Valuentum Exclusive Analysis for the Discerning Investor

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Nov 28, 2017

Divestitures Sweeping Through the Pharmaceutical Industry
Image Source: Paul Sableman. There has been a notable rise in the intent of the old guard in the pharmaceutical realm to divest some non-core assets via spin-offs into new, standalone companies. We believe we are on the cusp of a trend of simplification, which we feel will aid in growing the top line sustainably, something that has become notoriously difficult for big pharma.

Nov 27, 2017

Strategy Versus Tactics in the Best Ideas Newsletter Portfolio
Image Source: Anna & Michal. We made a few tactical tweaks to the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio during 2017. Let’s walk through them, and how we’re out to win the war, not win every battle.

Nov 21, 2017

Roche’s Hemlibra Looks Very Promising
Image shown: Roche's shares caught some relief recently. We're big fans of clinical data reads. Thus far in 2017, we've posted updates on Roche, Shire Plc and Bioverativ--each with extensive aspirations in the field of hemophilia. In light of recent developments, a follow-up only seems appropriate as Roche’s Hemlibra is poised to disrupt the marketplace.

Nov 19, 2017

Nelson on Bogle, Part I
Image shown: An example illustrating how the dividend is a component of capital appreciation that otherwise would have been achieved had the dividend not been paid. Such a situation applies to both regular and special dividends. "The kind of commentary that makes broad generalizations about expectations of future returns is exactly why people are so eager to get into passive investment strategies. Since the 1920s, it seems as though the individual investor has assumed the stock market was rigged or impossible for average Joes to figure out, but instead of the "I'll get it next time" mentality that was present leading to the crash of '29, individual investors have "evolved" to the point that now the idea is if you can't beat the market, just buy the whole thing. Leaders like Bogle continue to take tremendous shortcuts in explaining forecasts, leaving the average investor like a student trying to copy math homework off a peer that didn't show his/her work. When the test comes around, and the problem is a bit different, the copier is up a creek." -- The Valuentum Team

Nov 19, 2017

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending November 17
Let's take a look at companies raising/lowering their dividends this week.

Nov 18, 2017

Valuentum's Highest-Rated Economic Castles
Image Source: Dunrobin Castle; Golspie, Sutherland, John Haslam. A look at some of the highest-rated Economic Castles in our coverage universe.

Nov 17, 2017

How Have Our Best “Dividend Growth Ideas” Performed During 2017?
We wrote recently about how well the top-weighted ideas in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio have performed during 2017, but what about the top-weighted ideas in the other newsletter portfolio, the Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio? How have they performed during 2017? Please tell us you know how well the top-weighted ideas have been performing.

Nov 17, 2017

Celgene Implodes
The pharma/biotech industry operates in a boom-bust environment where the market cap of a company can post a meteoric rise or suffer a precipitous fall based on the data published from recently completed clinical trials. The industry remains one of the most innovative fields, but the quest for new products leads to constant disruption and a subsequent spike in volatility. Of late, the volatility pendulum for Celgene has swung in favor of the bears with the company posting a costly phase 3 failure.

Nov 16, 2017

Cisco’s Shares Are Surging!
Image Source: Cisco. We received some fantastic news from newsletter portfolio idea Cisco. Shares are surging! Please tell me you knew that Cisco was one of our favorite ideas.

Nov 14, 2017

How Have Our “Best Ideas” Performed During 2017?
The top-weighted ideas are getting the job done, while we avoided one of the biggest missteps in all of 2017. We’ve had better years, but 2017 was still a great one.