I bought a chunk of Microsoft (MSFT) stock at $25. At the time, my thinking was "why does MSFT have a PE below 10"? While a stock like AAPL is priced for perfection (which they keep delivering), at a 10 PE Microsoft was priced for mediocrity... and it's been treading water it has for the better...

Today I'll show a couple charts for Google (GOOG), which I am accumulating in my retirement account. My strategy with Google is to get as many shares as possible as cheaply as possible. I have some targets where I'd be stupid not to sell, but in general GOOG prices stay fairly valued to my...

I'm going to post some charts of "my book" over the next few days. I may post things from my watch list, and I will try to post updates on these as needed. First up is Activision Blizzard (ATVI), which I bought last year basically so I could own a piece of Blizzard. Blizzard is the Pixar of...

Trefis provides some great reports that show up in my Etrade account. Their analysis is very thorough. I especially like how they break down different business units and how much of a stock's share price is tied to each unit. Trefis values Facebook (based on the limited pre-IPO information they...

Facebook released their numbers in preparation for an IPO, showing 2011 revenue of $3.7 Billion and profits of $1 Billion. Speculation is the IPO will be valued as high as $100 Billion. This would be a P/E of 100. That's high, but then P/E's are not as significant an indicator for young companies...

I'm enjoying the interview with Timothy Sykes over at Mixergy.com. Love the energy. Grab it while it's free there.

Sometimes you look at a stock like Netflix when it was trading at $300+ and think "Here is a great company in a market with super growth, but how can I justify the price?" Well, it turns out you don't have to justify the price because the market is beating the shit out of the stock. It's trading...

With mortgage rates dropping like a brick, it's becoming a no-brainer for us to refinance our home loan. Even though we just got a 30-year loan 2 years ago at 5.875%, we can get 30-year loans now for around 4.5% or lower. You might be in a similar situation. Rule of Thumb The rule of thumb I...

This is happening to me, with one of my stocks right now: RCRC. A few months ago, I bought about 50 shares of RC2 Corporation (RCRC), a maker of die-cast  and wooden toys, at $20. My wife and I were looking for an investment idea based on the toys and media we're buying for our 2-year-old son. What...

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post by J. Tyler Matuella. J. Tyler Matuella is the Publishing Manager at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. He also is the author of "Unsustainability in Today's Sustainable Development" published in Development and Cooperation Magazine, Verge...