Back on October 26th I suggested e-commerce software provider Art Technology Group (Nasdaq: ARTG) was an attractive buy at the then-current price of $4.39. [Click here to read the article] A few days later, the company was acquired by Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) at a price just under $6.00 — a… Read More

Gold and gold stocks have been the rage lately, as the price of gold reaches new highs. However, not all gold stocks are the same. Some have vast reserves of proven gold in the ground. Others have lower productions costs that give them an edge. Using three of the best… Read More

Short sellers must always stay on their toes. Any time the market is in rally mode — as it has been the last few months — they need to unwind their short bets, lest the rising market inflict untold pain. They tend to typically pile back into these closed short… Read More

There are so many reasons to dislike housing stocks. Foreclosures continue at an alarming rate, and with a rising tide of empty existing homes, who needs to buy a newly-built home? Yet while the gloomy headlines rule the day, the Philadelphia Housing Sector Index (HGX), which was stuck in… Read More

For those that don’t know, in addition to being the Chief Strategist behind StreetAuthority’s Stock of the Month newsletter, I’m also an avid poker player. I first picked up poker about a decade ago, well before it was all over television. But I wasn’t after the big… Read More

The super-rich aren’t like you and me. They can’t invest a little here and a little there and hope to make serious returns. They have to bet big on particular investments to really get a payoff. And with such big bets to make, you can be sure they do lots… Read More

In a reprise of a role from the 1980s, fictional Wall Street titan Gordon Gekko recently returned to the big screen in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. In the sequel to the original Wall Street, Gekko states that in investing, “It’s not about the money — it’s about the game.”… Read More

More than 200 stocks hit new 52-week highs on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday as the market powers ever higher. Toiling on the sidelines of this surge is former highflyer Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), which has the dubious distinction of being one of just a handful of names hitting 52-week lows these days. The question for investors: is the Queen of domestic design becoming irrelevant, or simply the victim of bad-timing? To be sure, it’s no fun being a magazine publisher these days. High-profile titles such as Newsweek are seemingly… Read More

More than 200 stocks hit new 52-week highs on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday as the market powers ever higher. Toiling on the sidelines of this surge is former highflyer Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), which has the dubious distinction of being one of just a handful of names hitting 52-week lows these days. The question for investors: is the Queen of domestic design becoming irrelevant, or simply the victim of bad-timing? To be sure, it’s no fun being a magazine publisher these days. High-profile titles such as Newsweek are seemingly near death, while other esteemed titles such as The Atlantic are forced to cut the number of issues they publish each year. Yet Martha Stewart Living’s publishing business looks quite healthy — at least in terms of circulation. The company’s flagship Martha Stewart Living actually recently increased the amount of circulating copies its guarantees to advertisers to 2.025 million, while lesser titles such as Everyday Food (1 million) and Whole Living (650,000) are also posting rate base increases. Trouble is, the weak economy has been pressuring ad rates. So these titles… Read More

As cliche as the term “stocks on sale” has become, there’s still something exciting about grabbing a great stock for less than five bucks a share. They just seem well equipped to dole out bigger rewards — in terms of percentage gains — than their higher-priced counterparts. Read More

I spend the vast majority of my time hunting down securities I believe are significantly undervalued and investigating those in great detail I believe have considerable upside potential. However, it’s also a valuable exercise to spend some time on the opposite end of the spectrum and analyze what I find… Read More