Every Monday, I like to look at all the stocks that saw fresh rounds of insider buying in the previous week. Such so-called insider buying can alert you to undervalued stocks before most investors take note. That’s because insiders (defined as any officer or director of a company, or any… Read More

One of the reasons Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was such a great stock for so many years was that it was essentially a monopoly. And even the most inexperienced investor should know that a monopoly is one of the best investments one can make. Read More

Editor’s Note: This story replaces an earlier article we published about the new banking reserve requirements. The original article was based on inaccurate information, which led to mistaken conclusions about the effect of the new regulations on earnings at the major banks. Wall Street cheered… Read More

Sometimes you don’t have to scour the market for a good trade. Occasionally, it can be found in some of the most visible stocks on the market. Clorox (NYSE: CLX), also known as “the bleach company,” looks to be one of those trades. As a top manufacturer… Read More

Make it seven straight. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has reeled off a winning streak that has seen its shares rise every day thus far in September. The surge comes amid a pair of analyst upgrades and a change in the corner office. The rebound is also due to the fact that this unloved stock had become so cheap that it had nowhere to go but up. As I wrote last month: “shares have fallen so far, and the company’s balance sheet is so strong,… Read More

Make it seven straight. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has reeled off a winning streak that has seen its shares rise every day thus far in September. The surge comes amid a pair of analyst upgrades and a change in the corner office. The rebound is also due to the fact that this unloved stock had become so cheap that it had nowhere to go but up. As I wrote last month: “shares have fallen so far, and the company’s balance sheet is so strong, that any further share price weakness looks unlikely.” [Read: 3 Stocks That Can Survive a Bear Market ]   But is this just a head fake, or are shares really on the road to recovery? Let’s take a look. It can’t get worse Both Morgan Stanley (U.K.) and Merrill Lynch boosted their rating on Nokia this week with a fairly unusual investment thesis: business is so lousy and expectations for a rebound are so low that any positive news would be a real surprise. Morgan Stanley notes that Nokia’s latest line of smart… Read More

With economic growth potentially stagnating, large firms are resorting to buying market share by acquiring rivals or know-how that will help them grow fast and stay one step ahead of the competition. M&A activity in the cash-rich technology industry has grown especially rampant… Read More

Soon after the tech bubble burst in 2000, investors searched for a new industry that could replicate some of the massive gains seen by investors just a few years earlier. The major investment magazines helped to boost the hype into the stratosphere. The hot technology? Nanotechnology. The… Read More

When a company is in a field with a lot of competition, the key to success is to differentiate the product. People without a lot of investment experience may not see differences between companies in a given sector, but differences exist if one looks closely enough. Although these differences may… Read More