Fortune Finance reported Friday that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was about to get serious about the measures it's taking to revamp unpaid loans with its mortgage modification program and foreclosure activities. In order to do so, BAC has formed a new department, called the …
401 Advisor: Seeking stable value with a high yield (VZ, AALSK, WIN, TMRK)
*See important disclosures. 401 Advisor's Covestor model Dividend and Income Plus was designed to provide a stable value with a high target yield of 8 percent. 401 Advisors makes sure to help the model evolve by updating its holdings when necessary. In their January 2011 …
What Covestor Managers are Buying: SINA (SINA, BIDU)
Model manager Yinglan Tan looks for venture-backed equities that have the possibility of long-term growth and predictable earnings for his Venture Capital - Aggressive model. This week he added SINA (NASDAQ: SINA), which has a service called Weibo that has been called the Chinese Twitter, …
This value-oriented Covestor model has American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings as its top holding (AXL)
*See important disclosures. Hengfu Hsu, founder of Analytic Investment, has multiple models on Covestor. One of its newest is the Deep Value model. In this model, the goal is to buy stocks priced at a deep value with low P/E ratios and high dividends. The …
What Covestor Managers are Buying: Amazon (AMZN, WMT, SHLD, NFLX, AAPL, BKS, BGP)
*See important disclosures. Robert Freedland looks for companies with strong balance sheets, consistent growth and hidden values in his Covestor Buy and Hold Value model. This week, he bought shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) for the model. AMZN has a PE ratio of 70.9 (on …
CVS falls despite future Medicare Part D advantage (CVS, RAD, WAG)
Shares of CVS Caremark Corp (NYSE: CVS) fell 4.99 percent today, from $34.65 to $32.92, after it released its fourth quarter 2010 financial results. The company beat analysts estimates but its EPS and revenues fell from the prior year. This comes just a few weeks …
In corporate marketing, sometimes it's better to think inside the box (PG, ALL, GPS)
With the barrage of information and advertisements hitting consumers through social media, television and radio, it can be difficult for a company to get consumers' attention. This causes many companies to think outside the box for their advertising and promotion ideas, and adopt creative viral …
What Covestor Managers are Buying: Material Sciences and Frontier Markets (MASC, OSN, FFD)
*See important disclosures. In January, Analytic Investment added additional shares of Material Sciences (NASDAQ: MASC) to its Focus Value model. MASC is now the top holding in the model. Just before Analytic Investment increased its holding in this position, MASC announced that its board of …
Archer Daniels Midland stock rises sharply on results, grain supply reduction (ADM, BG, CPO)
ADM had a 30 percent increase in their EPS, an unexpected rise partially due to reduced global grain supplies. Some are still concerned that ADM might miss
What Covestor managers are buying: Lincoln National (LNC, BAC, HIG)
*See important disclosures. In Mark Holder's Opportunistic Arbitrage model, the goal is to look for positions with long-term growth possibilities as well as opportunistic situations that leave companies trading below their intrinsic value. Last month, Holder added Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC) to the model. In …
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