By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Money Morning's best stocks to buy last week hinged on several key third-quarter earnings reports that had a big impact on markets.
Lifted by a barrage of encouraging data, the Dow and S&P 500 Index logged their third consecutive week of gains. The Dow jumped 1.11%, the S&P climbed 0.88%, and the Nasdaq added 0.74% for the week. All key sectors of the S&P ended in positive territory, boosted by telecoms and utilities.
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By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - • Print | Email
Small-cap stocks don't get much attention, but in 2013 they've certainly outshined their larger brethren.
While the financial media focused its daily attention on The Dow Jones Industrial Average, and to some extent the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, the best stocks to buy in terms of largest gains were in the Russell 2000 index.
The performance of small-cap stocks this year has been nothing less than remarkable.
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By Rebecca McClay, Money Morning - • Print | Email
In the middle of earnings season, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is claiming center stage as it readies to release its fourth-quarter results after the closing bell today (Monday).
Apple stock is up 0.5% at $528.34 today, having risen nearly 25% since its last earnings report, and today's results will include the initial impact of the company's latest iPhone and iPad release. AAPL is trading in a 52-week range of $3.85 to $614.00 and at about 13 times forward earnings.
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By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - • Print | Email
As the market prepares for the highly anticipated Twitter initial public offering (IPO), many investors will be tempted to jump in by the promise of big gains.
As we've warned you, investing in IPOs can be a very high-risk enterprise.
Winners can double or triple your money in very short order. But losers can cut your investment in half, or worse, just as quickly. Anyone who was around for the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s probably still has nightmares about the disastrous IPOs from that era.
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Last week's best stocks to buy started out D.C. driven. But when the drama on Capitol Hill subsided – for now, at least – focus turned to third-quarter earnings.
Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq: GOOG) better-than-expected quarterly results and upbeat outlook helped markets move sharply higher.
The S&P 500 Index and the Nasdaq logged their best weekly gains in three months, up 2.42% and 3.23% respectively. It was the Nasdaq's best close since September 2000.
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By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - • Print | Email
It's been an excellent year for the initial public offerings (IPO) market, with the number of companies going public more than 47% ahead of last year's pace.
The surge in IPO activity has already assured that 2013 will be the best year for new issues since 2007, just before the financial crisis pummeled the markets. That year had 213 IPOs; so far in 2013 there have been 168 IPOs, according to Renaissance Capital.
Here are the top 10 market-beaters of 2013...
By Garrett Baldwin, Executive Producer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Johnnie Walker scotch has one of the best advertisements I've seen in years.
Maybe you've caught it. It shows hundreds of Mexican men and women unshackling themselves from a massive boulder and climbing up a mountain unchained.
But there's a secret sauce that can make some 'sin stocks' even sexier...
By Michael A. Robinson, Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - • Print | Email
If you've been joining our twice-a-week get-togethers over at Strategic Tech Investor, you know that I'm a focused and disciplined investor – and that I ignore fads and refuse to chase "hot tips."
I'm also very price-sensitive: Although I'm hunting for stocks capable of delivering "moonshot" price gains, I won't pay a penny more than my charts or "black box" system tells me they're worth.
To enforce that discipline – and to help pass along to you all that I've learned through the years – I developed the set of five rules that we talk about here each week.
But one of my best tools is also one of my simplest. It's a roster of companies whose stocks I'd someday like to own, but that don't currently meet my stringent criteria.
I call it my "Watch List."
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Third-quarter earnings season has picked up, with a number of companies posting earnings today before the opening bell and two tech giants set to report after the close.
When Q3 earnings kicked off a week ago, analysts estimated third-quarter earnings would come in 6.5% higher than the same quarter a year ago.
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By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Last week's best stocks to buy and investments to make centered on Week 2 of the government shutdown, the Oct. 17 debt ceiling deadline, and third-quarter earnings.
The U.S. Federal Reserve was also in the spotlight, and Twitter took center stage once again as we learned of the micro-blogging site's target IPO date.
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