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Why Chimpanzees Invest Better Than You Thu, 16/12/2010 - 11:29 by Selena Maranjian If you've ever seen the howling mob of chaos that regularly erupts on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, you can probably understand the tendency to compare investors to a gaggle of apes. But a recent Duke University study has proved that investors and their primate pals a few rungs down the evolutionary ladder may not be quite as similar as you'd think. Comments Read more	Is Eli Lilly's Stock Cheap by the Numbers? Sun, 12/12/2010 - 10:07 by Anand Chokkavelu Numbers can lie -- yet they're the best first step in determining whether a stock is a buy. In this series, we use some carefully chosen metrics to size up a stock's true value based on the following clues: Comments Read more	What Happened to Banco Santander? Sat, 11/12/2010 - 11:36 by Jordan DiPietro This article is part of our Rising Star Portfolios series. On Dec. 1, I highlighted two stocks that I was seriously considering adding to my real-money Motley Fool portfolio:Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) and Banco Santander (NYSE:STD). Comments Read more
Don't Get Too Worked Up Over Talecris Biotherapeutics' Earnings Fri, 10/12/2010 - 10:24 by Seth Jayson Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation based on dubious judgment calls. Comments Read more	Here's How Thor Industries May Be Failing You Thu, 09/12/2010 - 12:03 by Seth Jayson Margins matter. The more Thor Industries (NYSE: THO) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders. Healthy margins often separate pretenders from the best stocks in the market. That's why I check on my holdings' margins at least once a quarter. I'm looking for the absolute numbers, comparisons to sector peers and competitors, and any trend that may tell me how strong Thor Industries' competitive position could be. Comments Read more	Industrial production in Britain heads up Tue, 07/12/2010 - 23:04 by Prince damin London -- Industrial production in Britain rose 3.3 percent in October from October 2009, the Office of National Statistics said Tuesday. Output in mining and quarrying dropped 7.2 percent over the 12-month period, led by an 8 percent decline in oil and gas extraction. Output among utilities, however, rose 0.7 percent, led by gains in gas and electricity production. In the manufacturing sector, output rose 5.8 percent October-to-October with gains in 10 of 13 sub-sectors, ONS said. Under manufacturing, machinery and equipment production rose 16.8 percent, while basic metal production increased 13.7 percent. Production of food, beverages and tobacco products rose 6.5 percent. Comments Read more
Is PerkinElmer Good Enough for You? Tue, 07/12/2010 - 12:29 by Seth Jayson Margins matter. The more PerkinElmer (NYSE: PKI) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders. Healthy margins often separate pretenders from the best stocks in the market. That's why I check on my holdings' margins at least once a quarter. I'm looking for the absolute numbers, comparisons to sector peers and competitors, and any trend that may tell me how strong PerkinElmer's competitive position could be. Comments Read more	Are You Missing Something Easy at Take-Two Interactive Software? Tue, 07/12/2010 - 12:12 by Seth Jayson Margins matter. The more Take-Two Interactive Software (Nasdaq: TTWO) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders. Healthy margins often separate pretenders from the best stocks in the market. That's why I check on my holdings' margins at least once a quarter. I'm looking for the absolute numbers, comparisons to sector peers and competitors, and any trend that may tell me how strong Take-Two Interactive Software's competitive position could be. Comments Read more	How Cheap Is Coldwater Creek's Stock by the Numbers? Tue, 07/12/2010 - 10:24 by Anand Chokkavelu Numbers can lie -- but they're the best first step in determining whether a stock is a buy. In this series, we use some carefully chosen metrics to size up a stock's true value based on the following clues: Comments Read more
Ford China Sales Shoot Up 35% Mon, 06/12/2010 - 10:58 by Motley Fool Ford (NYSE: F) on Saturday said its China auto sales in November rose by 35% compared with the sales recorded last year, led by sales in the midsized-car segment, including the Fiesta and Focus models. The company sold 56,829 vehicles in November. Comments Read more	Here's How Brocade Communications Systems May Be Failing You Sat, 04/12/2010 - 09:42 by Seth Jayson Margins matter. The more Brocade Communications Systems (Nasdaq: BRCD) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders. Healthy margins often separate pretenders from the best stocks in the market. That's why I check on my holdings' margins at least once a quarter. I'm looking for the absolute numbers, comparisons to sector peers and competitors, and any trend that may tell me how strong Brocade Communications Systems' competitive position could be. Comments Read more	Old galaxy seen making new stars Wed, 01/12/2010 - 06:35 by Prince damin Oxford, England -- U.K. astronomers say a nearby galaxy, well past its cosmic "prime" for producing stars, shows evidence it is still churning out baby stars. Images from the Hubble Space Telescope show the core of an elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4150, thought to be well past its period of star formation, surrounded by streamers of dust, gas and young, blue stars considerably less than 1 billion years old, SPACE.com reported Tuesday. Scientists say the finding suggests elliptical galaxies can still have some youthful vigor left, possibly through encounters with smaller galaxies, and that the star birth in NGC 4150 may have been kicked off by a collision and merger with a dwarf galaxy. Comments Read more