Warren Buffett called it “by far the best book on investing ever written.” Benjamin Graham penned his groundbreaking work, “The Intelligent Investor,” in 1949. Graham, the widely acclaimed “father of value investing,” put forth ideas about security analysis that for the first time spelled out the differences… Read More
Bob Bogda is the Managing Editor of StreetAuthority. Bob began his journalism career covering the commodity markets in Chicago for The Wall Street Journal, and spent most of his career thereafter as an editor for the former Knight-Ridder Financial News and its offspring, BridgeNews, where he played a lead role in developing a real-time equities news service. More recently, Bob served as Editor-in-Chief at Business Financial Publishing, where he specialized in developing newsletters and websites covering small-cap stocks.
Analyst Articles
This 8% Yielder Pays Monthly Dividends
July 23, 2012
Normally, investing in securities with above-average dividend yields can be risky… If a stock is offering a yield that sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Sometimes a high yield is the result of… Read More
During the 1970s, perhaps one of the strangest decades for American fads, CB radios and trucker-style entertainment blew up big. From cheesy novelty radio hits like “Convoy” to movies like “Smokey and the Bandit” and TV shows like “B.J. and the… Read More
Imagine a train speeding down a track, just a few miles away from a wall that it will crash into. You can’t see the wall yet, but you’re told it’s there anyway. As the train chugs down the track, the wall gets closer until it comes into view. Before long,… Read More
In this low-interest-rate environment, investors have turned to high-yielding blue chips for retirement income. This is the final part of a five-part series outlining what I believe are the top five dividend aristocrat stocks, the ones most suitable for… Read More
The first law of economics is the lone rule when it comes to commodity prices and commodity stocks. Surplus creates price drops and shortages spur price increases. For copper miners, one side of the… Read More
This “Behind-the-Scenes” Stock Could Nearly TRIPLE
July 20, 2012
Late last year, I wrote about one of the best “behind-the-scenes” stocks around — metal packaging maker Crown Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CCK). I love companies like Crown because they “fly under the radar,” quietly going about the business of providing vital products and services to big-name firms, while avoiding the… Read More
You don’t want to be loading up on retail stocks right now. Signs are emerging that the back-to-school shopping season will be lackluster, and the mid-term outlook for the end-of-year holiday shopping season is likely to be equally sobering. The dim outlook has already been discussed by an increasing number… Read More
During the past ten years, China has been one of the single biggest drivers of global economic growth. The country has steadily grown its gross domestic product (GDP) by more than 9% a year since 2002. As a result, the country has… Read More
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) — Just that name conjures up fear in the mind of its competitors. One of the world’s largest investment banks, it has the respect of just about everyone in the financial business. The company’s list of former employees and directors reads like an international “who’s who” of… Read More