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.
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Analyst Articles
The investing herd can be quite curious. Investors tend to slowly react to major trends, and then get in a rush to embrace that trend because of timeliness. I’ve been thinking about the herd, and why it simply fails to respond to all… Read More
There is a troubling trend among U.S. investors, and it’s causing them to miss out on millions of dollars of potential profits. In the past 50 years, the average holding period for stocks has dwindled from eight years to just eight months. There’s no… Read More
Everyone loves a good turnaround story. Nowhere is this truer than in the stock market. When a company reverses its fortunes and rises from the ashes, earnings and profitability increase,… Read More
It’s easy to fall in love with a stock that sports a generous dividend yield, but savvy investors know that steady dividend growth is even more enticing than yield. Dividend growth… Read More
Investors have had to rethink everything they know about airline stocks during the past few years. The considerable pain caused by the economic downturn of 2008 forced the airlines to make drastic moves. They aggressively cut labor costs, found new ways to charge for items that were previously free (such… Read More
Forbes is pushing health care stocks while CNBC’s Cramer leans on his, “Buy, buy, buy” button, assuming a Republican win in November. Other pundits are calling their stock picks for an Obama win, and USA Today has even called in a team of astrologists to predict the outcome. Am I… Read More
It used to be a millionaire would have no trouble retiring. Just a few years ago, a 10-year Treasury bond paid 5%. This meant you could put a million bucks into Treasuries and earn $50,000 a year,… Read More
A pretty remarkable shift in sentiment happened in the stock market last month and few may have noticed. The short positions among the most heavily shorted stocks on the stock market shrank by a major amount. Consider the drop in these short interest… Read More
Considering real estate was at the epicenter of the 2008 financial crisis and continues to hold back the economy, it’s ironic the sector has been one of the best investments of the past few years. I’m referring specifically to the commercial real estate market, which delivered overall… Read More
For the past couple of weeks, I have been closely following the record heat and drought weather conditions across the United States and their possible implications for investors. A June 29 article of mine describes the upside potential in two stocks that will benefit from the heat and drought, Potash… Read More
