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5.5 year – 2.70%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Outlook Financial and was updated on 2013-03-14. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
New Trade: Long TripAdvisor ($TRIP) & Short OpenTable ($OPEN)
– IntelligentSpeculator.net
This morning I sent out a newsletter to the members of my tech stock focused mailing list about companies that are playing the long game (it’s one of the key things I look for when making speculative longer term investments). I spent a lot of time thinking about it this weekend and today’s post fits very well. If you’d like to get 1-2 emails per month with additional thoughts on the tech stocks that I follow, be sure to join the mailing list here:
Today’s new trade is one that I probably would never have considered until very recently. OpenTable is the type of stock that is incredibly scary to short but it does seem to have lost some of its momentum and feels like a good play at its current levels. Before going further here are the numbers on these two companies:
TickerNamePriceEPSPE RatioPE Next YearReturn YTDSales GrowthAnalyst ratingBook ValueBetaRevenue/Share
OPENOpenTable Inc66.611.0659.4229.1837.5815.853.297.51.247.14
TRIPTripAdvisor Inc63…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Global stock markets edged up Monday amid hopes that the…
4.5 year – 2.45%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Outlook Financial and was updated on 2013-03-14. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
