Chuck Carnevale

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• Part Two: The Truth About Earnings and How Forecasting Earnings is the Key to Success

  Published 21 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  In part one of this two-part series on the importance of earnings I focused on the historical relationship between earnings and market price utilizing cyclical…

• Apple Does Not Need its Cash to Grow as Much as its Shareholders Need it to Spend

  Published 19 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Learning From The Past With all the media attention, most everybody is now aware that Apple (AAPL) has decided to use their prodigious cash hoard…

• Part One: The Truth About Earnings and How They Drive Stock Values and Shareholder Returns -- The Historical Perspective

  Published 15 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  I want to start this article out with the positioning statement, that I am a fundamental investor, and that I believe in conducting a comprehensive…

• Investors In Common Stocks Must Get Valuation Right; Here's How

  Published 08 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The investment industry is replete with pundits and self-proclaimed experts espousing various principles and rules that allegedly are the best way to value a stock…

• Testing: Bio Reference Labs (BRLI), Quest Diagnostics Inc. (DGX), Laboratory Corp. of America (LH): Diagnosis Profits

  Published 02 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Whether a buy-and-hold investment strategy is a good idea or not, is one of the most hotly debated investing concepts. From our point of view,…

• Oracle Is Too Cheap To Ignore Any Longer

  Published 16 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Within the world of investing exists a dichotomy that has often befuddled and confused us. On the one hand, we have investors that are interested…

• Nike (NKE): Just do it, Sell

  Published 09 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  There is an enormous amount of discussion and even controversy regarding various opinions as to whether the stock market is currently undervalued or overvalued. Some…

• Fastenal (FAST): A Vivid Case of Overvaluation

  Published 02 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Our normal policy is to produce articles and analysis on companies that we believe offer attractive valuations based on earnings and cash flows. However, we've…

• Has McDonalds Become Too Pricey To Buy or Hold?

  Published 01 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  We are strong believers in making buy, sell or hold investing decisions predicated on the fundamentals behind the business that the common stock represents. On…

• Becton Dickinson and Co. (BDX) A Healthy Dividend Growth Stock On Sale

  Published 20 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  One of the great long-term benefits that a recession brings is the opportunity to invest in extremely high-quality companies at low valuations. This is especially…

• Net1 UEPS Technologies (UEPS) Rises Over 30% Rewarding Undervaluation

  Published 18 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  One of today's biggest gainers is a small-cap, NASDAQ traded, application software company, Net1 UEPS Technologies (UEPS), and at one time was up over 30%…

• The Top 25 Best Dividend Challengers To Buy Today

  Published 13 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  This is the third and final article of a series of articles we have prepared on dividend paying stocks with a history and legacy of…

• 42 Dividend Contenders for Above-Average Total Return

  Published 11 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  With interest rates hovering near all-time lows, investors needing income are faced with very limited choices. The traditional high yield available from bonds and other…

• Dividend Champions a Rare Undervalued Opportunity

  Published 06 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  We believe that based on earnings, 2012 is starting out with the stock market undervalued. We believe in the long-term ownership of great businesses purchased…

• Wal-Mart - The World's Greatest Retailer, After a Long Hiatus, is a Solid Buy

  Published 05 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  We are going to start the new year off by looking at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) which we believe is a blue-chip growth and dividend…

• Growth and Value: Esterline Technologies - a Leading Defense Contractor

  Published 16 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Investing versus Speculating With the amount of volatility seen in the equity markets today, many people seem to believe that the old proven practices of…

• America's Best Companies are Cheap - So Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

  Published 16 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Let there be no confusion about the purpose and intent of this article. It is intended to present a positive and enthusiastic defense and a…

• Think F.A.S.T.: Darden Restaurants Inc. (DRI) After a Big Price Drop Has Become a Low Cost Feast

  Published 06 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The stock market often behaves in very peculiar ways. After announcing a modest reduction in revenues and earnings for fiscal 2012, attributed mostly to modest…

• A Micro Case For Future Stock Market Performance Optimism

  Published 28 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Implicit with the Thanksgiving Holiday is a spirit oriented towards counting our blessings. Being thankful associates more closely with optimism than it does pessimism. However,…

• The Case for Optimism: Our Top 25 Dividend Growth Stocks are Dirt Cheap

  Published 23 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Anyone who had recently invested in real estate would most likely agree that the phrase "dirt cheap" carries a new and enhanced meaning today. In…