Silver Bay Realty Trust - A Business Model Doomed To Fail [View article]
"no exit strategy"?""""""
The best exit would be to sell the houses when prices recover, BUT this is a corporation, management wants a job forever, so they're likely to find some way to keep the paychecks coming forever.
Some Moves Are Consistent With Severe Leverage In The System [View article]
at Ameritrade the base margin rate is 7.75%,
I know "good" customers can get a discount from that, but I find it hard to imagine many ordinary investors using much margin. Margin has too much risk and too high of a cost.
Over the long term, it's a losing strategy. A person is better to buy high beta stocks and pay cash.
Hedge funds have a huge amount of money now and I assume most use leverage, is this where most of the margin exists?
A hedge fund could probably borrow for 3% or less.
This would be consistent with the very abrupt drop in gold in one day last month. Ordinary investors can't all head for the exits in one day like that.
Why Corning Is A Sell Above $15 And A Buy At $13 Or Less [View article]
They say the problem with earnings is that they "lack pricing power"
What's the point of spending a lot of money on research if you can't get "pricing power"
Annaly Capital: Don't Be Fooled By The Super High Yield [View article]
The dividend was cut sharply
That WILL happen again, actually, we have been seeing the div
cut, it will continue
5 Financial Stocks With Recent Large Insider Buying [View article]
dividend is $1.25
The future doesn't look good to me when you figure these mREITs
stock price reflects the dividend much more than other stocks.
Annaly Capital: Don't Be Fooled By The Super High Yield [View article]
It will happen again
Sell Your Platinum To Buy Palladium [View article]
but, is the same amount of each used?
Or is Pt more efficient, thus requiring fewer grams of it?
PetroLogistics Pops Dividend: 10% Full-Year Yield Is Possible [View article]
EBITDA (ttm)6: 131.32M
Net Income Avl to Common (ttm): 156.72M
How can income be higher than EBITDA?
DID they have some non recurring gain? or something else?
Income last year was $1.13, dividend was $1.42
and div this year at a $2.68 rate, altho probably less.
They borrowed a lot of money in 1st quarter
" issuance of $365 million senior notes at 6.25% due in March
2020."
Are they just borrowing to pay a fat dividend?
What is a sustainable dividend for them?
Annaly Capital Makes Shrewd Move To Boost Future Interest Income [View article]
The stock is price for the current dividend,
if it goes to 8% or lower the stock WILL go down = capital loss
Silver Bay Realty Trust - A Business Model Doomed To Fail [View article]
The best exit would be to sell the houses when prices recover,
BUT this is a corporation, management wants a job forever,
so they're likely to find some way to keep the paychecks coming forever.
Q1 Results For American Capital Agency Show Mortgage REIT Dangers [View article]
Why Rhode Island Isn't Defaulting On Its Moral Obligations [View article]
the reason they won't default is because if they did,
they'd never be able to issue more of this type of bond.
They are keeping their options open for the future.
Chesapeake Sells Another Marcellus Package At Low Valuation: Transaction Analysis [View article]
the person who owns the land still keeps it.
Some Moves Are Consistent With Severe Leverage In The System [View article]
I know "good" customers can get a discount from that,
but I find it hard to imagine many ordinary investors using
much margin.
Margin has too much risk and too high of a cost.
Over the long term, it's a losing strategy.
A person is better to buy high beta stocks and pay cash.
Hedge funds have a huge amount of money now
and I assume most use leverage,
is this where most of the margin exists?
A hedge fund could probably borrow for 3% or less.
This would be consistent with the very abrupt drop in gold
in one day last month.
Ordinary investors can't all head for the exits in one day like that.
Redacted Version Of The May 2013 FOMC Statement [View article]
The problem is in the new housing industry,
normally that's 10% of the economy,
It's been running at half or less than half of 10% for 5 years.
That's where most of the unemployment is,
and this will continue until the banks finally---------- finish up
the foreclosure business.
It looks like the banks will take at least another 3+ years
to finish foreclosing, this is screwing the economy.
FDA Rejection Of Probuphine Hits Titan Hard [View article]
It's just a way of getting around the patent law.
Microsoft Finds A New Enemy In The Browser Wars [View article]
works well and has lots of really useful add-ons.
I googled Chrome add-ons and just got a bunch of junk,
hard to tell if they have any usefull add-ons.
dictionary, swift tabs, right links, cookie culler and secure log in
to name just a few for firefox