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Sell Starbucks (SBUX) – Still A Bad Stock

Similar to my prior interviews on SBUX, I found it easy to make the bear case for a stock that is as expensive as Starbucks (SBUX). As my regular readers know, when I say "expensive", I back that up with details such as: to justify its $40 stock price (closing price from prior day), SBUX had to grow profits at 10% compounded annually for more than 25 years.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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For Ask Matt readers:Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) — Dangerous Rating

Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) gets our Dangerous Rating. This means CAT’s quality-of-earnings are not attractive and the stock’s valuation is very expensive. For example, the valuation of the current stock price ($112.16) implies the company will grow its profits at 16% compounded annually for 20 years. The takeaway: there are better stocks to choose from. See details in our free report.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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S&P 500 Is Fully Valued

The Risk/Reward of the entire S&P 500 gets our Neutral Rat­ing. Our recently pub­lished Index Bench­mark report on the S&P 500 offers unique insights into the under­ly­ing prof­itabil­ity and val­u­a­tion of all the com­pa­nies com­prised by this index. It also offers bench­marks for (1) investors con­sid­er­ing buy­ing ETFs or Index Funds based on the S&P 500 and for (2) com­par­ing indi­vid­ual stocks to the S&P 500.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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Small Cap Stocks Are Dangerous

The Risk/Reward of the entire Russell 2000 gets our Dangerous Rating. Our recently published Index Benchmark report on the Russell 2000 offers unique insights into the underlying profitability and valuation of all the companies comprised by this index. It also offers benchmarks for (1) investors considering buying ETFs or Index Funds based on the Russell 2000 and for (2) comparing individual stocks to the Russell 2000.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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icad Inc (ICAD) — free report for Ask Matt, Dangerous Rating

icad (ICAD) gets a Dan­ger­ous Rat­ing because of these RED FLAGs: 1. Very Expensive valuation: current stock price implies the company will grow revenues at 20% compounded annually for the next 10 years while also improving ROIC from -3.7% to 1.5% within the same time frame. 2. Option Liabilities: of $2.1mm or 3% of the current market value 3. Asset-write-offs: $4.4mm or 7% of Net Assets
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO