Can you help me evaluate this stock?
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What timeframe are you interested in trading it?  Long term (> 3 mo) or shorter term?\n\nBTW, BSC is in a strong sector which just broke out again last week.  GS is one of the leaders in the sector and went from 184 to over 199 in about a week.\n\nI'll add more later once I get a better feel what you're looking for.\n\nNov 21, 2006
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Unfortunately, I'll probably dealing primarily with stocks listed on American exchanges, I'll see if I can come up with a Toronto one.\n\nAltria (nee Phillip-Morris, MO) is a great stock to get because it's a solid tobacco company with some great brands (Marlboro) and they're just entering the smokeless tobacco market, which could be a huge payoff.  Also, this "light cigarette" class action hit the stock too much and I expect to see MO gap up in the future.  And they pay a 4.20% dividend.  It's hard not to like it.\n\nFor alcohol, the market seems to be going into liquor as opposed to beer these days, especially among the younger crowd (who tends to drink more).  This isn't strictly empirical, but I think going into a liquor company is a better bet.  For that, DEO is your best bet.  They have a great stock of brands (Morgan, J&B, Cuervo, Tanqueray) and are have some beer and wine brands (but their strength is far and away their liquor).  It's relatively cheap at 19.51 P/E and has a 3.90% dividend also.\n\nI don't know too much about weapons, but if you're into military stuff, Halliburton and even Boeing are sound investments.  Handguns, Smith and Wesson (SWHC) is the only one that comes to mind it's forward P/E seems a little high at 27.56 for manufactured goods in what seems to me a tight market, but there's not much industry data to go on (not very many handgun companies).  They're trading on the upper end of their 200dma so this stock could move upwards (and it's been trending up all year).  Analysts are bullish, so I'd say it's worth watching.\n\nFor gambling, you need to go where the money is, and that means what's hot.  No casino's hotter than Sands (LVS) which has exploded over the past year, but I'm worried that the money might have been made there.  It's the best casino stock out there, but it's the most expensive.  Casinos are still a good investment, but I'm thinking with concerns over the Democrats taking over (and the economic / legislative ramifications) you might want to go a little cheaper.  Harrah's (HET) is another good casino stock that's not so pricey as Sands.\n\nAs far as sex stuff, it's pretty hard for me to come up with a recommendation.  I'm sort of cold on the industry because a lot of it is privately held, and the public issues don't get coverage.  If somebody can come up with a good investment, I'd love to hear it, though.\n\nHowever, I'd be interested to know why you're interested in sin stocks.  As I touched on earlier, some people think a Democratic congress could hurt some of these companies (especially tobacco).  Maybe you're thinking these were irrationally factored into the price and that these stocks could jump up after the election?\n\nEdit:  Full disclosure.  The only stock listed that I own is MO.
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Coach has maxed itself out @ almost $40.00 per share and will never offer you much of a return unless it plummets back down to it's foundation price.  \n\nIt is too high and was only a productive purchase to those smart enough to get in on the ground floor.  \n\nIt is rated at an 8,  a great stock to own but as far as it going up enough to make you money...  I don't see it happening.  It wont ever become an Abercrombie or an american eagle.  I don't think so anyway...  always go with your gut!  I would hate to be the deciding factor and you not do something you should have done. \n\nCheck out Psun...  It just split and is still cheap!
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I think you can just go to YahooFinance and find prices for the history of a stock.  Good luck.
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The stock has done extremely well but it is not clear why. It is way overvalued by most measures and I would not hold it at this point. If you're concerned about selling too low, then you might set a stop-loss, which means if it keeps going up, the value of your stock will keep going up, but if when it drops significantly from the top your shares will sell.\n\nBest of success.
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I hope you are right about the earnings, but the stock has a PE around 18, 10-15% growth and is in the middle of its slow season.  I suspect you may need to wait another 6 months (when they report 3rd quarter earnings) for you to see much action.  Really I think its a good company, but nothing special.\n\nHowever, your feelings on it, and my feelings on it are close to meaningless.  The market as a whole is always right, and I suggest you go into stocks with the mindset.  \n\nSo, if a trade goes againist you try to find out why, when will the trade turn around, did you miss something, is there something better out there.  Learn from the trade, don't call wall street names cause wall street doesn't care - you are just wasting your breathe.
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Hi,\nI guess its a pretty new stock.....My initial screening consists of three tests :\n\nTEST#1 : Is ROE of company greater than that of industry\n========\n\nRETURN ON EQUITY : 74.19 %\nIndustry: Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing ROE : 21.30%\n\nTEST#2 : Is market cap greater than 200m\n========\n\nYes it is 1.4B\n\nTEST#3 : Is volume greater than 200,000\n======\n\nYes it is 779,000\n\nSo the stock has passed all the three tests.But the average P/E of this industry is just 8.1 . So I would buy the stock if the P/E is less than 20.\n\nThanks,\nDan
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No it's not worth it. You can catch free Montley Fool articles on Yahoo! Finance and anyway they're not all that great. You can reach the same conclusion as Montley if you put some effort into your research. If you want decent stock advice why not just watch Cramer on CNBC, he's not bad at all. Go to the library, look at quarterly report, check your library database to see if they have Value Line or Morning Star whose reports are objective and great
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There's a latest review on this site\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.com/blog/?p=19
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You can drop by this site to look at the recent review on it.\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.blogspot.com/
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an agressive stock I currently like is Sonus (SONS) a VOIP Network company.\n\nfor a little more security with nice return try Oil well service Equipment companies like.\n\nNewpark Resources (NR)\nPatterson UTF (PTEN)\nSuperior Energy (SPN)\n\ngood luck & good investing
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growth or value?\n\nI've looked at this one.  It might be something that I'd consider, if I was looking for another fund.  Though its a bit toward growth.\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PISRX&d=t
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Share price has absolutly no importance in stock buying decision. (unless looking to write options with limited amount of money). A company could be worth $100 and it does not matter if it has two shares of 50 dollars each, or 100 shares of $1 each. RHAT is worth 5 billion dollars and MSFT is 286 billion dollars As for Rhat VS. MSFT, it is important to see the value of one share of MSFT, and RHAT.  and MSFT is expected to make just less of 1.5 per share next year and RHAT is to make less than 40 cents. The investors are expecting RHAT to have extremely high growth. Rhat is at a future PE of 75, which is very high and very risky, any small news of faltered growth will kill this stock, so even if Earnings per share double next year (not expected by estimaters) they would have a PE of 35 which is average for the industry and no guarantee that it would be higher than that is the excitement goes up. Looking at the cashflow of RHAT which is horrible due to their need of research, and only fairly good debt. This stock is extremely risky and holds limited upside. I don't like large caps, but in this case, it is better than this small cap, and there are plenty of other small caps with far less risk and higher potential than RHAT, BUT, if you are looking for long term investments, and you honestly believe that RHAt will rattle Microsoft and steal a big piece of it's market share in the coming decade, then hold on to it. a 30% short term loss, is not too bad if it's market cap reaches 50 Billion for a 1000% gain in less than ten years. I rather wait and see them doing some conquering first though.
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Look up stock symbol  BBBB\nThey have evrything.
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The last six months the stock bumped repeatedly against a resistance around 3.2$. Wait for a breakout with volume to invest. The next resistance is 4.5$ the 52 day high.
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Think of this as the first step in performing adequate research into  stock. Use yahoo finance, look in the business section of the newspaper, go to the library and get a s and p stock guide. If you can't find it in one of those sources, chances are that it either is not a publicly traded company or it isn't worth your time.
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4.3% dividend is pretty good. Company looks strong.\n\nI heard they are thinking of spinning off their Women's apparel division. Their last spin off did extremely well: \nCOACH Inc: \nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=COH&t=5y