Not every stock that gets whacked deserves it.
Stocks may fall because of bad news that’s real but temporary. They may fall because a company sacrifices short-term profits for long-term benefits. They may fall because investors, moving as a herd, take a dislike to a particular industry.
That’s why I like to look for buy candidates among stocks that have been beaten up. In this column, I compile a Casualty List of stocks that have been pummeled in the latest quarter, and I think have good comeback potential.
The Casualty List you’re about to read is the 71st in a series that began in 2000. The average 12-month gain on my picks has been 15.2%, handily beating the 9.9% average for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. (Figures are total returns, including dividends.)
As a new year gets underway, the four stocks Wall Street analysts love most are Amazon.com, Microsoft Corp., Burlington Stores and Valero Energy (VLO). Should you run out and buy them? No, according to my 22-year study. Analysts’ favorites frequently flop. For example, at the beginning of last year, 15
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Madison Square Garden Company President and CEO David OConnor, right, is applauded by MSG Networks Inc. President and CEO Andrea Greenberg, center, and others as his company’s spinoff begins trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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Perhaps you’ve seen the Energizer Bunny in a battery commercial. It is “still going” long after you’d expect it to fade.
That bunny is the namesake for my Bunny Portfolio, a hypothetical stock portfolio I created in 1999. These are stocks that have shown rapid earnings growth (25% or better) in the past five years, yet paradoxically sell for a modest 12 times earnings or less.
Newton recently appointed three newly elected members to its Board of Directors:
Annie Greene, Eric Boecher and
Gloria
Greene, a
Newton native, joins the Board of Directors after 10 years of involvement at the Y s residential camp, Camp Frank A. Day. She attended Frank A. Day as a camper and then spent four years as a counselor. In 2018, she spoke about her camp experience at the Y s A Night Under the Stars fundraising gala. She is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and is currently working as a nanny while attending nursing school. She is the daughter of the late Frederick Greene, who served on the Y s Board of Directors and is remembered as a tireless community advocate.