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Barron's Recap: Cat Fight Among The Telecoms
Sunday, November 9, 2014 - 7:47pm | 918Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the cat fight among the big telecoms, the Barron's health and wealth roundtable, as well as the prospects for J.C. Penney, Norfolk Southern, Leucadia National, OM Group and more. Cover Story "Telecom's Cat Fight" by Tiernan Ray. While T-...
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The Most Overvalued S&P 500 Stock Is...?
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 10:12am | 1247Read More...The winner, by more than a country mile, is... Amazon! (NASDAQ: AMZN). The online retailing colossus sports the highest price-to-earnings ratio among stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index: a whopping 462 times its trailing 12-month earnings. Amazon's P/E ratio, based on Wednesday's...
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Aircastle, Kinder Morgan And Others Insiders Have Been Buying
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 12:53pm | 835Read More...Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but conventional wisdom says that insiders really only buy shares of a company for one reason -- they believe the stock price will rise and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have...
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Barron's Recap: Should Pot Be Legal?
Sunday, June 2, 2013 - 7:03pm | 853Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the case for the legalization of marijuana, the hidden costs in tech and the prospects for Intel, Waste Management and recent spinoffs. Cover Story "Should Pot Be Legal?" by Thomas G. Donlan. According to the Pew Research Center, 52 percent of Americans now...
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Knight Capital and Other Top Performing Financial Stocks in November
Sunday, December 2, 2012 - 8:54pm | 651Read More...Here is a quick look at some of the top-performing financial sector stocks in the past month. These companies all have a market cap of more than $500 million and their share prices are more than 15 percent higher than 30 days ago. Flagstar Bancorp (NYSE: FBC) shares are up more than 220 percent...
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Seven Stocks Insiders Are Buying
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 11:39am | 811Read More...Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons. But there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...
