The Checkup
Last August, Jay Feeney, lead manager of Robeco Boston Partners Long/Short Research (BPRRX), recommended two undervalued stocks with the potential to outperform the broad market. Here is how his recommendations fared:
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) has over $2 trillion in assets and is the largest US bank by capitalization at $128.9 billion. In April, the company reported that revenue grew 6 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2012. However, JPMorgan’s net income fell 3.5 percent to $5.4 billion.
In May, JPMorgan announced it had lost $2 billion in a derivatives bet by a trader that Wall Street insiders had colorfully dubbed the “London Whale.” Since then, the firm’s losses from the purported hedge have expanded to an estimated $9 billion, as the trade is slowly unwound.
Shares of JPMorgan Chase have dropped 13.6 percent since last year.
Enterprise network storage specialist EMC Corp (NYSE: EMC) is at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution.
In 2011, the firm’s revenue surpassed $20 billion, and profits grew 24 percent from the prior year to $3.3 billion. So far this year, the company has continued to generate double-digit sales growth. In the first quarter of 2012, revenue grew 11 percent to $5 billion from a year ago, while earnings jumped 17 percent to $817.9 million.
EMC has also expanded its market share at the expense of chief competitor NetApp (NSDQ: NTAP), which is expected to produce flat numbers this year.
Shares of EMC are down 8.6 percent since recommendation.
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