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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (VRX 37.00) has garnered a lot of news lately. Valeant’s stock continues to rise after the company won approval from loan holders to amend terms of the company’s debt, granting the pharmaceutical company an additional month to file its annual report.
There was an interesting coincidence in both our Wall Street Best Investments and Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks newsletters last month. Each of our Spotlight Stocks are preparing to spinoff into separate companies.
Small caps will outperform large caps in 2016. Given that small caps outperform over the long-term, yet have underperformed large caps for two consecutive years (2014 and 2015), and have fallen so much year-to-date, I see solid potential for small-cap outperformance over the next 12 months.
Everyone knows what a cheap stock is. Or do they? To some people, a cheap stock is one that is low-priced, like SunEdison (SUNE), currently trading at less than a dollar per share. People who like these stocks generally don’t have a lot of money to invest, and they like the fact that they can buy 100 shares of stock for less than $100 (plus commission). To other people, like Warren Buffet, a cheap stock is one that is selling at a price that’s below its true value.
For a growth stock investor like me with a sense of history, investing maxims help a lot; I often think of one when I’m in an investing rut, or when the market is a bit confusing. However, my only beef with all of these maxims is that there’s only so many times you can hear the basic ones like “cut losses short” before your eyes glaze over. So what I’m doing today is adding some “how” to the “why and the what” of those basic maxims, offering some ideas about how to actually implement them.
Right now, I think there are some very convincing signs that Chinese stocks, which have been about as popular as used gym socks for a number of years, are about to turn around in a massive way. One Chinese social media giant in particular seems to be gaining momentum.
Are there any compelling investment opportunities in New Zealand? Given that the country’s economy still has a large agricultural component, and that a “brain drain” has been a problem in recent decades, no. On the other hand, the complete collapse of commodity prices around the globe in recent years does make me eager to spot a nascent uptrend in despised commodities that have been discarded in the panic selling of recent months.
After a rough year, Alibaba stock appears primed for a breakout. What will it take for this promising Chinese stock to get going?