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AMC is a theatrical exhibition business, which makes majority of its revenue from box office admissions and food/beverage sales. Due to the government lockdown and movie theatre closures, AMC's sales dwindled. AMC suffered large losses in 2020, and is struggling…
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Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, defense, arms, security, and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests. Lockheed Martin provides a broad range of products and services to the world’s governments and commercial customers. In 2019, the US government accounted…
Read More Is Lockheed Martin (LMT) Stock A Buy? – LMT Stock Analysis
Macy's is the typical brick and mortar store that has been hurting for the past few years due to the increased competition from online retailers, such as Amazon. In 2020, Macy's operated 839 department stores, as well as Bloomingdale outlet…
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HollyFrontier is one of the largest independent petroleum refiners in the United States. Refiners get to maximize their profit margin when crude oil prices (raw material) are low, and the demand for refined oil (end product) is high. HollyFrontier also…
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway recently took a stake in Mitsui ( 三井物産 ), which is a Japanese trading company. This week, I fundamentally analyze Mitsui's stock. I review Mitsui's key ratios, derive the intrinsic value using Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)…
Read More Is Mitsui (MITSF) Stock A Buy? – Mitsui Stock Analysis
Disney, for the first time in the past decade, reported a negative net income i.e. Disney reported a loss for its 2020 fiscal year. Yet, the stock price does not seem to be impacted by this operational impact caused by…
Read More Is Disney (DIS) Stock A Buy? – Disney Stock Analysis
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway recently took a stake in Mitsubishi ( 三菱商事株式会社 ), which is a Japanese trading company. This week, I fundamentally analyze Mitsubishi's stock. I review Mitsubishi's key ratios, derive the intrinsic value using Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)…
Read More Is Mitsubishi (MSBHF) Stock A Buy? – Mitsubishi Stock Analysis
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway recently took a stake in Itochu, which is a Japanese trading company. This week, I fundamentally analyze Itochu's stock. I review Itochu's key ratios, derive the intrinsic value using Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis, and look…
Read More Is Itochu (ITOCF) Stock A Buy? – Itochu Stock Analysis
The US Stock market has been all over the place. Mr. Market becomes euphoric when any bad news is released, which isn't "that bad". Needless to say, the euphoria continues when there is any good news. With Federal Reserve's "whatever…
The Security Analysis, written by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, was the textbook that Warren Buffett used in college, when he studied under Ben Graham. Buffett attributes his investment success and valuation skills to this book. Some of you might…
The stock market, for the most part, reflects the condition of the economy. So, if the economy is in a bad shape, then the stock prices will drop and reflect those worsened economic conditions. Mr. Market has this bad habit…
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It is the first weekend of May, and this is when Berkshire Hathaway holds its annual meeting. I was supposed to be in Omaha, Nebraska this weekend, but my travel plans and the in-person shareholder meeting was canceled due to…
The US Economy is in uncharted territory. All non-essential businesses have shut down to curtail the spread of virus, the Federal Reserve is flooding the market with cash by buying just about anything it can get its hands on, the…
I started by "investing" career by trading penny stocks, then learned the ropes to technical analysis. In college, I used technical analysis to trade forex and write code that would execute trades on my behalf when it noticed certain technical…
The market has been pretty volatile recently, with optimistic buying coupled with fear induced selling. Mr. Market has been highly unpredictable, and it is times like these when value investors sit back and watch the action unfold. Value investors know…
On Thursday, April 11 2019, Disney (DIS) announced it will be providing a $6.99 per month streaming service called Disney Plus. This news was a direct threat to Netflix's core business, which charges $13 monthly fee. Netflix's shares fell 4.5%…
Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, said that investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike. According to Ben Graham, there are 4 business principles that an intelligent investor should follow to increase his/her chances of success. Graham…
While learning about value investing, one of the first concepts that I had to understand was the difference between price and value. This is the core concept that differentiates value investors from everyone else. Let's talk about this in detail.…
Before investing in a company, I like to read up on the most recent quarterly report, which outlines the risks that the company might face in the future. In fact, risk factors is my favorite section in the 10K (annual)…
I have traded Stocks, Options, and Foreign Exchange (Forex). I have scalped the EUR/USD pair, and I have spent numerous hours looking at chart patterns on various time frames for that perfect swing trade opportunity. I have made countless trading…
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