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Diageo’s stock has struggled along with the overall market this year. The concerns surrounding the stock (strong GBP, weak consumer, and rising input costs) should have been eased after last week’s conference call. If anything, Diageo’s H2 earnings reaffirmed the long case for investors.
The long case:
o Cost Control
o Demand Growth Continues
o Very Attractive Valuation
Cost Control
By [...]

MLP Defined
A MLP is a master limited partnership. MLPs are publicly traded limited partnerships and operate in the natural resource, financial services, and real estate industries. MLPs have a significant tax advantage over other public companies; MLPs are not subject to the double taxation of public corporations. Instead they pass through the income, meaning owners [...]

Ultimately the performance of a stock will follow the underlying fundamentals of a firm. Stocks that are rising quickly usually represent firms which are executing well and have strong profit growth. On the other hand, stocks that are falling usually represent firms that are failing to grow earnings or whose fundamentals are declining.
Stocks which outperform [...]

In the early part of this decade we learned, ironically enough, earnings don’t represent real money. When a company says it earned a dollar per share last quarter, it doesn’t always mean it has that dollar to spend on dividends, share repurchases, debt repayment, or re-invest in firm’s operations.
As we all know that a dollar [...]

In a previous post I spelled out, why I am buying healthcare stocks for an Obama presidency . In that post I promised to provide three stocks that would benefit from this fact. The first stock was AET and now I will discus the second stock in this series, Schering-Plough Corporation.
Schering-Plough (SGP)
Schering-Plough discovers, develops, manufactures, [...]

In a previous post I spelled out, why I am buying healthcare stocks for an Obama presidency. In that post I promised to provide three stocks that would benefit from this fact. The first is Aetna Inc.
Aetna (AET)
Aetna, Inc. operates as a diversified health care benefits company primarily in the United States and Canada. The [...]

If you own any healthcare stocks, especially HMOs, you have felt the unease of investors this year. In an election year, especially one in which universal healthcare has been a key position; these stocks have taken a tumble. Because of this idealism, some healthcare names have seen their share prices beaten down to historic levels, [...]