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Stocks of US Auto-Parts Retailers Have Crashed This Year

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The US auto-parts industry is experiencing severe slowdown in recent months. Major retailers such as Autozone, Inc(AZO), O’Reilly Automotive(ORLY) and Advance Auto Parts(AAP) have seen seen their stocks decimated. These companies announced poor quarterly earnings and mentioned a variety of factors for their dismal performance. Some of these include high sales of new vehicles, warmer weather, oil prices, etc. …

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Four Classic Bubbles of the Past: Chart

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Defining a bubble in equity markets is tricky. However according to Jeffrey Kleintop at Schwab a bubble is defined as a rise of 1,000% or 10 times over 10 years. The chart below shows four bubbles from the past. While today some tech stocks are all the rage and the NASDAQ has reached record levels, one of …

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A Look Back at the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-09

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The Global Financial Crisis(GFC) of 2007-09 was one of the worst financial crises in modern history. During this man-made crisis that started in the US, untold misery was inflicted on investors, homeowners, retirees and everyone else globally. However from an investment point of view, the crisis was one of the great time to pick up …

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The STOXX Europe 600 Index Companies’ Sales by Country/Region

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We have looked at S&P 500 companies’ sales by region/country before. In this post let us review the revenue composition of European companies by region/country using the The STOXX Europe 600 Index. The STOXX Europe 600 Index is represents 600 large, mid and small capitalization companies across 17 countries of the European region: Austria, Belgium, Czech …

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Can a Stock Price Decline from $1.483 BILLION per Share To just $1.40 per Share?

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Investing in the equity markets is not for the faint-hearted. Many questionable companies’ stocks trade everyday on markets worldwide. One example of the extreme case of public company is NASDAQ-listed Greek shipping company DryShips Inc (DRYS). According to a post in FT Alphaville recently, the share price of DRYS has plunged from from $1.483 BILLION per Share from …

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