According to Bloomberg, as of Mar. 21, J.C. Penney(NYSE: JCP) has a 42.6% short interest. This means that of J.C. Penney's entire float of 219.2 million shares, there are more than 93 million that have been shorted. What this immediately tells us is that investor sentiment for J.C. Penney is very low. Nearly half of all J.C. Penney investors are betting for more »
Retail Properties of America(NYSE: RPAI) is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates shopping centers across 35 states. It is one of the largest owners and operators of shopping centers in the United States with 230 properties including power centers, community centers, neighborhood centers and lifestyle centers and single-user retail properties. Retail Properties of America also held interests in 10 office properties, two industrial properties, 22 retail more »
Here's the easiest trade to make in the history of Earth:
Buy Japan. Sell Europe.
The reasons have nothing to do with fundamentals, and everything to do with the strategic thinking behind policy.
Inflation Can Be Good
The new head of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, is determined to end the generation of deflation that has devastated his country's economy like Godzilla plundering paper Tokyo.
U.S. equity markets have been off to the races in early 2013, with the best start to the year going back to January 1997. Annual money inflows into stocks have benefitted from a re-entrance of monies that exited the market late last year in anticipation of higher taxes and the fiscal cliff.
Furthermore, investors seem to have put aside the potential for U.S. fiscal policy having an effect more »
According to a Form 4 filed with the SEC, Kenneth Masick purchased 4,700 shares of Retail Properties of America (NYSE: RPAI) on December 14 at an average price of $11.92 per share. Masick serves on the company’s Board of Directors and so this transaction had to be reported as an insider purchase. This gives Masick a total of 7,700 shares held directly; he had bought the more »
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.” – John D. Rockefeller.
I’ve used the above quote from John D. Rockefeller quite a few times because as an income-seeking investor, I’m always on the lookout for a nice dividend. Sometimes though you can find that a large future dividend will come in a currently small package. With some of more »
Usually when investors hear that a company is a dividend aristocrat they assume that the stock would be a good long-term hold. In theory, a company doesn't increase its dividend for 25 straight years in a row without some type of stability in their operations. However, I've now looked at several new dividend aristocrats that were added this year and they don't exhibit the same type of stability that more well-known names do. The latest example is a company named, National Retail Properties(NYSE: NNN).
The following companies are selling cheaply on a relative basis when considering either forward or trailing earnings. These stocks are seemingly going to see some appreciation, whether it is in the near future or years from now. I am going to highlight some of the pros and cons of the following stocks so that the reader can make a decision based on their risk tolerance and personal investment requirements.
Here are five interesting investing opportunities which are good additions to a diversified stock portfolio. The first two are growth investments which pay zero or little dividend, followed by two which offer stable dividends and the fifth is a real estate investment trust which owns and operates properties through the U.S., Puerto Rico and Brazil.
EMC(NYSE: EMC) traded around $25 per share at the time of this writing more »
Now that the holidays are over and all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are done, shopping is probably the last thing on most peoples’ minds. Yet there are still some good deals to be had out there. Just ask The Blackstone Group(NYSE: BX), which announced a new joint venture with DDR Corp.(NYSE: DDR) to buy 46 shopping centers in the United States for a total cost more »
