Author Archives: Mike Mackin

Dollar & $en$e – Top Performing Stocks In March

Today, we take a look at the fifty largest companies (by market cap) and their historical performance during March over the past fifteen years. Our research compiles the opening and closing prices for each company during March since 1997 and gives the company’s overall consistency during March as well as the total average, maximum gains, and maximum losses seen during March over this period. The first graph depicts the most and least consistent stocks during March since 1997, with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) seeing gains close to 90% of the time during March and Wal-Mart (WMT) and Toyota Motors (TM), on the other end, experiencing gains only 40% and 33% of the time, respectively. Inside today’s story we will more fully describe each company’s performances and suggest trading strategies that can use our research.

 

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Chart Of The Day: Earnings Reports Scorecard

Chart of the Day: Earnings Reports Scorecard

Today’s Chart of the Day compiles every earnings report that has been released so far this year (until Feb 22nd BMO). This data contains 1664 reports, in which 1005 (60%) beat, 100 were inline (10%), and 320 missed (30%) the consensus estimates. Today’s chart breaks down each sector to see which has been the most consistent so far this year.

 

 

 

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Chart Of The Day: Average Indices Movements In March

Chart Of The Day: Index movements in March over the past 15 Years

Today’s chart of the day depicts the historical averages of each of the three indices (Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq). This chart gives us insight into how the market has moved historically in March and what we may expect heading into next month. Each indices averages positive gains during March over the past fifteen years, with the DJI averaging the largest gains at 3.30%. Today’s chart gives the average movements as well as maximum gains and losses seen by each of the three indices during March since 1997.

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Dollar & $en$e – Oil Performance In March

Today Dollar & $en$e takes a look at six oil and gas related companies and their historical performance in March. These companies span over three industries related to oil and gas: major integrated oil and gas, oil and gas equipment and services, and oil and gas drill and exploration. March has been a good month for oil historically with a 5.2% average during March for the West Texas Intermediate spot price since 1992. The biggest loss for WTI has been –7.8% and the largest gain has been 22.5%. Recently, oil has been even better with gains for the last eight Marches and nine out of the last ten. Here are the companies included in today’s research and the industry that each hails from:

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Chart Of The Day: Average Price Target Increases In January

Chart Of The Day: Average Price Target Increases In January

Today’s chart of the day gives the average price target increases by sector during the month of January. This data spans 203 companies whose price target were increased by at least one analyst during January.

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