Tim Melvin is a writer from Windermere, Fla. In addition to writing about the markets, he manages accounts for family and friends. He has written serveral articles and collaborated on several investment books. Prior to striking out on his own he spent 20 years a stockbroker, the last 15 as a Vice President of Investments with a regional firm in the Mid Atlantic area. He specializes in deep value investing as well as special situations and activist stocks, and is the author of the Junior Chamber Course on Value Investing, as well as numerous articles in various publications on the subject of value investing, the stock market and the world around us.
| Apr 29, 2013 | 2:00 PM EDT
Here are a pair of names Ben Graham probably would have liked.
| Apr 26, 2013 | 3:00 PM EDT
The community bank space will see a surge of merger and acquisition activity over the next few years.
| Apr 25, 2013 | 4:00 PM EDT
Natural resource stocks are the cheapest in the world right now.
| Apr 25, 2013
| 11:41 AM EDT
I took some flack last year for buying JetBlue and Southwest Airlines but once again the practice of buying stocks below...
| Apr 24, 2013 | 12:30 PM EDT
Going from stocks with negative total returns to the highest total returns over the next few years.
| Apr 24, 2013
| 10:44 AM EDT
Just a fantastic earnings report from FBR and Company (FBRC). The company is seeing its investment banking business rebo...
| Apr 23, 2013 | 5:00 PM EDT
These are quality names, but the Street has become far too smitten with them.
| Apr 23, 2013
| 4:05 PM EDT
A whole bunch of money is getting ready to change hands based on whose SWAG about Apples earnings was better. This is a...
| Apr 22, 2013 | 3:00 PM EDT
These companies face a slowdown and are unlikely to raise their dividends.
| Apr 22, 2013
| 8:54 AM EDT
The only real surprise in the CAT report would be that someone was surprised that business is bad. If business is horrid...