By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL) is a Nasdaq-listed firm that was incorporated in Delaware in 1995 but is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda, with 5,800 employees. There are 373 million shares outstanding. Revenues totaled $1.8 billion, and ACGL’s market cap is $29.04 billion. The company and its multiple subsidiaries offer [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Investing in the markets scares many individuals because of the emotional and financial devastation and frequency of corrections and bear markets. For example, since 2000 there have been two instances of bear markets: 49% and 56% decline during March 2000 to October 2002, and from October 2007 to March [...]
By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Oil-Dri Corp. (ODC), is a NYSE-listed firm that was incorporated in 1941, and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. The company employs 869 individuals. There are 5 million shares outstanding. Revenues totaled $399 million, and ODC’s market cap is $ 342 million. The company develops, manufactures and sells inert [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Buy-and-hold investing is recommended by most financial advisors, mutual fund sponsors, and many professional money managers. Their reasoning is that the markets have a long-term upward bias, so stay fully invested at all times. They say, “Time in the market is more important market timing.” Warren Buffett says he [...]
By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (ROCK), is a Nasdaq-listed firm incorporated in 1972 that is headquartered in Buffalo, NY. The company employs 2,117 individuals. There are 30.4 million shares outstanding. Revenues totaled $1.37 billion, and ROCK’s market cap is $2.2 billion. Gibraltar is a leading manufacturer of building products for [...]
By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Celestica Inc. (CLS), is a NYSE-listed firm incorporated in 1996 headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Therefore, American investors are probably not familiar with this company which doesn’t get coverage in the U.S. financial media. Because of its future prospects based on its growing earnings and 85% price appreciation over the [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Mutual funds have been around for over 100 years, while the first ETF was born only 30 years ago. Most of the former were set-up as active funds (requiring active portfolio management) with accompanying high expenses, but eventually no-load passively managed index funds were offered, as investors balked at [...]
By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Two of the most significant events in the investment world over the past century, which have had a positive impact on everyday investors, were the introduction of the first mutual fund, MFS Massachusetts Investors Fund, in 1924, and the launch of the first exchange-traded fund (ETF), SPDR S&P 500 [...]
By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Robinhood Markets, Inc., ( HOOD: Nasdaq) based in Menlo Park, California, and incorporated in 2013, is a very popular trading app and former favorite pandemic meme stock that skyrocketed to $85 in August 2021, before cratering to $6.81 on June 16, 2022, a monstrous decline of 92%. Very few [...]
Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (PLX: NYSE AMEX and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange) is headquartered in Carmiel, Israel with an office in Hackensack, NJ, with a total of 197 employees. Protalix Ltd. was incorporated in 1993. It became a U.S public company on December 31, 2006. PLX is a biopharmaceutical company that develops, produces and commercializes [...]
