Google’s parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) released its 2018 results amid the flurry of news over the past few weeks. Overall the figures looked good to me, even though the market’s reaction was more ambivalent. I’ll start with the major plus point: growth is strong, and I think you can make a good case that it is trading at a…

I had a reader get in touch wondering if she should be worried about Coca-Cola’s (NYSE: KO) balance sheet. Like many stodgy blue chips the company has issued a fair slug of debt over the past few years. For instance at the end of 2012 Coke had around $32 billion worth of debt sitting on its balance sheet. Right now…

Unless you are reading this from certain counties in Pennsylvania then you have probably never heard of York Water Company (NASDAQ: YORW). After all this little utility stock has got to be one of the smallest I have covered so far. Its annual revenue this year will register around $50 million and it currently sports a market capitalization that is…

A large portion of recent articles have been devoted to what you could call ‘deleveraging plays’. By that I mean companies which can probably generate solid shareholder returns simply by paying down their debt. Some good examples include the likes of Anheuser-Busch InBev, Molson Coors, AT&T and Kraft Heinz. There is one more I’d like to add to that list: media…

Pick any measure of Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) profitability you want and it will point you toward one conclusion: the business is a license to print money. Over its last six full financial years the business of selling iPhones, Macs, iPads, Apple Watches and assorted services (e.g. Apple’s cut of app sales, TV shows downloaded on iTunes, and so on) has generated…

Shares of beer giant Molson Coors (NYSE: TAP) are still in the doldrums. The last time I covered the stock was in October after it had dipped under the $60 share price mark. The shares rallied briefly after that but December’s market carnage means that you can still get them for around $60 each as I type. This is a…