General Electric: Barron's Shouts 'Beware!' That Settles It - Time To Buy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntobey/2018/02/19/general-electric-barrons-shouts-beware-that-settles-it-time-to-buy/#614262427d8fFEB 19, 2018
Barron’s colorless black and white cover shows a broken General Electric logo with this dramatic advice:
Value investors, beware. GE faces big risks, and its shares are no bargain.
The problem is that Barron's dire graphics and categorical warning are unsupported by the article, itself. Worse, for investors who heed the warning, it comes just when GE becomes an excellent contrarian buy/hold opportunity....
There are three important realizations about contrarian investing:
- It takes a willingness to buy a “yuck†stock – one that produces a gag reflex
- It means committing to an investment because of the breadth of naysayers
- It takes on an immediacy when any positives appear amidst the negativity
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