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Travelers' Q2 results beat the expectations of analysts despite the company performing worse than last year. The biggest reason for the weakened performance was an increase in catastrophe claims YOY, but this is merely a return to normal conditions. The company earned an underwrit...

This is a technical analysis article. Boeing is finally flashing Buy Signals for the smartest investors on Wall St., namely the bottom fishers like Warren Buffett. Actually, most good investors on Wall St. are always looking to buy stocks that have their bottoms in place and are start...

If you think of all the different index providers, each has its own definition of the fundamentals that it believes denote “value.”. If stocks can experience severe reductions in their price-to-book value ratios (another way of saying an increase in book-to-price ratios)...

Caterpillar is a Dividend Aristocrat, and the firm paid out a special dividend in 2012. The company currently yields ~2.8%. Its strategy when facing revenue declines is to manage costs such that the fall in operating profits is less than 30% of the drop in revenue. Though Caterpil...

The Air Current reported a prospective P2F program for the Boeing 777-300ER. Analysis shows that a P2F launch could significantly boost prospects of Boeing 777X/787 sales campaigns. Program would boost services revenues and provide competitive pressure on Airbus A350F. T...

Earnings for the S&P 500, according to Howard Silverblatt’s work at S&P, are expected to rise 7.7% in 2022. Growth stocks were grossly overvalued going into that bear market and they took the brunt of the damage. Real estate did well last week with rates falling bac...

The year-over-year change in core CPI peaked in March and is coming down, albeit slower than we’d all like to see. The economy is slowing in some areas and inflation is still high but probably peaking. Bond yields are starting to look pretty attractive relative to stock div...

The price multiples of Walgreens are very low, and through a discounted cash flow I calculated a fair value of $78.42, well above the current $43. Walgreens management has realized that the company needs a jolt to improve its growth rates, and over the past year has decided to invest ...

WBA has a large debt load that could put dividend at risk. Recent attempts to sell Boots seem to have stalled. Price to earnings multiple is low and starting dividend yield is 4.4%. For further details see: Walgreens: High Debt Is Risky But Can Also Act As A Positive Cat...

MSCI U.S. Growth has underperformed its Value counterpart by 16% in the first 4 months of 2022 and had a tough end to 2021 as well. The fact that growth traps are more painful than value traps is, in one sense, not really a surprise. Value stocks are already companies that investors d...