International
Gigamedia growth on track
Gigamedia Ltd (GIGM: 6.63 +0.62 +10.32%), purveyor of online gambling and games, has reported reasonable earnings growth for the historically slow 2nd quarter. The quarter’s results came in a little below the record 1st quarter but were up nicely from Q2 of 2007. First a quick recap of the year over (YoY) year results:
Revenues up [...]
Aircastle Ltd remains on course
Aircastle Ltd (AYR: 4.97 +0.24 +5.07%) came out with 2nd quarter earnings pretty much as expected. This is actually very positive after the turmoil around the stock back in June. At that time the stock was hit by the double whammy of worries about financial companies and record oil prices put anything related to airlines [...]
6 Interesting South America Stocks
I thought I would put up a list of some interesting South America stocks for a pair of reasons. First as you can see from the chart above of the ETF for the Latin America 40 (ILF: 27.74 +0.93 +3.47%) that the region’s stocks have pulled back significantly over the recent few months. Second, I [...]
Watch List Update
Over the weekend I reorganized the Watch List of stocks I have a page of on this site. The Watch List consists of stock that I have run across for future deeper research or waiting for their particular sector to show some signs of life. The list has been growing faster than I have had [...]
High yield fund at a discount
I added the Alpine Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD: 8.71 +0.94 +12.10%) to this site’s Income Portfolio primarily to get some exposure to higher yielding international stocks. I like the fund for several reasons:
It gives exposure to high-yielding international stocks.
They do not use leverage or pay out capital to sustain the dividend.
They use a dividend [...]
