MDT
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Triumphant Republicans have picked up seats in the House and seized control of the Senate for the first time in a decade. So what’s the takeaway for investors?
In the Performance with Protection model, manager Leif Eriksen takes a top-down, fundamental approach and favors large and mid cap companies. The goal of the model is to protect capital while outperforming the market. This month, Eriksen added Medtronic Inc (NYSE: MDT) to the model. MDT’s net revenues have been […]
Though it didn’t come as much of a surprise, Ireland’s request for financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union had a dramatic, if temporary, affect on U.S. markets on Monday. By midday the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost as many as 139 points while the S&P […]
New Covestor manager Jeff Phillips has an MPA from Harvard and an MBA from Kellogg. He has invested casually for over 20 years, but 5 years ago began investing seriously with a bottom-up, opportunistic approach to picking stocks mixed with the occasional short that takes advantage of the overall direction […]
In the Under-Capitalized model, manager John Mooney attempts to invest in equities within sectors that other investors aren’t interested in and are, therefore, under-capitalized and have lowering price to earnings ratios than they may have when their sectors were popular. Recently, Mooney added Cal Maine Foods Inc (NASDAQ: CALM). CALM […]
August 30, 2010: The S&P 500 index is down 4.94% for the month of August through August 26, 2010. I see a lot of good values among the top ten stocks in the S&P 500 by market cap. Exxon Mobil (XOM), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Proctor & Gamble (PG) are the top four and trade at comparatively low forward earnings estimates. Apple is the only one on the list with significant growth prospects over the next ten years or so and it trades less than twenty times trailing earnings as of August 30, 2010.