +10.65% -17.09% +27.74
mutley420 < 20 3/30/2007 Outperform NS $100.02 +5.29% -20.38% +25.67
RICHIEROLY 64.63 1/29/2008 Outperform 3Y $99.94 +5.38% -17.97% +23.35
DIJAntiETF 38.08 10/7/2008 Outperform NS $84.19 +25.10% +2.87% +22.22
OtherOracleOfOMA 99.60 1/14/2009 Underperform NS $95.96 +9.76% +29.47% +19.72 1 Comment
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