A great example of a management team that skillfully navigated the brutal economy of 2008-2009 and, over the ensuing nine years, grew a spectacular business is Elkhart’s Patrick Industries.
Instead of getting sucked into Black Friday’s vortex of excessive holiday consumerism, consider giving a gift that will last a lifetime.
While financial statements provide the numbers used to value a business, management policies are more subjective, and it takes time to determine whether their strategies were effective.
Taxable shareholders should avoid buying shares of a fund in front of a large distribution. The last thing you want is to buy into a fund and pay taxes on a distribution you did not enjoy in any way.
If you owned a small manufacturing business here in town, would you be looking to sell it in a few months to buy a restaurant, only to tire of that soon and sell to purchase a software company?
Large investors and academics believe companies are not investing enough into their businesses, partly because of pressure on management to hit quarterly numbers.
Reviews Ben Carlson’s “obvious truths” about investing in times of relative calm
Today, with the rapid technological change taking place in many industries, some observers are beginning to ask if we have entered a new age for antitrust. The company that is regularly targeted for this discussion is Amazon.
Don’t buy when he’s selling or sell when he’s buying.
Health savings accounts are one of the most attractive investment vehicles available in the marketplace.
Weather forecasting and investing are both probabilistic endeavors.
Are brand-name retailers doomed to long-term decline due to competition from Amazon? Or will there be a “reversion to the mean?
With bailout support and shackles both expiring next August, I’m afraid we’ve seen this movie before.
Small changes in the level of LIBOR had significant effects on the profitability of large banks’ loan portfolios. This sowed the seeds of the LIBOR scandal.
Even the hardest workers and best decision makers among us will fail to succeed consistently without luck.
Investors have different financial profiles that might require a more hands-on approach.
My colleagues and I at Kirr Marbach & Co. see parallels between now and the technology stock mania of the late 1990s.
Considering the contentious political discourse taking place in our country and across the globe, it is remarkable how steady the investment markets have been.
Amazon forever changed the way America shops, to the detriment of traditional brick-and-mortar retailers.
The SEC has announced enforcement actions against 27 individuals for collecting secret compensation on stock promotion schemes that were disguised as unbiased investment research.
