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  • Improving Your Portfolio by Knowing What to Avoid

    By Phillip Woolgar - June 18, 2013 | Tickers: CNE, FTR, PBI

    Identifying which stocks to avoid will help you weed out the duds and hone in on stellar performers. To complete that task, I investigate the same information that I do when deciding to purchase a growth stock. However, the directions that I look for in each of my criteria is different. Let's investigate some indicators that will help you determine the type of stocks to avoid. While these aren more »

  • Insider Report: Frontier Communications Set To Move Higher

    By Brian Gorban - June 13, 2013 | Tickers: T, FTR, WIN

    Insider buying is widely followed due to the fact that insiders, like investors, buy shares for the same reason: their belief the stock will move higher. Below is a well followed company that recently had a large insider purchase and has me looking deeper whether or not it makes for a sound investment? As a caveat, please only consider this as a starting point in your investment research as these more »

  • An Insider Just Bought This High Dividend Stock

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - June 11, 2013 | Tickers: CTL, FTR, PBI, RRD, XRX

    Mark Wright, an executive vice president at Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI), a business mail services company, directly acquired 15,000 shares of stock on June 6th at an average price of $14.43 per share. We follow insider purchases because we think that insiders should purchase stock primarily when they are more confident than usual in the company’s prospects; at other times, it is rational for them to diversify more »

  • How Safe are the Three Largest Dividend Yields in the S&P 500?

    By Rupert Hargreaves - June 6, 2013 | Tickers: CTL, FTR, WIN

    The benefits of dividend investing are well known.

    Companies with high dividend yields can offer both protection and support in any market environment. In a falling market solid dividends can reduce a portfolio's losses and in a rising market, such as today's, a strong yield can be used to improve performance and offset inflation while interest rates are low.

    The question is, can the largest dividend yields in more »

  • I Wish it Were Simple

    By Chad Henage - May 25, 2013 | Tickers: CTL, FTR, VZ, WIN

    Sometimes it's hard to know whether to hold a stock, buy more, or sell it. You have to look at the company's performance, remind yourself of why you bought the stock in the first place, and then see if anything has materially changed. This is sort of where I am with CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL). On the one hand, the company had to cut its dividend, but they also more »

  • What Matters Most for Frontier Communications?

    By Chad Henage - May 24, 2013 | Tickers: CTL, FTR, VZ, WIN

    When I look at an earnings report, I'm usually trying to find some positives and negatives that I can take away. Ideally the report would confirm the company outperforming their peers across the board and showing good growth. That outcome doesn't occur often, and more often than not, there are a few worries to go along with a few positives. Such is the case with Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTRmore »)

  • 5 Signs This Business Is Slowly Dying

    By Chad Henage - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: T, CTL, FTR, WIN

    Sometimes picking stocks comes down to avoiding a “too good to be true” scenario. Investors in Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN) need a little reality check. The stock's current yield of 11.43% looks very appealing, but a good yield in a dying business is a sure recipe for disaster.

    Who's Buying This?
    In the last year, Windstream's stock has been as low as about $8, and as high more »

  • Hedge Fund Y/Cap Management’s Top Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: BP, FCX, FTR, RLGY, SDRL

    Y/Cap Management is a business unit of Yield Capital Partners, which was founded by Richard Haydon in 2009. As might be inferred from the name of its parent, Y/Cap often invests in income stocks on the theory that structural factors in the market will lead to return on equities coming predominantly in the form of dividends as opposed to capital gains. The fund has also taken large positions more »

  • Hedge Fund Adage Capital Management’s Small Cap Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 19, 2013 | Tickers: AWI, PLCE, FTR, MDVN, WBC

    The most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds outperform the S&P 500 by an average of 18 percentage points per year, according to our research on 13F filings. We think that this is because small cap stocks, which we define as those between $1 billion and $5 billion in market capitalization, receive less attention from large institutional investors such as mutual funds and so are more likely to more »

  • 3 Stocks You Should Short Sell

    By Phillip Woolgar - April 18, 2013 | Tickers: BAN, FTR, PBI

    Shorting a stock can be the best investment decision to provide some stability to your portfolio. Right now, I am comfortable with the six stocks I own -- with two large caps and four small caps. But, it's time to take my holdings to the next level and do something that will help recession-proof my buys. I keep one short position, amounting to approximately 20% of my portfolio.

    In looking more »

  • Hedge Fund Adage Capital Management’s Small Cap Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: AWI, PLCE, FTR, MDVN, WBC

    The most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds outperform the S&P 500 by an average of 18 percentage points per year, according to our research on 13F filings (learn more about hedge funds' small cap picks). We think that this is because small cap stocks, which we define as those between $1 billion and $5 billion in market capitalization, receive less attention from large institutional investors such as more »

  • 4 Reasons To Sell Windstream

    By Chad Henage - March 25, 2013 | Tickers: CTL, FTR, VZ, WIN

    In a recent article on Fool.com, Caroline Bennett suggested “3 Reasons To Buy Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN).” I don't often do this, but I feel in this case it's necessary. I'll do one better than Caroline, and suggest 4 reasons investors should sell Windstream.

    The Numbers Matter, But Only If You Are Using The Right Ones
    In Caroline's article, she suggested that one reason investors should more »

  • Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones’ Telecom and Tech Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 7, 2013 | Tickers: FTR, TMUS, VMW, VOD, WDC

    Insider Monkey has processed hundreds of 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors for the fourth quarter of 2012; these filings disclose many long equity positions that Tudor Investments Corp. had in its portfolio at the end of December. By aggregating 13F filings, we can develop investment strategies including imitating hedge funds’ most popular stocks in various categories (see how these strategies have performed in the past).

    Billionaire more »

  • These 3 Numbers Say To Stay Away

    By Chad Henage - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: T, CTL, FTR, WIN

    My first thought when I see a high yielding stock is, can the company afford the dividend? There are a few sectors of the market known for their high yields, such as telecommunications and utilities. In the local telecommunications space, companies like CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR), and Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN) are all offering significant yields. However, looking at Frontier's recent earnings report, I see multiple challenges that need to be addressed.

  • These 3 Numbers Keep Me from Buying

    By Chad Henage - March 1, 2013 | Tickers: CTL, FTR, VZ, WIN

    Who wouldn't be interested in a yield of more than 11%? If investors expectations are realistic, they would be very happy with a 10% or more return from their investments over time. Since you could also reinvest these dividends to raise your effective yield, over time you would have an even better chance of outperforming the market. However, as the old saying goes, if it looks too good to be true it probably is, such is the case with Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN).

  • Will Dividend Cuts Run Amok In Telecoms?

    By Marshall Hargrave - February 26, 2013 | Tickers: CTL, FTR, WIN

    With recent news of CenturyLink’s (NYSE: CTL) big dividend cut, questions arise about the other major land-line telecom companies, Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN) and Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR), and whether dividend cuts for these companies are to come. The fundamental issue for these cuts and an expected earnings decline for all of these companies is their deteriorating business models, with all three telecoms already missing earnings estimates for their December-ended more »

  • Are These Lush Dividends In Danger?

    By Timothy Green - February 26, 2013 | Tickers: CTL, FTR, WIN

    For many years small telecom companies operating mainly fixed-line phone businesses offered extremely high dividend yields, sometimes greater than 10%. But as the country increasingly goes wireless the stable cash flows previously generated by fixed-line customers have begun to deteriorate.

    CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) recently announced a quarterly dividend cut from $0.725 per share to $0.54 per share, a 25% decrease. This caused shares to plummet from about $41 more »

  • The News Isn't Really That Bad

    By Chad Henage - February 15, 2013 | Tickers: T, CTL, FTR, VZ, WIN

    I've written before about CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and how it appears to be the best positioned local telecom. Not a lot has changed about the company, but the market didn't like the company's new, “Capital Allocation Strategy”. Most of the headlines have focused on the dividend being cut from $0.725 per quarter to $0.54. However, there is a bigger change happening here, and though in the short-term this doesn't feel like a better deal for investors, it just may be.

  • Ma Bell Looks to the Future

    By Wes Patoka - February 14, 2013 | Tickers: T, FTR, WIN

    For some time, AT&T (NYSE: T) has been considered a mega-cap telecommunications utility with a wireless growth engine. The wireless space is becoming more and more saturated with other big players from Verizon to T-Mobile.  AT&T has seen this shift coming and has diversified itself accordingly.  Unlike Verizon, who shed their rural wireline division to Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR), AT&T doubled down on their current wireline assets more »

  • The 2 Things This Company Does Better Than Its Rival

    By Chad Henage - February 4, 2013 | Tickers: T, CTL, FTR, VZ

    There is no question that AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are rivals. I've written about both companies in the past, and honestly several times I've found Verizon to be a better growth story. I worked in the wireless industry for several years at one point, so I know behind the scenes the opportunities and challenges that face these companies. While AT&T's current quarter still shows them lagging their main competitor in a few areas, there are two things the company clearly is doing better than Verizon.

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