Apple plays the earnings game and wins–at least for today
All the headlines that I’ve seen after Apple (AAPL) reported earnings for the December quarter (first quarter of the 2017 fiscal year) after the market close today say that Apple beat Wall Street projections by 14 cents a share on earnings. Which sounds...
My long-term 50 Stocks portfolio returned 21.5% in 2016
This long-term, buy-and-holdish portfolio was originally based on my 2008 book The Jubak Picks. In that book I identified ten trends that were strong enough, global enough, and long-lasting enough to give anyone who invested in them a good chance of beating the stock...
Corning’s earnings beat today is all about Gorilla Glass
Update January 24, 2017. This morning, January 24, before the open in New York Corning (GLW) reported earnings of 50 cents a share, six cents a share above Wall Street estimates and up 47% from the year-ago quarter. Revenues also beat estimates, rising 6.2% year over...
My long-term pick Luxottica in $50 billion deal
In a $50 billion deal announced today Italy’s Luxottica (LUX), the world’s leading eyewear company, will combine with France’s Essilor (ESLOY), the world’s biggest maker of lenses, to form a from lens to Sunglass Hut giant in the eyewear...
Vale sells fertilizer assets to Mosaic–time for this long-term stock pick to pay down some debt
Brazil’s Vale (VALE) has agreed to sell it fertilizer assets to Mosaic (MOS) for $2.5 billion in cash and stock. The price at 15 times trailing-12-month EBITDA (earnings before taxes, interest, depreciation, and amortization) is a good one given the continued...
Keeping Corning in my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio but calling shares fully valued after 36% gain year-to-date
Update December 8, 2016. Corning (GLW) is up again today–1.22% on December 8–on news that the company has authorized a $4 billion share buyback. With a gain of 7.2% in the last month and 36.1% year-to-date I think the shares are now fully valued. No need...
Pioneer Natural Resources updates production plans; I’d look to buy if OPEC/Non-OPEC meeting this weekend disappoints
Update December 6, 2016. Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), one the biggest oil shale producers in the low cost Permian Basin, filled in some details on its post-OPEC agreement on reducing production today at the Cowen & Co. Energy Conference. The company said it...
More asset sales, less debt, higher share price for Chesapeake
Today Chesapeake Energy (CHK), the second largest U.S. producer of natural gas, announced a deal to sell 78,000 acres in Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale for $450 million to Indigo Minerals. The deal brings Chesapeake’s asset sales in 2016 to $2 billion. The...
Where will the next new device, the one after the smartphone, come from? Look inside Apple’s iPhone 7 for the answer
Today, I’m going to tell you why Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 7 is way ahead in the race to build the next new device, the one that comes after the smartphone as it now exists. I think that leading position means you should add Apple stock to your long-term...
Facebook beats earnings expectations yesterday but plunges today
Facebook (FB) crushed Wall Street expectations for the third quarter when it announced earnings after the close yesterday. And yet the shares closed down 5.68% today to $119.95. How come? Some of it is the general market nervous that I spelled out in my Morning...
Can Facebook beat sky-high expectations on November 2? Adding it to my long-term portfolio
How high are expectations for Facebook’s (FB) third quarter earnings report after the close on November 2? The report comes with the stock at an all-time high. (Shares closed at $130.99 on October 31.) Wall Street is looking for 96 cents a share, up from 57...
Advance warning: New York markets are going to have a lot to digest when they open Friday morning
Earnings reports from Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOG) after the close today. Earnings from ExxonMobil(XOM) before the open tomorrow. The advance report on third quarter U.S. GDP at 8:30 a.m. New York time tomorrow. Yep, the financial markets in New York are going to...Some hope for the company but disappointingly familiar news for copper in Freeport-McMoRan earnings today
The story in Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s (FCX) third quarter earnings report today was better news for the company than it was for the copper market in particular or the global commodities sector in general. The company did miss Wall Street estimates on...
PepsiCo beats on third quarter earnings and ups guidance
PepsiCo (PEP) announced third quarter earnings of $1.40 a share, well above analyst estimates for earnings of $1.32. (That’s year over year earnings growth of 4%.)Revenue of $16 billion was down 1.9% year over year–although it would have been up 4.2%...
Buying opportunity to come? Chesapeake Energy tumbles on fears that Icahn will sell remaining stake
Update September 27, 2016 Earlier this month Carl Icahn cut his position in Chesapeake Energy (CHK) by more than half. Nothing to worry about for other shareholders, he said. The sale was for tax reasons. Well, today that “Move along. Nothing to see here”...
What oil glut? Pioneer announces that it will add 5 rigs, increasing production by 13% to 17%
Update September 22. At the Johnson Rice energy conference yesterday, Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) announced that it plans to add 5 new horizontal drilling rigs to the 12 already at work on its leased acreage in the northern Spraberry/Wolfcamp area of the Permian...
Abbott looks to acquire its way out of a growth slump
Where do you find growth in a low-growth economy? If Wall Street projections are correct, the about-to-close third quarter of 2016 will show a 2% year-over-year drop in earnings for the Standard & Poor’s 500 companies–the sixth consecutive quarterly...
Navistar/Volkswagen hookup no big deal for Cummins
Update September 12. When on September 6 Volkswagen announced that it would take a 16.6% stake in Navistar International (NAV) for $256 million, it sent competitors in the truck market slipping lower. Shares of Cummins (CMI) fell 2.6% from September 8 to September 9...
Update Chesapeake Energy
Update September 6. Today shares of Chesapeake Energy (CHK) climbed 3.03% to close at $6.80 in the first post-Labor-Day trading session. The shares finished 24.8% ahead in August. Part of this was thanks to the market. A weaker than expected report on the...
Deere soars on big earnings beat from cost cutting
Update August 19, 2016. It’s not often that you’ll see a stock climb 13.49% on the day when the company announces that full year sales will fall 10%, worse than the 9% drop it had forecast earlier. But that’s the story today for Deere (DE.) The...
Trend toward tougher rules on emissions and fuel efficiency continues–with Cummins as a key beneficiary
Update August 17, 2016. New rules proposed by the Obama administration that would require up to a 25% reduction in carbon emissions from heavy-duty trucks over the next 10 years are good news in the long run for Cummins (CMI.) The proposed rules are 10% tougher than...
Xylem looks to buy some growth
Update August 15, 2016 Today, Xylem, a maker of wastewater and water treatment systems, and a member of my Jubak Picks portfolio since September 4, 2012, announced that it would acquire Sensus, a maker of smart meters for the utility market, for $1.7 billion. The...
Help, please–I’ve lost Chesapeake Energy in my 50 Picks portfolio
In the process of revising the long-term 50 Picks portfolio and selling my short-term position, I seem to have deleted the entry for Chesapeake Energy (CHK) in my long-term Jubak 50 portfolio. It should still be that portfolio–even though I’ve sold it out of the 12-18...Buy Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) in my long-term Jubak Picks 50 portfolio
I added Pioneer Natural Resources to my long-term Jubak Picks 50 portfolio https://jubakpicks.com/jubak-picks-50/ on Friday, January 13 (https://jubakpicks.com/2012/01/13/10-stocks-for-10-years-2012-edition-my-annual-update-of-my-long-term-jubak-picks-50-portfolio/ )...
(Finally) why I added DuPont to my long-term portfolio back in January–and why I’d still buy it today
This isn’t your parents’ chemical company anymore. For example, EI du Pont de Nemours (DD), DuPont to its friends, got 28% of its sales in 2010 from its agriculture and nutrition segment. (That percentage will go up once DuPont integrates its acquisition of Danisco,...10 stocks for the next 10 years: It's time for my annual update to the Jubak Picks 50 long-term portfolio
So far, this pick 10 stocks for the next ten years thing is a piece of cake. All you have to do, after all, is start your picks in the bottom of a bear market but close to a recovery and then ride out the next ten-year bull market, right? That was good enough for a...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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