Tuesday, November 26, 2024
What do consumers do when they want the latest fashion, but inflation has priced it out of range? Answer, buy “used”, but authenticated, jewelry and watches from a company like Envela (ELA – Get Rating). Envela is in the “re-commerce” business operating in two segments. The first is consumer focused, and involves selling preowned luxury goods and metals. […]
Very few brands have the distinction of having their corporate name become “genericized” so that the brand is synonymous with the activity. Google (GOOGL – Get Rating) is perhaps the most well known today, with the phrase “Google It” meaning any internet search. Unless you’re of a certain age, you may not know the term “Make a Xerox”. And […]
In the previous parts of our “Why Diamonds?” series, we explained that as an uncorrelated and under-allocated asset, diamonds can play an important role in investor portfolios. In this final installment, we describe how the unique characteristics of diamonds combined with the emergence of blockchain and cryptocurrencies has created an unprecedented moment for creating superior […]
A good hunting ground for double-digit yields is the world of closed end funds (CEFs), as my colleague Tim Melvin often points out. For those of you who are unfamiliar, CEFs are a type of fund that issues a fixed number of shares through a single initial public offering (IPO) to raise capital for its […]
The world is changing rapidly. Some of it will be for the better. Some of it, not so much. All the changes will prevent the opportunity for massive profits. The trick is to pay the right price for your ticket to ride the changing trends. The trick is not to buy in during Euphoria. Buying […]
The calamity in small caps continues to unfold. But before I do a deep dive into this in relative terms, there’s something extremely important to be aware of: the absolute charts of the Russell 3000. Looking at the chart, I find that things are making a lot of sense right now. The economy is not […]
Diamonds are a $1.2 trillion natural resource, more than silver and platinum combined. As a durable hard-asset, diamonds are just like precious metals and a reliable store of wealth. In the first part of our “Why Diamonds?” series, we shared insights on diamonds as an important feature for portfolio diversification as an uncorrelated asset. In this installment, […]
The answer to the question “what is America’s top-selling beer?” may surprise some. But it shouldn’t… it’s the Mexican beer, Modelo Especial, which is owned by the same company that owns Corona, Pacifico, and other Mexican beers. Modelo Especial’s U.S. success is the culmination of the decades-long rise of the beer industry in Mexico, which […]
The Fed’s aggressive interest rate increases have been good for business development companies (BDCs). I have been recommending select BDC stocks all year and want to make clear that the investment potential remains very attractive. Let me show you why – and give you one of my favorite BDCs… Congress passed the BDC rules to […]
Every week, I check to see what corporate investors are doing with the shares of the companies they own. I do not get too excited over small-to-mid-size insider sales. Crowing over a single insider sale is something so-called analysts and experts do far too often. But there are hundreds of reasons a corporate officer or […]
