Value Investing and Other Strategies

January 17, 2014

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Value Oriented Strategy, Upside in Small-Cap Stocks, Small-Cap Investing, Sector Rotation Investing, Portfolio Diversification with Closed-End Mutual Funds, High-Quality Companies, High-Grade Fixed Income Securities, Bottom-Up Stock Selection

Companies covered: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Ultra Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:UPL), Merck & Company, Inc. (NYSE:MRK), First Acceptance Corporation (NYSE:FAC), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ:CERN), athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN), Arch Capital Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:ACGL), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Vodafone Group Plc (NASDAQ:VOD), United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX), TJX Companies, Inc. (The) (NYSE:TJX), Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE:SNV), QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS), Coca-Cola Company (The) (NYSE:KO), J P Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM), Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Dril-Quip, Inc. (NYSE:DRQ), Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM), Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST), American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG), Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST), World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:WWE), Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE:WLT), Walter Investment Management Corp. (NYSE:WAC), Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE:PFE), Lender Processing Services, In, Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF), EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE:EOG), Dover Corporation (NYSE:DOV), Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE:CVC), BancorpSouth, Inc. (NYSE:BXS), American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (NYSE:AEL), Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS), Herbalife LTD. (NYSE:HLF)