Stock Pick: Helmerich & Payne Drilling Company (HP)
Helmerich & Payne (HP) is making money hand over fist with their oil drilling and real estate assets. While the major gas distributors like BP and Exxon are facing decreasing margins due to the falling price of gas, the drillers are still making money hand over fist.
3 Reasons Why Helmerich & Payne is A Top [...]
Satellite Radio Comparison: XM Radio & Sirius Radio
XM Satellite Radio offers crystal clear satellite radio across its airwaves for consumers to enjoy at home, in the car, and on the go. It develops personal XM mp3 for on-the-go listeners as well as in dashboard and outer dashboard receivers. Its status as the #1 provider of satellite radio gives it a slight edge [...]
Bio on Mad Money’s Jim Cramer
The Street’s Jim Cramer is most known for his CNBC network show, Mad Money. Cramer is a unique individual who brings experience and knowledge to a show that trains the average investor to think like a pro. He delivers high quality information, but can get carried away at times. His tendency to launch books across [...]
Investing School: P/E Multiple
The Price to Earnings Multiple (aka Price to Earnings Ratio) is probably the single most widely used valuation in the investing world.
The multiple is the ratio of the current stock price to its Earnings per share (EPS).
Generally, stocks with P/E Multiples of less than 20 are considered good buys, but ratios by industry vary. [...]
Return on Equity Interpretation
Return on Equity (ROE) is one of the most widely used valuations on a stock’s investment potential. ROE is the amount of earnings a company produces from dollars invested. Equity is the number of shares outstanding X current stock price.
Example of How to Interprete ROE
Walmart (Symbol: WMT) earned $11 billion dollars for the FY 2006. [...]
Sony Corporation 2006 Stock Investor Report
Sony Corporation (SNE), the Japanese electronics giant, has recently stumbled upon a few problems.
Sony Corporation Short Term Issues
Sony’s Battery Recall Compromised Their Reputation
After the copy recalled nearly 7 million batteries, users around the world may think twice about their next laptop purchases, a force that may cause personal computer makers to look elsewhere for power [...]
Investor Relations: Hide or Seek?
Anytime I come across a new potential investment, the same old theme reappears again and again: investor relations. Somehow, I find myself catapulted from MSN Money or Yahoo! Finance to an obscure, and often times bizarre, investor relations site. These pages are made of we investors alike who crave a liquid company that lays [...]
