Over the past three months shares of Best Buy (BBY) gained 25% while the S&P 500 Index declined by nearly 2%. The biggest part of that jump occurred on Aug. 23, the day after Best Buy announced better-than-expected quarterly earnings. And over the past three days it has tacked on… Read More
Jim Pearce is the Chief Investment Strategist of Personal Finance, our flagship publication, and manages two trading services, PF Pro and Mayhem Trader. He began his career as a stockbroker in 1983 and over the years has managed client investment portfolios for major banks, brokerage firms, and investment advisors. Jim earned a BA from The College of William & Mary and the CFP designation from the College of Financial Planning.
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Michael Kors Holdings Limited is a designer, marketer, distributor and retailer of branded men’s and women's apparel and accessories bearing the Michael Kors trade name and logo. This buy alert is based on one of the simplest, yet most effective elements of our Rapid Profits Matrix. It ranks every stock that trades on a U.S. exchange according to... Read More
BANCO MACRO SA (Argentina) is a mid-cap value stock (market cap of $4.5 billion) that trades as an American Depository Receipt on the NYSE. This buy alert is based on one of our rarest, but most reliable signals which has produced an average return of... Read More
It’s not often that I pass up the chance to lock in an annualized gain in excess of 200%, but in this case I recommend you resist the temptation to cash in your Lam LEAPs, and continue to hold them so long as the company can continue to maintain its steady growth rate. Read More
As the Chief Investment Strategist for Personal Finance, I am often asked by our readers what stocks are the best to own when the market doesn’t know where’s going. And with the S&P 500 going almost nowhere since July, that’s a question I hear quite a bit.However, not all… Read More
LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. is a provider of medical devices for the treatment of peripheral vascular disease. This alert was triggered by LeMaitre’s rapid growth in sales, which has increased by an average of nearly 25% annually over the past five years. In addition... Read More
Usually when one company acquires another, the share price of the acquired business increases while the acquirer’s stock value decreases to reflect the premium paid by the buyer to get the deal done. However, every once in a while a transaction makes so much sense that both company’s see their share prices rise, such as the situation involving last week’s rumor that QUALCOMM (QCOM) has reached an agreement to acquire NXP Semiconductors (NXPI). Read More
Two weeks ago we criticized the appalling lack of accountability by senior management at Wells Fargo (“Wells Fargo Sins, But…”). Looks as though others agree with me. Just yesterday Wells CEO John Stumpf morphed from bank executive into a blue-suited, silver-haired piñata before the House Financial Services Committee. And not only has… Read More
Earlier this month Argos Therapeutics (ARGS) participated in the annual “NewsMakers in the Biotech Industry Conference” hosted by BioCentury, an industry media and publishing company. The purpose of the conference is to bring together corporate executives, journalists and investment banking firms to discuss current issues and new developments in… Read More
I’ll give this to the Federal Reserve, it is independent. The Fed turned a deaf ear to a growing chorus of economists and Wall Street analysts saying that the economy can withstand a modest uptick in short-term interest rates, and it didn’t feel compelled to raise rates this week. Instead… Read More