Roper A Little Short On Growth, But A Proven Builder Of Value
As much as investors and analysts talk about growth, you’d think that would be the be-all end-all of stock selection. The data tells a different story, though, particularly in the industrial sector. When it comes to industrials, at least the diversified conglomerates, it would seem that margin leverage, improving ROICs, and active capital deployment are [...]
Kimberly-Clark Looks Way Too Expensive For What It Is
Investors can certainly make good money investing in well-run personal care companies with solid brands. Along those lines, names like Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG), Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL), Unilever (NYSE:UN), and Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) have all delivered very strong capital gains over the past year. In the case of Kimberly-Clark in particular, though, I do worry that this [...]
Home prices tick higher despite sales slump
Canadian home prices continued their upward trajectory in March despite a large decline in the number of homes sold, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday. The number of sales recorded on the group’s MLS system declined by 15.3 per cent in March 2013 compared with the same month a year earlier. Yet despite that [...]
AngioDynamics Still Struggling To Get Back On Track
Throughout what has proven to be a difficult time for small-cap medical device company AngioDynamics (Nasdaq:ANGO), I’ve been optimistic about the company’s long-term potential. While businesses in vascular access, dialysis, and fluid management are not high-growth areas of medical technology, I thought the company’s focus on product development would lead to better revenue and margin [...]
McCormick Continues To Defy Gravity
When I last wrote on McCormick (NYSE:MKC) in October of 2012, I liked almost everything about the company except the valuation on the stock. However, as I’ve mentioned repeatedly in the past, valuation is no impediment to further appreciation in the short term and McCormick shares have climbed a further 15% from that point (beating [...]
Sonic Still In A Tricky Spot
Try as it might, drive-in quick service restaurant (QSR) Sonic (Nasdaq:SONC) just can’t seem to get everything working at top form in its business model. While the company has an innovative (some might say “quirky”) menu that really does stand out from the offerings at McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD), Burger King (NYSE:BKW), and Wendy’s (NYSE:WEN), and has [...]
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Canadian cable Internet bills may soon start to hurt
Admit it: Any time your Internet connection stops working for a prolonged length of time you think about switching providers. Then you probably think, ‘Well, apart from the usual conglomerates, who else is there?” Then you go back to being on hold for technical support, and hope for the best. Those smaller Internet service providers [...]
Facebook blocks access to NBC.com after reports site is infected
BOSTON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc has blocked users from accessing the NBC.com website following reports that the site is infected with a computer virus. Facebook users were told “This link has been reported as abusive” on Thursday when they attempted to access the NBC.com website. Several security bloggers warned on Thursday that the site was [...]