Michigan-based Domino’s Pizza (DPZ) is a stock that is very easy to overlook. I say that for two reasons really. One, selling pizza is obviously a fiercely competitive business. Pizza joints are relatively easy to set up, while consumer switching costs are zilch. As a result, regional and independent chains…

Exxon Mobil (XOM) stockholders have been put through the wringer in recent years. COVID and 2020 speak for themselves, but the stock largely went sideways in the years before the pandemic too. Those years include two oil price crashes and a massive bull market in equities, but we can forget…

Farmers & Merchants Bank Of Long Beach (FMBL) was last covered back in May. You may recall this is the ultra-conservative bank that operates around two dozen branches down in Southern California. Anyway, like most banks it had been hit hard by the pandemic. Its stock price had slumped down…

Banking giant Wells Fargo (WFC) last appeared on the site back in the summer. At the time, San Francisco-based Wells was setting aside billions of dollars for potential bad debt due to the COVID downturn. That, in turn, was putting obvious downward pressure on net income. No surprises there; the…

A new year marks the end of another quarter for both the Micro Portfolio and Coffee Can Portfolio. The last three months of 2020 was clearly a very eventful period for the world and for markets. The successful vaccine trials made the news in November, and that lifted stock prices…