What do Larry Ellison, Sean Combs, Ted Turner, Bono and Saudi Prince Alwaleed have in common with thousands of other very wealthy people? It certainly isn’t their style of dress, philosophy or even how they made their money.  In fact, these folks couldn’t be more different in terms of just… Read More

For income investors, monthly dividend payers are the gold standard. We depend on regular distributions to help with bills… and having to wait three months for our next payment isn’t always practical.   Luckily, there… Read More

Has Bruce Berkowitz been exposed to kryptonite? His money-management firm, Fairholme Capital, is on a losing streak few could have anticipated. After all, this is a fund that handily outperformed the S&P 500 in 10 out of 11 years through 2010. That streak ended with a loud bang in 2011,… Read More

September 16, 1992, has gone down in history as the day George Soros broke the Bank of England. Britain’s effort to fight against the devaluation of the pound could not counteract the market forces that were… Read More

On Wednesday, June 6, at precisely 10:00 a.m. EDT, a major moment for the stock market may have been marked. That’s when shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) fell to $25.52 before turning up. For folks that bought into… Read More

When it comes to investing, I like playing in the gutter. My goal is to locate stocks that have fallen into disregard and are downright hated by most investors, yet retain enough value to create strong odds of a rebound.  This is value investing at its very core — low… Read More

I’d like to apologize right up front. This is an article that is heavy on numbers, focused on some mundane issues, and is really an academic exercise in how to analyze a turnaround. The good news: the company I am focusing on may be… Read More

To hear from Wall Street traders, the “machines are taking over the world.” These stock jockeys lament that computer-driven trading programs now account for 60%, 70% or even 80% of daily trading volume on the major markets,… Read More

When it comes to fast-food stocks, one is head-and-shoulders above the rest. Certainly, nobody can touch it in terms of revenue, which, at $27.4 billion a year, is more than twice that of the closest competitor. The company’s net profit margin of 20% is… Read More