Retail investors are conditioned to focus on gains but those who have been around the block and made a fortune focus first on downside risks.
That focus is one of the reasons why so many buy Berkshire Hathaway. After all, when the stock market fell by 20% in 2022, Berkshire treaded water and essentially stayed flat.
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Altria has fallen off many investors’ watchlists and with good reason. If any stock falls squarely into the category of sin stock, it’s the maker of Marlboro cigarettes. The tobacco manufacturer has been plagued with competition, regulatory obstacles, and a general trend towards increased wellness.
Imagine selling a product that comes with a government warning encouraging users not to buy it,
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David Einhorn, the esteemed founder of Greenlight Capital, is widely recognized for making a killing during the Great Recession when he shorted the market. Nowadays, the investment world is curious about where Einhorn finds potential in the current market, particularly which stocks in his portfolio are poised for significant growth.
If you were going to buy just one stock, you would want it to have some key characteristics, and among the best is a share price that increases with the market but holds steady when markets fall.
In 2022 when the market fell by 20%, Berkshire Hathaway treaded water, essentially beating the market by 20%.
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The story and hype around artificial intelligence drove a whole wave of technology stocks higher in 2023. Some of the gains were well-deserved and others, like Broadcom, might have mushroomed to unsustainable levels for 2024.
We took a peek at the financials to see if the current valuation matches with the price and,
Have you got your seatbelts on as this market thrusts higher like a rocket attempting to escape orbit?
Extraordinarily, the market is up 23% for the year, yet the vast majority of that gain has come in the space of just 6 weeks.
Back in early November, the chatter around where the S&P 500 would end up centered around bearish targets.
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Imagine I could reveal to you a stock that generates a cool $1 billion of income a year on revenues of $4.4 billion? That’s right a company that is so profitable it regularly reports 10-figures of profits, and now what if I told you the market values it at less than 1x sales, would you be interested?
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Buying a boat manufacturer ranks right up there as one of the most treacherous investments when interest rates are elevated, at least on the surface.
But then there’s Marine Products Corporation that trades with a price-to-earnings ratio of just 7x. Not only is the PE ratio attractive but the earnings have been growing steadily quarter over quarter and operating income looks very attractive for the past three years too.
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Following a market correction in 2022 of about 20%, this year has been topsy turvy with some stocks doubling and others lagging like an anchor is tied to their share price.
PetMed Express falls into that latter category as losses mounted but the underwhelming performance has created a potential opening for value investors to get in at really low prices.
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David Einhorn has made a name for himself as the founder of Greenlight Capital, which manages around $1.7 billion at last count in Q3 2023.
Interestingly, the fund has made a massive bet on another company with Green in its name, Green Brick Partners. It’s an unfamiliar name to many investors and even those who do know of it may wonder why such a huge position was established by Einhorn and his investment team.
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