stock investing
Stock investing has grown in popularity with the advent of discount brokerages that reduced the fees involved in trading individual stocks. Along with investing, the appetite for stock advice surged, spawning books, newsletters and televisions shows related to the topic.
MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. (Toronto symbols TPX.A and TPX.B; www.molsoncoors.com) is one of the world’s leading brewers. Its main brands include Coors Light, Molson Canadian and Carling. The company’s sales fell when it merged its U.S. brewing operations with those of rival SABMiller to form MillerCoors in 2008. Because it owns less than half of MillerCoors, accounting rules forced Molson Coors to stop including the sales from this business in its overall sales....
Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a beginning or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you investment advice, including specific stock investing tips. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investing strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away....
MCKESSON CORP. (New York symbol MCK; www.mckesson.com) is the largest wholesale drug distributor in the U.S. and Canada. It also owns 49% of Mexico’s largest drug distributor. McKesson’s clients include 40,000 pharmacies, as well as doctor’s offices, hospitals and clinics. It also sells surgical tools and health and beauty products....
Pat McKeough responds to many personal questions for stock investing advice and to other questions on investment and the economy from the members of his Inner Circle. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of Pat’s Inner Circle....
THE BOEING CO. (New York symbol BA; www.boeing.com grounded all of its new 787 Dreamliner passenger planes in January 2013 after a battery problem forced one to make an emergency landing in Japan....
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. (New York symbol ADM; www.adm.com) processes corn, wheat, soybeans, canola, flax seed, peanuts, cocoa and other crops into a variety of food ingredients, such as flour, oils and sweeteners. It is also the largest maker of ethanol from corn in the U.S. In its fiscal 2013 first quarter, which ended September 30, 2012, the company earned $182 million, or $0.28 a share. That’s down 60.4% from $460 million, or $0.68 a share, a year earlier. Lower profits from its ethanol business offset higher earnings from its oilseeds operations. Revenue fell 0.4%, to $21.8 billion from $21.9 billion....
As we have consistently pointed out to our subscribers and wealth management clients, investing can never be an exact science. Experience and judgment are just as essential as fundamental analysis in successful investing.
That’s also why a balanced temperament is so important. It can keep you on a steady course and help you avoid losses. It can also help you avoid investing strategies that narrow your chances of success.
One way to judge your own temperament for investing is to take a quick survey of investment approaches to see what works best for you.
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That’s also why a balanced temperament is so important. It can keep you on a steady course and help you avoid losses. It can also help you avoid investing strategies that narrow your chances of success.
One way to judge your own temperament for investing is to take a quick survey of investment approaches to see what works best for you.
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From time to time, investors ask us questions to which there is not a simple yes-or-no answer. One of these is whether buying stocks “on margin” is a good idea. That is, should investors borrow money from their brokers to buy securities?
This strategy is reasonable in some circumstances, but it carries more than the usual amount of risk.
The main cost involved with buying on margin is the interest on the money you borrow. Plus, when you sell a security that you’ve bought on margin, you must first pay back the loan from your broker.
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This strategy is reasonable in some circumstances, but it carries more than the usual amount of risk.
The main cost involved with buying on margin is the interest on the money you borrow. Plus, when you sell a security that you’ve bought on margin, you must first pay back the loan from your broker.
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Pat McKeough responds to many personal questions about stock investing and other investment topics from the members of his Inner Circle. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of Pat’s Inner Circle. This week, one Inner Circle member wanted to know about Héroux-Devtek. This Canadian company has carved out a special niche for itself in the aeronautical business. Pat balances the drawbacks of operating in a highly cyclical industry against the company’s long-term contracts with military and commercial clients. ...
