Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool September 29, 2008 Shannon Zimmerman	A Great Pick for Your IRA Make sure you make the most of your IRA contribution.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2007 Shannon Zimmerman	Time to Go All In? If you know where to put your money to work, it's always a great time to invest. Fortunately, there's a simple solution: mutual funds.
The Motley Fool January 6, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	ETF Tip No. 1: Don't Believe the Hype Exchange-traded funds are good alternatives to index funds. Or are they?
The Motley Fool April 5, 2007 Shannon Zimmerman	A Beginner's Guide to Growth Stocks Now appears to be an excellent time for investors to go growth shopping: After years of market-lagging performance, that seems to be where the market's bargains lie -- provided you know how to find 'em.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2007 Richard Gibbons	The Market's Most Dangerous Bargains Buying the cheapest-looking stocks can be a really bad idea. Relative valuation can be an indicator of value, but it should go hand-in-hand with other valuation techniques and solid understanding of the fundamentals of the business.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Steal These Stocks! Despite what you may have heard, you can indeed beat the market while sleeping peacefully at night with world-class mutual funds.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Focus on Fees When it comes to mutual funds, it pays to be a cheapskate. Take a look at the funds you currently own. Are you paying for the "privilege" of underperformance? If so, it could be time for a mutual fund makeover.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2007 Shannon Zimmerman	Million-Dollar Shortcuts Here's how to shave time off your road trip to financial freedom.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Andy Louis-Charles	Is Now A Good Time for the S&P? The S&P 500 has recently fallen to levels unseen since the start of the Iraq War in 2003. The question is, are investors better or worse off owning it?
The Motley Fool April 13, 2006 Seth Jayson	The Street's Smooth Operators When you take the time to examine the facts, price the company according to expectations and risk, then pay less than you think it's worth, your odds of coming out ahead are better.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2010 Dan Caplinger	These 5 Winners Are Still Great Values Not all value stocks are down and out. Going forward, it'll take a little digging to find stocks that are good values.
The Motley Fool November 28, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	The Best Investments for 2007 Past performance is famously no guarantee of future results, but if you're a contrarian indicator, it can come in mighty handy.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2007 Allyson Cohen	A Beginner's Guide to Growth Stocks Can you turn a love affair with growth into a sound investment?
The Motley Fool May 5, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Rev Up Your Retirement Growing older doesn't mean giving up on growth. The best way to zero in on the kind of growth stocks that won't keep you up at night is a GARP -- growth at a reasonable price -- strategy.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2007 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: Cisco Bear Rebuttal The bears argue that Cisco's valuation can't continue to grow in the face of clear cyclical troubles in its primary market -- a market that Cisco already dominates.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2007 Selena Maranjian	Growth, Value -- What's the Difference? What, exactly, is a growth stock? Fully 162 of the S&P 500's component stocks -- or 32% of the group -- are classified as both growth and value. This data may be interesting, but it tells us little about the attractiveness of specific stocks.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	3 Reasons to Sell It's never safe to assume that any investment is a now-and-always proposition. Parting with a mutual fund isn't always such sweet sorrow.
The Motley Fool July 14, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Smart Ways to Get Started, Part 2 Thanks to the market's recent choppiness, many small-cap companies are currently trading at steep discounts relative to their respective 52-week highs. And that's good news -- at least if you're an investing cheapskate.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	The Best Way to Invest in Growth The best fund managers know that, when a stock's price has outrun even the rosiest of growth scenarios, it's time to head for the exits. They don't fall in love with a stock's "story," in other words. They focus on fundamentals and make their buy -- and sell -- decisions accordingly.
The Motley Fool March 7, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Can 90 Million Investors Be Wrong? As convenient as they are, the vast majority of mutual funds are market-lagging dogs. With more than 7,000 funds vying for your hard-earned savings, the trouble lies in separating the fund industry's proverbial wheat from its chaff.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Mutual Fund Dart Board If you want to hit the bull's-eye, you'll need more than luck. So how, exactly, does a savvy fund investor go about finding future mutual fund standouts? An excellent question. Here's the answer.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2007 Allyson Cohen	A Beginner's Guide to Making Millions The bigger the goal, the more critical it is to get your plan right and spring into action immediately. If you have the stomach for volatility and the means to put financial independence on the front burner, you can reach your lofty goals. Here's how.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Funds and Fatherhood Mutual funds and Father's Day -- a perfect combination.
The Motley Fool September 13, 2006 Seth Jayson	Exploiting the Averages The market's best companies aren't always served up with hefty discounts. That's why it's important to pay attention when the opportunity does come along.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	7 Big Pharma Stocks Near 52-Week Lows Trolling the bottom for upside potential.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2010 Alex Dumortier	6 Blue Chip Stocks to Beat the Market High-quality companies are cheap. One subset of Dow stocks looks even more promising.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Forget the Bears: There Are Still Stocks You Should Be Buying Here's how you can find great opportunities in the stock market right now.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Putting It All Together Once you have a firm grip on your personal finances, you'll be in a much better position to dive into the stock market and make the most of your investments.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2008 Shannon Zimmerman	Can These ETFs Save Your Portfolio? There are some exchange-traded funds that crafty investors can use to stop the bleeding taking place in the markets right now: inverse ETFs.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2007 Shannon Zimmerman	It Pays to Think Big You may be the world's best stock picker, but if you're paying an exorbitant interest rate on credit card debt or stashing your emergency cash in low- or no-yield savings vehicles, you're simply giving back with one hand what you're gaining with the other.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Blue-Chip Bargains? Sifting through beaten-down stocks may yield some good investments. But be careful, most of these stocks are that way for a reason.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Mutual Funds for Cheapskates Looking to buy into a quality fund on the cheap? Look no further.
The Motley Fool December 10, 2007 Richard Gibbons	How to Build Wealth in Today's Market The market's volatile, but that volatility is bringing huge opportunities.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Do the Math As your nest egg grows, that 11% return operates on a bigger and bigger stash of cash, resulting in the transformation of a relatively modest sum of start-up money into a fortune you can bank on -- literally. When it comes to investing, time really is on your side.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	7 Food and Staples Retailing Stocks Near 52-Week Highs Searching the market's peaks for possibilities.
The Motley Fool March 8, 2007 Shannon Zimmerman	A Beginner's Guide to Making Millions Growth and value are relative terms, and these days, it's possible to snap up shares of stocks with 15% earnings growth forecasts or better on the relative cheap.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Selena Maranjian	A Better P/E Ratio for the Recession We usually look at P/Es based on past earnings, but maybe we'd be better off during these recessionary days looking at "forward" P/Es, based on the coming years' expected earnings.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2006 Selena Maranjian	Make Millions From Thousands Turbo-charge your portfolio with a few strong performers.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2007 Anders Bylund	Duel Revisited: Bully for eBay One year ago, two stock analysts crossed swords over online auctioneer eBay. Here's how the last 52 weeks have treated their arguments.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	A Great First Investment At some point in our investing careers, we're all newbies. Looking to make a smart investing start? Try: the Rydex S&P Equal Weight exchange-traded fund.
The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Dan Caplinger	These Stocks Are Cheap by Every Measure Unfortunately, when a bear market pushes the price down on nearly every stock, the common ways of combing through stocks' valuations to find attractive candidates often turn up companies that aren't really great values right now.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2009 Shannon Zimmerman	The Death of Fundamental Analysis The good news, of course, is that investing is not an either/or proposition -- and that fundamental analysis isn't dead.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	How Long Should You Ride This Rally? Our concern shouldn't be how much the market has gone up or down, but rather whether its valuation is attractive or unattractive.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2004 Selena Maranjian	10 Big Investing Mistakes Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Finding Value On The Net Retail investors can hedge bets on the Big Four by buying smaller Net companies whose stocks are much more reasonably priced. In fact, most Internet stocks aren't nearly as expensive as armchair pundits think.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2010 Toby Shute	101 Reasons the Market Looks Overheated Today Now looks like a great time to play defense.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2005 David Gardner	Searching for Rule Breakers Find the great growth stocks of tomorrow a day early.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2010 Alex Dumortier	USA, Inc.: Have Profits Peaked? The consequence of the current recovery in profits to near-record highs is that margins now have very little upside and plenty of downside.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	ETF Investors Go Sector-Crazy Select Sector SPDRs draw investors like flies. Should you plunge in?
The Motley Fool June 16, 2011 Jordan DiPietro	Should You Retire With Johnson Controls? Johnson Controls' valuation, dividends, growth and low volatility can tell us if it has the traits of a good retirement stock.