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Many investors think in terms of value. They scour financial statements trying to find undervalued opportunities. Some focus on sales and earnings. The income statement shows these numbers as top and bottom line. But investors often miss some of the most valuable information. Let’s take a closer look at what that is… First, we need to note that financial statements include three parts: income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows. The income statement, which lists sales and earnings, gets most of the attention. It also shows the company’s expenses. The balance sheet shows what a company owns and[…]

One man built an empire with a single goal in mind… Do what’s best for the customer. Meet Mr. Sam. Mr. Sam, Roy and his beat-up Ford F-150 pickup truck. In 1962, Sam Walton opened his first store in Rogers, Arkansas — Wal-Mart Discount City. To cut down signage costs, he shortened the name to Walmart. And he was obsessed with customers. In 1989, when Walmart “only” had 1,300 stores, Mr. Sam wrote a memo to his associates about his strategy: More and more, I’m convinced exceeding our customers’ expectations must be our strategy. Our Company’s future survival, in my[…]

There’s one massive tech trend that doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. Artificial intelligence (AI). Farmers are using AI to grow our food with better quality and efficiency. AI is being used in health care to analyze X-rays and diagnose cancer patients earlier. And with the rise of wildfires, from California and Maui to the Mediterranean, AI is actually helping firefighters. They’re using “AI-enabled cameras to scan the horizons for smoke,” while Microsoft is using predictive AI to locate potential fires. But AI has another HUGE benefit … it can help you make money. Against 24 years of[…]

In life and investing, it’s important to know who you are and what you stand for. Just as much, that means knowing who you are not, and what you won’t stand for. I’ve always been hesitant to criticize investment strategies that I don’t follow. Just because I avoid trying to make money a certain way doesn’t make it objectively bad. And it definitely doesn’t mean other investors are wrong. But I would feel remiss if I didn’t at least offer a close examination of the pitfalls of investing in IPOs — “initial public offerings.” Investing in IPOs carries a substantial[…]

By the time you’re reading this, I’ve already released the very first group of stock recommendations for my brand-new stock trading advisory, Infinite Momentum Alert. Every one of them rates extremely highly on Momentum, Quality and Value — the three factors of the Green Zone Power Ratings system that I recently showed you were the cornerstone of my new strategy. But one stock among these is something special. I’ve taken to calling it a “Momentum Aristocrat.” You see, the Infinite Momentum strategy relies on a 10-stock portfolio of names set to trounce the market over the next four weeks. At[…]

Broadway is home to long-running hits. And many flops. It was also home to Lindy’s Delicatessen. That was a hot spot for actors, writers and the people who make Broadway what it is for almost a 100 years. According to legend, actors enjoying a late-night meal at Lindy’s noticed that if a Broadway show lasted for 100 performances, it had a good chance of lasting another 100 shows. This observation is known as the Lindy Effect. Economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the idea in his book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. Taleb generalized the Lindy Effect to anything nonperishable.[…]

Amazon is one of the greatest companies on the planet. From a standing start in 1994, Jeff Bezos founded the company in his garage. A little more than two decades later, Bezos is one of the richest people in the world… And Amazon dominates e-commerce and cloud computing. The driving force behind Amazon is Bezos’ obsession with customers. If you have ever ordered from Amazon, you know what I’m talking about. The site offers a huge selection, customer reviews, one-click ordering… And if you’re a Prime member, which is close to half the U.S. population… You get your order shipped[…]

We’ve come a long way from supercomputer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Artificial intelligence is learning and rapidly expanding its capabilities. It’s making jobs, research and many other tasks easier — not trying to leave us adrift in space… And the top companies in the world are competing to incorporate AI into their business models, across virtually every industry. But the way I see it, the #1 application of AI today is … how we pick stocks. That’s why I sat down with an expert in combining technology and finance: Keith Kaplan. And now we want to make sure[…]

Stocks that have “momentum” aren’t just the ones making headlines. And everybody has their hunch about what makes a stock move. But Adam O’Dell is a true analyst. He needs to see the “evidence” in the data, and he’s leveraging artificial intelligence in his new trading strategy: “Infinite Momentum.” He’s joining me on today’s episode of The Banyan Edge Podcast to talk about what makes this AI investing strategy different — and how it tracks stock movements consistently, efficiently and accurately to beat the market by 300-to-1. All on today’s episode…   (Or read a transcript.)   🔥Hot Topics in[…]