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 Papa John's into focus. I know Papa John's (PZZA) didnt make the Wall Street news last week, but it was a slow week. The week that Papa John's did make the news cycle, better stories dominated the week, so I'm discussing Papa John's now, two weeks after the fact. John Schnatter courtesy Getty Images The Fallout The TLDR on Papa

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 Lyft and the other potential 2019 IPOs into focus. March 29, 2019 marked the public debut of Lyft and boy was it ehhh. The buildup was exciting though. Initially priced in the $60s, the IPO was oversubscribed and the price was raised to between $70 and $72 a share, finally landing on $72 per share. The stock hit the public marke

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 Google and FedEx in focus. Google Enters Gaming This week Google (GOOGL) announced Stadia, it's live streaming video game service. From the demo it looks great, but... I've said it in these In Focus writings before, I grew up a gamer, I still consider myself a gamer, just with too little time to play. I've seen many companies e

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 the Wall Street news cycle. This week we bring banking stocks and Warren Buffet in focus. The Banking Industry Love them or hate them, banks and the banking industry are here to stay for the foreseeable future. Banks are everything that the cryptocurrency advocates use to scream about from their $18,000 per Bitcoin soapbox; too big, corrupt, all about profits no matter what,

Buy the Dip, every investor and trader has heard the phrase. Not to long ago I saw someone laugh at the sentiment of buying the dip, commenting by tweet that they are glad they didn't "buy the dip." Yes, it's easy to say that in December 2018 (when the tweet was posted), because the market had been in decline since October 3, 2018. But it was clear that the person that tweeted his imagined victory for not buying the dip is/was misguided. A deeper dive into the profile and I d

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 GE in focus. 34.6% That's how much GE's stock price increased in January 2019. The stock has been on an absolute tear, exciting Wall Street professionals and everyday investors. $1 Billion General Electric's Q4 revenue surpassed analysts estimates by $1 billion dollars. The company closed the year out with $33.3 billion in revenue

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

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

To know where we're going we've got to know where we've been. 2018 had some ups, but the fourth quarter of the year brought a lot of downs. While it is easy to blame the market for our negative portfolio we don't. As we look back at our analysis, reviews and recommendations, many of our big losses fall on us. We were impatient. Patience is the key. If you've subscribed to or purchased one of our newsletters that haven't feared so well against the markets, you've seen the phra

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

Thanks for checking out this week's In Focus, a weekly look in to companies, markets and this week an entire generation. This week we saw news that Millennials are killing the canned tuna industry. That is right, Millennials targeted, researched, hunted and killed their enemy canned tuna. Another kill for Millennials. Nice job on that one. Keep Killing Sh!t! I applaud millennials, I truly do. Not buying cars and houses they can't afford, smart. Not renting apartments they can

Thanks for checking out another In Focus, our brief look at companies, stocks, or markets that made the news over the past week. New week, same mess. Mother F*ucking Facebook On Thursday morning The NY Times released a well written story about Facebook, the issues that have plagued the company over the past year plus, and how the company responded to those issues. If you've been too busy to put all of the pieces together from the first fake news accusation to the Cambridge An