Trading Tips

Carnival Corporation (CCL), the international cruise line operator, has been in the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons—fire aboard a ship, passengers becoming ill, inadequate on-board sewage on voyages, and most recently a reduced profit outlook. Dimitra Defotis, in her Barron’s piece “Can Carnival Right the Ship,” analyzes the company’s future prospects. “Shares fell [...]

Jim Royal is a regular contributor to the Motley Fool, specializing in writing about “special situations”—identifying stocks that he believes should rise in price for very specific reasons. Last month, in a piece titled “I’m Putting Real Money on This Spin-Off,” he  wrote about a recent spin-off from Valero (VLO) called CST Brands (CST), which [...]

One of the most common ways investors evaluate a company is to compare its stock performance and valuation to other companies in the same sector. A look at relative sales, earnings and growth rates often can lead to the identification of an issue that has the potential to trade higher, or conversely, might make a [...]

Traders are always on the lookout for stocks that have strong growth potential, dubbing the “potential 10-baggers,” or “potential doublers.” After all, who wouldn’t want to double their investment money, or better still, get back 1,000% returns? In a lengthy and detailed piece for SeekingAlpha titled, “Upcoming Catalysts Could Push ChemoCentryx to Double in 2013,” [...]

Like people, stocks go through good times and bad. And, like people, sometimes when something bad happens to a stock it tends to overshadow all the good things. In her recent Barron’s piece “Baxter Can Bounce Back,” author Dimitra Defotis profiles the shares of pharma heavyweight Baxter International (BAX), making a bull case for the [...]

Although dividend-paying stocks aren’t in vogue with the fast-money crowd, they’ve always had a strong following among institutional investors and funds looking to lock in gains on less risky, dividend-generating issues In his Stockpikr.com piece “5 Dividend Stocks Ready to Give You a Raise,” Jonas Elmerraji talks about the current value of owning dividend-paying stocks, [...]

In today’s Trading Tip, author Jason Napodano takes a close look at the potential of an interesting up-and-coming pharmaceutical concern Zalicus (ZLCS), in his piece for SeekingAlpha, “Watching Zalicus Like a Hawk.” The company is currently in advanced Phase II trials for its anti-cancer compound called Z160. “Zalicus is starting to look very interesting at [...]

Fracking, the process by which oil and gas are extracted from shale, requires large amounts of water to execute. One company that is already reaping the benefits, according to Leslie Norton, in her Barron’s piece “Cleaning Up on Fracking’s Dirty Water,” is Ecolab (ECL). And despite the fact that the issue is trading near its [...]

In the stock market, especially for small caps, momentum can carry issue prices higher with great speed. In his regular column for Stockpikr.com, Robert Pedone brings readers attention to “3 Under-$10 Stocks Making Big Moves.” “Stocks that are making large moves like these are favorites among short-term traders,” Pedone writes, “because they can jump into [...]

There’s nothing better than a simple list of solid and promising stocks to watch, especially when it comes from someone as well-versed in the markets as Motley Fool’s Sean Williams. In his most recent article for the Fool, Williams writes about “3 Stocks to Get on Your Watchlist.” And it’s not just the stocks Williams [...]