Last Friday afternoon, as I noted in the comment section on our website, news broke that Home Depot is considering making a bid for XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO). The news was a welcome early Christmas gift for shareholders, as the stock shot up to $90 a share. Home Depot and… Read More
Scott Chan moved from China to the U.S. with family at the age of ten. He passed the rigorous entrance exam and attended the merit-based Stuyvesant High School, widely held to be best public school in New York City. He earned undergraduate degrees from New York University followed by an MBA degree from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College.
Shortly thereafter Scott partnered with Dr. Stephen Leeb on numerous financial publications. Today, he serves as the lead analyst for Real World Investing and The Complete Investor.
Mr. Chan is an avid baseball fan and enjoys outdoor activities in his spare time. A multicultural person, he reads Chinese and speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.
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Share of AAR Corp. (NYSE: AIR) reached an all-time high yesterday. But after the company reported somewhat soft results in the early evening, the stock fell. AAR reported quarterly revenue of $449.7 million, in line with The Street’s expectation, but earnings per share was a little light. Adjusted EPS was… Read More
IQVIA (NYSE: IQV) has launched a new commercial technology called Orchestrated Customer Engagement (OCE). The new enterprise software is described as a “transformative technology for life sciences commercial operations” that “can result in increased productivity, better alignment and communication between former silos in pharmaceutical commercial operations, higher customer satisfaction among… Read More
Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) has rallied above $37 a share thanks largely to progression of the tax bill in Congress. Both the House and the Senate have passed a tax bill, greatly raising the probability that we could have a new tax law perhaps as early as before the end… Read More
Last week, we added IQVIA Holdings (NYSE: IQV) to our portfolio. The company was previously known as QuintilesIMS until November 15. On that date, the company changed its name and stock symbol to their present form. The company itself was formed via merger in 2016 between Quintiles and IMS Health,… Read More
Investors should not neglect emerging markets. This ETF offers diversified exposure to emerging markets, with a focus on the fast-growing region of Asia. Read More
We hope everyone spent a wonderful day with family and enjoyed a hearty meal! With Thanksgiving behind us, it’s time to focus on the markets again. Today we discuss the first of the two recent portfolio additions. We will take a look at XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO) today and IQVIA… Read More
Buy XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO) and IQVIA Holdings (NYSE: IQV). Today we are adding two stocks to our portfolio. The first is XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO). We found this stock in a relatively new and small, but very successful, hedge fund called Spruce House… Read More
Before we discuss Jazz Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: JAZZ), we want to give you a quick update on the latest changes in our reference funds’ holdings of Brain Trust Portfolio stocks. The latest Form 13Fs have just been filed. The most notable change is that Shapiro Capital Management its slashed… Read More
Sell Lindsay Corporation (NYSE: LNN). Reference fund Shapiro Capital Management has reported that it has sold nearly 40 percent of its holding in Lindsay Corporation (NYSE: LNN), signaling that it no longer has strong conviction in the stock. Following suit, we remove it from our portfolio today. Read More