It’s never easy to hit a moving target, but there appear to be a million gamers moving around as the result of the early success of Microsoft’s Kinect. The world’s largest software company announced that a million Kinect systems the $150 camera-based motion controller that hit the market two weeks ago have been sold in [...]
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5 Superball Stocks
In my recurring Fool column, “Get Ready for the Bounce,” we search for future winners in a pile of 52-week losers. But do we really need to sit around for a whole year, waiting for a fallen stock to bounce back? Nope. Sometimes stocks fall hard, in far less time than a year. And like [...]
The Money Men Are Selling Rackspace Hosting
Is Rackspace Hosting headed higher, or lower? That’s the question we ask when we evaluate insider buying and selling. We ask because how executives spend their paychecks is often a reflection of what they think of their companies’ prospects. Of course, not all buys are equal. According to two decades of research from Dr. H. [...]
4 Dividend Stocks Showing You the Money
Dividend checks continue to get fatter Corporate America, as more companies jack up their distribution rates. Readers of the Income Investor newsletter can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking. Let’s take a closer look at some of the companies that inched their payouts higher this past week. Let’s start with Sysco. The foodservice giant with [...]
Low Rates Are Killing These Stocks
Low interest rates aren’t just bad for savers. They also put entire industries at risk. That may sound counterintuitive, especially given that one of the primary justifications for the Fed’s low interest rate policy has been to encourage businesses to borrow and spend. And certainly, some companies have benefited greatly from the low-interest rate environment. [...]
Home Run Stocks You Don’t Want to Sell
Do you have difficulties knowing when to sell a stock? It’s probably the single hardest thing for an investor to do well. Sure, finding great companies with undervalued stocks is tough, but selling them is even tougher. You’ll never achieve the 20 and 30 baggers of the next decade if you unload a great business [...]
