Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into a company, companies, or markets that made Wall Street's news cycle. This week we bring Disney in focus. On Thursday evening Disney (DIS) provided long awaited details about it's streaming service Disney Plus, and I'll say that it impressed me. I've discussed Netflix (NFLX) and the streaming wars twice before, and I've been critical of Disney both times, expressing my belief that Disney wouldn't have the goods to mak

Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into a company, companies, or markets that made the Wall Street news cycle. This week we bring Boeing in focus. After last week's fatal crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 involving Boeing's (BA) 737 Max airplane, the company has remained in the news all week. The stock, which closed on March 8, 2019 at $422.54 per share closed this week at $378.99 per share. Sadly this marks the second major incident for the 737 Max,

Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into a company, companies, or markets that made the Wall Street news cycle. This week we bring AT&T in focus. When Boring is Bad I like boring companies and boring investments. Boring companies have smart but boring executives who boringly work hard and increase their companies value at a boring pace. I invest my money, collect a boring dividend and watch my investment boringly increase over time. Enter AT&T (T) which has

Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into a company, companies, or markets that made the Wall Street news cycle. This week we bring Kraft and Nike in focus. The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) experienced a massive sell off on Friday, causing a loss of $16 billion. The $16 billion loss of market capitalization was due to a short list of very bad news. What's on the List There is a $15 billion write-down, which is an accounting term to explain a company reducing th

Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into a company, companies, or markets that made Wall Street's news cycle. This week we bring IBM in focus. Big Blue IBM (IBM) reported earnings on January 22, 2019 and surprised Wall Street with an earnings beat. The company beat analyst earnings per share estimates by $0.05 and revenue estimates by $30 million dollars. The stock opened the week at $123.30 and closed the week at $133.97 per share, Source: E-Trade What Wal

Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into a company, companies, or markets that made Wall Street's news cycle. This week we bring Netflix and the rest of the streamers in focus. In my youth there was one main battle for your television, cable or no cable. If you could afford it you had cable and if you couldn't afford it you didn't. Fast forward to the cord-cutting phenomenon, which isn't a phenomenon to me, cable is f*cking expensive. But now viewers have a

Thank's for checking out In Focus, our weekly look into a company or market that made the Wall Street news cycle. This week we bring potential IPOs of 2019 in focus. What is an IPO An IPO, an Initial Public Offering is when a company that is privately owned makes itself available to public investment. Once public average investor like you and me can buy a stake in the company. Some notable IPO's of 2018 were, Spotify (SPOT), IQIYI (IQ), NIO Inc (NIO), Docusign (DOCU), and Dro

Happy New Year! Thank's for checking out In Focus, our weekly look into a company or market that made the Wall Street news cycle. This week we bring Game Stop (GME) in focus. Source: Yahoo Finance Game Stop on Deck On Friday, January 4, 2019, shares of Game Stop jumped 17% higher on news of a buyout. Who would buy Game Stop and why would someone buy Game Stop? According the Investor Place the buyer could be one of two private equity firms, Sycamore Partners or Apollo Global M

Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, our look into stocks and markets that made Wall Street's news cycle over the past week. We hope everyone had a good holiday and please have a safe and Happy New Year. This week we look at Blue Apron (APRN), a company that had a bright future for all of a minute, but that didn't that didn't deter them from going public. Future Seemed so Bright Founded in 2012 the company went public in June 2017. The road to becoming a publicly tra

Thanks for checking out In Focus, our weekly look into companies or markets that made the Wall Street news cycle. This week I discuss the markets, again. It Was All Good Just A Week Ago Well maybe not a week ago, but  it was definitely all good three months ago. While the issues that exist now did existed three months ago, the markets continued to rise. Even as analyst after analyst predicted and called for the bear market. As far back as 2015 I can remember analysts saying t

It's December 2018 and the Wall Street Bears are out, welcome to the bear market. A bear market is defined as a market or investment that has declined 20% from its high. While the overall markets are heading closer to bear market territory, many stocks are trading in bear market territory. Investors and speculators, experienced to novice will attempt to maneuver a down market in a number of ways. Here we provide three ways that an investor can attack a bear market. 1. Go Shor

This week we have oil prices in focus. Oil prices have been in a nose dive for the past two weeks, and this past week oil has fallen into bear market territory. While the stock markets (The Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ) have been bouncing back from their October declines, oil continues it's October slide. The price for dinosaur juice could close out 2018 well below it's highs after having a nice bull run for most of the year. It's All About Supply and More Supply Just as Future has "

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” - Warren Buffett As we push through earnings season Wall Street analyst have declared falling skies on many of good companies, which has caused investors to sell quickly and stock prices to fall briskly. Unlike Warren Buffett I do like the idea of quarterly reports. I like that investors get a chance to assess their investments quarterly should they cho

Now Entering Correction Wall Street defines a correction as a market being down 10% from its highs. By that definition the NASDAQ is there, and the S&P 500 and Dow Industrial Average are not to far behind. The panic on Wall Street and Main Street is real, and it should be. There are a lot of global issues that could drive the markets down further as well as technical indicators that favor the bears over the bulls. Global Issues Weighing the Markets Down I have to tip my hat t

We Lose Another One R.I.P. to Google Plus. May its demise remind us all that imitation is not enough, purpose and direction are needed to succeed in life and in social media. Google Plus, say hello to Friendster and Myspace on the other side for us. Google had great plans for Google Plus when it was released, but it always felt like a Facebook knock off, even one of their employees noted it in an email that went public. Swagger jacking Facebook wasn't enough to make Google Pl

All it takes is one good investment. The right investment at the right time can be life changing. Maybe not dog house to penthouse life changing, but life changing none the less. Here are a few of the greatest investors of our time and one investment that really impacted their portfolios. It only takes one good investment to really impact your portfolio. At The Seville Report we are always on the look out for that life changing investment. While the great investors we covered

Almost a year ago after Apple introduced the iPhone X and its $1,000 price tag we looked at an alternative for the money. Instead of buying the new iPhone, which many of us are guilty of, what if we invested in Apple instead? We discovered at the release of the iPhone 5S Apple's stock traded for $68.29 per share (price adjusted for splits). At the pre-order date for the iPhone X, Apple's stock traded for $163.05 per share. That's a gain of130% from iPhone 5S to iPhone X. Sinc

When we think of great entrepreneurs we think of a young guy or girl turning nothing into something. The Mark Zuckerburgs, Elon Musks, Evan Spiegels, and Jack Dorseys of the world are usually who comes to mind when we think of successful entrepreneurs. However we never think of musicians. There may be no other group of people in the world better at turning nothing into something than a professional musician. Almost out of thin air comes a chord, then a bar, then a verse and a

Plus 42%! In typical Wall Street fashion they've immediately overreacted to the bad (same story just reiterated) and hit the sell button on their Facebook stock, causing a massive drop in the stock price. Wall Street has it wrong and is overreacting to news we - you, me, and Wall Street - already knew. Facebook's revenue for Q2 2018 increased by 42% from Q2 2017. In most any other case this would be cause to celebrate. Not Wall Street, not in 2018. Wall Street has instead dec

Graphic by The Seville Report Are you invested in a company being targeted by activist investors? You may have received a letter or email from a hedge fund CEO explaining why they've targeted the company you're invested in; or you may have received a news notice from your broker about the activity surrounding your investment. If you don't know what an activist investor is that's okay. We'll explain 5 things you should know about activist investors starting with what an activi