The scandals JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) has wrought on itself may seem horribly damaging. But the bank’s inexpensive shares offer a dividend yield of nearly 3% and a company whose business prospects are ...

Typically, even the whiff of a scandal sends U.S investors fleeing from foreign company shares, particularly if the issue involves suspect accounting. But investor appetite for another Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) ...

This is one of those markets where channeling your inner Wayne Gretzky can be a great help. The ice hockey great’s defining otherworldly skill was a knack for anticipating where the puck was headed and ...

Some Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) shareholders are getting after Larry Ellison about his ridiculously excessive pay – about $77 million in the most recently completed fiscal year – again. As the Wall Street Journal ...

With corporate profits at record highs, companies awash in cash still aren’t rushing to reinvest in their operations in the form of capital expenditures . Instead, returning said cash to shareholders continues ...

In April, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced plans to spend $60 billion by the end of 2015 to buy back shares. It didn’t wait long to make a big dent in that spending plan. In the fiscal third quarter ended ...

The long-term prospects for coal companies look particularly bad, as competition from cheaper fuels and stricter environmental regulation may yet run them out of business. But short-term investors are ...

One of the more surprising mistakes among market forecasters last year was the widespread dismissal of major defense contractors. The companies themselves were predicting massive revenue losses ahead of ...

My colleague Carla Fried has smartly laid out the available data and some potential investor value in the proposal to require companies to disclose the CEO’s pay as a multiple of median pay of the same ...

Amid expanding PE ratios in a market that is now up 150% since this bull run began more than 4 ½ years ago (175% with dividends reinvested) it would seemingly be rational to consider trimming some winners. ...

YCharts’ Dee Gill last week laid out the case that Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) shares are vulnerable , given a high PE ratio , especially versus more established low-price retailers like Family Dollar (NYSE:FDO), ...

In a 3-2 vote, the Securities and Exchange Commission just moved a step closer to following through on a Dodd-Frank provision that will require all public companies to report the ratio of their CEO’s compensation ...

Twitter is by far the coolest company to announce plans for an IPO this year, so a lot of individual investors are lining up to grab shares as if they were concert tickets about to sell out. But fans might ...

Stocks currently sell at a 2% premium to their fair market value according to Morningstar’s proprietary calculations. As with all averages there are always interesting divergences to consider. Case in ...

Investors who believe the Federal Reserve is cooking up certain inflation by continuing its asset buying programs might want to take a look at insurance sector stocks today. If the critics are right about ...

Shares in Medivation (NASDAQ:MDVN) have soared more than 200% on piquant commercial expectations for Xtandi, a prostate cancer treatment co-developed with Japanese drug maker Astellas Pharma (PINK:ALPMY). ...

The Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) $40 billion buyback program announced this week sent many of us stock screening junkies looking at who have been the big buyback names in recent years. You can screen for actual ...

Investors who bought into Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) around its IPO last July should feel pretty good now, even as the outlook for retailers generally grows dimmer by the day. Five Below shares are up 82%, ...

After a $900 million write-off for its Surface tablet in July, the late August announcement-under-pressure of CEO Scott Ballmer’s retirement, and the less than enthusiastic response to the early September ...

The news that $33 billion Southeastern Asset Management recently established a near 12% stake in News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) sums up why Rupert Murdoch made the decision to spin off the publishing arm of his ...

McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) is heavily dependent on Europe. Sales in that region accounted for nearly 40% of sales last year, compared to the 32% revenue share for U.S. operations and 25% for the grab-bag, APMEA ...

In August, the Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) announced plans to sell its remaining 9% stake in TRW Automotive Holdings (NYSE:TRW), manufacturer of auto safety devices used by the major carmakers. Far from ...

If you have any doubts about the importance of smartphones and tablets to whatever technology investment you hold, take a look at what’s happened to shares of China’s Google-like (NASDAQ:GOOG) company ...

Roche Pharmaceuticals (PINK:RHHBY) had looked to offset the loss of marketing exclusivity for its blockbuster cancer drug Herceptin in Europe come 2014 with the recent launches of two new HER2 targeted ...

Persistent doomsday forecaster Peter Schiff remains a popular investment advisor, particularly among conservatives who believe the U.S.’s high debt and liberal fiscal policies will have catastrophic consequences. ...

In an unexpected move, Sanofi (SNY) has withdrawn its application for its lixisenatide diabetes drug with the FDA over concerns that “potential public disclosure” during the agency’s review of interim ...

Big banks like JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) like to portray themselves as entrepreneurial enterprises. But the fact remains that without federal deposit insurance (a subsidy that allows banks to attract savers’ ...

In analyzing the pros and cons of certain investments, YCharts often finds itself repeating a standard warning: that shares trading at high valuations are particularly vulnerable to hard falls, even if ...

While the long-term case for dividends - especially dividend growth - as a driver of stock returns firmly appreciated these days, Horan Capital Advisors points out that year to date it’s the non-dividend ...

Bloomberg reports that the latest sentiment reading among newsletters surveyed by Investors Intelligence is at a 15-month low. As recently as early August more than half of newsletters were in the bullish ...

Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) and CBS (NYSE:CBS) both had a lot to lose in that standoff over programming fees, but in the end, it was CBS that had Time Warner on the ropes. It’s an outcome that should ...

The latest research on the relationship between inflation and gold prices provides a bit of hope for today’s worried gold investors. Contrary to popular belief, the study showed, there’s little correlation ...

It’s been less than six months since a pissed off Wall Street mob chased Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN) founder Andrew Mason away and wrote bitter obituaries for the company, many in the form of sell ratings from ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) are the two highest-conviction holdings among Morningstar’s Ultimate Stock Pickers. Both tech companies are owned by 16 of the 25 funds in Morningstar’s ...

Silver Bay Realty (NYSE:SBY) and American Residential Property (NYSE:ARPI) both went public in the past year riding what was billed as a smart way to participate in the housing rebound: Buy up cheap (foreclosed, ...

It may not have the buzz factor of Miley Cyrus’ twerking escapade at the VMA awards, but Tobin’s Q has recently bubbled up as a popular metric of conversation among market watchers. A recent article in ...

Here’s the train story going around that investors love to repeat: oil and gas drillers, desperate to move suddenly abundant product from places with insufficient pipelines, are making the railroads rich. ...

Warehouses aren’t storefronts, but it’s all fixed costs in the end. And while Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) may connect with you via the Internet, it is increasingly a physical-asset-intensive business, building ...

For the first seven months of the year it was pretty hard to lose money in the U.S. stock market . Now, with volatility back in play and all sorts of potential storm clouds looming -- fallout from any ...

The smart money has always known that the key to exploiting the dividend advantage is to focus on the capacity of a company to consistently increase its dividend, rather than get all worked up about the ...

A lot of investors are happy to pay dearly for shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) because eventually, the story goes, all those sales will turn into a massive profits. But does Amazon really have a shot ...

On the surface, the decision by activist investor Bill Ackman to unload 7 million shares of Canadian Pacific Railway (NYSE:CP), or nearly 30% of his total stake in the company, looks like a savvy move. ...

The purest play on the housing recovery – which is broader now than in previous periods of the rebound, as seen in the Case Shiller index – might be the company that supplies the most drywall, USG (NYSE:USG). ...

The past few years have turned several big tech companies into questionable investments for conservative investors, but International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) always remained a worthy component of ...

Stock in Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) has climbed more than 18% in the last year on investor confidence that new product launches will offset slowing sales from branded blockbusters that have lost market exclusivity ...

Bets against Joy Global (NYSE:JOY), the smaller rival to Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) have spiked of late. Short interest in the mining equipment and servicing firm has more than tripled in 2013. As a percentage ...

When the 10-year Treasury yield rose from the dead beginning in early May, one-trick pony stocks that were delivering high dividend yields without a compelling dividend growth or stock valuation story ...

The rising and substantial market caps of the two companies that dominate the dialysis clinic business across the country, DaVita (NYSE:DVA) and Fresenius Medical Care (NYSE:FMS), can be viewed in large ...