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  • BlueMountain Capital Is Bullish On These 5 Stocks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: AIG, HBI, NRG, TARO, SSP

    The New York-based hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management has recently disclosed its first quarter equity holdings in a 13F filing with the SEC, as is consistent with the rest of its peers. Using the original 13F, seen here, let’s take a look at BlueMountain’s top five stock picks heading into the second quarter.

    A top trio

    According to the 13F, American International Group (NYSE: AIG) is the largest more »

  • Looking for Great Utility Stock Deals

    By Chris Hodge - May 9, 2013 | Tickers: NRG, NVE, PEG

    Utilities and their potential for financial security is a topic I've written about before, but it bears repeating: a stock is only as secure as its likelihood of delivering value to your portfolio. Any business with a moat, a solid business model, and steadily growing earnings has a good chance of making you wealthier over time. The real trick, however, is finding a good company for a great price more »

  • Contrarian Capital’s Best Contrarian Investments

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: BAC, CHTR, LYB, NRG, RFP

    As the name implies, Contrarian Capital invests in distressed securities. The fund is managed by Jon Bauer, who started the Distressed Securities Group at Oppenheimer & Co and currently has over $3 billion in total assets under management. Bauer has a smaller equity-only 13F portfolio, but it’s worth watching regardless. Clearly not every stock in this mini-portfolio is what we would consider “distressed,” but there are securities that have recently more »

  • Will This Utility Stock Continue to Edge Up?

    By Alex Bastardas - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: AME, NRG, AES

    Utility stocks have had a great run this year, making it harder to find undervalued stocks in the group. However, investors looking for attractive stocks in this segment might want to consider NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG). The company is an integrated wholesale power generation and retail electricity company engaged in the supply of energy, services, and sustainable products to retail customers. It is also focused on potentially disruptive technologies, like more »

  • Can New York Taxis Jump Start the Electric Car Market?

    By Stephanie Faris - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: NSANY.PK, NRG, TSLA

    So far, consumers and investors have been ho-hum about the release of one electric car after another. An idea that seemed great in conceptualization has had tepid response since it came time to put it into practice. Electric cars simply lack the technology it will take for mass consumer adoption.

    Namely, consumers are reticent about the fact that electric cars have to be charged. Not only are charging stations hard more »

  • Merchant Power Bargains

    By Reuben Brewer - April 24, 2013 | Tickers: AT, EXC, NRG

    Operating in a regulated power market is a great business. Selling power on the open market was a great business. Now it isn't. That's led to a few utility dividend cuts and some turnaround opportunities for investors.

    Two Markets

    There are basically two types of power companies, those that operate in regulated markets and those that sell electricity on the open market. Many utilities have operations in both more »

  • Is This Company a Short Squeeze Victim, or a Fundamental Long Play?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 22, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, LDK, NRG

    The solar industry is notoriously volatile, with companies in the sector being prone to wild swings in a single-trading day based upon a variety of factors. As such, perhaps it is not totally unexpected that shares of First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) experienced a meteoric rise of about 49% on April 9.

    The question for investors is, whether First Solar, and perhaps the solar industry in general, is poised for continued more »

  • Is First Solar a Short Squeeze Victim, or a Fundamental Long Play?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, LDK, NRG

    The solar industry is notoriously volatile, with companies in the sector's shares being prone to large single-day moves up and down based upon a variety of factors. As such, perhaps it is not totally unexpected that the shares of First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) experienced a meteoric rise of about 49% on April 9th. The question for investors is whether First Solar, and perhaps the solar industry in general more »

  • High-Performing Hedge Fund Loves AIG, Ads and Energy

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 19, 2013 | Tickers: AIG, ESRX, LAMR, NXY, NRG

    By definition, hedge funds are often thought of as being a tool for high net-worth investors only, but there are ways for their retail-focused peers to get in on the action. At Insider Monkey, we track 450 of the world’s most elite hedge fund managers and our research has shown that over time, their best picks have had a tendency to historically outperform. For more than a decade in more »

  • Will Solar Ever Shine?

    By Gerelyn Terzo - February 8, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, NRG, SPWR

    Maybe if the folks at The Superdome in New Orleans had taken a page out of the playbook of the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, or New England Patriots, they would have had solar panels installed at the stadium and they could have prevented the power failure that interrupted play for more than half an hour in Superbowl XLVII. Indeed, the aforementioned trio of football stadiums have thousands of NRG more »

  • Tesla Motors: Are Electric Vehicles a Possibility or Inevitability?

    By Leo Sun - January 28, 2013 | Tickers: GM, NRG, TSLA

    Everything about Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) defies current conventions.

    It sets up shop in Silicon Valley, not Detroit. It builds electric vehicles, not gasoline-powered ones. And it believes that a future with purely electric vehicles is not only a possibility, but an inevitability.

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk once claimed that entrepreneurship is like “eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.” Many loyal Tesla shareholders echo his sentiment.

    In more »

  • The Answer to Electric Car Range Anxiety

    By Matthew Luke - January 25, 2013 | Tickers: GM, NSANY.PK, NRG, TSLA

    I personally love the idea of the electric car. And when Nissan Motors announced a new Nissan LEAF model that could potentially sell for as little as $18,800 after various tax credits, I began to seriously consider the purchase of a new electric car. So I began to do my research. And as I was at my local Nissan dealership checking-out the current Nissan LEAF model, I was reminded of the one thing that has thus far kept me from pulling the trigger on a new electric car purchase. And that one thing is the battery. While I love the electric car in theory, the electric car battery leaves a lot to be desired for in practice. Specifically, I am referring to finding locations to charge the electric car's battery.

  • Analysts Give Reasons to Buy these Stocks

    By Brian Nichols - January 11, 2013 | Tickers: ATVI, INFA, NRG, PM

    An upsurge in analyst upgrades took place today, as high-profile firms gave their outlooks for various stocks. Such activity was more than what we usually see during a typical session. Therefore, I am looking at some of the top stock moving calls that took place and examining what was said to move these stocks.

    Company

    Ticker

    Firm

    Call

    Philip Morris

    (NYSE: PM)

    Goldman Sachs

    Conviction Buy

    Activision Blizzard

    (NASDAQ: ATVImore »)

  • The Myth of Book Value

    By Rupert Hargreaves - November 30, 2012 | Tickers: AA, BAC, ETFC, HPQ, INTC, NRG, WPX | Editor's Choice

    Price to book ratio is a metric usually used by investors to determine if a stock price is undervaluing the asset value of the company. However, one of the problems with this is that the P/B ratio can other be incredibly misleading. For example many tech firms like HP and Intel will often have patents on their balance sheets. These will account for a good portion of the company more »

  • Carlson Capital’s Most Recent Stock Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - November 14, 2012 | Tickers: C, NRG, PNC, SLE, SRZ.DL

    Clint Carlson’s Carlson Capital is a multi-strategy hedge fund located in Texas which takes pride in a contrarian approach to investing. It also likes to emphasize a company’s philosophy of doing business as well as more measurable characteristics. Carlson recently filed its 13F with the SEC, which discloses many of the stocks that the fund owns and the sizes of those positions. Read on for our quick take more »

  • The Best Place to Waste Your Energy

    By Maxxwell A.R. Chatsko - November 13, 2012 | Tickers: CPN, CVA, NRG, WM

    Traditional sources of energy – coal, natural gas, nuclear – are always in the headlines. They have ample government policies and regulatory frameworks that govern their use and guide investment. The market of energy-from-waste (EfW) does not have the same amount of fanfare or oversight, but don’t throw the industry into your waste bin of investing ideas just yet. EfW technologies have one important thing in common with those of traditional more »

  • It's the Efficiency, Stupid

    By Maxxwell A.R. Chatsko - November 13, 2012 | Tickers: ANR, ACI, GEN, NRG | Editor's Choice

    I find it a bit comical that an election that virtually neglected energy – in the debates, on the campaign trail, at the voting booths – is now being blamed for a “War on Coal.” Privately-held Murray Energy, citing the Electoral College’s final tally, has thrown a public temper tantrum by firing 163 workers. Murray isn’t alone. In the last year the entire coal industry has been shaken up by more »

  • Stormy Earnings

    By Gerelyn Terzo - October 31, 2012 | Tickers: CHK, ETR, NRG

    I couldn't help but notice the winding line of customers waiting for fuel from the two-pump station next to my New Jersey residence, a chain of cars that extended into my driveway. Those long lines have since subsided as Hurricane Sandy brings its fury, and no doubt the storm played a part in the rush to fill-up. More than likely, however, the lines also has something to do with more »

  • Why I’m Buying the One Stock Whose Future is Now

    By Matthew DiLallo - October 16, 2012 | Tickers: AVAV, GM, NRG, TSLA

    Imagine a future where we no longer pull into a gas station to fill up our cars with a substance whose origin was beneath the feet of our enemy.  Instead we pull into fuel stations with a wide variety of choices that are cleaner, cheaper, and produced right here at home.  That’s of course when we actually need to fuel up from a long trip instead of from the more »

  • Energize Your Portfolio With This Stock

    By Palwasha Saaim - July 30, 2012 | Tickers: AEP, D, GEN, NRG, SO

    Utility stocks are suddenly the hip thing on the stock market. The two top ETFs SPDR Utilities ETF (XLU) and Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU) have returned 4.73% and 4% YTD returns. Dow Jones Utility Average (DJU) has returned 9.7% YTD. 

    Here's one utility stock worth putting on your watchlist. 

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