investing
Investing is the act of purchasing assets with the expectation that they will appreciate in value or generate income over time, ultimately helping to grow your wealth.
Investing involves buying assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, or other financial instruments with the goal of earning a return. This return can come in the form of capital gains (when the asset increases in value) or income (such as dividends or interest payments).
Read More
Close
IAC/InterActive Corp. began its operations in the late 1980s as the owner of the cable channel Home Shopping Network and several TV stations focused on local markets.
Media mogul Barry Diller moved that focus away from TV to the Internet in the 1990s after acquiring control of the company....
Media mogul Barry Diller moved that focus away from TV to the Internet in the 1990s after acquiring control of the company....
A: Edwards Lifesciences, $218.55, symbol EW on New York (Shares outstanding: 208.0 million; Market cap: $44.7 billion; www.edwards.com) is focused on technologies and products that treat structural heart disease and critically ill patients....
One key part of our Successful Investor approach is our “Limelight Rule”: Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker-media limelight.
This is a basic portfolio-construction principle. Heightened attention from brokers and the media is a poor guide to investment profits....
This is a basic portfolio-construction principle. Heightened attention from brokers and the media is a poor guide to investment profits....
Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of dividend investing vs. growth investing. The answers should help you determine the best stocks to hold for long-term portfolio gains
Momentum-based investing involves buying or selling stocks with rising or falling earnings and stock prices. It’s largely unconcerned with the absence of value markers like moderate p/e ratios or high dividend yields.
It’s a strategy that some investment managers, especially hedge fund, use to create and manage portfolios that hold long positions in stocks with positive momentum and short positions in stocks with negative momentum....
It’s a strategy that some investment managers, especially hedge fund, use to create and manage portfolios that hold long positions in stocks with positive momentum and short positions in stocks with negative momentum....
Over the long run, stocks tend to perform statistically better during certain times of the year, with some degree of predictability. Seasonal investing is a strategy that attempts to exploit these market patterns.
Sell in May and go away?
You may have heard that investors should “Sell in May and go away.” This would have been good advice in the past half century or so, if you followed it every year without exception....
PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $0.35 (Toronto symbol PGF; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 560.0 million; Market cap: $196.0 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend suspended in January 2016; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.pengrowth.com) has two main properties: its Lindbergh oil sands project in Alberta and its Groundbirch natural gas property in northeastern B.C.
Pengrowth produced an average of 22,707 barrels a day (81% oil and liquids, 19% natural gas) in the three months ended June 30, 2019....
A: The iShares India 50 ETF, $34.71, symbol INDY on New York (Units outstanding: 21.7 million; Market cap: $753.2 million; www.blackrock.com/us), aims to track an index composed of 50 of the largest Indian stocks.
ETFs, such as this one, are a lot like conventional, open-end mutual funds....
ETFs, such as this one, are a lot like conventional, open-end mutual funds....
“…we suspect that few of today’s cannabis stocks will turn into profitable companies, and many will wind up worthless. We now look at cannabis stocks almost every week. We have yet to find any cannabis stock speculations we can recommend.”
—from the Inner Circle Q&A June 12, 2018
We launched our Pat McKeough’s Inner Circle service 17 years ago....
—from the Inner Circle Q&A June 12, 2018
We launched our Pat McKeough’s Inner Circle service 17 years ago....
Learn what role the different investment sectors play in helping you build a diversified portfolio by testing your knowledge with this quiz