Sentences with phrase «investors were fooled»

In many asset classes, investors were fooled.

On an individual stock basis, this may be the case, if investors are fooled by the faster earnings growth and they keep multiples at the same level or increase them.

«I began telling ExxonMobil management in 2008 that trying to appease climate - activists - dressed - as - investors was a fool's errand,» Steve Milloy, publisher of the site JunkScience.com and Exxon shareholder, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Some investors are fooled by the low payment and what appears to be positive cash flow.

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That's how entrepreneurs so often manage to fool themselves — and their investors, too — into believing they have some sort of recipe for success when, in fact, they don't.

But is there an alternative, short of going hat - in - hand to angel investors or venture capitalists or the proverbial three Fs: family, friends, and fools?

If you've ever wondered whether building an intranet is worthwhile, then consider the example of Motley Fool, an online investor - education company based in Alexandria, Va..

With a small stock market where institutional investors have been in short supply since the nationalisation of pension funds in 2008, and few angel investors or venture capital funds, the traditional source of seed capital is what is known as FFF: friends, family and fools.

Public market investors are not the fools many private investors like to play them out to be.

From our founding in 1993, The Motley Fool has been fighting on the side of the individual investor.

Three Motley Fool investors have identified Latin American lending specialist Bladex (NYSE: BLX), tech stalwart Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), and canned food giant Hormel Foods Corp. (NYSE: HRL) as dividend stocks that are great buys right now.

April had the highest volume of any month since 1929 with the exception of October, which fooled some investors who thought the worst was behind them.

Mr. Lewis is the director of the Shareholder Rights Group http://shareholderrightsgroup.com and was co-author of «Fooling Investors and Fooling Themselves: How Aggressive Corporate Accounting and Asset Management Tactics Can Lead to Environmental Accounting Fraud.»

Mr. Tilson has co-authored two books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market (2013) and More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times (2009), was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool andTheStreet.com.

And the greatest fools are participants in the pension plans managed by the greater fool institutional investors.

I'm with Carl as I too unashamedly ride on the coat tails of giants (Forager, Intelligent Investor, Motley Fool) who have better tools at their disposal than I ever will (capital IQ for example) and then just focus on controlling the one thing I have control over — my emotions as Investing is overwhelmingly a game of psychology.

Johnson & Johnson is a Motley Fool Income Investor recommendation.

And that's why fellow Fool Blake Bos recently insisted ExCast is «of utmost importance for the company to succeed over the long - term, satisfy investor's expectations, and drive the stock price higher.»

These aren't just random ideas, either: Three Motley Fool Investors have identified these particular companies as value stocks perfect for retirement.

It's fine to argue that perhaps investors are momentum chasers, and with profit margins now about 70 % above historical norms (making stocks seem both «safe» and misleadingly cheap), with stock prices up, and with low returns on cash, investors not holding stocks will be the greater fools that allow investors who do hold stocks to get out.

However, if you underestimate how much money you need, you won't be fooling anyone, least of all your investors.

It's hard to feel sorry for investors who know a stock is being gamed and buy it anyway, but there are also plenty of people who simply get fooled.

«The closest real - world analogy to raising money, whether you are seeking it from venture capitalists, angel investors, or the three Fs (friends, fools, and family), is speed dating.

Ponzi, or pyramid schemes can be so brilliantly organized and presented that they can fool the most savvy business investors.

Fast forward 170 years, and you still have frenzied feedback loops of riches and hype that leave many investors vulnerable to being played the fool.

For investors, electronic gold is nothing but modern day Fools» gold.

When we asked a handful of investors the same question here at The Motley Fool, they were quick to recommend Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LGND), Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR), and First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR).

Come to think of it, Fool contributor Mary Dalrymple already owns shares of Johnson & Johnson, which is an Income Investor recommendation.

But the investors aren't fooling themselves: Of the city funds» $ 92 million worth of shares, less than $ 1 million worth get a vote tomorrow.

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image on the DVD may be standard (or low) definition (this gives low def a new low) and is sadly clear enough to see all the junk and garbage he is producing to fool people with no tastes or investors who should spend their money elsewhere.

This kind of filmmaking is painfully rare in America, and it's something of a minor miracle that McCarthy was able to fool investors into funding this movie; happily it's good enough and, frankly, winning enough that audiences will likely take to it and return the favor.

Fooled by a slick investor, the three would - be entrepreneurs launch a faulty plan to kidnap the investor's adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.

Good for consumers, but may not be a great deal for investors (except those who manage to sell it to a greater fool).

Well, now investors are skittish (fool me once....)

(Mysteriously, the metatitle, the thing that appears at the top of the browser window, hedged: «Why Some Investors May Be Fooling Themselves.»)

It is a good column, worth reading, but it disappointed me for the simple reason that it failed to discuss, even in passing, why many investors keep fooling themselves.

I bring this up because the other week Jason Zweig's Intelligent Investor column in The Wall Street Journal was headlined «Why Many Investors Keep Fooling Themselves.»

And perhaps more important, since no one is fooled by this ruse, expect whatever benefits this plan delivers to be short - lived, How comfortable will investors be with buying stock and bonds of banks if they know the accounts are rubbish?

The resulting propensity of the stock market to periodically become and remain overvalued is all the more reason for fundamental investors to be careful, avoiding any overpriced investments that will require selling to another, even greater fool.

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My research is typically performed through a combination of Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, Value Investors» Club, and The Motley Fool.

I think that the next step is to gain a sense of how great the likelihood is that data - informed investors will be fooled by the appearance of new returns patterns (or by the reappearance of old returns patterns that they did not anticipate us seeing again).

I'm with Carl as I too unashamedly ride on the coat tails of giants (Forager, Intelligent Investor, Motley Fool) who have better tools at their disposal than I ever will (capital IQ for example) and then just focus on controlling the one thing I have control over — my emotions as Investing is overwhelmingly a game of psychology.

What's powerful for investors about businesses like these is that you don't have to depend on a «greater fool» to come along and pay you more money for your shares than they're really worth.

Overall, here the investors are happy to pay too much for an asset just because they believe that a greater fool will be willing to pay more in future.

Michele Lerner, author of «HOMEBUYING: Tough Times, First Time, Any Time,» has been writing about personal finance and real estate for more than two decades for a variety of publications and websites including The Washington Post, The Motley Fool, Investopedia, Insurance.com, HSH.com, SavingsAccount.com, National Real Estate Investor magazine, The Washington Times, Urban Land magazine, NAREIT's REIT magazine and numerous Realtor associations.

So investors should be prepared for a potentially rough ride, says The Motley Fool» s Sean Williams.

That's why smart investors are beginning to leave this ship of fools behind by building retirement assets that the government can't touch.

So if you don't want to speculate, if you know that predicting where the price of a stock will be next week, month or year is a fool's errand then you will want to use the value investor's toolkit.

He understands that The Motley Fool is all about investors writing for investors.