YouTube Ad Guy Tai Lopez Caught Lying, Possibly Exposed As Scam Artist -10/20/15 at 5:07 PM CDTby Perry Rod

A new YouTube advertisement by self-help marketer Tai Lopez entitled "Here in My Backyard" appears to display a home that is likely not owned by Mr. Lopez. The ad is a follow up to a now famous and parodied advertisement, "Here in My Garage", where Lopez shows expensive cars he claims to own and offers to help others achieve wealth. A video by h3h3Product...

Local.com Appears Undervalued -07/27/10 at 7:40 AM CDTby Peter York

A quick comparison to search giant Yahoo! Inc. [NASDAQ:YHOO] and smaller advertising company ValueClick Inc. [NASDAQ:VCLK] suggests the tiny internet search and advertising company Local.com Corp. [NASDAQ:LOCM] is undervalued. Yahoo! has as of late failed to impress investors and yet the stock price minus cash and investments – $8.37 - divided by ea...

Gamestop Inc Will Die, They Say, But Publisher Actions Speak Louder T... -10/29/09 at 12:54 PM CDTby Perry Rod

Gamestop’s closest U.S. comparable is Best Buy (BBY).  Analysts for Best Buy Inc. are predicting an 8% year over year EPS growth rate.  Based on current trading prices, BBY trades at a P/E ratio of around 13. Meanwhile, analysts project a 14% year over year EPS increase at Gamestop Inc (NYSE:GME).  With higher analyst growth expectati...

Retail Investors Outperforming Professionals With Citigroup, Ford, an... -08/21/09 at 11:14 AM CDTby Peter York

In today's market, it's not the professionals who are celebrating as much as the retail investors.  Consider three stocks that seem to show up in retail portfolios everywhere: Citigroup Inc. (C), Ford Motor Company (F), and Sirius XM Radio Inc (SIRI).  Institutional ownership in these stocks are well under 50% which suggests a significant retail...

Viacom Drops The Ball On Michael Jackson (Update) -06/26/09 at 11:23 AM CDTby Peter York

Within an hour of Michael Jackson's untimely death, t-shirts of the pop legend were being sold to crowds in Los Angeles and New York, and Michael Jackson eBay items were being sold at more than ten times the previous value.  The cable news media and even some networks dropped everything and it was non-stop Michael Jackson on television.  But a c...

Same Old Gamestop Fears Pressure Stock -06/02/09 at 12:38 AM CDTby Mahyar Hashemi

Every year it's the same old fears with Gamestop.  The company is running out of time, they say, facing a new world of downloading and new competition.  They are the next Blockbuster, they say. They said it last year, they said it the year before, and the year before that and so on.  This latest round of fears is likely why while many other...

Prediction: Google To Become the Most Profitable Company in the World -04/10/09 at 12:40 PM CDTby Ted Arrington-flowers

As a former stock broker, 20-year stock trader and serial entrepreneur my life experiences have given me a unique perspective to back the prediction made in this report that Google will become the largest and most profitable company in the world within 20 years. From investing experiences I learned as all savvy investors know by now that innovation that d...

Nintendo Stock Falling In Japan Despite Record Breaking Sales -01/21/09 at 2:24 AM CSTby Perry Rod

While video game sales break new records all across the world, video game stocks have seen better days. American publishers Activision (ATVI), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Take Two (TTWO) and THQ (THQI) have all seen their stocks dramatically fall over the year.  The latter has had the worst hit, sinking 86% in a year while others have been cut by over ...

Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo -11/28/08 at 2:18 PM CSTby Mahyar Hashemi

Carl Icahn has had a difficult time in this market. Most reports suggest he has dropped well over 50% of his total value this year. His stake in Yahoo (YHOO) has been another recent loser, despite Icahn's success of taking a minority position on Yahoo's board of directors. Today it was reported that Icahn bought more shares of Yahoo and upped his stake in...

Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading - So Are Things Back To Norma... -11/18/08 at 6:55 PM CSTby Perry Rod

For a moment yesterday it felt like things were getting back to normal.  A bulletin hit the wire saying that Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban was being charged by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission with insider trading.  Even the stock market went up for a good twenty minutes after the wire hit. But it soon hit me right back - ...