Thursday, March 29, 2007

7 Stocks you need to know for Friday

DSW Incorporated (DSW | charts | news | PowerRating) beat earnings Thursday after the close, with $0.37 EPS over a consensus of $0.30 EPS.

Cognos (COGN | charts | news | PowerRating) beat earnings on Thursday afternoon, announcing $0.74 EPS over an expected $0.65 EPS.

Red Hat (RHT | charts | news | PowerRating) matched earnings Thursday with $0.15 EPS.

Checkpoint Systems (CKP | charts | news | PowerRating) announces earnings Friday before the bell; look for $0.38 EPS.

Global Payment (GPN | charts | news | PowerRating) is looking to announce $0.39 EPS tomorrow morning.

Intel (INTC | charts | news | PowerRating) announced plans to boost chip performance using info and techniques of rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD | charts | news | PowerRating).


1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you're going to be making your mortgage payments, and will be investing additional funds in order to be able to make a lump sum payment in 10 years, I'm not sure it's worth the effort. You'd probably be better off just paying that money towards the mortgage. Sorry if that's not a very exciting option.

If you've got a mortgage that charges 8.5% interest, then paying down the mortgage is approximately the same as getting an 8.5% pre-tax investment return on those funds. Also, paying down the mortage is risk-free. Any
investment that returns 8.5% before tax is going to entail some risk. That is, you may have less money at the end of 10 years than you start with.
I'd say the best you should reasonably expect to do is 11% per year, only 2.5% greater than the mortgage "return", with substantially greater risk.
Even compounded over 10 years, 2.5%/year isn't a big deal. Since you plan to use the money to pay down the mortgage anyway, I'd just pay it on the mortgage in the first place.For more on the subject visit:Web Design

A final thought: if there was an investment out there with comparable risk and returning more than 8.5% per year, don't you think your mortgage lender
would have made _that_ investment, rather than loaning you the money?

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