Today, we continue the Porter’s report-card grading with two of our key advisories… Marty Fridson’s Distressed Investing and Erez Kalir’s Tech Frontiers.
Every week, the team at Porter & Co.’s Sunday Investment Chronicles pores over thousands (and thousands) of articles, reports, social media posts, analyses, regulatory filings, and anything else we can get our hands (and eyes) on to understand what’s happening in the world of investing and finance – and to uncover the most original, compelling, and double-head-fake ideas…
In this issue of Saturday Stock Screen… we share the process of how we sift through thousands of stocks to find a handful that we will then do more in-depth analysis for possible inclusion in the Complete Investor portfolio.
With the U.S. government restarting the financial printing press, the social problems we’ve seen emerging for the last decade become vastly worse, as the affordability crisis moves from the young, who can’t afford to start a life in America, to the old, who are completely dependent on government payments, which have less and less purchasing power. The “End of America” is not a prediction anymore.
In today’s issue, we announce a key new feature of The Trading Club and address several questions from subscribers. We also provide an overview of the biggest new development in financial markets.
Right now, the industry that produces the key ingredient for everything from Oreo cookies to living-room paint is near the bottom in operating profit and share price. This distress creates the opportunity to recommend shares of one the leaders (a century-old business) in the production of this chemical.
Recent share-price volatility serves as a reminder that investors should always be re-evaluating their portfolios for changes in a company’s fundamentals. That’s even more true when there is a trend change at the top of the market, coupled with the annual tradition of year-end portfolio rotation.
Many public companies make significantly large investments into private startups, which then balloon into huge assets on the public companies balance sheets… yet very few investors ever spot them. Meaning many share prices are missing some real value… yours for the taking.