Investment

Precipice of Success, or Failure? – Don’t Buy Cisco

The market capitalization for Cisco has plunged some 40% the last year, and over 55% since peaking in late 2007.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Obama Outperforms Reagan on Jobs, Growth and Investing

President Obama has achieved a 6.1% unemployment rate in his 6th year, fully one year faster than President Reagan did.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Now’s the time to buy faang stocks

. The change in government almost insures that the actions in Washington will prove to just be a lot of short-term heat, with little change in the overall lighting.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Investors Might Cheer Schultz Leaving Starbucks Ceo Role — if Doors to Change Open

In 2005, Jim Donald replaced Mr. Smith. By 2007 (in just teo years) he added a staggering additional 4,000 stores. He expanded the menu.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Investors May Regret Target’s Ceo Ouster – Look at Sears, Jcp

In early 2013 I met Mr. Clark after hearing him speak at a National Association of Corporate Directors meeting.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Investing or Speculating? Making Money in a Tough Marketplace

The value went up 10x – and then came down 90%. Wild ride – but in the history of markets unless you are a speculator, you should never have invested in Sears.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Invest in your value proposition –innovations built on trends generate growth and value

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Invest in the Future, Not the Past

Future success depends upon changing to meet dynamic market requirements. So far, none of the TARP activities, or the spending by the Treasury or Federal Reserve, are meeting this need.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Invest in Trends, Cannibalize to Grow – Sell Yahoo, Buy Apple

Company performance today has much more to do with whether the company’s products and services are aligned with trends, and market shifts created by trends, than the overall economy.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Invest in Innovation for Greater Growth and Higher Value Creation - Google

Google’s use of technology such as AI (Artificial Intelligence or Augmented Intelligence) is enabling people to accomplish more things, more quickly, more easily.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Innovation, is it road beef or Sunday lunch

Invention, quite simply, is the process of introducing something new or different.

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

How to Read the Newspaper

The headline boasted "a 63% drop in quarterly profit due to a year-earlier gain.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

How the amazon Effect Will Change Your Life and Investments

The first implication is just thinking about investing in Amazon and/or its competitors in retail.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

How ants kill elephants – the amazon.Com, sears & walmart story

The US e-commerce market is just under 10% the size of entire retail market. On the face of it this would indicate that the game is far from over for big traditional retail.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

How Telltales Told You Not to Own Wal-mart, and Continue to Do So

In May, 2011 I reiterated this problem at Wal-Mart in a column that paralleled the retailer with software giant Microsoft, and pointed out that because of financial machinations not all earnings are equal.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

History of the Book

Business leadership has not yet made the transition from management in the industrial economy to management in the information economy.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Facebook’s path to communication domination

Facebook shareholders should be cheering.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

F.a.n.g Investing Makes Sense – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google

Growth is a wonderful thing. When a company grows it can write off big mistakes and nobody cares. It can overpay employees, give them free massages and lunches, and nobody cares.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Earn higher ROI by investing in new markets & innovation. Disrupt, don’t Defend

Value creation does not come from being laser focused on defending your core business.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Drive for Success at Gm

GM once tried to re-invent itself. Saturn was created as a way for GM to learn what works in today’s market.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Don’t Fight Trends – So Don’t Invest in Best Buy

The bullish case for owning Best Buy is based on recovering sales per store, and recovering earnings, after a reduction in the number of stores, and employees, lowered costs.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Don’t Fall for Election Day Traders: Trends Say to Buy Tech Stocks

Traders make decisions on the smallest bit of information. Often information that is nothing more than an unproven thought.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

December Retail Sales Down 1% – Sell Walmart, Buy Amazon

The trend has never been more pronounced. Regardless of how much people are going to spend, they are spending less of it in traditional brick-and-mortar retail, and more of it on-line.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Crypto Oasis Sentio investing 10 million USD in UAE Blockchain crypto startups

Crypto Oasis Sentio is a novel investment structure that is working to fuel and support the growth of the Blockchain and crypto ecosystem in the Middle East, starting from UAE.

Saqr Ereiqat · 29 April 2025