Value Investing

“Gamblers always die broke, young man,” whispered the grizzled, old casino lizard at the Blackjack table as I gathered my meager winnings. It wasn’t very nice to hear: A recent college graduate, I had just earned a small sum during my first visit to a casino. But that advice ended… Read More

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March 12, 2013

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Dec. 12, 2012. In the past four to five years, investors have been more squarely focused on the consumer end of the tech landscape, bidding up shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Amazon.com (Nasdaq:… Read More

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Dec. 12, 2012. In the past four to five years, investors have been more squarely focused on the consumer end of the tech landscape, bidding up shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and others. But on the business end of high-tech, the big winners haven’t been such industry leaders. Instead, most gains have come from small, but growing software and data-storage providers. But this theme may be upended in 2013, as one of the most dominant… Read More

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Dec. 12, 2012. In the past four to five years, investors have been more squarely focused on the consumer end of the tech landscape, bidding up shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and others. But on the business end of high-tech, the big winners haven’t been such industry leaders. Instead, most gains have come from small, but growing software and data-storage providers. But this theme may be upended in 2013, as one of the most dominant companies in the enterprise space regains its mojo. I’m talking about Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), which has had little to show investors during the past five years. Blocking and tackling Although the stock chart may give the impression of a company slowly losing relevance, nothing could be further from the truth. Cisco’s operational performance has been quite solid in recent years, especially when compared to stumbling giants such as Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), Computer Sciences (NYSE: CSC), and especially when compared to more direct networking competitors such as Juniper Networks (Nasdaq: JNPR). Consider… Read More