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4 Transportation Sector Research Candidates: Do You Dare Have Your Money Travel With These Stocks? – Part 18
2019-05-01
Introduction As a rule, I have never been very fascinated by the Transportation Sector. This is especially true regarding airlines and air transport companies. Nevertheless, there are two airlines and two air freight carriers in the Transportation Sector that I felt comfortable featuring in this article. However, I still admit to having trouble suggesting that […]
5 Rare Fairly Valued Companies in the Technology Services Sector: Part 17
2019-04-29
Introduction Throughout this series I have referenced the idea that the stock market in the general sense may be overvalued, or at least fully valued. On the other hand, I have also pointed out that it is a market of stocks and not a stock market. In that vein, I have suggested that there are […]
Is the Death of Retail Trade Greatly Exaggerated? Part 16
2019-04-17
Introduction Simply Google the phrase “what effect is Amazon having on retail” and you’ll discover a significant amount of information, articles and theories. Personally, I found the following article written by Susan Ward that articulated the sales of brick-and-mortar versus online to be quite illuminating. Her opening paragraph mirrors the title of this article as […]
12 Exceptional Investments in the Process Industries Sector: Part 14
2019-04-09
Introduction One of the main goals of this series of articles is to illustrate the significant differences between individual stocks, and the significant differences between different sectors. Therefore, from this perspective, I have been attempting to illustrate the “nature of the beast” for each of the sectors I have covered. The Process Industries Sector as […]
10 Fairly Valued MLPs: Are the High Yields Worth the Risk and Effort? Part 12
2019-03-27
Introduction A major goal of this series on sectors is to illustrate the reality that it is a market of stocks rather than a stock market. With this article I am technically covering the Industrial Services Sector. However, all the research candidates I will be presenting come from the Oil & Gas Pipelines subsector. There […]
6 Health Services Stocks Offering Growth at a Reasonable Price: Part 10
2019-03-14
Introduction The Health Services Sector is one of the smallest sectors as presented by FactSet as it only contains 137 companies out of more than 19,000 in the US and Canadian universe. Furthermore, since I was also screening for quality based on investment grade S&P Credit Ratings of BBB- or better, I was additionally surprised […]