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- MasterCard Offers a Clear Technical Pattern In an Uncertain Market
- Sean Hannon submits: Broadly speaking, there are two main groups of investors. Those using fundamentals will analyze a company's business prospects, growth potential and financial structure with the hope of finding stocks that the market has mispriced. Technical investors will rely upon chart patterns and trading activity to decide...
- External links 2008-11-20
- The Hedgehog vs. The Fox
- Sean Hannon submits: Isaiah Berlin's essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox" divides thinkers into two categories. Hedgehogs rely on a single defining idea to influence their decision making while foxes rely on multiple experiences and cannot define their thinking into one single idea. As investors, we are...
- External links 2008-12-02
- Reduce Bank Sector Risk with Pair Trading
- Sean Hannon submits: The banking sector is the greatest risk trade in the market. While I look at the fundamentals of select companies, plug in aggressive loss assumptions and no future revenue growth, I still derive conservative fair value targets well in excess of current prices. The issue is...
- External links 2009-02-11
- MasterCard Could Be a Potential 'Black Swan'
- Sean Hannon submits: Over the past year, investors have come to expect the unexpected. As seemingly rare events became commonplace, Nassim Taleb’s “Black Swan Theory” has gained prominence as a means to explain the unexpected. According to Taleb, a black swan event appears by complete surprise, has a major...
- External links 2009-03-18
- Bullish on JP Morgan
- Sean Hannon submits: Bank stocks are among the most controversial names in this market. Speaking broadly, they created most of the problems that ignited the bear market and recession, have received massive amounts of government help, and now trade on emotion more than reason. As an investor who prides...
- External links 2009-04-13
- Passing on Visa
- Sean Hannon submits: I like their market as a payment processor. As more transactions move away from cash and toward plastic, their industry will do very well and Visa V will have strong economic tailwinds that should allow profits to increase. However, there are three main issues...
- External links 2009-04-23
- An Investment Bank Pair Trade
- Sean Hannon submits: The credit crisis-induced recession has battered stock markets and altered long-held beliefs. Companies that felt they could always finance themselves in the commercial paper market disappeared. Those that believed a low stock price would encourage corporate buyers to acquire them now stare at single-digit prices. As...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Why I'm Shorting Visa
- Sean Hannon submits: When I study charts in order to make trade recommendations for EPIC Insights, I look for a few basic ingredients. Trends must be well established so that their continuation or reversal is clear. Also, price targets must be observable. Finally, volume at key turning points helps...
- External links 2009-06-16
- Janus Capital Heading Higher
- Sean Hannon submits: Many value investors do an excellent job of analyzing companies, studying their financial statements, and determining an estimate of fair value. This legwork, which helps investors determine how to allocate capital, is an extremely important part of the investment process. However, I have always felt that...
- External links 2009-07-14
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- The Hidden Leverage of Oil ETFs
- Sean Hannon submits: Financial innovation drives markets. Over the years, we have seen investments that had been the sole province of professionals adapted for retail investors. Among the more popular have been inverse ETFs and commodity-based ETFs. These new tools may be welcome, but we must watch for unintended...
- External links 2009-02-04
- Why I'm Bearish on Amazon
- Sean Hannon submits: When facing complex markets, we are left with two choices. The first is to embrace complexity and, through a combination of financial model and rigorous study, attempt to comprehend what we face. The second approach is to simplify. As I explained in a recent weekly commentary,...
- External links 2009-05-20
- Why I'm Bullish on Cisco
- Sean Hannon submits: Deleveraging is a process. For decades, consumers and companies have relied on borrowed money to satisfy immediate needs and deliver economic growth. As the credit markets become less friendly, borrowing declines, leverage is drained from the system, and growth dissipates. As we enter this new...
- External links 2009-03-02
- The Pitfalls of Using Inverse ETFs
- Sean Hannon submits: Each year we see new financial products come to market. While many wish we had never seen collateralized debt obligations (CDO), structured investment vehicles (SIV) or auction rate securities (ARS), some new products serve an important investment niche. An example of a new product...
- External links 2008-12-31
- Disney Shares Fully Valued; Time to Sell
- Sean Hannon submits: The Cub Scout motto "Be prepared" has been translated into many languages with slightly different interpretations. In English, the motto is taken to mean that you are always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty. Although my scouting days were...
- External links 2009-05-12
- The Dollar Is Heading Higher
- Sean Hannon submits: Fundamental analysis is based on the premise that fair value is a measureable item. By examining financial statements, forecasting future business prospects, and making adjustments for unknown risks, we determine a range of values wherein a stock is cheap and look to buy at a discount...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Crocs: Patience Is a Virtue
- Sean Hannon submits: Warren Buffett once famously quipped that his favorite holding period was forever. In a hyperactive market where investors are bombarded with streaming data, 24-hour business news, and constant investment ideas, it becomes difficult to remain patient and wait for opportunities to develop. Although I do not...
- External links 2009-08-13
- Fear Still Dominates, But Probabilities Point to An Impending, Positive Rally
- Sean Hannon submits: Having just come off the worst week in the stock market's history, panic is in the air. For last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average [Dow] fell nearly 2,000 points and experienced a loss of 18.4%. The Dow has now been negative for 8 consecutive days...
- External links 2008-10-13
- Coca-Cola Now at Attractive Buy Level
- Sean Hannon submits: When analyzing a company's value, I follow an exacting process. I read all the data available on the company and its competitors, analyze the footnotes and financial statements, and make multiple adjustments to the reported income statement and balance sheet. This process often enables me to...
- External links 2009-01-27
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