Valuentum Exclusive Analysis for the Discerning Investor

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Oct 27, 2015

Coach Back on Track?
The struggling women’s handbag maker has seen better days, but has it finally turned the corner?

Oct 26, 2015

If It Happened to AbbVie, Could It Also Happen to Gilead?
Recent news concerning AbbVie’s hepatitis C drugs caused a severe decline in the company’s share price. Could such an event happen to Gilead?

Oct 22, 2015

Nelson: Time to Consider Buying Kinder Morgan?
Now that everyone else was wrong, what now? The firm's new “sophisticated financing mechanism” is its very own revolving credit facility, in our view.

Oct 20, 2015

IBM Continues to Punish Optimists
Big Blue has become the poster child for poor earnings quality. We’ve been sounding this mantra for a few years now. Have you been paying attention?

Oct 20, 2015

More Suggested Reading
We've pulled together a few articles and videos that we call suggested reading. Please have a look at your convenience.

Oct 4, 2015

In The Name of Our Independence and Integrity…For Goodness Sake
The vicious attacks and slanderous falsehoods are inappropriate as they are damaging to our reputation. We won’t stand for it.

Sep 30, 2015

Free Cash Flow Feeds Cracker Barrel’s Dividend Growth
One of our favorite ideas in the restaurant arena, Cracker Barrel recently reported its full-year fiscal 2015 results. Let’s take a look at the company’s reported performance, as well as some dividend ideas within the full-service restaurant space.

Sep 29, 2015

Speculative Stocks Sinking
Risk appetite has been thrown out the window along with high-yield issuers.

Sep 28, 2015

Warning: The Master Limited Partnership Business Model May Not Survive
The master limited partnership business model may not survive this downdraft of the energy cycle as the worst may still be ahead, unfortunately.

Sep 15, 2015

As the World Turns
We’re keeping our eyes on a number of things. First, we’re monitoring property prices in Shanghai and in other larger Chinese cities to assess the potential calamity that falling housing prices and deflation would have on the country’s banking sector and the likelihood of contagion via the British banks, HSBC and Standard Chartered, and the US ones, namely Citigroup and JP Morgan. Second, we’re watching the price of crude oil closely, as its fall will have huge implications on the earnings trajectory of companies that benefit (airlines, restaurants) as well as the ones that suffer (upstream and energy services). The net effect of falling crude oil prices has thus far been negative for S&P 500 earnings, but this may change as the energy sector becomes an ever-smaller part of index construction. Third, who can forget about the Fed, the expected duration of any tightening monetary cycle, and the resulting implications on dividend-paying stocks as Treasury yields rise?