by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Stealthgas Inc. (GASS), is a Nasdaq-listed firm incorporated in 2004 with headquarters in Athens, Greece. The company provides global seaborne transportation services to LPG producers and users, as well as ships natural gas and crude oil. The company maintains a fleet of 36 LPG ships with a capacity of [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Purchasing ETFs is more complex than purchasing mutual funds and individual stocks when you take into account their key attributes and the dizzying number of choices available. With a universe of 3,159 ETFs, investors and traders struggling to select a few ETFs for their regular and retirement portfolios may [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Risk is the name of the game in life as well as investing. No matter what you do there is an element of risk that things may not turn out the way you want. In the investment arena the common belief is that the riskier an investment the higher [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL), is a NYSE-listed firm founded in 1928 with headquarters in Atlanta. As one of the world’s largest airlines, it offers over 300 destinations with a workforce of 95,000, revenues of $51 billion, and a market cap of $28.7 billion. The firm provides global airline [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Investors dream of a reasonable portfolio return devoid of risk, but that precondition does not exist and is naive. Even investing in bonds is not without risk, as investors learned in 2022, when both stocks and bonds declined by 18.6% (S&P 500) and 13.7% (Vanguard Total Bond Index --BND), [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Cloudflare Inc. (NET), a NYSE-listed firm incorporated in 2009 and has headquarters in San Francisco. It has a workforce of nearly 3,400, revenues of $1.05 billion, and a market-cap of $21.5 billion. The firm provides globally integrated cloud-based web security and content delivery services to customers in the following [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Blackstone Inc., a NYSE-listed firm (BX), founded in 1985 by Stephen A. Schwarzman and Peter G. Peterson, went public in 2007. It is headquartered at 345 Park Avenue in New York City, with a workforce of nearly 4,700 and revenues of $7.3 billion, and a market-cap of $132 billion. [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA The investment arena is very large with multiple stock exchanges listing thousands of companies, over 26,000 mutual funds with multiple share classes, and 3,149 ETFs, as well as options on stocks and ETFs, and Futures, among other choices. How does an investor or trader decide where to start? That [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Bel Fuse Inc. Inc., a Nasdaq-listed firm (BELFB) headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, with a workforce of 7,000 employees, has a long history being established in 1949. The company is engaged in the design, manufacture, and sales of products for telecommunications and networking applications in the United States [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA ATI Inc., a NYSE-listed firm (ATI), is headquartered in Dallas and has a rich history dating back to its establishment in 1996. With a workforce of 6,700 employees, this company, previously known as Allegheny Technologies, has established itself as a global leader in the production of integrated specialty materials [...]
