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Hidden Stocks for High Returns

Wed, 15/12/2010 - 07:10 by Rich Duprey

 Like the song says, investors are looking for stocks to love in all the wrong places. They'll pile into the momentum stocks everyone else buys, but ignore lesser-known opportunities for fear of straying from the crowd.

 

4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Power-One

Tue, 14/12/2010 - 07:06 by Brian D. Pacampara

 Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, power management solutions provider Power-One (Nasdaq: PWER) earned a respected four-star ranking.

 

Should You Sell RadioShack Today?

Sun, 12/12/2010 - 12:11 by Jeremy Phillips

 Should you sell RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) today? The decision to sell a stock you've researched and followed for months or years is never easy. But if you fall in love with your stock holdings, you risk becoming vulnerable to confirmation bias -- listening only to information that supports your theories, and rejecting any contradictions.

 

Should You Sell Lowe's Today?

Sat, 11/12/2010 - 07:27 by Jeremy Phillips

 Should you sell Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) today?

The decision to sell a stock you've researched and followed for months or years is never easy. If you fall in love with your stock holdings, you risk becoming vulnerable to confirmation bias -- listening only to information that supports your theories, and rejecting any contradictions.

 

Oracle Steps on Open-Source Community's Toes

Sat, 04/12/2010 - 12:31 by Carl Bagh

 After irking the FOSS community by attempting to muscle control over open-source projects like Java, MySQL, OpenOffice and Solaris, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is back again and is eyeing Hudson project, much to the dismay of open-sources.

 

3 Stocks That Just Make Sense

Wed, 01/12/2010 - 12:07 by Matt Koppenheffer

 "I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out."

-- Warren Buffett

History seems to show that good investing doesn't necessarily mean picking out complex situations and basing your investment thesis on Nobel-level math. In fact, as the recent financial crisis has shown us -- not to mention Long Term Capital Management and many other examples -- too much complexity can often end in calamity.

The CAPS Stock Rating

Wed, 01/12/2010 - 11:14 by David Gardner

 Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, gold producer Jaguar Mining (NYSE: JAG) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

 

Should You Sell Walgreen Right Now?

Mon, 25/10/2010 - 09:36 by Jeremy Phillips

Should you sell Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) today?

These Are the Top 7 Buys in Financial Services

Mon, 16/08/2010 - 10:08 by Anand Chokkavelu

 As an investor, it doesn't pay to follow the crowd.

Revisiting Netflix

Sat, 14/08/2010 - 10:25 by Andrew Bond

I have to admit Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is a beast of a stock. Just two weeks ago after posting pretty poor quarterly results, I wrote about the bear case for the stock. The stock was trading at about $120 when the company reported earnings, and in just a week's time it traded down to $95.33 on the poor results. However, in less than two trading weeks the stock has made up its losses and then some, closing yesterday at a new 52-week high of $133.05.

Is Amazon.com's Management Up to the Task?

Sat, 14/08/2010 - 10:19 by David Meier

Big investors like Warren Buffett have the clout, time, and resources to evaluate a potential investment's management face to face. You may not have quite such a mighty address book, but that shouldn't stop you from assessing the people in the executive suites.

Cypress Semiconductor: Warming Up or Cooling Off?

Sat, 14/08/2010 - 10:00 by Motley Fool

Together, we are all trying to build our fortunes by finding well-run companies at bargain-basement prices. But it takes work to scour earnings reports, scrutinize key data, and assess the competition.