M&A deals involving a hostile party certainly create entertaining headlines, and distracts readers bored of inflation and interest-rate hike discussions. Teck Resources and Glencore are companies that have proved to be a worthwhile distraction. Glencore is one of the largest diversified natural resources companies, involved in mining and commodity trading…

One thing that never changes in this world, is the ability to minimize the perception of major risks until a catastrophe strikes. The 2008 Financial Crisis is a recent example of how ignoring risks led to the collapse of the financial system. We might think that we have learned from…

American Outdoor Brands (AOUT) is a company with some interesting history, changing its name from Smith and Wesson to American Outdoor Brands, and then spinning off the firearm manufacturing division, Smith and Wesson, due to ‘change in political environment,’ according to the company itself. AOUT not only spun-off the most…

For every course that teaches Mergers and Acquisitions, the case study of Teva Pharmaceutical should be a mandatory part in the curriculum. It is a recent classic story of acquisitions gone bad, very bad. When Teva bought the generic drug business from Allergan, it would have been better off for…

Elevate Credit is a small company by today’s trillion-dollar market cap comparisons. But this small company has its own uniqueness, especially if you look at the fundamentals. For starters, Elevate Credit mostly provides lending services to non-prime consumers. Non-prime consumers is another way to say subprime consumers, since the latter…

I was going through the news and came upon some articles that were indicating that the stock market is overvalued. To be brutally honest here, I don’t really care about market predictions, because the Dow Jones or S&P 500 reaching a certain target or not doesn’t really provide much value…

The Federal Reserve was initiated to provide stability to the monetary system in the country and maximize employment. So far, the role of the Federal Reserve has been criticized for having a target unemployment rate above 0%. According to the critics, this target implies that there would be unemployed people…

Recently, I was reading an article on CNBC which discussed the returns investors (wealthy ones) expect from the stock market in the coming years. If it had been a survey from new investors YOLOing their accounts, I would not have been surprised because when you are new to investing and…

Since the March 2020 selloff, many companies have either seen their stock prices recover their losses or even surpass their values, such as Tesla. Other companies are still trading below their peak stock prices just before the selloff began. …