MetroPCS to Merge with T-Mobile; Will It Hurt Other Carriers?
Though we don’t think it will hurt the Big 3, we think Leap and US Cellular could face overbearing competition.
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Though we don’t think it will hurt the Big 3, we think Leap and US Cellular could face overbearing competition.
Shares of the phone carrier have rallied on comments from its CEO. Still, we don’t like Sprint’s shares much at current levels.
We’re huge fans of Apple and think the iPhone 5 will be a huge success.
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Though shares are trading down over 5%, we thought Apple’s fiscal third quarter was relatively strong. We’re big fans of the stock.
Google announced its Nexus 7 tablet yesterday. We don’t think the product will truly compete against the iPad or the Surface.
We take a look at the future prospects of Radio Shack and highlight how our Valuentum Buying Index helped investors avoid massive losses at the company.
We take a look at how recent changes in content distribution will affect some of the industry’s largest players. We think Apple will be among the biggest winners.
“The kind of commentary that makes broad generalizations about expectations of future returns is exactly why people are so eager to get into passive investment strategies. Since the 1920s, it seems as though the individual investor has assumed the stock market was rigged or impossible for average Joes to figure out, but instead of the “I’ll get it next time” mentality that was present leading to the crash of ’29, individual investors have “evolved” to the point that now the idea is if you can’t beat the market, just buy the whole thing. Leaders like Bogle continue to take tremendous shortcuts in explaining forecasts, leaving the average investor like a student trying to copy math homework off a peer that … Read more
“If I’d just tried for them dinky singles, I could’ve batted around .600.” – Babe Ruth — “In investing, the trend toward conformity is clear. For example, portfolios today look more like their benchmarks than they did thirty years ago. The average active share, a measure of how different a mutual fund portfolio is compared to its benchmark, has fallen from 75 percent in 1980 to about 60 percent in 2010 in the United States. Leaders in sports as well as in business fear straying too far from convention, even in cases where the convention isn’t all that great (page 174).” – The Success Equation (2012) — This article was originally published October 16, 2020. — By Brian Nelson, CFA — … Read more