1 2 It is a difficult environment for investors that need income when interest rates are scraping the bottom of the barrel. With the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield at 0.669%, the ability to generate a consistent return with little to no risk doesn’t exist. It’s pushing income investors into taking more risk to generate the needed return. The following four real estate investment trusts (REITs) are quality businesses that pay over a 4% dividend yield. If you’re an investor in need of income or a pension fund in need of paying retirees, the current environment is clearly hostile for consis...

I don’t know if you’re a fan of the show “Love It or List It” but insiders and investors have to make this decision all of the time with their shares. Do you “love it” enough to hold the shares or do you “list it” by selling the shares. With the shares of Zillow Group (NASDAQ: Z) continuing to run to all-time highs over the past couple months, insiders have been listing their shares in a big way. According to the Zillow Weekly Market Report, home sales are occurring at a blistering pace with pending home sales increasing 16.9% year-over-year. Homes are going under contract 11 days faste...

1 2 For the past two weeks, small cap value names have outperformed the S&P 500. To illustrate this, you can take the iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF (NYSEARCA: IWN) and divide it by the S&P 500 index on a weekly chart. While the outperformance wasn’t dramatic, it is part of a bottoming process that has been building since late March. Looking forward, the potential for this class of companies could be huge and here are five names that may lead the way. A value stock is a company that is trading at a discount to what it is perceived to be worth. Some investors will take a discou...

It’s been a comedy of errors for Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) as the company has had a hard time keeping up with production deadlines and developing small chips that can be used in ever-smaller devices in the Internet of things (IoT) age. The loss of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the price surge in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (NASDAQ: AMD) is only a reminder of management’s failure, but the current price is beginning to attract bullish option interest that is pointing to higher prices. In the company’s most recent earnings release they discussed the progress of the company’s 7nm CPU:...

It was a little over a week ago when Berkshire Hathaway bought its most recent tranche of 13.5 million shares of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). Since the buying began on July 22, option traders appear to have been following the buying with bullish option interest. That interest has dovetailed with a steepening yield curve and talks in Congress over stimulus spending. On Friday, the interest began to build again as the price looks to have found some support near $26. Over the past few weeks, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been buying a lot more shares of Bank of America. Sinc...

It can be hard to know which period to start with and what is the most important criteria to evaluate for potential insider selling candidates. A good approach to take is to find the most sold stocks for a particular week and then dig in. The S&P 500 is a good place to start for opportunities since they are typically large company and are actively traded. Looking back at last week, Fortive Corp (NYSE: FTV) came in second as the most-sold stock on the S&P 500 in terms of trade value. Fortive manufactures professional instrumentation and develops software to be used in testing, ca...

1 2 Earnings season is a potential volatile time for the market as companies report data that is unknown to investors. As this quarter’s earnings season comes to a close, it’s important to look at the scorecard and evaluate future expected earnings. With less than 10% of the S&P 500 left to report, 79.6% have beaten EPS estimates and 62.6% have beaten revenue estimates. As we start a new week, here’s 10 names that are set to announce with their earnings expectations as well as their expected price movement. Despite the major market indices either at or near all-time highs, we’re i...

One of the hottest stocks in the market is FireEye Inc (NASDAQ: FEYE). The heat isn’t coming from bulls accumulating stock shares but rather large positions being built in the options market for this week’s expiration and next week’s expiration. While the stock hasn’t exactly broken out yet, the building option interest is something that may play out in a very bullish way soon. FireEye is a cloud security company that beat analyst estimates by a wide margin for last quarter and has consistently beaten analyst estimates by double-digit margins for the past four quarters. The company’s an...

1 2 The term “solid” isn’t very descriptive about the characteristics of the stocks on this list but it is a statement about the type of companies that are on the list. A “solid” company is a company that is generally managed well, has a healthy balance sheet, and has a stable to rising share price.  While individually they may not be a pure growth, value or income stock, frequently, they exhibit qualities of more than one these fundamental classifications. Here are five solid companies that are in a good position to buy today for future gains. The term “solid” isn’t very descriptive ...

David Field, CEO of Entercom Communications Corp (NYSE: ETM), stepped up and bought shares of his company this week as his holdings increased nearly 5%. The purchase comes as the price of the stock is staging a short-term rally and comes after the company missed analyst estimates last Friday but saw the share price rise on the session. The purchase comes at a good time technically and looks like this may be a bullish signal for a near-term move in the price. ETM reported that their Q2 revenue declined 54% compared to the same quarter in 2019. The result was an operating loss of $45.3 mi...