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  • Leon Cooperman's Three Income Picks

    By Anh HOANG - March 7, 2013 | Tickers: APL, CIM, KFN

    Recently, Leon Cooperman, founder and chairman of Omega Advisors, has commented on CNBC’s Squawk Box that equities are still the best place to be in right now. He also mentioned several income stocks that he was currently bullish about, including KKR Financial (NYSE: KFN), Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM), and Atlas Pipeline Partners (NYSE: APL). Let’s take a closer look at all three companies to determine whether or more »

  • Billionaire Leon Cooperman’s Best Stock Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - January 14, 2013 | Tickers: ATLS, APL, ARP, KFN, MMR

    Compared to their larger peers, small-cap stocks don’t get as much attention in the financial world. Understandably, then, we can expect hedge funds and other top-tier investment vehicles to take advantage of this information inefficiency; we’ve determined that the most popular small-cap stocks among hedge funds can earn about 120 basis points of alpha per month.

    At Insider Monkey, we started publishing a quarterly newsletter at the end more »

  • Five High-Yield Dividend Stocks with Significant Insider Buying

    By Karin Hernandez - December 11, 2012 | Tickers: NLY, ARR, CYS, JMI, KFN, NCT

    Insiders are the best barometer of a company’s future prospects, right? But insider selling can be for any reason – taxes, portfolio diversification, personal reasons. So it’s hard to judge a company by its insider selling (unless there’s an enormous wave, then it probably means you should get out of the way!). But there’s only one reason for insider buying – the insiders think the price is going more »

  • Capital Growth with Dividend: Our Top Picks

    By Shas Dey - December 4, 2012 | Tickers: PVD, KFN, ORI, PSEC

    Profit motivates investors, doubtless; however, the form of profit varies from stock to stock, and investors have their preference for one form over another. One may look for capital appreciation, while another may prefer to get their profits on a periodical basis in the form of dividends. Such preference may have various reasons behind it. Younger investors with a longer investment horizon may opt for capital growth while a relatively more »

  • Cobalt Capital Management’s Top Stock Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 25, 2012 | Tickers: AGU, ATLS, BEAV, KFN, MOS

    Wayne Cooperman, son of hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, got into the hedge fund business himself at 28 when he co-founded Fusion Partners in 1994. The fund’s other partner left in 1999, and Cooperman has re-branded the fund as Cobalt Capital Management. Historically, Cobalt has tended to be overweight the basic materials sector of the market. Read on to see the fund’s top five positions or see the more »

  • Infrastructure: Steady Growth Ahead

    By Gerelyn Terzo - September 5, 2012 | Tickers: BBY, BIP, CG, DB, GWR, KFN

    The world is in need of a major infrastructure overhaul from Latin America to Australia and places in between. Trillions upon trillions of dollars need to be dedicated to upgrades and new projects to adequately sustain growing populations and aging structures. Infrastructure is a long-term investment opportunity and the companies, investors and banks that are actively pursuing infra opportunities already are going to experience the benefits for decades to come more »

  • Invest in Airlines that Buy on the Cheap

    By Jonathan Yates - July 10, 2012 | Tickers: BRK-A, KFN, LUV, TAM.DL, UAL, LCC

    Charlie Munger, partner of Warren Buffett, once noted that "The net amount of money that's been made by the shareholders of airlines since Kitty Hawk is now a negative figure."

    Buttressing this assertion was an expensive and painful lesson that Berkshire Hathawy (NYSE: BRK-A) suffered from an investment in US Airways (NYSE: LCC).  In a shareholder letter about this, Buffett wrote, "I liked and admired Ed Colodny, the company more »

  • 4 Undervalued Stocks to Watch

    By Nikhil Shamapant - July 9, 2012 | Tickers: AFL, KFN, OCZ, SDR

    The investing world is full of surprises. One day a stock is down 20% on an earnings conference call, the next day the stock is up 30% on news of a new contract agreement. While the average investor would look at all of this volatility as risk, an opportunist should use volatility as a time to buy. In fact, in these markets, there are five companies in particular that I more »

  • Some Undervalued, High-Yield Financial Stocks for 2012 and Beyond

    By Damon Judd - January 18, 2012 | Tickers: KFN, MAIN, TICC, TCAP

    Psst - wanna buy some cheap stocks? Lend me your ear (or rather, your eyes) and take a gander at these gems!

    KKR Financial Holdings LLC (NYSE: KFN), together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty finance company with expertise in a range of asset classes. With a 21% Return on Equity (ROE), and Price/Book of 0.96, the stock is trading at a trailing P/E of 4.98 more »

  • 3 Nice Dividend Yields

    By Nikhil Shamapant - January 6, 2012 | Tickers: AIXG, KFN, RSH

    Here are 3 Nice Dividends that could add some strong returns to your portfolio in the new year.

    Aixtron SE (NASDAQ: AIXG)

    Dividend Yield: 6.08% EPS Payout Ratio: 33.8%

    With no debt and $4.71 per share of current assets over total liabilities, Aixtron's financial position is extremely safe.  Not only that, but its business is strong, supported by a 32% ttm Return on Equity. After more »

  • Passively Achieving Your Goals With Options Part3

    By Nikhil Shamapant - December 29, 2011 | Tickers: AFL, DVY, KFN, PEP, PBR, PG, SPY

    In this little series, I am trying to explain how the use of simple option selling strategies can help an investor to achieve their investment goals, whether through a passive investment strategy or an active yet conservative investment portfolio as I have created. I will make my passive portfolio demonstrations based on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF and the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF , and make recommendations of more »

  • Passively Achieving Your Goals With Options Part2

    By Nikhil Shamapant - December 28, 2011 | Tickers: AFL, DVY, KFN, PEP, PBR, PG, SPY

    So last blog I mentioned I was going to demonstrate how to use a passive strategy to achieve your investment goals. First of all, we have to get your investment goals out in the open. Since everyone has different goals for their market exposure, I will base my recommendations on goals of 5% and 10% returns. Know that to expect higher than this, you will have to take a bit more »

  • Passively Achieving Your Goals With Options Part1

    By Nikhil Shamapant - December 27, 2011 | Tickers: AFL, HAS, KFN, PEP, PBR

    Part 1-Passive Strategies to Consistently Achieve Your Investment Goals

    Sounds like the perfect scam huh? That's why I added the word ‘passive.’ None of those penny stock pump and dump scammers advertise ‘passive investing.’ Why? No one looking for 1000% returns is at all passive about it. Actively managed portfolios tend to have higher goals for investment returns. Considering the fact that passively managed portfolios often don’t even more »