David Sterman has worked as an investment analyst for nearly two decades. He started his Wall Street career in equity research at Smith Barney, culminating in a position as Senior Analyst covering European banks. While at Smith Barney, he learned of all the tricks used by Wall Street to steer the best advice to their top clients and their own trading desk. David has also served as Managing Editor at TheStreet.com and Director of Research at Individual Investor. In addition, David worked as Director of Research for Jesup & Lamont Securities. David has made numerous media appearances over the years, primarily on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and has a master's degree in management from Georgia Tech. David Stermanon
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5 Reasons Cisco is My Top Tech Pick for 2013
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Dec. 12, 2012. In the past four to five years, investors have been more squarely focused on the consumer end of the tech landscape, bidding up shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and others. But on the business end of high-tech, the big winners haven’t been such industry leaders. Instead, most gains have come from small, but growing software and data-storage providers. But this theme may be upended in 2013, as one of the most dominant… Read More
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Dec. 12, 2012. In the past four to five years, investors have been more squarely focused on the consumer end of the tech landscape, bidding up shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and others. But on the business end of high-tech, the big winners haven’t been such industry leaders. Instead, most gains have come from small, but growing software and data-storage providers. But this theme may be upended in 2013, as one of the most dominant companies in the enterprise space regains its mojo. I’m talking about Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), which has had little to show investors during the past five years. Blocking and tackling Although the stock chart may give the impression of a company slowly losing relevance, nothing could be further from the truth. Cisco’s operational performance has been quite solid in recent years, especially when compared to stumbling giants such as Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), Computer Sciences (NYSE: CSC), and especially when compared to more direct networking competitors such as Juniper Networks (Nasdaq: JNPR). Consider… Read More
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Forget Ford and GM, Buy These 6 Stocks Instead
Americans still have a healthy obsession with cars. That was on display last week, with February car sales beating the most optimistic projections for the second month in a row, while rising to their best level in more than four years. According to research firm Autodata,… Read More
A Rare Chance to Buy an Industry Dominator at a Discount
Who gets your vote for most momentous fallen angel? No, not the fallen angel whose image scared the heck out of many of us in Sunday school. I’m referring to so-called “fallen angel” stocks… Read More
In just a moment, I am going to show you one of the most important charts I’ve ever made. It’s also one of the most basic charts I’ve ever made. But the data that goes into it shows that this investing strategy is the… Read More
When looking at the actions of Sandridge Energy’s (NYSE: SD) CEO Tom Ward, the phrase “heads I win, tails you lose,” comes to mind. He’s overseen an 80% plunge in his company’s stock since Sandridge’s 2007… Read More
If you follow the insights of uber investor Warren Buffett or you’re a reader of High-Yield Investing, then you already know that real estate is one of the hottest… Read More
Traders use momentum indicators like moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) to confirm price trends. If both prices and momentum are rising, then they expect momentum to keep pushing prices higher. When momentum slows, they watch for a reversal in… Read More
Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction. Labeled “The Greatest Moment in Financial History” by financial news website Business Insider and reminiscent of the dragout, verbal battles made popular on TV shows like Jerry Springer, billionaire and activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman verbally… Read More