Paula Pant

Editor's Choice

• Should Contrarians Buy Facebook? Heck No!

  By Paula Pant - August 4, 2012 | Tickers: FB, GOOG |

  I’m a contrarian investor. If a stock plummets, my knee-jerk response is: “Should I buy it?”

  When Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO’ed, my level of interest in the stock was zero. As a general rule, I’m suspicious of IPOs, which represent a stock price that hasn’t been tested on the open market. I’m wary when a large group of company insiders decide they want to unload more »