Linda McDonough is a veteran hedge fund analyst who loves to break down company financial statements and identify market inefficiencies to uncover big opportunities. She believes in a boots-on-the-ground approach that includes surveying customers, interviewing company executives, or doing whatever it takes to see what others don't.
She's now brought her experience as a hedge fund analyst to subscribers of her Profit Catalyst Alert service. Her system identifies small- and mid-cap stocks that are about to move due to catalytic events that few others can identify...until it's too late. These events often times result in massive gains for her followers.
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Profit Catalyst Alert just passed its six month birthday. While I’m pleased at how most of the portfolio weathered the rocky start to the year and am more confident than ever in the names I’ve picked, I’m eager to share with you more picks and more ways to make money… Read More
Get on the road with Lydall (NYSE: LDL) this manufacturer of specialty industrial materials. Lydall’s July 8 purchase of Texel diversifies its business beyond the auto industry and wraps in highly profitable geosynthetic products. These products are used for roadway engineering, flood management and landscape architecture. Large gains… Read More
On June 22 Air Transport Group (NASD: ATSG) bought 3.8 million shares from its largest shareholder for $13.07 a share, a 3% discount to its closing price the previous night. The shareholder, Red Mountain Capital, owned 11.2 million shares as of the end of the first quarter. A private transaction… Read More
SolarEdge is getting clobbered today by a bearish story published by The Street Sweeper, a Web-based free research service. The basic premise of the story is that SolarEdge is suffering due to price cuts by rival Enphase. As an active short seller in my previous life, I take these stories… Read More
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We humans love rankings. In a world of chaos, we like the fictional supposition that life and all of its messy data can be corralled into neat silos. We love our top 10 song lists and rankings of the best colleges.Earnings season provides the perfect data set to create meaningful… Read More
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Drew Industries’ profits explode with new product lines. Read More
BrunswickMalibu Boats, which makes high-performance speed boats, recently gave us a small window into the current state of retail boat sales. Earlier in May the company noted that domestic unit sales are up high single digits and prices up 11%. International sales continue to be dampened by a weak European… Read More
We’ve been waiting for Drew Industries (NYSE: DW) to hit a speed bump so that we could recommend the stock at a lower price but it shows no sign of slowing down. Even at this level the stock offers at least a 30% upside to investors.The manufacturer of RV and motor… Read More
Criteo dropped 2% yesterday on a report that Facebook had closed its ad exchange to third party tech companies.But Criteo (NSDQ: CRTO) remains a strong partner to Facebook with its dynamic product advertising software that matches relevant ads to users. In any case, the particular ad exchange (named FBX) that Facebook closed, and which Criteo… Read More
Photronics (Nasdaq:PLAB) SELLWe are issuing a sell on Photronics (PLAB). Our original buy recommendation was based on strength in high-end photomasks that produce higher than average profits. Although the company has seen strength in some of these, weakness in lower-end masks has outweighed any benefit that might have been seen.We did… Read More