Citadel Securities Expands an Already Dominant Options Business (Bloomberg) Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities, already a giant in trading U.S. stock......
(read more)February 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Neiman Marcus, in Debt Talks, Makes It Easier to Bet It Will Fail (The Wall Street Journal) Aurelius Capital Management, a distressed-debt hedge fund......
(read more)March 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The 3-month total return for most healthcare REITs has been ugly. As shown in the following chart, the group has pulled back as interest rate expectations......
(read more)January 31 - News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:PSEC) is an income-investor favorite because it offers an outsized 11.6% dividend yield, paid monthly. However, we......
(read more)January 20 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI) is an attractive, big-dividend (8.5%), real estate investment trust (REIT). Omega has delivered poor performance......
(read more)November 28 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
The final ‘stock considerations’ post of 2016 is finally at hand. At the beginning of the year it’s sometimes hard to imagine what the next twelve......
(read more)November 28 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
As a dividend growth investor knows, it’s not exactly a secret that the U.S. stock market has been one of the greatest long-term wealth generators in......
(read more)November 17 - Dividend Stocks, ETF Trading, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
As a general rule, there are numerous reasons corporate insiders sell shares of their own companies. For instance, insiders may seek to diversify their......
(read more)November 8 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
I believe in a bottom up method of evaluating each individual holding separately, and then if it holds up, not worrying about the portfolio as whole.......
(read more)October 17 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
The profitability of insider trading has been studied in numerous studies over the past several decades, with most studies concluding that corporate insiders......
(read more)September 13 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) with a high dividend yield over 6%. The company operates in the healthcare......
(read more)April 19 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
What’s a smart Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE:MPW) investor to do? In the eyes of many market players, hedge funds are perceived as bloated......
(read more)September 16 - News - Comments
Is it smart to be bullish on Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR)? To the average investor, there are a multitude of gauges investors can use to track publicly traded......
(read more)September 3 - 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......
(read more)September 3 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Is Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE:HCN) a good investment? If you were to ask many traders, hedge funds are perceived as bloated, outdated investment tools......
(read more)August 28 - News - Comments
Is HCP, Inc. (NYSE:HCP) a good investment? In the eyes of many investors, hedge funds are assumed to be delayed, old financial tools of an era lost to......
(read more)August 28 - News - Comments
Although interest rate increases may take real estate investment trusts (REITs) down a notch, REITs are also a long-term inflation hedge. That means it......
(read more)July 18 - News - Comments
Don’t chase dividend stocks to avoid bonds; buy them because you believe in the underlying businesses. Companies like Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR......
(read more)July 15 - News - Comments
Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) investors should pay attention to a decrease in support from the world’s most elite money managers lately. In the eyes of......
(read more)June 24 - News - Comments
People are living longer and longer lives. That’s a medical miracle, but also a social problem. The human body becomes increasingly frail as it......
(read more)June 19 - News - Comments
“Nonpartisan RAND Corp. estimates that by 2040, the number of Americans afflicted [by Alzheimer’s] will have doubled, as will the costs.” Bloomberg......
(read more)June 17 - News - Comments
When I first starting investing I was highly intrigued by companies like American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) or Annaly Capital Management, Inc......
(read more)June 13 - News - Comments
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE:MPW) was in 9 hedge funds’ portfolio at the end of the first quarter of 2013. MPW shareholders have witnessed......
(read more)June 13 - News - Comments
Investors have flooded into high-yielding dividend stocks to get more income from their portfolios. But now, Congress is looking at potentially taking......
(read more)April 29 - News - Comments
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:HR) has seen a decrease in support from the world’s most elite money managers of late. In the 21st century investor......
(read more)April 19 - News - Comments
“My late father used to say that no quality of human life was more important than dignity,” Yale law professor Stephen Carter recently commented......
(read more)March 19 - News - Comments
If you asked the average person on the street if America is overpopulated and the birth rate is too high, you’d likely receive “Yes”......
(read more)March 11 - News - Comments
A good metric for looking at how a company has done over the past few years is to look at their compound annual growth rate, or CAGR for short. Recently......
(read more)March 11 - Dividend Stocks - Comments
Dividends from healthy, growing companies deliver to us, like mail carriers, in any kind of weather — boom, bust, or stalled economy. As 2012 drew......
(read more)February 26 - News - Comments
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you. If you’d like to add some small-cap growth stocks......
(read more)February 21 - News - Comments
