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 stock market is surely unpredictable. My prediction that LED lighting manufacturer Cree Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), one of the stocks in my $100,000 real-money portfolio, would meet or exceed fiscal second-quarter estimates, turned out to be off the mark. The company trailed both top and bottom line forecasts,… Read More
Just a few weeks ago, we released our newest piece of research — “The Top 5 Income Stocks for 2012.” These five high-yield stocks represent our favorite income ideas for the new year, and they pay dividend yields of 7.0%… 8.8%…… Read More
I’m always happy to discover a high-quality stock sporting a rich dividend. But what really makes my day is finding both of these features in a company that also produces double-digit income growth. It’s this rare combination that makes Tesoro… Read More
Regular readers of my articles know that I spend most of my time in search of undervalued mid-sized and large companies. There are so many bargains in the S&P 500 alone, that it simply hasn’t paid to spend too much time on small — and risky — stocks in recent… Read More
Amy answers subscribers' questions about this widely held blue chip dividend payer. Read More
The stock market has been insane the past few years, so many financial advisors are understandably steering clients toward safer blue-chip stocks. It’s a sound strategy. Because of their dividends, blue chips are often a lot less volatile than the overall market and… Read More
Judging by the first few weeks of trading in 2012, investors may assume that recent dominant themes remain in force. If so, then you’d simply hold to what you’ve been holding and avoid what you’ve been avoiding. But in many respects, 2012 is likely to play out quite differently than… Read More
Back in November, I told readers of my Scarcity & Real Wealth newsletter about the aberrant relationship between gold and platinum prices. I thought the opportunity was so compelling that more people needed to know about it. So on Jan. 9, I shared it with StreetAuthority.com readers. To recap…… Read More
The Department of Energy estimates that the United States holds as much as 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which is enough to meet domestic energy demand for at least a century. Great advances in extraction techniques, including fracturing, or “fracking” of shale rock formations by drilling sideways, have… Read More
Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn is no fool. When he makes his multimillion dollar investments in companies, he’s done a lot of homework and has a high degree of confidence that he stands to profit. During the summer of 2011,… Read More
