The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long term.
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March 20 - News
Some investors believe that you should add share repurchases to dividends to get the “yield” a company is returning to its shareholders.
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March 19 - News
As an investor that favors large cap stocks with huge buybacks, the recent news from the WSJ that stock buyback authorizations hit a record in February should garner attention...
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March 19 - News
A CEO with a good management team can take a languishing company and turn it into a growth machine in a position of market leadership with the capability of making shareholders...
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March 18 - News
Home flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE:LL) performed really well in 2012, growing revenue and free cash flow 19% and 25%, respectively.
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March 18 - News
If there is one lesson to take away from Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD)'s recent earnings, it's never underestimate a category leader.
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March 15 - News
The economy has improved mildly, but there has been a significant recovery in the housing market. A boom in the housing market compliments the home improvement industry.
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March 15 - News
The earnings season for the Specialty Hardlines kicked off on Feb 25. as Lowe's Companies, Inc (NYSE:LOW) reported its 4Q earnings.
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March 13 - News
“We ended the year with a strong performance as our business benefited from a continued recovery in the housing market coupled with sales related to repairs in the areas impacted...
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March 13 - News
The rise in mortgage rates since the beginning of the year has been a concern for the US housing sector, particularly when the Fed is doing its best to keep them at their lowest...
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March 12 - News
Returning stability to the housing market doesn't mean diddly if Warren Buffett decides to undermine that recovery. Mr.
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March 11 - News
Returning stability to the housing market doesn't mean diddly if Warren Buffett decides to undermine that recovery. Mr.
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March 11 - News
After lots of struggle, it seems that the housing industry has finally begun to show signs of improvement, as everything is going well for the industry.
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March 6 - News
1) The S&P/Case Shiller index indicated that prices of single-family homes has increased 6% year-over-year at the end of 2012, the best showing in six years.
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March 5 - News
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD), the biggest home improvement store chain in the country, jumped 6% higher on Feb.
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March 5 - News
Google News is showing reports that home prices capped off 2012 with the biggest rise in six years.
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March 4 - News
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW) gave numbers on a bad day for the market and the subsequent fall in the share price means investors could be forgiven that for thinking that...
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March 4 - News
The Atlanta based home improvement chain just reported that net income in the latest quarter soared 32% to $1.02 billion, or 68 cents per share.
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March 4 - News
In 2012, do-it-yourself home-improvement giant The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE:HD) ended the year as one of the Dow Jones Industrial Average's top-performing stocks.
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March 3 - News
It appears some investors are gearing up for a nice rally in the housing market. Earlier this week, a number of major companies with exposure to housing spiked on news that "...
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March 1 - Stock Analysis
Value investor Edgar Wachenheim, owner of Greenhaven Associates Inc., is one of the value investors I look to for stock ideas.
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February 25 - News
Today's economic calendar is limited to some state-level Fed manufacturing surveys, meaning that investors might look at overseas developments more keenly than usual.
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February 25 - News
Earnings season is now starting to wind down, with most companies already having reported their quarterly results.
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February 22 - News
Earnings season is now starting to wind down, with most companies already having reported their quarterly results.
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February 22 - News
Do you blame yourself for not being smart enough to read the housing recovery in advance? Do you believe that you have missed a golden opportunity to make money since the stocks...
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February 21 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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February 21 - News
Quick question: What was the top-performing asset class of 2012? If you're thinking emerging markets or domestic micro-cap stocks, you'd be wrong.
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February 20 - News
Fool contributor John Reeves wrote about seven stocks in 2013 that Fool analysts recommended for investors.
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February 20 - News
Net sales soared 21% to $210.7 million in the hardwood flooring retailer's fourth quarter, fueled by modest expansion but largely as a result of an exciting 13.2% spike in comparable...
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February 20 - News
Acquisitions are one of the most exciting things that can happen to your stock portfolio.
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February 14 - News
Rivals or similar companies tend to report earnings around the same time, making for interesting comparative opportunities. Two of my favorite companies report earnings a day...
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February 13 - News
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (NASDAQ:BECN) gave results recently and served notice that its near term upside drivers from a housing market recovery are in place for 2013.
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February 12 - News
A SWOT analysis is a look at a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and is a tremendous way to gain a detailed and thorough perspective on a company ...
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February 8 - News
More and more governments are looking to use light emitting diodes (LEDs) in place of incandescent (Edison) and florescent lights.
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February 5 - News
Since its October 12 spin-off from parent company Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD), shares of Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc (NASDAQ:SHOS) have performed roughly...
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January 22 - News
Now that the fiscal cliff has been averted, pretty much, and the tax rate on dividends has escaped being raised to the level of regular income taxes, it seems that the category...
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January 17 - Dividend Stocks
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW) recently reported its preliminary financial results based on which we provide a unique peer-based analysis of the company.
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December 5 - Stock Analysis
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) recently reported its preliminary financial results based on which we provide a unique peer-based analysis of the company.
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November 16 - Stock Analysis
In an amended 13D filing last week, Eddie Lampert and ESL Investments announced they were downsizing their Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, the Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ...
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October 1 - Hedge Funds
Donating to charity is a tax deduction for most people, but the good these organizations do cannot be discounted.
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November 10 - Hedge Funds
Eighty year old George Soros, the evil financier behind all sorts of conspiracies against Glenn Beck’s America, was born in Budapest.
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February 16 - News
Warren Buffett says "our favorite holding period is forever" and yet he sold eight stocks during the fourth quarter of 2010.
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February 15 - Hedge Funds
