Billionaire hedge fund managers such as Steve Cohen and Stan Druckenmiller can generate millions or even billions of dollars every year by pinning down...
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March 10 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Justin John Ferayorni’s Tamarack Capital Management has filed their latest 13F with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing their long...
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February 12 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
In an interview on CNBC, David Harding, founder and president of Winton Capital Management said that the S&P 500 is nothing else, but a trading system...
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July 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Founded in 1878 by none other than Thomas A. Edison, General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is still going strong. GE stock has gained over 21% year-to...
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October 22 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
Introduction The lexicon of the financial world is full of phrases and jargon that are often tossed about without considering that there may be those...
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October 15 - Stock Analysis - Comments
Disclosure: We are long shares of PMO.DE. Please click here to read full disclosures. Our 19-page report explaining our long thesis for Prime Office...
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September 20 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
You might be surprised which sector appears to be picking up steam as a result of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. When Obamacare...
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September 20 - News - Comments
Dividend investors would be wise to focus not just on a stock’s current yield, but also on the long-term growth potential of its dividends. That...
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September 16 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
The ongoing convergence of the tech and health care industries has yielded some remarkable advances in telehealth, electronic health records, or EHRs,...
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September 12 - News - Comments
At the end of July, Palomar Health announced a partnership with Qualcomm Life (a subsidiary of QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM)) to launch Glassomics, an...
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September 11 - News - Comments
In the medical technology industry, there is a clear divide between software and hardware. Whereas software solutions like EHR (electronic health record...
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September 9 - News - Comments
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) has been nothing short of great for investors this year, rewarding shareholders with stock gains of 40% since the...
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September 3 - News - Comments
The medical-device industry isn’t probably the first place you’d think to find great, high-yielding dividend stocks. While other players in...
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August 29 - News - Comments
The health care sector can be daunting for some investors, and there are some good reasons why many people won’t go near health care stocks. First...
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August 27 - News - Comments
Is Stryker Corporation (NYSE:SYK) a buy? To the average investor, there are a multitude of metrics shareholders can use to analyze stocks. Some of the...
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August 26 - News - Comments
Who’s crazy about Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT)? Now, according to many of your fellow readers, hedge funds are perceived as useless, old investment...
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August 23 - News - Comments
It was show time for Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) and medical device investors yesterday, as the world’s largest pure medical device maker reported...
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August 21 - News - Comments
As I say every week when I highlight one outstanding dividend-paying stock, “Dividend stocks are everywhere, but many just downright stink!”...
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August 19 - News - Comments
Companies offering comprehensive patient vital sign monitoring was once a business many investors were unaware of. Ever since the (attempted?) implementation...
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August 2 - News - Comments
Since the beginning of the year, Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) has enjoyed a great rally, climbing from $5.90 per share to nearly $11 per share...
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July 29 - News - Comments
As of this writing, the S&P 500 is up over 17% this year, while many of the biggest names in medical devices have run even farther. If we go back...
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July 29 - News - Comments
It is hard to remember a time when the market was as overheated as it is today; even during the tech bubble, there were non-tech stocks that were cheap...
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July 24 - News - Comments
Medical device stocks are an excellent place to be if you are still wary of the macro-economy. They are exposed to inelastic demand and don’t have...
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July 23 - News - Comments
On July 9, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) warned of second-quarter financial results coming in at disappointing levels, although the company...
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July 17 - News - Comments
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) isn’t the most popular stock on Wall Street. In fact, many investors don’t want to have anything...
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July 16 - News - Comments
Recently, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) experienced a significant decline of more than 11.3% in after-hours trading, from $500 per share to only...
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July 11 - News - Comments
Obamacare has affected many companies throughout the health-care industry, but medical-device makers have taken a particularly large hit. That’s...
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July 9 - News - Comments
Technically, Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) has been around for decades. But the new Abbott Laboratories stock — the one that no longer contains...
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July 3 - News - Comments
The market gives investors a good number of chances to buy stocks when they are beaten down, and one such opportunity presented itself when medical devices...
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July 3 - News - Comments
Some diseases cannot be cured by traditional drugs but instead require a surgical procedure. This is one of the reasons for constant and increasing demand...
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June 28 - News - Comments
It is always interesting to peer into the transactions of large asset managers such as Lone Pine Capital. The fund manager had a whopping $19.3 billion...
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June 26 - News - Comments
This is part 2 (click here to view part 1) of a series of articles on companies within the dividend achievers index that I consider to be the “...
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June 19 - News - Comments
When it comes to investing in the healthcare sector, there is lots of money to be made if investors choose wisely. Factors such as the current healthcare...
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June 19 - News - Comments
For lack of a better phrase, those who have type 1 diabetes — a form of diabetes whereby the person’s own autoimmune system attacks or attempts...
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June 18 - News - Comments
Are you one of the many investors looking to take advantage of the rising demand for healthcare in this country? Over the coming decade, the healthcare...
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June 18 - News - Comments
As the market becomes more volatile and high-grade dividend stocks begin to fall in price an opportunity opens up to buy those stocks at a more reasonable...
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June 17 - News - Comments
Healthcare stocks resemble tech stocks, in that both are eye candy to growth investors, show volatility over business cycles and thus have less appeal...
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June 11 - News - Comments
Given the huge potential of the healthcare industry, it is very tempting to peer through it for possible options if one seeks for the best places to earn...
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June 10 - News - Comments
The 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials appeal to investors as much for their regular dividend payouts as for their high-quality businesses. Many of...
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June 10 - News - Comments
The global medical devices market reached $331 billion in 2012 according to Kalorama Information, just 3% higher than 2011. In the U.S. Medicare, Medicaid...
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June 6 - News - Comments
In the past I have found success investing in companies that provide exposure to growing themes. I have invested in popular themes such as healthcare,...
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June 6 - News - Comments
Aortic stenosis is a type of heart disease involving a narrowing of the valve between the left ventricle of the heart and the aorta, or the aortic valve...
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June 3 - News - Comments
Enterprises that have continued to increase their dividend payments offer the ideal amount of stability that both institutional and individual investors...
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May 31 - News - Comments
I thought looking at some medical device companies would be an interesting little trek into an area that I have not looked at in too much detail before...
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May 28 - News - Comments
On Tuesday, we saw a number of high-profile stocks trade with large price swings after earnings. Let’s see why these stocks are moving, and decide...
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May 24 - News - Comments
There’s hardly any certainty in the market, but even I have to admit it’s become almost comical that the Nasdaq Composite has hit a new high...
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May 21 - News - Comments
When it comes to dividend-paying stocks, bigger isn’t always better. Oftentimes, dividend investors excitedly uncover a company that pays a huge...
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May 20 - News - Comments
On Tuesday, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings...
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May 19 - News - Comments
Cardiology device makers haven’t had much good to report to investors lately. The entire medical device market has struggled with pricing pressures...
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May 9 - News - Comments
As we enter the heart of second-quarter earnings reports, I can’t help but point out that the majority we’ve covered over the past year have...
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May 6 - News - Comments