The number one problem during earnings season is knowing where a stock will move after their earnings come out.
And that can make it really easy to to miss out on profits – or even lose your money entirely.
But you can exploit any company every earnings season – good or bad.
As you already know (it’s impossible to miss), President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and his business partner, Rick Gates, were indicted on charges ranging from hiding overseas payments to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. On top of that, another former foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Now all the media pundits want you to believe that these are the single most important events of the decade – even bigger than Watergate – and that they could put an end to this historical stock market rally.
And while I agree that the poolitical impact from these events could be huge, the talking heads couldn’t be more wrong about the effect these “bombshells” will have on the markets.
Last weekend, Atlanta Falcons Owner, Arthur Blank, invited me and my family to the Falcons – Patriots game as his VIP guests. And boy, did he pull out all the stops…
I thought we were just going to sit in the Owner’s box, but we got escorted out to the field through the same tunnel the players use – and we got to watch them warm up, too! In fact, one of the players locked noticed my son wearing his number and stopped to give him a big bear hug. Some of the cheerleaders even came over to take pictures with my kids.
It was one of my best “Dad” moments…
Now I’ve known Arthur for nearly 35 years – long before he became a self-made billionaire and while I was working my way through college (I’ll tell you more about that in a second).
And while it may seem impossible to become a millionaire – it’s actually easy to do.
Only about 8.5% of the S&P 500 companies have reported third-quarter earnings so far. Of them, 74% beat their estimates, both on their top and bottom lines.
But in my 30 years of trading, I’ve seen plenty of instances like this where even after a good earnings report, the stock gets hammered by 10%, 15% – even 20% – in a single day.
And it happens because of bad guidance given by the Wall Street analysts.
Now they’ll try to tell you which way a stock will move before the announcement comes out…
But the truth is, they don’t know any more than your local mail carrier does.
The good news is… you don’t actually need to know.
You can cash in on any company’s earnings report – good or bad – using two simple strategies.
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that cyber-attacks are on the rise.
After the recent hacks of both Equifax Inc. (EFX) – exposing the personal information of 143 million Americans – and Whole Foods Market (AMZN), the theft of 22 million federal employees personal information in 2014, or the Sony Pictures (SNE) hack, and many more…
Everyone is looking into how to best protect themselves and their identity.
As they should, because chances are, you or someone you know has been affected.
Apple’s latest release, the iPhone 8, is a complete failure and could spell disaster for investors… at least, that’s what the talking heads on the financial news networks want you to believe. One of the pundits even said that the short-term prognosis “doesn’t look good” for the stock.
Now it’s true that their latest release isn’t selling as well as it predecessor, the iPhone 7. In fact, the demand for the iPhone 8 was so low that you could still buy phones days after pre-sales started. To give you an idea of just how bad that is, the iPhone 7 sold out minutes after pre-order selling began – setting it an all-time record for Apple.
But that doesn’t mean the company – or the stock – is in trouble. Quite the opposite, actually.
On Tuesday, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) announced a $20 billion stock share buyback, which simply means they’re planning to buy $20 billion worth of their own stock from the market.
Now investors and traders generally love buybacks because they drive a company’s market value, earnings per share (eps), and dividend payout higher.
But – despite Wal-Mart’s announcement – we’re smack dab in the middle of about a year-long “buyback drought.” In fact, the number of buybacks by S&P 500 companies only reached $120 billion in this year’s second quarter.
While $120 billion may seem like a large number, it’s down nearly 10% from the first quarter alone and 5.8% from this same period a year ago.
And that could have huge impacts on your portfolio – especially this earnings season.
This morning, we talked about why the financial sector is dominating third-quarter earnings season. In fact, bank stocks broke new highs today after the opening bell. But that doesn’t mean the rally is just getting started – quite the opposite, in fact.
And in my exclusive interview with CNBC, I’ll tell you exactly why…
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Earnings season is upon us once again. And that means it’s the perfect opportunity to make some fast cash.
Now technology has dominated the markets as the best performing sector so far this year. But it’s not the sector I’m looking at for the fall.
And while the talking heads are betting on technology…
Ford Motor Company (F) held an investor conference on October 2. Among the many announcements they made, the biggest takeaway is that they are entering into the electronic vehicle market and some impressive sales numbers. They even have a team assembled to speed up the development of these new vehicles.
And since the conference, Ford’s stock is trading above $12.25.
Now while that is a low stock price, let’s face it… nobody buys a single share of a company. Smart traders like you prefer to control larger portions of stock.
And this strategy will give you higher profits with a much lower sticker price…