By all accounts, it was a productive holiday season for retailers across the country. Mastercard (NYSE: MA), which is uniquely qualified to monitor spending habits, estimates U.S. holiday spending rose 5.1% this year. That represents the sharpest annual increase in six years. —Recommended Link— Is the Next “Millionaire Maker” In YOUR Portfolio? We’ve uncovered one company that is rapidly changing the way we view medicine forever (and add a few extra zeroes to your bank account in the process). Details here. If prognostications from research firm eMarketer are accurate, brick-and-mortar stores rang up 4.4% more sales during the pivotal… Read More

By all accounts, it was a productive holiday season for retailers across the country. Mastercard (NYSE: MA), which is uniquely qualified to monitor spending habits, estimates U.S. holiday spending rose 5.1% this year. That represents the sharpest annual increase in six years. —Recommended Link— Is the Next “Millionaire Maker” In YOUR Portfolio? We’ve uncovered one company that is rapidly changing the way we view medicine forever (and add a few extra zeroes to your bank account in the process). Details here. If prognostications from research firm eMarketer are accurate, brick-and-mortar stores rang up 4.4% more sales during the pivotal holiday season than in 2017, while eCommerce sales jumped 16%. Combined, shoppers dropped more than $1 trillion for the first time ever. #-ad_banner-#Even when Halloween decorations were still on the shelf, there were already upbeat signs for retailers. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) reported strong third-quarter comparable sales, led by a powerful 44% increase in online revenues, encouraging management to lift its full-year financial targets. That jives with a report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showing that consumer spending rose nearly 4% in the third quarter and is now running at an annualized pace of $14.1 trillion. The personal consumption expenditures… Read More

When markets are rocking and rolling, pundits and soothsayers love to throw around the phrase, “priced for perfection”. This means that a company’s stock is priced correctly (usually too high) relative to its fundamental prospects. —Recommended Link— Boosting Your Retirement Income With ‘Executive Dividends’ Issued by some of the biggest corporations in America but unreported by the press, these “Executive Dividends” can be worth a fortune–if you know where to look… See how to cash in HERE, starting at $3,080 per month. In my experience, that mindset always ends poorly. Because, as we all know, trees don’t grow to… Read More

When markets are rocking and rolling, pundits and soothsayers love to throw around the phrase, “priced for perfection”. This means that a company’s stock is priced correctly (usually too high) relative to its fundamental prospects. —Recommended Link— Boosting Your Retirement Income With ‘Executive Dividends’ Issued by some of the biggest corporations in America but unreported by the press, these “Executive Dividends” can be worth a fortune–if you know where to look… See how to cash in HERE, starting at $3,080 per month. In my experience, that mindset always ends poorly. Because, as we all know, trees don’t grow to the sky. Thinking about that takes me back to my teenage years when I was obsessed with collecting vinyl records. Columbia/CBS (now Sony music) had a merchandising strategy known as “The Nice Price”. Titles by the label’s critically-acclaimed but lower selling artists were priced at an attractive discount. The label’s monster hitmakers were sold at full price. #-ad_banner-#This was OK by me. I didn’t want Loverboy or Journey (it was the ’80s). I’ll gladly take Elvis Costello and the Attractions and the Clash. Ironically, I was more than surprised decades later when I sold my vinyl library and netted enough… Read More

As of late December, earnings growth for 2018 was expected at 20.3%, the highest since 2010 and the highest revenue growth (expected 8.9%) since 2011. Profit margins surged last year with the S&P average of 12% reached in the third quarter the highest since Factset began tracking the data in 2008. —Recommended Link— Two Income Generating Stocks You NEED To See If you want to beat the market… double the returns of the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow… while collecting outsized dividends… we’ve found 10 stocks you need to see ASAP… But the stock market is forward looking and… Read More

As of late December, earnings growth for 2018 was expected at 20.3%, the highest since 2010 and the highest revenue growth (expected 8.9%) since 2011. Profit margins surged last year with the S&P average of 12% reached in the third quarter the highest since Factset began tracking the data in 2008. —Recommended Link— Two Income Generating Stocks You NEED To See If you want to beat the market… double the returns of the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow… while collecting outsized dividends… we’ve found 10 stocks you need to see ASAP… But the stock market is forward looking and investors don’t like what they see in 4Q and beyond. Trade wars, dollar headwinds, and a host of other geopolitical risks conspired together to send the market into bear territory in December. #-ad_banner-#Fourth quarter earnings reports are scheduled to ramp up starting the week of Jan. 14, and this might be the most important quarterly earnings in a decade. Management guidance on 2019 expectations could either calm worried investors or send the market back into a tailspin. Will last year’s selloff end up being a buying opportunity or just a warning to get out before the real pain? Bulls Stampede… Read More

Over at my premium newsletter, Game-Changing Stocks, we often concentrate mostly on younger companies — those whose profit-making days are just beginning. But as investors, we cannot ignore inexpensive stocks. —Recommended Link— Christmas Savings Event — 85% Savings On Fast-Track Millionaire Until midnight tonight, we’re offering a special savings event. Fast-Track Millionaire is opening up 50 seats at an incredible 85% discount. Join hundreds of other investors already using this simple yet powerful system to generate millions. This year give yourself the gift of financial peace of mind. Remember, only 50 readers will be able to claim this incredible… Read More

Over at my premium newsletter, Game-Changing Stocks, we often concentrate mostly on younger companies — those whose profit-making days are just beginning. But as investors, we cannot ignore inexpensive stocks. —Recommended Link— Christmas Savings Event — 85% Savings On Fast-Track Millionaire Until midnight tonight, we’re offering a special savings event. Fast-Track Millionaire is opening up 50 seats at an incredible 85% discount. Join hundreds of other investors already using this simple yet powerful system to generate millions. This year give yourself the gift of financial peace of mind. Remember, only 50 readers will be able to claim this incredible discount. Don’t miss out. Click here for the full details. This month, I’m on the hunt for attractively-valued companies. Some of these bargains might have become cheap because of the recent market volatility, and for some, the attractive valuation would only be an indicator of deteriorating business or other issues. But you won’t ever know which one it is unless you start looking.  Because of the many possible ways of defining “attractive” valuation, and because of the wide stock universe, I first needed to set a few restrictions. #-ad_banner-#First: only technology companies. That’s because these are the companies whose missions… Read More

Successful investing requires discipline, focus, and a healthy skepticism of quarterly and annual reports. But it’s this last idea that counts the most. For if investors fail in their duty to look beneath the surface of corporate reports, they have nobody to blame but themselves for making poor investment decisions. —Recommended Link— URGENT NEWS: Experts Warn Your Pension Is ‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’ Save your retirement from miserly interest rates and an overstretched stock market with our special “Executive Dividends” Program… Learn more inside. Take Target (NYSE: TGT), for example. Many investors looking for an entry point for… Read More

Successful investing requires discipline, focus, and a healthy skepticism of quarterly and annual reports. But it’s this last idea that counts the most. For if investors fail in their duty to look beneath the surface of corporate reports, they have nobody to blame but themselves for making poor investment decisions. —Recommended Link— URGENT NEWS: Experts Warn Your Pension Is ‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’ Save your retirement from miserly interest rates and an overstretched stock market with our special “Executive Dividends” Program… Learn more inside. Take Target (NYSE: TGT), for example. Many investors looking for an entry point for the stock may have found it after the stock declined behind the company’s quarterly earnings announcement last month. As you can see from the chart, the stock took a nosedive on the report — wiping out an entire year’s gains. Now, it’s true the stock has since regained about 2% since the decline, but clearly, investors didn’t like what management had to report. The Catalyst Ostensibly, the catalyst for Target’s stock decline was lighter than expected growth for its third quarter. Analysts’ expectations were for the company to report same stores sales growth of 5.5%. Instead, the… Read More

A robust bullish argument can be made for the stock market going into the first half of 2019.  Not only are there multiple fundamental and technical reasons, but the recent sell-off has resulted in many stocks and the overall market trading at relative deeply discounted levels. “Wait a minute!” I can hear many of you exclaiming. “Didn’t this guy just author a scathingly bearish article concerning the stock market’s future?” Yes, that is correct. Allow me to explain the seemingly contradictory stance. —Recommended Link— The SAFEST Way To Make Triple-Digit Gains In Blue-Chip Stocks… Forget options and penny stocks. Read More

A robust bullish argument can be made for the stock market going into the first half of 2019.  Not only are there multiple fundamental and technical reasons, but the recent sell-off has resulted in many stocks and the overall market trading at relative deeply discounted levels. “Wait a minute!” I can hear many of you exclaiming. “Didn’t this guy just author a scathingly bearish article concerning the stock market’s future?” Yes, that is correct. Allow me to explain the seemingly contradictory stance. —Recommended Link— The SAFEST Way To Make Triple-Digit Gains In Blue-Chip Stocks… Forget options and penny stocks. The market’s BIGGEST profits come from its safest investments – you just have to know where to look. Find out how to cash in HERE. The hallmark of all successful investors is the ability to view the market from both sides. Understanding both the bullish and bearish argument helps to keep your personal biases in check and thus see the market objectively.   #-ad_banner-#In practical terms, understanding the other side of the trade enables one to make better decisions, be more confident, and switch sides should the preponderance of evidence shift. Not to mention to understand your side better, regardless… Read More

Last month, I ran a stock screen to see which companies seemed attractive to insiders in the month of September, with the market trading near its all-time highs. One stock from that screen has already made it to our portfolio — after doing further research, I added it in the latest issue of Game-Changing Stocks. —Recommended Link— Are you missing the mark when it comes to beating the market? Our newly released report “Top 10 stocks for 2019” is your definitive guide to beating the market in the coming year. Complete with 10 heavily researched stock picks… from multiple… Read More

Last month, I ran a stock screen to see which companies seemed attractive to insiders in the month of September, with the market trading near its all-time highs. One stock from that screen has already made it to our portfolio — after doing further research, I added it in the latest issue of Game-Changing Stocks. —Recommended Link— Are you missing the mark when it comes to beating the market? Our newly released report “Top 10 stocks for 2019” is your definitive guide to beating the market in the coming year. Complete with 10 heavily researched stock picks… from multiple sectors, this report could bring in hefty double-digit gains in 2019. Click here to discover the picks now. But as you know, in barely a month the market changed. October brought us nearly a 7% decline in the S&P 500, a 5% decline in the Dow Industrials, and a better than 9% decline in the Nasdaq Composite Index. #-ad_banner-#Last month’s screen showed us which stocks were considered bargains by insiders in a strong, climbing market. The same or similar methods should work with a weaker market, too. Therefore, I recently set out to determine which stocks are considered bargains by… Read More

Remember the elation when the Dow Jones Industrial Average first hit 20,000? It happened in January 2017, not that long ago really. Since then, the venerable benchmark blew through 21,000, 22,000, 23,000, 24,000, and 25,000. After a powerful run like that, you can expect many stocks to be overvalued. —Recommended Link— The Only Pot Stock Worth Owning This summer, Canada will completely legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use — sparking an $8 BILLION industry.  Our experts have their sights on a company that’s been granted a virtual monopoly by the Canadian government – a moat that would make… Read More

Remember the elation when the Dow Jones Industrial Average first hit 20,000? It happened in January 2017, not that long ago really. Since then, the venerable benchmark blew through 21,000, 22,000, 23,000, 24,000, and 25,000. After a powerful run like that, you can expect many stocks to be overvalued. —Recommended Link— The Only Pot Stock Worth Owning This summer, Canada will completely legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use — sparking an $8 BILLION industry.  Our experts have their sights on a company that’s been granted a virtual monopoly by the Canadian government – a moat that would make Warren Buffett jealous. Get in early on this exceptional triple-digit opportunity before the law goes into effect. Click here to learn more. And indeed, many are. The S&P 500 is currently trading at 15.6 times forward earnings. While not excessive, that’s a sizeable premium to the historical 10-year average of 14.5. According to Morningstar, the average U.S. stock is priced at 102% of its fair value — and that’s after the October swoon. Nobody goes to a car dealership (or anywhere else) looking to pay 2% above sticker price. Not only do current valuations limit the upside, but as we’ve… Read More

Most investors instinctively know that value stocks are generally less expensive relative to earnings and book value. They are typically mature, well-established businesses that can afford to distribute more of their profits as dividends. Common examples include drug maker Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), and wireless provider AT&T (NYSE: T). —Recommended Link— Watch Your Safest Stocks SOAR 83% In 28 Days! What if you could know at a glance which blue chips will move most in the next 90 days? Would you be ready to cash in? Read more. By contrast, growth stocks… Read More

Most investors instinctively know that value stocks are generally less expensive relative to earnings and book value. They are typically mature, well-established businesses that can afford to distribute more of their profits as dividends. Common examples include drug maker Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), and wireless provider AT&T (NYSE: T). —Recommended Link— Watch Your Safest Stocks SOAR 83% In 28 Days! What if you could know at a glance which blue chips will move most in the next 90 days? Would you be ready to cash in? Read more. By contrast, growth stocks are companies that typically reinvest most of their earnings back into the business, so there is often little (if any) left on the table for dividends. Wherever the dividing line falls, investors have shown a clear preference for growth. But smart money naturally flows into pockets with optimal risk-adjusted potential rewards. So it’s rare for one group to stay at the top (or bottom) for more than a few years. The last time value stocks were this hated was the late 1990s. I remember it well, because I was a financial advisor trying to convince clients to allocate a portion… Read More

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. In the August update issue of High-Yield Investing, I pointed out that a narrow group of six tech stocks had accounted for virtually all (98%) of the market’s year-to-date gains. I’ve seen this behavior before, most recently in 2015, when the ten largest stocks in the S&P 500 represented more than 100% of the index’s return while the other 490 were net losers. —Recommended Link— There Are 6,568 Investors On “The List…” Will YOU Be Next? Introducing the exclusive system guarantees you get a paycheck delivered to your mailbox an average… Read More

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. In the August update issue of High-Yield Investing, I pointed out that a narrow group of six tech stocks had accounted for virtually all (98%) of the market’s year-to-date gains. I’ve seen this behavior before, most recently in 2015, when the ten largest stocks in the S&P 500 represented more than 100% of the index’s return while the other 490 were net losers. —Recommended Link— There Are 6,568 Investors On “The List…” Will YOU Be Next? Introducing the exclusive system guarantees you get a paycheck delivered to your mailbox an average of every single day. Sometimes more. Full story here… It’s easy to forget about dividends at times like this. Who can get excited about a 4% annual income stream when stocks like Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) soar 69% and 92%, respectively, in just eight months? But then the Dow surrendered nearly 1,400 points in two days in October, throwing some cold water on those red-hot gains. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) fell 5.5% in the market swoon. Amazon retreated 8.1%. And Netflix plunged 9.6%. #-ad_banner-#That doesn’t mean these highfliers are about to crash and burn. In fact, they’ve already… Read More