The table presented above compares and contrasts the two healthcare ETFs, based on Yahoo! Finance statistics as of the market close on July, 2, 2008.

Despite concerns over the health of the domestic economy along with surging food and energy prices, the healthcare sector has failed to garner investor interest as a safe haven. Most healthcare exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and drug stocks continue to languish near multi-year lows, despite an aging Baby Boomer population and ever-increasing proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP) accounted for by healthcare spending. Last year, total health expenses grew at twice the inflation rate (6.9%), accounting for 16% of the GDP at $2.3 trillion. This growth rate is expected to continue over the next decade to a level of $4.2 trillion in 2016, accounting for 20% of the GDP, based on statistics provided by the National Coalition for …

Whenever it comes to buying a stock I always let technical analysis make my final decision. However, since I know everyone invest in their own way I am going to bring a stock to your attention that I am looking to take a large position in sometime in the future.

This stock is Natural Gas Services Group Inc (NGS). Not only is the name of the company nice enough to draw investor interest the fundamentals in this stock has it prepared to make large gains. Now, of course all of this depends on its business model not coming under tremendous competition.

Now while too many people focus on the wrong mettics when hunting for stocks I always focus on what matter to make the stock make the big gains.
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The C is for current quarterly earnings and those are taking off with EPS growing 67%, 27%, 29%, 120%, 40%, 58%, and 32% the …

I have not written in some time about a theme that I think is an important one. Skeptics could probably argue that the reason I haven’t written about it was that the recent facts have contradicted my belief, though the fact is just that I haven’t gotten around to it. So, to put the cards back on the table, it is time to talk about valuation cycles. Many people can tell you that the average market P/E over the long term is something like 15 times. Of course, “average” doesn’t imply that the P/E is always 15. About half the time it is higher, and about half the time it is lower. The trick is figuring out in advance which half is which. In behavioral finance, some would argue that the market follows long-term trends in valuation. Rising valuations spark investor interest, and additional investors adding money to the market causes ...