Daily musings on stocks…
June 6, 2011 | In: Financial
BAC (a stock that I loathe and thankfully have stopped trading for a while) is currently trading $10.93, which is just 2 cents above the 52 week low. Will it break this $10.91 barrier today? I think if it does, then there's a huge potential that BAC...
June 6, 2011 | In: Technology
The whole point behind the LinkedIn IPO was not to expand the company, it was about making a few people running this website (I'm saying website because I don't think we should even consider it a business) rich by cashing in. How many investors were...
June 4, 2011 | In: Trivia
After my previous list of one letter stock symbols, I have decided to find which stock has the longest ticker symbol. I thought I'm going to find a stock with 10 characters, something like ABCDEFGHIJ, but I was wrong. The longest ticker symbol for any...
June 3, 2011 | In: General
Facebook's IPO is probably the most awaited IPO of all time. I'm sure that first day's volume will be worth at the very least $2 billion. I have no idea what the price of the share will be, though a $100 is a very likely figure. Now the question on...
June 2, 2011 | In: Lists
I was jogging with a friend of mine yesterday, and we started talking about X (United States Steel Corporation), a stock that I personally believe to be underpriced, and then I thought, how many other stocks have a ticker that consists of only one letter,...
June 1, 2011 | In: Opinion
Buying at IPO is an almost guaranteed way to make money, especially if the company issuing the stock has a sterling reputation (many times you can make money even if the company issuing the stock is losing money!). But holding the stock for a while is a...
May 26, 2011 | In: General
I have listed yesterday the top 100 stocks with the highest short interest ratio, and in the post, I've briefly discussed the concept of a short squeeze, I would like to discuss it more. I will start with the definition of a short squeeze, and then I will...
May 25, 2011 | In: Lists
I have promised in yesterday's post to create a list of stock with the highest short interest ratio. So here it is: RankStock SymbolShort RatioLast...
May 24, 2011 | In: General, Opinion
Before writing this post, I would like to stress the point that a good company does not necessarily mean that its stock is good, but a good stock is definitely the sign of a good company (PS: I don't think NFLX is a good stock). Now what are the...
May 23, 2011 | In: Opinion, Technology
Now why would anyone in his sane mind enjoy a ringback in this day and age? It's a mystery to me (as well as to many, many others), but Rogers (you should really read the post, the author genuinely thinks that this so called feature is the best thing...