
Jim Pyke submits: Oil and gas companies are often common picks for dividend investors. They generally provide above average dividends as well as overall inflation protection, depending on their specific industry. I previously wrote an article that highlighted 17 such stocks. The focus was simply to
Jim Pyke submits: Research has shown that investors have a home market bias, perhaps with good reason, perhaps not. However, some investors turn to emerging markets to better diversify their equity portfolios. The rationale is that the emerging markets offer better diversification than other mature
Jim Pyke submits: With oil prices climbing in recent weeks and reaching $100 per barrel, what are some ways to invest in this industry and create current income? Basic materials companies pay pretty good dividends, as I noted in an earlier article . More specifically, there should be opportunities
Osman Gulseven submits: Oil prices retreated back to $100 after the massive earthquake in Japan. Although, the disaster in Japan created bearish expectations about oil prices Jim Ritterbusch doesn't agree: A failed rally at the $100 area appeared to reduce buying interest as the market enters a ...
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Ultrapar Holdings UGP reported strong first-quarter earnings Wednesday that showed strength across several of its businesses. Despite the economic
slowdown is the collapse of commodity prices of which the Brazilian economy is reliant upon. What these factors hold for Ultrapar UGP , however, is a mixed bag. Unlike other players in the energy space, Ultrapar is not a producer of oil or petroleum products
We are temporarily moving our fair value uncertainty rating for Ultrapar UGP to extreme while we take a closer look at the exchange rate assumption we use in our discounted cash-flow valuation.
cloudy macroeconomic outlook in Brazil have increased the overall level of uncertainty surrounding our estimate of Ultrapar's UGP intrinsic value. As a result, we are raising our fair value uncertainty rating to very high from high. Since we model Ultrapar
We feel that Ultrapar's UGP recent strategic shift and ongoing volatility in the foreign exchange markets have increased the overall level of uncertainty surrounding