Total Energy SA (NYSE: TOT) is a major oil and natural gas firm that is down for the last week, year, month, quarter, six months, and year of market action.  For 2015, Total Energy SA is already down by 5 percent (chart below).  The loss of its highly regarded chief executive officer has not helped […]

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), the Internet retail giant, has done much to make “Cyber Monday” a new American holiday with a global reach like “Black Friday” and “Super Bowl Sunday.” Much of this is owed to the genius of Jeff Bezos, the Chief Executive Officer of Amazon. This has naturally rewarded the shareholders of Amazon.  The […]

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) down for the last quarter and six months of market action, it can be difficult to remain positive about stocks (chart below).  The performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (NYSE: SPY) makes it even more challeng to be bullish.  But as Warren Buffett, Shelby Davis, […]

The bull market rally for the past five years has rewarded those owing such blue chip stocks as Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) (chart below), and many others.  For the savvy investor, that naturally raises the question of, “It it time to start buying small cap stocks?”  Legendary […]

Along with being a growth, value, and income stock at various times, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) is now a momentum stocks! PepsiCo is up for the last week, month, year, six months, and year of market action (chart below). For 2014, PepsiCo has risen by almost 12 percent.  By contrast, Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is down for […]

Small caps are becoming particularly alluring with all of the comment about a market correction due to blue chips like Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) doing so well over the run of the bull market. Einstein Noah Group (NASDAQ: BAGL), a chain of bagel restaurants, is one such stock (chart […]