Look around the room you are in. I guarantee there’s at least a dozen devices powered by electricity, and of those, at least a few are powered by batteries. Batteries — or in more precise terms, energy storage devices — have remained pretty much unchanged… Read More
Growth Investing
From time to time, the banking sector will see a transformative innovation, such as the ATM or online banking. But it often takes time to get consumers to change their habits. Yet when it happens, the results can be a big money maker. This appears to… Read More
It’s time to write the obituary for traditional cell phones. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) has changed the game with its iPhone, and there are now a raft of other smartphones on the market as well. My favorite play on this theme is Synaptics (Nasdaq: SYNA), which was a… Read More
My colleague David Sterman recently wrote a piece about the challenges investors face when they... Read More
My colleague David Sterman recently wrote a piece about the challenges investors face when they spot a company they would love to own, but the stock is just too darn expensive. [Read Dave’s... Read More
Investing would be so much easier with a time machine. A person could simply go back in time and buy today’s industry behemoths while they were still just up and coming regular companies. Too bad there’s no such thing as a time machine. However,… Read More
Do you know what the National Academy of Engineering named as the world’s greatest engineering feat? It wasn’t the pyramids. It wasn’t Hoover Dam. It wasn’t the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building at 2,717 feet, either. It was the United States’ electrical grid. Read More
Talk about timely. Several colleagues of mine were recently discussing what investors should do when that stock you love seems like it already left the station. We ended up covering the topic on our sister site, InvestingAnswers.com. [See: “What to do When You’ve Missed the White… Read More
Although most of us are too young to remember, imagine what it must have been like during the Great Depression or the Second World War. Shortages at those times had most everyone scrapping for basics like sugar, butter or coffee. Such things may seem unfathomable… Read More
Perhaps the biggest domestic market opportunity for investors is the U.S. health care system. The... Read More
Perhaps the biggest domestic market opportunity for investors is the U.S. health care system. The industry already consumes roughly 16% of gross domestic product and that’s likely to reach... Read More