Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) stocks were an interesting industry even before the 2020 crisis year, with Barron’s highlighting the sector’s potential in 2019. Now, with the ongoing pandemic and reports that schools, offices, retail establishments and restaurants all seeking to improve and upgrade their ventilation systems, it appears to be an ideal time…
The Robinhood app offers investors access to no less than 5,000 stocks, according to information on Robinhood.com. The company goes on to say that investors have access to “most” US equities. There is one notable group of stocks that Robinhood Financial does not offer to its investors: OTC penny stocks. This means that OTC stocks…
Value investing has had better times. At one point the concept of buying stocks for less than their intrinsic value was widely appreciated by professional and armchair investors alike. However, the advent of index investing and the strong outperformance of growth stocks (such as the FAANG stocks) in recent times has made value investing slightly…
Passive investing through index ETFs has become the dominant mode for most retail investors, with studies showing that active strategies largely fail to beat the index over most meaningful periods of time. The huge growth in the ETF industry, along with competitive pricing for most mainstream passive index products has made tracking any type of…
News consumption in 2021 increasingly takes place in the email inbox. Mainstream news sources and independent publishers alike on platforms such as Substack have realized email subscribers are engaged readers and many prefer the convenience of daily emails with summaries of the major events they need to stay on top. Below we provide our top…
David Tepper is the rare headline maker in multiple spheres, from Wall Street to the NFL. Below we take a look at the background, track record and current market calls of the Appaloosa Management founder. Who is David Tepper? David Tepper is a multi-faceted hedge fund manager and entrepreneur. He is one of the most…
You may not have the capital of professional Wall Street investors but you can learn lessons from their successes and failures. Below we profile Steve Eisman, who shot to fame from being one of the few professional investors who not only recognized the housing bubble that culminated in the Great Financial Crisis, but actually acted…
There is no shortage of information out there for investors and certainly no shortage of podcasts, but only so much time in the day. Below we recommend our favorite podcasts oriented towards stock market investors with more of a long-term view. We will keep this list updated as new podcasts make their way on to…
There are a lot of great things about the Robinhood app, including “commission free” trades, a sleek user interface and mobile-friendly trading abilities. Stability, however, has not necessarily been Robinhood’s strong suit. 2020 was a year of heavy trading and extremely volatile swings in the market as a result of the pandemic market crash and…
Information is critical to investing success. That was part of the motivation for starting Lean Investments in the first place. Having high quality information from a well-curated variety of sources can be advantageous when deciding which investments to make and refrain from. For example, if you had the information that Nikola’s truck wasn’t capable of…
