Huh?
Sometimes you just have to laugh. Here is the top of the headline list for ISRG a few minutes ago:
The second article also included this quote which I thought was priceless:
"While I'm not advocating buying or selling Intuitive here, I think it's a groundbreaking stock for both optimists and pessimists to keep their eyes on."
The second article also included this quote which I thought was priceless:
"While I'm not advocating buying or selling Intuitive here, I think it's a groundbreaking stock for both optimists and pessimists to keep their eyes on."
Laurie Frederiksen
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Yes. I stopped reading anything from Motley Fool once I realized that the majority of their articles are written by computers. It appears that their operating strategy is have these stories placed on the Yahoo news feeds as often as possible to sell their premium content (stock picks).
My favorite issue to watch for is when a controversy causes a stock to drop dramatically (such as was the case with EBIX recently). Soon after, a Motley Fool computer-generated article performed some basic fundamental analysis on EBIX' data and called for a strong buy of their equities. Unfortunately, the computer did not pick up on the fact that their buyout offer from Goldman Sachs was dropped due to accounting issues questioned by the SEC on EBIX' financial reports which dramatically lowered the stock price from 20 to 12 making it appear to be so undervalued.
I recommend everyone ignore these MF articles.
My favorite issue to watch for is when a controversy causes a stock to drop dramatically (such as was the case with EBIX recently). Soon after, a Motley Fool computer-generated article performed some basic fundamental analysis on EBIX' data and called for a strong buy of their equities. Unfortunately, the computer did not pick up on the fact that their buyout offer from Goldman Sachs was dropped due to accounting issues questioned by the SEC on EBIX' financial reports which dramatically lowered the stock price from 20 to 12 making it appear to be so undervalued.
I recommend everyone ignore these MF articles.
From: Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz>
To: The Club Cafe <club_cafe@bivio.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:49 AM
Subject: [club_cafe] Huh?
Sometimes you just have to laugh. Here is the top of the headline list for ISRG a few minutes ago:
The second article also included this quote which I thought was priceless:
"While I'm not advocating buying or selling Intuitive here, I think it's a groundbreaking stock for both optimists and pessimists to keep their eyes on."Laurie Frederiksen
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Well Stuart, since I occasionally write articles for MF, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment.
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While I too don't really get a lot out of the "canned" articles (which I have never seen end with a strong recommendation either way), I find there are a lot of others that are very interesting and provide a lot of good information.
I think we just need to take all "news" stories with a grain of salt. You really learn the most if you go to the horses mouth and keep up with company conference calls and SEC filings. There is a lot in them that is not hard to read or understand and I often find extra information in them that is not in news reports.
For example, I don't follow Netflix, but I was intrigued by a recent article at Footnoted.com Behind the Froth in Netlix Earnings which described how the benefit from the R&D tax credit that was reinstated retroactively at the beginning of this year meant they showed a -189% Income tax rate, which apparently explained much of their earnings during the first quarter. Yet Netflix continues to go up.
If you own Netflix, I hope you know this and that you are paying attention.
<g>
While I too don't really get a lot out of the "canned" articles (which I have never seen end with a strong recommendation either way), I find there are a lot of others that are very interesting and provide a lot of good information.
I think we just need to take all "news" stories with a grain of salt. You really learn the most if you go to the horses mouth and keep up with company conference calls and SEC filings. There is a lot in them that is not hard to read or understand and I often find extra information in them that is not in news reports.
For example, I don't follow Netflix, but I was intrigued by a recent article at Footnoted.com Behind the Froth in Netlix Earnings which described how the benefit from the R&D tax credit that was reinstated retroactively at the beginning of this year meant they showed a -189% Income tax rate, which apparently explained much of their earnings during the first quarter. Yet Netflix continues to go up.
If you own Netflix, I hope you know this and that you are paying attention.
Laurie Frederiksen
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Stuart Weissman <stuw6@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yes. I stopped reading anything from Motley Fool once I realized that the majority of their articles are written by computers. It appears that their operating strategy is have these stories placed on the Yahoo news feeds as often as possible to sell their premium content (stock picks).
My favorite issue to watch for is when a controversy causes a stock to drop dramatically (such as was the case with EBIX recently). Soon after, a Motley Fool computer-generated article performed some basic fundamental analysis on EBIX' data and called for a strong buy of their equities. Unfortunately, the computer did not pick up on the fact that their buyout offer from Goldman Sachs was dropped due to accounting issues questioned by the SEC on EBIX' financial reports which dramatically lowered the stock price from 20 to 12 making it appear to be so undervalued.
I recommend everyone ignore these MF articles.
From: Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz>
To: The Club Cafe <club_cafe@bivio.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:49 AM
Subject: [club_cafe] Huh?
Sometimes you just have to laugh. Here is the top of the headline list for ISRG a few minutes ago:
The second article also included this quote which I thought was priceless:
"While I'm not advocating buying or selling Intuitive here, I think it's a groundbreaking stock for both optimists and pessimists to keep their eyes on."Laurie Frederiksen
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ha ha.
Well, we can agree that SEC filings and conference call transcripts are the place to go for the facts. :P
Well, we can agree that SEC filings and conference call transcripts are the place to go for the facts. :P
From: Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz>
To: club_cafe@bivio.com
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [club_cafe] Huh?
Well Stuart, since I occasionally write articles for MF, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment.
<g>
While I too don't really get a lot out of the "canned" articles (which I have never seen end with a strong recommendation either way), I find there are a lot of others that are very interesting and provide a lot of good information.
I think we just need to take all "news" stories with a grain of salt. You really learn the most if you go to the horses mouth and keep up with company conference calls and SEC filings. There is a lot in them that is not hard to read or understand and I often find extra information in them that is not in news reports.
For example, I don't follow Netflix, but I was intrigued by a recent article at Footnoted.com Behind the Froth in Netlix Earnings which described how the benefit from the R&D tax credit that was reinstated retroactively at the beginning of this year meant they showed a -189% Income tax rate, which apparently explained much of their earnings during the first quarter. Yet Netflix continues to go up.
If you own Netflix, I hope you know this and that you are paying attention.Laurie Frederiksen
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Stuart Weissman <stuw6@yahoo.com> wrote:Yes. I stopped reading anything from Motley Fool once I realized that the majority of their articles are written by computers. It appears that their operating strategy is have these stories placed on the Yahoo news feeds as often as possible to sell their premium content (stock picks).
My favorite issue to watch for is when a controversy causes a stock to drop dramatically (such as was the case with EBIX recently). Soon after, a Motley Fool computer-generated article performed some basic fundamental analysis on EBIX' data and called for a strong buy of their equities. Unfortunately, the computer did not pick up on the fact that their buyout offer from Goldman Sachs was dropped due to accounting issues questioned by the SEC on EBIX' financial reports which dramatically lowered the stock price from 20 to 12 making it appear to be so undervalued.
I recommend everyone ignore these MF articles.
From: Laurie Frederiksen <laurie@bivio.biz>
To: The Club Cafe <club_cafe@bivio.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:49 AM
Subject: [club_cafe] Huh?
Sometimes you just have to laugh. Here is the top of the headline list for ISRG a few minutes ago:
The second article also included this quote which I thought was priceless:
"While I'm not advocating buying or selling Intuitive here, I think it's a groundbreaking stock for both optimists and pessimists to keep their eyes on."Laurie Frederiksen
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That is just a paraphrase of something J.P. Morgamn once said: "The market will fluctuate."
On Thursday, July 11, 2013, Laurie Frederiksen wrote:
Mark Eckman
On Thursday, July 11, 2013, Laurie Frederiksen wrote:
Sometimes you just have to laugh. Here is the top of the headline list for ISRG a few minutes ago:
The second article also included this quote which I thought was priceless:
"While I'm not advocating buying or selling Intuitive here, I think it's a groundbreaking stock for both optimists and pessimists to keep their eyes on."Laurie Frederiksen
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