VIDEO: Capitalize on the Influx of Data From Earnings Season

Sherlock Holmes may be a fictional detective, but he has a gripping take on gathering the facts: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”

Although stock shares and timing the markets don’t usually have life or death consequences, Holmes’ point is well taken: Data is everything.

  • And making sense of data is its own art and science.

For Research Analyst Kelly Green, dissecting data is the lifeblood of her work. She’s been studying market trends for the past decade and has a license to sell nearly all types of securities.

After graduating college at age 20, she passed the famously difficult Series 7 exam and developed specialties in dividend-paying stocks and option-income strategies.

As a contributor to Weiss Ratings Daily, Kelly highlights different companies, using thousands of data points in our Weiss Ratings model.

Because it’s peak earnings season — when companies report how they fared in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2021 — it means new data is sparking changes to the safety ratings of hundreds of stocks.

  • We’re seeing stocks move from the “Buy” range to the “Sell” range and vice versa, across sectors and industries.

Kelly says the influx of data is especially insightful for companies with cyclical businesses or those going through organizational changes.

She says that “companies have to adapt or die”:

Earnings season might be one of the most important times of year for any investor.

Every quarter, companies look at their books and have to report to their shareholders. Management has a duty to be transparent.

Now, after the fourth quarter, you can see an even bigger picture of how things played out over 12 months. You can see how individual events, like a merger, affected the books overall, and not just how they affected a three-month period.

And we can start to see whether a particular sector or individual companies are up to par. Are their books still the same? Are they making money? Are they growing?

The full earnings season runs from Jan. 15 to Feb. 28.

We’ve seen some of the giants of Big Tech release their reports in recent days, including Amazon.com (AMZN), which delivered an impressive quarterly profit of $14.3 billion.

  • Shares are up 16% over the past 60 days and 18% over the past year.

The company is now increasing the price of Prime membership from $119 to $139 per year. With 153 million Prime members in the U.S., Amazon is looking at an additional $3 billion of revenue in 2022.

It will be fascinating to see exactly how that plays out and if revenue meets expectations.

In this special five-minute video segment,Kelly explains why 2022 will be a critical lens to view every company’s true worth and prospects.

She also describes why dividend stocks are paramount in this investing environment, along with several names that are long-term holds.

Kelly says the stock screener on the Weiss website should be a go-to tool for investors:

The Weiss Ratings stock screener allows me to do everything I want to and then some. I can put in which industry I want to see and which sector. 

I can put in different fundamentals, price-to-book or price-to-earnings. You can put in market cap size and look at your small-caps and your large ones. You can put in volume and even seven-day price change.

In the end, the numbers don’t really lie. People can manipulate the data, but if you look at the data long and hard enough, you’ll start to see those inconsistencies.

In this insightful video, Kelly discusses:

  • Two very different automakers that should be in your portfolio.
  • How to tell if a pullback in price means a good buying opportunity, or if you should “leave the stock alone.”
  • Three companies that “will be paying dividends for another 100 years!”
  • What “every prudent investor” should be doing.
  • An interesting company on her watchlist that “shouldn’t be overlooked.”
  • And more!

The information in this short segment couldn’t be timelier. I suggest you watch it above now.

Happy investing! 

Jessica Borg 
Financial News Anchor 
Weiss Ratings

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