
By Sol Palha : Selling naked puts is a great way to purchase shares in companies you like at a predetermined price. Benefits associated with selling naked puts In essence, you get paid for entering a "limit order" for a stock or stocks you would not mind owning. It allows one to generate income in
By Takeover Analyst : Especially during this sluggish recovery, financials offer a great way to generate abnormally high returns. The reason for this outperformance stems from the market's irrational level of risk discounting in the industry. When times are bad, behavioral anomalies can make ...
By Sol Palha : In the learning to fish series, we provide investors with suggested guidelines for choosing a potential candidate and one candidate is selected as our play of choice. We provide reasons for this choice and in doing so hope to impart some understanding to those who are new to the ...
By Daniel Shvartsman : Owning a financial company remains a key part of maintaining a fully diversified portfolio. Among financials, the large U.S. regional banks are a compelling area to invest in. With sounder balance sheets, less exposure to Europe, and less regulatory overhang -- not to mention
By ZetaKap : Do you prefer investing in the largest and best established stocks? Interested in financial companies? Looking to find stocks that pay reliable dividends? Interested in undervalued stocks? Looking for ways to dig deeper into a company's profitability? For ideas on where to look, we ran
By Investment Underground : by Roger Choudhury Edward Deicke of JHS Capital Advisors recently pointed out that trust preferred stocks would not count toward an institution's tier 1 capital under the Dodd-Frank regulations. Because many of these securities are high-yielding, they are almost certain
By Ganaxi Small Cap Movers : Regional banks, as represented by the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF ( KRE ), are up about 15% YTD, compared to the 10% rise in the broader markets as represented by the S&P 500 index. In this article, via an analysis based on the latest available Q4 institutional 13-F
By ZetaKap : Interested in financial stocks? Looking for undervalued stocks? Do you prefer companies with strong profits? We ran a screen you might find helpful. The forward P/E is a price multiple valuation metric, which is similar to the current P/E ratio, except that it uses the forecasted ...
By David Alton Clark : The five companies covered in this article have above industry average profitability of over 10%. A company's profitability is conceivably the most important statistic to understand before investing in a stock. Each time you consider starting a position in a stock, you should
April 24 (Reuters) - Ameriprise Financial has bolstered its adviser base in Florida and Indiana with two veteran advisers from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Fifth Third Securities.