American Science & Cheap Earnings
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Sales slow, margins contract -- but the price is nice.
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A Fool learns that one great metric for a company does not make for an automatic buy.
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Why looking only at a company's earnings can lead to disaster.
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Stock exchanges' stratospheric valuations may not reflect reality.
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(Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any opinions in the column are his alone.)
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By Christopher Faille, Financial Correspondent
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While Blighty faces new Armada Comments Science, smarts and children seem to dominate this week. We hope you all had the smarts to avoid the following occupations. Noted science red-top Popular Science has published a list of the ten worst jobs in science. "Microsoft Security Grunt" made number five, but you had your own suggestions:â¦
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Are these stocks cheap for a reason, or overlooked opportunities?
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Hard-earned tips from a biotech investor.
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First, let me gloat.  I bought $49,761 of AAPL on Oct 8.  My investment is now worth $54,933. That's 10.5 percent growth in less than a month. Hah! I bought the stock because I was going to buy everything Apple sold from now until forever. The last product I had yet to purchase was the company's stock. That was a mistake. The beauty of owning the stock is that you can use the increase in value to fund the hardware habit. So far so good.  My very dear friend Sylvia Paull bought an iPod a month ago. In a blog post today she calls it a gateway drug. Having read early reviews of the new operating system, she's ready to buy a 24 inch iMac.  I recognize the signs.  It's like a virus I tell you.
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Two simple ideas that can make you money.
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Cheap for a reason, or great opportunities? We investigate.
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Can American Locker lock in earnings?
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If you deliver bad news, you should also deliver remedies. That's the message from readers about my column showing that variable annuities did poorly when measured against a simple, low-cost, and flexible index fund investment.
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Earnings warning? What earnings warning?
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Sales were lower than expected, and the quality of earnings is in question.
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Today, Seesmic, the company founded by Loic Lemeur, announced their initial $6 million funding. Several people noticed that my name isn't on the list of investors.  I'll probably end up kicking myself when Seesmic becomes the next Google or YouTube. I remain a fan of the company and Loic and his team and will be rooting for them.  Why did I get cold feet? It has nothing to do with the product or the company, both of which appear to be outstanding. It's the stock market. I had to make the final Seesmic decision as I was getting out of stock, at a significant loss. The only stock I hold now is AAPL, and sadly, it's way under the price I paid for it a few months ago. Like a lot of other investors, right now stocks give me the willies. I will likely get back in, slowly, a little bit every week to average out the price, hoping the market has found a bottom.