It has been 76 days since Lawrence Carrel’s article about Equity Risk Sciences and the high risk of the overall market appeared in Forbes. On May 27, 2020 the S&P 500 closed at 3,036.13. Today, August 11, 2020, it closed at 3,333.69, or about 10% higher than it was when the Forbes article was [...]
Symbol Company Percent Loss Price Risk Financial Risk Today's Price High Price High Date Market Cap S&P Change AKS AK Steel Holding -76% 100 69 $2.64 $11.02 1/11/2017 $3,462 25.1% LJPC La Jolla Pharma -77% 59 48 $7.01 $30.10 6/26/2018 $787 1.6% MAXR Maxar Tech -91% 100 93 $4.70 $53.30 7/26/2018 $3,123 -2.6% CLDX [...]
Symbol Company Percent Loss Price Risk Financial Risk Today's Price High Price High Date Market Cap S&P Change MDR McDermott Int'l -64% 71 16 $8.16 $22.80 5/18/2018 $4,100 3.0% AMAT Applied Materials -39% 100 21 $37.87 $61.61 3/9/2018 $64,733 0.7% SQ Square Inc -26% 100 33 $73.64 $99.01 9/28/2018 $40,636 -4.7% AMD Adv. Micro [...]
Symbol Company Percent Loss Price Risk Financial Risk Todays Price High Price High Date Market Cap S&P Change KHC Kraft Heinz -46% 100 87 $33.09 $61.02 8/17/2018 $74,399 -2.4% WTW Weight Watchers -73% 100 88 $20.85 $77.92 8/29/2018 $5,191 -4.5% DF Dean Foods -72% 38 50 $3.12 $10.99 7/6/2018 $1,004 0.8% USAT USA Technologies [...]
In 1990, Microsoft was a “safe” company. Today it is very risky: From 1985 to 1990, its revenues had increased by 851%. However, since 2013 they have only increased by 43%. In 1990, its debts were 17% of its revenues, but today debts are 49% greater than revenues. In 1990, its Price to Sales [...]
In 1990, McDonald’s was a “safe” company. Today it is very risky: From 1985 to 1990, its revenues had increased by 80%. However, since 2013 they have decreased by -24%! In 1990, its debts were about equal to its revenues, but today debts are 92% greater than revenues. In 1990, its Price to Sales [...]
The following two charts establish a positive correlation between EPS’s proprietary risk analysis of companies in the S&P 500 and its future performance over the following 31 years. These studies sought to identify the degree of reliability of EPS’s risk measurements at predicting future price movements of the S&P 500 index. Most importantly, they [...]
Over the last year, many large stocks LOST 35% or more. These losses were avoidable. EPS’s proprietary “Company Risk Indicator” (CRI) provided a clear warning of the potential losses from these stocks.
For over 100 years, capitalists bought companies to earn income from their operations, rather than from reselling them at a higher price regardless of any lack of income. Buying a company for the income it produces is very different from buying a company that has little or no real net income, hoping that someday [...]
A few times a week, we make comments about big companies in the news. Our goal is to share with you some useful perspectives on identifying and analyzing risk; i.e. the work of EPS. Www.barchart.com is a free site which is very useful in identifying stocks which have moved significantly, both upward or downward. [...]
