LONDON -- One of�Warren Buffett's famous investing sayings is "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful" -- or, in other words, sell when others are buying and buy when they're selling.
But we might expect Foolish investors to know that, and looking at what Fools have been buying recently might well provide us with some ideas for good investments.
So, in this series of articles, we're going to look at what customers of The Motley Fool ShareDealing Service have been buying in the past week or so, and what might have made them decide to do so.
Handsome dividend
The share price of telecoms giant�Vodafone Group� (LSE: VOD ) (NASDAQ: VOD ) hasn't had a bad year so far. Despite some up and downs -- and the downs have been quite large at times, with an 8% slide over the course of 10 days in February, prompted by city super-investor Neil Woodford selling his Invesco Perpetual High Income fund's holdings in the company -- it's up almost 22% in 2013.
Hot Warren Buffett Companies To Own In Right Now: Provident Financial(PFG.L)
Provident Financial plc provides personal credit products to the non-standard lending market in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It offers home credit loans, including small and unsecured loans under the Provident Personal Credit and Greenwood Personal Credit brands, as well as shop cards and shopping vouchers; direct repayment loans under the Real Personal Finance brand; and credit cards. The company?s home credit is used for various events, such as Christmas, weddings, and birthdays, as well as to cope with an unexpected bill. It sells its products primarily through agents, Internet, and direct mail. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Bradford, the United Kingdom.
Hot Warren Buffett Companies To Own In Right Now: Speedway Motorsports Inc.(TRK)
Speedway Motorsports, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a promoter, marketer, and sponsor of motor sports activities in the United States. The company principally owns and operates Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Infineon Raceway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway racing facilities. The company also provides souvenir merchandising services; food, beverage, and hospitality catering services; and radio programming, production, and distribution services. In addition, it develops electronic media promotional programming; and distributes wholesale and retail racing, and other sports related souvenir merchandise and apparel. Further, the company manufactures and distributes smaller-scale, modified racing cars and parts; and produces and sells an environmentally-friendly micro-lubricant. Speedway Motorsports has a joint venture with International Speedway Corporat ion to produce, market, and sell licensed motorsports collectible and consumer products, primarily trackside event souvenir merchandising. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in Concord, North Carolina.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Speedway Motorsports (NYSE: TRK ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below. - [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Speedway Motorsports (NYSE: TRK ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
Top 10 Oil Companies To Own In Right Now: MicroStrategy Incorporated(MSTR)
MicroStrategy Incorporated provides enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), and mobile and social intelligence applications worldwide. The company offers MicroStrategy 9, an integrated BI platform that enables businesses to make business decisions. The MicroStrategy 9 platform?s product components comprise Intelligence Server, a foundation for the BI platform; Report Services, a reporting engine delivering production and operational reports, managed metrics reports, and interactive dashboards; OLAP Services that allows Web and desktop users to manipulate Intelligent Cubes databases; Web, a Web interface providing query, reporting, and analysis; Distribution Services that offers automated report and dashboard distribution; Office, which enables Microsoft Office users to create, run, edit, and format MicroStrategy report; and Desktop that provide users access to data through analytical applications. The MicroStrategy 9 platform?s product components al so include Architect, whose data sources are modeled through an intuitive graphical user interface; SDK to integrate MicroStrategy 9 features and functionality into any application on multiple platforms; Integrity Manager to compare and verify reports? consistency; Command Manager that automates MicroStrategy administrative tasks; Enterprise Manager to provide prebuilt reports and dashboards; Object Manager that allows administrators to manage disparate and distributed environments; MultiSource Option allowing users to report, analyze, and monitor data; Transaction Services that provides write-back capabilities; and Clustering Option, a plug-and-play add-on to Intelligence Server. The company also offers technical support, consulting, education, and cloud-based solutions. It serves retail, communications, financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, technology, consumer goods, and public services industries. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Evan Niu, CFA]
What: Shares of MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR ) have plunged today by as much as 13% after the company reported first-quarter earnings.
So what: Revenue in the first quarter added up to $130.2 million, a 6% decline from a year ago. That translated into a loss from continuing operations of $5.2 million, or $0.46 per share. Those figures looked poor relative to consensus estimates, which were calling for $152.4 million in sales and $0.35 per share in profit.
- [By Seth Jayson]
MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR ) is expected to report Q2 earnings around July 29. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:
The 10-second takeaway
Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict MicroStrategy's revenues will wither -1.9% and EPS will wither -40.0%.
Hot Warren Buffett Companies To Own In Right Now: Queensland Minerals Ltd (QML.V)
Dunav Resources Ltd. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral resource properties in Serbia. It holds mineral licenses related to the Tulare copper and gold project, the Surdulica molybdenum project, and other early stage projects. The company was formerly known as Queensland Minerals Ltd. and changed its name to Dunav Resources Ltd. in May 2011. Dunav Resources Ltd. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Longueuil, Canada.
Hot Warren Buffett Companies To Own In Right Now: Echo Automotive Inc (ECAU)
Echo Automotive, Inc. formerly Canterbury Resources, Inc., incorporated on September 2, 2008, is a development-stage company. The Company develops technologies and products that allow the conversion of existing vehicles into fuel-efficient hybrids and plug-in hybrids. The Company�� EchoDrive solution is a bolt-on easy-install system to convert existing fleet vehicles to electric assists. The Company provides solutions to assist companies in making the transportation technologies. As of September 21, 2012 Canterbury Resources, Inc. merged with Echo Automotive, Inc., with Echo Automotive, Inc. being the acquirer. In April 2013, Echo Automotive Inc acquired the entire share capital of Advanced Technical Asset Holdings LLC.
The EchoDrive platform enables existing vehicles to leverage grid power. During driving, EchoDrive applies that stored energy through the electric motor to assists the power train when the internal combustion engine is inefficient, significantly reducing the workload of the engine and the use of fossil fuels.
Hot Warren Buffett Companies To Own In Right Now: Heritage Oil Corp Com Stk Npv (HOC.TO)
Heritage Oil Plc operates as an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. It has an exploration appraisal and development asset in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; exploration assets in Malta, Tanzania, Pakistan, Libya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo; and a producing property in Russia. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in St Helier, the Channel Islands.
Hot Warren Buffett Companies To Own In Right Now: BancFirst Corporation(BANF)
BancFirst Corporation operates as the holding company for BancFirst that provides commercial banking services to retail customers and small to medium-sized businesses in the non-metropolitan trade centers of Oklahoma and the metropolitan markets of Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Lawton, Muskogee, Norman, and Shawnee. It offers various deposit services, such as checking, negotiable order of withdrawal, savings, money market, sweep, club, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. The company?s loan portfolio comprises commercial loans offered to small to medium-sized businesses in light manufacturing, local wholesale and retail trade, commercial and residential real estate development and construction, services, agriculture, and energy industries; commercial mortgages; working capital lines of credit; and other forms of asset-based financing. BancFirst?s loan portfolio also includes agricultural loans; small business administration guaranteed loans; an d financing for automobiles, residential mortgage loans, home equity loans, and other personal loans. In addition, the company offers funds transfer services, collections, safe deposit boxes, cash management services, retail brokerage services, insurance, and overdraft protection and autodraft services. Further, it provides trust services, as well as acts as executor, administrator, trustee, and transfer agent; and item processing, research, and correspondent banking services. Additionally, the company involves in the investment management and administration of trusts for individuals, corporations, and employee benefit plans; and provision of investment options. As of July 19, 2011, it operated 89 banking locations serving 50 communities in Oklahoma. The company was formerly known as United Community Corporation and changed its name to BancFirst Corporation in November 1988. BancFirst Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Hot Warren Buffett Companies To Own In Right Now: Golden Arrow Resources Corporat (GRG.V)
Golden Arrow Resources Corporation, a junior mineral exploration company, engages in advancing, identifying, and acquiring precious and base metal projects in Argentina. It has interests in approximately 40 exploration properties. The company�s projects include Potrerillos gold-silver project, Pescado gold project, and Mogote copper-gold-silver porphyry/epithermal project in San Juan Province; Chinchillas silver project located in Jujuy Province; Purulla copper-moly project in Catamarca Province; Don Bosco Copper-Gold Project, Caballos copper-gold project, and Varitas Polymetallic project in La Rioja Province; and Costa Property, Las Bayas property, and Victoria property in Chubut Province. Golden Arrow Resources Corporation is based in Vancouver, Canada.
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