October 26, 20200Comments

Earnings Distortion Scorecard: Week of 11/2/20-11/6/20

For the week of 11/2/20-11/6/20, we focus on the Earnings Distortion Scores for 118 companies.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

July 20, 20200Comments

Earnings Distortion Scorecard: Week of 7/27/20-7/31/20

For the week of 7/27/20-7/31/20, we focus on the Earnings Distortion Scores for 206 companies.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

April 27, 20200Comments

Earnings Distortion Scorecard: Week of 5/4/20-5/8/20

For the week of 5/4/20-5/8/20, we focus on the Earnings Distortion Scores for 112 companies.

by Kyle Guske II, Senior Investment Analyst, MBA

December 16, 20150Comments

The Market Values High ROIC Companies

Last month, Fortune released its list of the top 50 businesspeople of the year. The recognition these CEO’s are receiving shows that the market cares about ROIC, even if many investors aren’t explicitly talking about it.

by Sam McBride

September 4, 20140Comments

Danger Zone: Glu Mobile (GLUU)

For the long-term investor, GLUU is a company with no profits, moderate growth, and management that consistently destroys shareholder value

by David Trainer, Founder & CEO

December 12, 20130Comments

New Stocks Make Most Attractive/Dangerous Lists For December

Both LF and ECL have seen significant bottom line growth in the past two years. However, the differences in the way the two companies achieved their growth and in their respective valuations make LF one our Most Attractive Stocks and ECL one of our Most Dangerous.

by David Trainer, Founder & CEO

December 10, 20130Comments

Danger Zone: Electronic Arts (EA)

For a while, EA appeared to have cracked the code in the middle part of this decade. By delivering sports franchises like FIFA and games like The Sims, the company saw profits and returns on invested capital (ROIC), which peaked at 93% in 2004, grow to enviable heights. Unfortunately, that strategy has proven unsustainable as ROIC has plummeted.

by David Trainer, Founder & CEO

November 12, 20130Comments

New Stocks Make Most Attractive/Dangerous Lists For November

November sees 13 new stocks make our Most Attractive list and 19 new stocks fall into the Most Dangerous category. Our Most Attractive stocks have high and rising return on invested capital (ROIC) and low price to economic book value ratios. Most Dangerous stocks have misleading earnings and long growth appreciation periods implied in their market valuations.

by David Trainer, Founder & CEO

October 10, 20130Comments

New Stocks Make Most Attractive/Dangerous Lists

October sees 13 new stocks make our Most Attractive list and 16 new stocks fall into the Most Dangerous category. Our Most Attractive stocks have high and rising return on invested capital (ROIC) and low price to economic book value ratios. Most Dangerous stocks have misleading earnings and long growth appreciation periods implied in their market valuations.

by David Trainer, Founder & CEO

September 30, 20130Comments

Danger Zone 9/30/13: Zynga (ZNGA)

The stock has been beat up since its much-hyped IPO in 2011, but even after losing 61% of its value the stock is still too expensive. ZNGA is competing in an immature market where the barriers to entry are almost nonexistent and brand loyalty is a foreign concept.

by David Trainer, Founder & CEO

April 30, 20120Comments

Best & Worst ETFs and Mutual Funds: Large-cap Growth

The large-cap growth style ranks second out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my style roadmap. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings

by David Trainer, Founder & CEO