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Searching Out the Optimal Portfolio of “Revelation” Stocks

Broad Market Rally Ahead of Election Results, STPortfolio Adds More Alpha

What an impressive day for the U.S. markets. Not only were they up on broad-based buying, there wasn’t much volatility going into the close. Late-day shenanigans in the past month have signaled of an overabundance of redemptions from both the hedgies and mutual funds. But today was relatively smooth, albeit on lower volumes. You can [...]

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Read more on S&P 500 (SPX) at Wikinvest

Mid-Day Update - Earnings & Cherry Picking Define the Day

With major indexes essentially flat at mid-day, there doesn’t seem to be any concerted buying of safety names, as evidenced by this screen I ran:
S&P 500 Stocks with forward P/E under 10, Current Ratio over 1.0 trading down today:
105/303 (34%)
S&P 500 stocks with same metrics that are trading up today:
115/294 (39%)
So we’re seeing a [...]

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Bristol-Myers Squibb, Two other companies raise dividends (Dividend Growth Investor, 12/28/09)
Manipulating earnings (Canadian Business Blog, 2/24/10)
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Read more on S&P 500 (SPX), Net Income, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company at Wikinvest

The Name’s “Fundamentals” - Nice to Meet You

I was running some screens at finviz.com, and it appears that investors are starting to peek at stock fundamentals again:
As of 11:45 EST, 240 of the S&P 500 were in positive territory. Of those 240, 122 (50.8%) had forward P/E ratios under 10x.
Of the 258 stocks that were down, only 95 (36%) had sub-10 forward [...]

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Read more on S&P 500 (SPX), Enterprise Acq Corp at Wikinvest

S&P HeatMap on Fire

A great website that I’ve recently been using for charts and screening, FinViz.com, has some great heatmaps running for both domestic and world stock markets.
Today’s heatmap (which shows the markets in a cluster/block format with color strength…think weather radar for stocks) is available here. By clicking on any area you’ll get a blowup that features [...]

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A Comprehensive Look At Investor Sentiment (The Technical Take, 3/4/10)
Read more on S&P 500 (SPX), Citigroup at Wikinvest