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I am a Strategy and Transformation Consultant in the Financial Sector who follows a fundamental investment strategy. I generally write articles about technology and financial stocks. I graduated from Wake Forest University in 2011 as the top Finance major in my class. I write articles to... More
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  • August Review 0 comments
    Sep 2, 2011 4:50 PM | about stocks: AAPL, MCD, KO, GOOG, BLK, PNC, JPM, F, TSLA, MSFT, NLY, VZ, LEAP, M, ABX
    In my first month contributing to Seeking Alpha, I wrote 24 articles, which had over 130,000 views. From my experience so far, I have learned a lot about the market and I hope I gave my readers some good investing ideas. Here is a summary of my August recommendations (you can read the articles here):

    Strong Buy - 15:
    McDonald's (MCD)
    Coca-Coal (KO)
    Apple (AAPL)
    Google (GOOG)
    Blackrock (BLK)
    PNC (PNC)
    JP Morgan Chase (JPM)
    Ford (F)
    Tesla (TSLA)
    Microsoft (MSFT)
    Annaly Capital Management (NLY)
    Verizon (VZ)
    Leap Communications (LEAP)
    Macy's (M)
    Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX)

    Buy - 9:
    Coinstar (CSTR)
    Vornado (VNO)
    Boston Properties (BXP)
    Transocean (RIG)
    PepsiCo (PEP)
    American Capital Agency (AGNC)
    Plains All American Pipeline (PAA)
    TRW Automitive Holdings (TRW)
    US Steel (X)

    Hold - 9:
    Hewlett Packard (HPQ)
    Amazon.com (AMZN)
    Baidu.com (BIDU)
    VMWare (VMW)
    Merck (MRK)
    Energy Transfer Partners (ETP)
    ManpowerGroup (MAN)
    United Continental (UAL)
    Goodyear Tire (GT)

    Sell - 4:
    Netflix (NFLX)
    Enterprise Product Partners (EPD)
    FirstEnergy (FE)
    Delta Airlines (DAL)

    Strong Sell - 7:
    Sears Holdings (SHLD)
    MetroPCS Communications (PCS)
    China Unicom (CHU)
    Pandora (P)
    Salesforce.com (CRM)
    LinkedIn (LNKD)
    Dell (DELL)

    I hope to continue writing this month and give more recommendations and analysis. Please follow me on Seeking Alpha and feel free to leave me messages as I try to answer all questions that my readers have.

    Themes: Portfolio, Recommendations Stocks: AAPL, MCD, KO, GOOG, BLK, PNC, JPM, F, TSLA, MSFT, NLY, VZ, LEAP, M, ABX
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