The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Value Investor model based on the published strategy of Benjamin Graham. This deep value methodology screens for stocks that have low P/B and P/E ratios, along with low debt and solid long-term earnings growth.
Investors have thrown in the towel on Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT), Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN), and Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK), due to the very serious headwinds they are facing from the COVID-19 outbreak.
Data storage device maker Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) reported third-quarter results after the closing bell on Thursday, April 30. It was a mixed report with solid sales and dramatic earnings growth, but analysts had been looking for an even sharper uptick on the bottom line.
It's been nearly two years since Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) gave up on its $44 billion buyout of NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI). Let's have a look at how the two microchip makers have fared since that fateful day. Should you buy either one of these tech stocks today?
Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) will report its first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, May 5, after the market close. Activision's share price has outperformed the broader market this year as investors anticipate that social distancing practices during the COVID-19 outbreak will
Long a boring household staple, Clorox bleach has become a must-have commodity in the age of coronavirus, driving shares of Clorox (NYSE: CLX) stock to ever higher highs over the past two months. From the end of February to close-of-trading Friday, Clorox shares have gained 21%,
Boeing (NYSE: BA) had a terrible 2019, as its top-selling product, the 737 MAX, was grounded by safety issues last March. The company repeatedly missed self-imposed deadlines to get the 737 MAX recertified. As a result, Boeing delivered just 380 commercial jets last year: down 5
Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) needs to improve its performance this year. There's just no way around that. The stock is down more than 65% in the first four months of 2020; it's performing much worse than the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF (OTC: HMLSF), which has declined by
The tech sector hosts plenty of growth stocks, but it can be tough to identify the highest growth companies as the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic ravages markets worldwide. To narrow down the list, I recently pulled together an analysis that focused on stocks with r
The stock market has bounced 35% higher from the bottom of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. This sharp recovery still left a lot of great stocks trading at invitingly low share prices. As master investor Ben Graham wrote in his classic tome, The Intelligent Investor,
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) and Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALXN) have each figured out the same winning strategy. Focus on a rare genetic disease. Develop an effective drug for it. Achieve commercial success. Then repeat the process.
Many dividend stocks have either cut or stopped their payouts entirely as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Hardly any businesses are actually increasing them -- after all, raising dividend payments is a big move to make at a time when no one really knows what's in store for
The CARES Act provided funding for most Americans to receive stimulus payments (formally known as Economic Impact Payments) of as much as $1,200 per adult and $500 for every qualifying child. And in mid-April, the IRS launched an online portal, known as Get My Payment, that allo
Identifying tomorrow's stock market winners requires unwavering curiosity. Separating genius ideas from the crazy, filtering the doable from the impossible, and then evaluating financial feasibility is a lot of work. It's also a lot of fun and a bit of a numbers game.
We're told we're supposed to save for emergencies, and the COVID-19 crisis most definitely qualifies as one. But what if you never managed to put together an emergency fund, and now your bank account is virtually empty? That's bad news if you've lost your job, or if your income