Chad Brand

About Chad Brand is the Founder and President of Peridot Capital Management LLC, an independent investment advisory firm based in St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to managing investment portfolios for clients, Chad writes "The Peridot Capitalist," an investment blog that has been named one of the best stock market blogs on the web and is regularly quoted on sites such as Forbes.com, TheStreet.com and Yahoo! Finance. Prior to founding Peridot, Brand graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and worked in the corporate finance department at Express Scripts, Inc, an $18 billion per year pharmacy benefits management company.

Website

http://www.peridotcapitalist.com

Last 50 Posts by Chad Brand:

• »Are Legacy Costs Really AMR’s Biggest Problem?
  22 May 2008 in Current Market News & Stocks to Watch
  
• »$130 Oil Leads to Irrational Moves at American Airlines
  21 May 2008 in Current Market News & Stocks to Watch
  
• »Election Worries Have Put HMO Stocks Like United On Sale
  16 May 2008 in Current Market News & Stocks to Watch
  
• »Taking Some Profits in Apple
  12 May 2008 in Current Market News & Stocks to Watch
  
• »Citigroup First Quarter Update, As Promised
  06 May 2008 in Current Market News & Stocks to Watch
  
• »Microsoft Played Brilliantly, Hands Off Negotiations to Yahoo Shareholders
  05 May 2008 in Current Market News & Stocks to Watch
  
• »Business Week Reads This Blog Too
  24 Apr 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Housing Price Stabilization Nowhere In Sight
  23 Apr 2008 in Current Market News & Real Estate
  
• »Merck’s First Quarter Report Substantiates View of Vytorin Overreaction
  22 Apr 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Two Big Reasons Why The Google Bears Were Wrong This Quarter
  18 Apr 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Despite Writedowns and Loan Losses, Core Banking Businesses Remain Very Profitable
  14 Apr 2008 in Current Market News & Stocks to Watch
  
• »Blockbuster Bid for Circuit City (CC) Makes Little Sense
  14 Apr 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Yahoo to Outsource Ads to Google for Two Week Trial Run
  10 Apr 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Motorola (MOT) Valuation – Part 2
  08 Apr 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Microsoft, Yahoo Deal Hopefully on Fast Track
  07 Apr 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Expedia-Google Deal Seems Very Unlikely
  02 Apr 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Market Action Shows How Much Negativity Is Priced Into Stock Prices
  02 Apr 2008 in Current Market News
  
• »Motorola (MOT) Valuation – Part 1
  28 Mar 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Chesapeake Energy Boosts 2008, 2009 Production Forecasts on New Discoveries
  26 Mar 2008 in Energy Markets & Stocks to Watch
  
• »Did Buffett Sell PetroChina Too Early?
  24 Mar 2008 in Energy Markets & Stocks to Watch
  
• »Power of the Capital One Buyback
  05 Feb 2008 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »U.S. Bancorp Raises Dividend by 6%
  12 Dec 2007 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »The TRUE Cause of Foreclosures
  07 Dec 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »Sears Makes Play for Restoration Hardware
  26 Nov 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »IPO Watch: SandRidge
  15 Nov 2007 in Energy Markets & Stocks to Watch
  
• »The Truth Behind Ben’s Rate Cuts
  02 Nov 2007 in Commodities
  
• »The Implications of Negative Earnings Growth
  31 Oct 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »Countrywide Calling Trough & Profits Next Quarter
  29 Oct 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »Google Fails to Outbid Microsoft for Facebook Deal
  24 Oct 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »An Interview with Tim Sykes
  19 Oct 2007 in Investing Lessons
  
• »Crude Oil Hits Record High
  17 Oct 2007 in Current Market News & Energy Markets
  
• »Why Bears Focus on GAAP Earnings
  16 Oct 2007 in Investing Lessons
  
• »Google Passes Wal-Mart In Valuation
  10 Oct 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »Making Sense of Pershing Square’s 3.5% Stake in Sears
  05 Oct 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »Opinions on Bernanke and the Fed
  04 Oct 2007 in Investing Lessons
  
• »No Surprise as Banks Announce Writedowns
  01 Oct 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »Financial Media & Investment Decisions
  28 Sep 2007 in Investing Lessons
  
• »Comments on E*Trade
  26 Sep 2007 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Market Overvaluation Vs. Undervaluation
  21 Sep 2007 in Investing Lessons
  
• »Difficulty in Predicting Short-Term Markets
  19 Sep 2007 in Investing Lessons
  
• »Best Buy Beats Estimates
  18 Sep 2007 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Crude Oil – It May Be Time To Sell
  12 Sep 2007 in Market Commentary
  
• »Record Insider Buying – What Does it Mean?
  10 Sep 2007 in Investing Lessons
  
• »Fed Fund Futures Setting Market Up for a Sell-Off?
  07 Sep 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »Carl Icahn’s Move on WCI
  02 Sep 2007 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Housing Market May Take Years to Stabilize
  27 Aug 2007 in Market Commentary
  
• »Bank of America Investing in Countrywide for Value
  25 Aug 2007 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Capital One Closes Mortgage Business
  21 Aug 2007 in Stocks to Watch
  
• »Thoughts on Last Week’s Market
  20 Aug 2007 in Current Market News
  
• »The Sharp Turns of REITS
  07 Aug 2007 in Current Market News