Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 25, 2024 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Dave Singleton – Vice President, Investor RelationsWill Lansing – Chief Executive OfficerSteve Weber – Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Manav Patnaik – BarclaysFaiza Alwy – Deutsche BankSurinder Thind – JefferiesKyle Peterson – NeedhamAshish Sabadra – RBCJeff Meuler…
Daddy1971/iStock via Getty Images We believe that most investors are wrong in judging Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO) stock as expensive based on current multiples. The pricing power and unique positioning in the market as a natural monopoly make the company still cheap relative to its prospects. We expect topline growth to continue supported by strong…
DKosig Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist. BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (NYSE:DHF) is a diversified, high-yield-focused closed-end fund. In our prior coverage, we compared the fund to the Credit Suisse High Yield Bond Fund (DHY), given its many similarities. We noted that DHF looked like the better value and had stronger…
Spencer Platt There are sometimes no prizes for heroics. Sometimes a stock is sold for a good reason and as much as price anchoring makes us think it is “cheaper” than the day before, one must always look at the facts first. Looking at what was an avalanche of bad news from New York Community…
GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images Investment thesis We have removed the FCF Yield method from the valuation, as the approach underestimated the real price of the shares as we did in previous article. Usually, technology companies have a low FCF Yield due to constant investments in their own product. To be competitive among fast growing…
Newscast/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Pet food and potential profitability improvements (from cost-saving initiatives and cost synergies from their pet food acquisition) could support Post Holdings’ (NYSE:POST) financial performance going forward. Valuation appears fair. Overview Post Holdings is a consumer packaged food company, operating across the center-of-the-store, refrigerated, foodservice, food ingredient categories with a…
Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call January 25, 2024 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Dave Singleton – Vice President, Investor Relations Will Lansing – Chief Executive Officer Steve Weber – Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Faiza Alwy – Deutsche Bank Surinder Thind – Jefferies Manav Patnaik – Barclays Kyle Peterson –…
JHVEPhoto 2024 is already turning into the year of the chip stocks. Names like NVIDIA (NVDA), AMD (AMD), Broadcom (AVGO), and even Qualcomm (QCOM) have performed well as AI enthusiasm shows few signs of letting up. More bullish industry earnings news came last week, lifting so many stocks in the industry. Has the fervor gotten…
SweetBunFactory Investment Rundown The semiconductor space is broad and covers a lot of various markets right now. One of the most exciting markets to be a part of I think quite honestly. One of the companies that I have recently stumbled upon is Everspin Technologies (NASDAQ:MRAM). This company is focusing on spintronics and various products…
J. Michael Jones Summary Realty Income Corporation (O / “Realty”), “The Monthly Dividend Company”, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index. It “invests in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time.” Its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 13,000…
Oat_Phawat/iStock via Getty Images Centerra Gold (NYSE:CGAU) is a Canadian miner that primarily produces gold but also copper and is expanding into molybdenum, with various mineral assets in Canada, the U.S., Turkey, and Finland. It’s had a rocky last few years with its overseas assets, involving the permanent loss of one mine and temporary shutdown…
Justin Sullivan Since I placed a buy rating on PG&E (NYSE:PCG) stock in February 2022, the stock has risen 59.6%. My thesis, expressed in May 2022, was that wildfire safety improvements that followed the 2019 bankruptcy filing were not being fully appreciated by the market. Since then, the Northern California electric and gas utility has…
guvendemir At the end of 2022, I wrote an article about why investors should avoid the airlines (JETS) and own AerCap (NYSE:AER) instead for exposure to the airline industry. The relative returns in 2023 validated my view: Data by YCharts The longer-term view also validates this view: Data by YCharts As you can see above,…
Monty Rakusen/DigitalVision via Getty Images In May of this year, I believed that ITT (NYSE:ITT) was moving along, steady as she goes. The company had seen continued and long term value creation since the 2010s on the back of an improved growth profile, better margins and consequently higher earnings per share. Amidst a comforting 2023…
Jacobs Stock Photography Ltd Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) is one of the leaders in frozen food products in the European Union and the UK. The company’s brands command an upper 30% market share in several European markets in the fish and vegetables category, and its products are premium priced as much as 20%. Last year in…
The crypto market responded positively to the FASB announcement, with Bitcoin’s price rising over 4.12% to $42,979 following the guidance release. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the US entity responsible for detailing how companies report assets on their balance sheets, has introduced new standards allowing corporations to measure Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto assets…
Today, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) announced new rules that will require companies to account for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin at fair value. The rules are set to go into effect on December 15, 2024, but companies will be able to apply them earlier than that. Under the new guidelines, which are the first of their kind…
Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Entertainment It has been a long and painful journey for Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA) (NASDAQ:PARAA) shareholders. Since the 2021 momentum bubble, driven by nothing but hot air and one hedge fund leveraging funds to the max, things have looked glum. Data by YCharts That chart should bring to the forefront the popular saying…
Cristian Martin Pampa Energia (NYSE:PAM) is one of the leading Argentinian energy companies, with operations spanning generation, petrochemicals, natural gas extraction, and the gas and electricity transportation networks. I wrote about PAMP in March 2023 (buy), and January 2022 (hold). These articles contain a more detailed revision of PAM’s operations. In the March 2023 article,…
SWInsider Copper prices shot up to 3-month highs at the end of last week as a strong stretch for both precious and industrial metals pressed on. Decent industrial production data out of China in mid-November helped get the rally on its feet, and some dovish comments lately out of the US Federal Reserve provide another…
tianyu wu Investment action Based on my current outlook and analysis of Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK), I recommend a hold rating. Although the expectation of rapid growth of the industrial automation market and the government’s support for infrastructure development are set to drive its growth outlook, the lack of an attractive share price gain pushes me…
code6d Retail endured a tough Q3. NIKE (NYSE:NKE) and Target (TGT) were two of the worst large-cap performers, but both names caught a bid as the holiday season approached. Later this week, we’ll hear same-store sales figures from Costco, and Nike reports full-quarter results a few weeks later. I have a hold rating on Nike….
Sundry Photography Investment thesis My initial bullish thesis about CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) aged extremely well as the stock rallied by 35% over the last three months, compared to a one percent growth for the broader stock market. Even though my updated valuation analysis suggests the stock price is now traded at fair value after a massive…
gremlin ePlus (PLUS) provides IT solutions to a number of industries. The company has had a good long-term history of organic growth and select acquisitions to enlarge ePlus’ footprint. The company has achieved clearly higher margins from FY2021 forward after almost a decade of very stable EBIT margins. The company seems reasonably priced at a…
samxmeg SCHE strategy and portfolio Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHE) started investing operations on 1/14/2010 and tracks the FTSE Emerging Index. It has 1918 holdings, a trailing 12-month yield of 3.17% and an expense ratio of 0.11%. Distributions are paid semi-annually. As described by FTSE, The FTSE Emerging Index provides investors with a comprehensive…
hapabapa Earnings season has been dramatic. The S&P 500’s blended EPS growth rate for the quarter is solid at 2.7% – above what strategists had predicted heading into the Q3 reporting period. Despite the generally decent results, earnings revisions have been cautious and stock price reactions have been downright spooky. FactSet notes that companies beating…
We Are ETF Overview Vanguard Mega Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:MGV) owns a portfolio of about 140 U.S. large-cap value stocks. It has a razor-thin expense ratio of 0.07% which makes the fund quite compelling. The fund has been rangebound since mid-2021 and currently has a valuation slightly above its historical average. However, a recession may…
hapabapa Investment Thesis I wanted to take a look at Palantir’s (NYSE:PLTR) financials and its potential to be a long-term investment and whether it is a good time to invest right now after it popped 170% YTD. In short, the boat for a conservative investor has passed as right now, the risk/reward is not enticing…
Sundry Photography Investment thesis Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) is a high-quality business that experiences challenging times due to the current complicated macro environment. The company’s quarterly revenue is declining on a YoY basis amid the end markets’ weakness. Despite being temporary, these headwinds are likely to weigh on the company’s financial performance over multiple quarters until…
netrun78 Investment Thesis Carter’s Inc.’s (NYSE:CRI) low forward multiple had me intrigued, so I decided to look into its financials to see if it is warranted. What I found was a mixed back of metrics and lackluster growth with deteriorating margins, which tells me that the low multiple, for now, is justified, and I assign…
pichet_w/iStock via Getty Images We present our note on Partners Group (OTCPK:PGPHF), a Swiss-based global private markets investment manager with a Hold rating. While we value Partners Group’s robust business model, at the current multiples we think the shares are fairly valued. We will provide a brief introduction of Partners Group, analyze the latest set…
Torsten Asmus The US 10-year Treasury yield continued to trend higher in August, rising further above CapitalSpectator.com’s “fair value” estimate, which is based on averaging three models. It’s unclear if the mean estimate is wrong or the market’s experiencing an extended run of irrational exuberance. Perhaps it’s a bit of both. In any case, the…
In a long-anticipated move, Bloomberg Tax reported that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is set to introduce new fair value accounting rules for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. These new rules aim to provide a more accurate reflection of the market value of digital assets and bring greater transparency to the financial reporting of companies that…
guvendemir It’s been a rough year for most development-stage companies in the precious metals sector and most have underperformed their producer peers. And those scrambling to update in-situ values (calculating the value of all resources) for these deposits and proclaiming that these stocks are dirt-cheap may be having a tough time from a drawdown standpoint,…
YelenaYemchuk/iStock via Getty Images Stable financial performance from fresh fruit producer Dole (NYSE:DOLE) driven by pricing. Long term strategy is focused on expanding into high-growth markets like avocados, berries and organic produce. Valuation appears fair. Company Overview Dole grows, sources, produces and sells fresh fruits and vegetables. The company’s fresh produce is grown and sourced…
shih-wei Hong Kong stocks have suffered in 2023. The iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF (EWH) is down more than 10% on a total return basis, underperforming the S&P 500 by some 25 percentage points. One online brokerage firm, Futu Holdings (NASDAQ:FUTU) has surged since late May. After the solid run-up, I am downgrading shares from…
DenisTangneyJr Overview CRA International, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRAI) is a company that provides consulting services both throughout the United States and internationally. It serves in 11 different areas including: Antitrust & Competition Auctions & Competitive Bidding Energy Finance Financial Economics Forensic Services Intellectual Property Labor & Employment Life Sciences Marakon Risk, Investigations, & Analytics The company was…
lechatnoir Since the first time I wrote about the building materials company CRH (NYSE:CRH) in November last year, its price is up by a huge 40%. I reiterated a Buy on it two more times since, and it hasn’t disappointed, with a 20% rise since my second article and a 10% increase since the third….
Sundry Photography Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) is a company that manufactures process technologies for businesses. The company’s focus is on optical and electro-mechanical devices. The company’s stock has seen rapid gains on the stock market, as the ticker’s price has skyrocketed for over ten years. I believe this run could continue, but with a stock price that…
Torsten Asmus The 10-year Treasury yield continues to trade at a level well above CapitalSpectator.com’s fair value estimate, but the gap suggests that further increases in the benchmark rate are facing stronger headwinds. The 10-year rate closed at 4.09% yesterday (Aug. 10), modestly above the level when last month’s fair value estimate was updated (3.86%)….