Stock Pick of the Week: W. E. 23 Dec. 2016

[clarkrl2]

Rules:

1. Selection must be made prior to the opening bell on the first trading day of the week.
2. Selection may be changed up to the opening bell.
3. Starting price is the opening price on first trading day of week.
4. Ending price is closing price on last trading day of week.
5. No options or other trading vehicles. Only stocks and ETFs are allowed.
6. Opening prices will be those found at Yahoo Finance. Any disputed opening price will be resolved using the price listed at Yahoo Finance historical quotes

To enter the game:
List your stock's symbol, Long or Short, Company name, what the company does and why you like the selection.

Congratulations to last week's winner "clarkrl2".

Moderators please pin the thread.

[uncle23]

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...LUV ....long


Merry Christmas ....Happy Holidays to all...

[ModE98]

AGIO (short).  It's a craps shoot.

[clarkrl2]

long SWKS (Skyworks Solutions Inc. - Semiconductors)

From the revised earnings beat MRQ with recent upward estimate revisions screen. Bought some this week. Its in the middle of the trading range since Oct. Here is the weekly chart stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=SWKS&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p71824664585

[tyfighter3]

OAS long.

[kadee79]

Picking one I know absolutely nothing about...just saw it some place and thought I'd try it....


FEYE, long....cyber security

[architecto25]

       CONN     (long)    Conn's Inc.

This is the same symbol as last week; don't have time

to do any worthwhile looking for a different horse.

It closed Friday at $12.75 per share.

Retail company. Founded 1980.

Headquarters in Woodlands, Tex. (just north of

Houston a short distance.

52 wk. high/lows          $24.43/$6.5398

Revenue:  $1.61 B.

4,600 employees

[clarkrl2]

architecto25 gets the hole shot for this week's contest. tyfighter3 is second and clarkrl2 third. Four of six are beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
architecto25	L	CONN	$12.90	$13.65	5.81%
tyfighter3	L	OAS	$15.72	$16.05	2.10%
clarkrl2	L	SWKS	$76.95	$77.44	0.64%
kadee71	L	FEYE	$13.22	$13.29	0.53%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$119.74	$120.09	0.29%
uncle.23	L	LUV	$50.26	$50.35	0.18%
Mod E	S	AGIO	$44.83	$46.03	-2.68%

[ModE98]

Looks like AGIO (short) was the wrong way to go. 
Sometimes things go terribly wrong in trying to guess a stock's action

[architecto25]

Surely you'all don't think I'm racing the same horse (CONN) that I raced last week ..... when I ended up

in the basement ..... Today's horse came in first place .....  Actually what I did was just use the

same saddle blanket ........... with the "CONN" logo ..................LOL.

[clarkrl2]

architecto25 increases his lead as the race nears halfway. tyfighter3 is pressing the pace from second and uncle23 is the only other player beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
architecto25	L	CONN	$12.90	$14.25	10.47%
tyfighter3	L	OAS	$15.72	$16.55	5.28%
uncle.23	L	LUV	$50.26	$50.89	1.25%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$119.74	$120.55	0.68%
clarkrl2	L	SWKS	$76.95	$76.61	-0.44%
kadee71	L	FEYE	$13.22	$12.98	-1.82%
Mod E	S	AGIO	$44.83	$46.33	-3.35%

[clarkrl2]

architecto25 still holds the lead with two days to go. ModE93 has his short finding a stride and tyfighter3 is third. Four of six are beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
architecto25	L	CONN	$12.90	$14.20	10.08%
Mod E	S	AGIO	$44.83	$43.38	3.23%
tyfighter3	L	OAS	$15.72	$15.94	1.40%
uncle.23	L	LUV	$50.26	$50.65	0.78%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$119.74	$120.46	0.60%
clarkrl2	L	SWKS	$76.95	$77.07	0.16%
kadee71	L	FEYE	$13.22	$12.54	-5.14%

[ModE98]

Got to check this out, did not watch the action today....sudden rise....must have some bad news come out.

ah ha:   finance.yahoo.com/news/agios-stops-development-pkr-activator-134701967.html  Lucky me.   We'll see what develops in next two days.   ("It's not over, 'til it's over" -- thanks to Yogi Berra)

[clarkrl2]

I will be updating the results later than normal.

[clarkrl2]

ModE93 takes over the lead with one day to go. architecto25 is second and clarkrl2 third. Four of six are beating the benchmark.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
Mod E	S	AGIO	$44.83	$41.37	7.72%
architecto25	L	CONN	$12.90	$13.45	4.26%
clarkrl2	L	SWKS	$76.95	$78.15	1.56%
tyfighter3	L	OAS	$15.72	$15.89	1.08%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$119.74	$120.12	0.32%
uncle.23	L	LUV	$50.26	$50.25	-0.02%
kadee71	L	FEYE	$13.22	$12.15	-8.09%

[clarkrl2]

ModE93 faltered a little coming down the stretch but still was easily the best. architecto25 was second by a long nose over clarkrl2. The benchmark was next by a few thousandths of a percent over uncle23.

Player	L or S	Symbol	$ Open	$ Close	% Close
Mod E	S	AGIO	$44.83	$43.15	3.75%
architecto25	L	CONN	$12.90	$13.10	1.55%
clarkrl2	L	SWKS	$76.95	$78.03	1.40%
BenchMark	L	QQQ	$119.74	$120.20	0.38%
uncle.23	L	LUV	$50.26	$50.45	0.38%
tyfighter3	L	OAS	$15.72	$15.76	0.25%
kadee71	L	FEYE	$13.22	$12.21	-7.64%

[clarkrl2]

2016 results

Name	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	Return
Value Buy	24	5	2	3	12	3.95
Mod E	49	12	6	5	29	1.22
Ombud	27	2	5	4	15	0.82
clarkrl2	51	8	5	6	27	0.74
D. I.	18	0	3	2	10	0.69
BenchMark	51	0	4	11	0	0.13
uncle.23	51	6	13	5	24	0.12
architecto25	51	11	3	5	25	-0.10
tyfighter3	27	2	1	6	11	-0.24
Bluerobin	6	2	0	0	3	-0.66
kadee71	51	3	9	4	23	-1.42

lifetime results

Name	Games	Win	Place	Show	>Bench	Return
bimetalaupt	4	1	0	0	1	2.78
Value Buy	106	23	7	10	49	1.16
m2w	8	2	1	0	3	1.15
damnotagain	20	2	3	3	10	0.83
Mod E	154	21	24	22	85	0.61
2kids10horses	10	0	2	1	4	0.33
clarkrl2	156	18	17	24	78	0.28
BenchMark	156	3	14	22	0	0.22
Ombud	108	8	11	17	53	0.19
kadee71	148	21	25	14	73	-0.10
tyfighter3	64	5	3	9	25	-0.48
Bluerobin	6	2	0	0	3	-0.66
architecto25	154	30	10	11	65	-1.10
uncle.23	156	16	28	12	60	-1.29
D. I.	99	4	11	11	51	-1.73
alliesmom	2	0	0	0	1	-6.82

[ModE98]

Congratulations to architecto & clarkrl for this week's Place & Show. 
Didn't believe AGIO had a chance at the first day of running, but "the worm turned".

[kadee79]

Congrats Mod, Arch & Clark! I sure picked a bad one this past week. I'm just too busy doing other stuff right now to do much research or looking/comparing.

[ModE98]

Much better luck next week, kadee.