Category: Stock Reviews

I wrote a few months ago that the Dow index crashing was an outside possibility following the first wave of the credit crisis induced market panic. The Dow had fallen below 10,000 at that time and even I thought that 5000 was highly unlikely. But, it looks like the seemingly…

Financial stocks have taken a battering over the last week with steep falls across the board, including the big banks such as Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM) which have all fallen more than 25% to record lows. The reasons behind the falls are primarily…

I received the following email from a reader, Justin, asking me where I would invest in the current market given all the turmoil. Here is part of the discussion that formed the basis for this post, and my thoughts on investing for the year ahead: Original Email from Justin: I'm…

Like most investors still braving this market I keep trying to find a safe place to invest that provides decent returns. With a stock market that seems to have many more down days than up days, it is hard to have confidence in future growth prospects. However with interest rates…

Today's bad economic news coupled with investor fear sent the stock market spiraling to a 5 year low. A sense of panic and fear seems to have entered the hearts of many investors, including myself, and the urge to sell and get out of the market is strong. But now…

The difficulty in closing funding for some recently concluded corporate takeovers has presented an arbitrage profit opportunity for investors willing to take some risk. In particular I refer to the $52 billion mega takeover of U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch (Ticker : BUD), the company that is famous for Budweiser Beer, by…

When I bought Apple (AAPL) stock a few weeks ago for around $140 (worth $16,000) before the launch of their latest iPhone, I was pretty confident about the prospects for the stock. I expected some short term volatility as it is a growth stock, but since my purchase it has…

>Oh VMware, I was so disappointed when I didn't buy you in the IPO at $29. My pain was worse when you soared past $100, but now I am not so sad since your CEO left and stock price bled. Will I buy you now? I think not, after all…

I recently bought $16,000 worth of Apple stock, which I covered in a post two days ago. The way the post was written, and based on some of the comments I got on it, may have led to the impression that it was a speculative or uninformed buy. It definitely…

2021 Post Script Update This old article recently came up in my feed and reinforced that for great companies one needs to hold for the longer term and not worry about day to day trades. Based on Apple's investor relations page, since I bought APPL stock it has split on…

My brother-in-law recently decided he wanted to buy some Visa shares (V) following a discussion we had around the positive outlook for the company. However he has never bought shares before and asked me about the process. So this post is for him and others new to the stock market.…

[2021 Update] Google continues to exceed Analyst expectation and showed a strong recovery from the COVID Pandemic induced slowdown with shares touching record levels. Key Highlights Google advertising revenue rose 32.3%, comprising 80.8% of companywide revenue.Over the past year, Google shares (all classes) have provided a total return of 80.2%,…

Want to tell you a story about my trading history with Brocade Communications (BRCD). This was one the first stocks I bought when I started investing. It had just announced good results and was trading around $10.50, There were some good articles about it and I saw some positive news…