Posts under ‘Investing’

Not a lot of time to post today, but I’ve read three articles in the last few weeks about how Marchex may be significantly undervalued based on their portfolio of nearly 200,000 domain names.  They have a huge portfolio of domains that they own and run advertising on and they also offer an ad platform [...]

Jim Goldman posted a nice article over at CNBC today titled “Google’s “Damaged” Shares: Can They Regain High Ground?“.  Its a nice, quick read that lays out everything Google has going for it despite what the critics say.
His thought is that Google’s stock doesn’t deserve the recent beating that it has taken.  Last year Google [...]

S.W.O.T. is a decision making technique used in financial and market analysis.  Often used internally by companies to evaluate potential products or investments, it is also a simple tool you can use to make sure you do due diligence when making investment decisions in individual companies.

S.W.O.T. is an acronym for:

Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

Remembering SWOT when looking at companies [...]

By far the most amusing thing I’ve seen in the stock market in a while happened to Taser’s stock this week.
The week started with Taser at CES where they announced a Leopard print Taser and a Taser MPG (Music Player Holder) that features a 1 gig MP3 player keenly integrated into your Taser’s holster.  Its getting [...]

As I look at my portfolio over the past few months, I see its down.  Down a bit more than I’d like it to be for sure but nothing compared to some of the folks out there.  As a small-fry investor, I assume I’ll make bad decision on a specific stock now and then, I [...]

In recent articles (Options Basics, Options Leverage) I’ve discussed using options to boost your leverage and reduce capital requirements on making a big play.  Options, while risky, can limit the amount of cash you need to put into a trade and can allow you to use your available cash to highly leverage your position without taking [...]

There have been many claims of late that the mobile web is the “next big thing” that is expected to explode over the next few years. More and more cell phones are able to surf the web, smart phones are getting smaller, and web developers are finally starting to develop sites that work on [...]

BusinessWeek has an interesting article this week on smaller investors being able to take part in private equity investing. Until now private equity funds have generally required investors to be “accredited” meaning they must have a net worth of over 1 million dollars (excluding personal real estate) which put private equity investing out of reach for many. Some private equity funds have recently dropped minimum investments to as low as $250,000, though that is still out of reach for the vast majority of investors who seek to diversify their investments broadly. A more accessible means to take part in private equity investing may be…

I’ve been holding a few April call contracts in Microsoft (symbol: MSFT)since late 2006 and was happy to have ridden a portion of the wave up from the high twenties to nearly $31/share leading up to the consumer launch of Vista.
Unfortunately, my profits have all but evaporated over the last couple weeks after a less [...]

In the time of blogs, online media, aggregation services, message boards and 24 hour a day business television, it is easy to cast printed business magazines to the side as a valuable tool for getting investment news. I disagree and think there is a strong case for maintaining a few magazine subscriptions to publications such [...]