Alpha Buying

One of my favorite investing stories comes from a 1978 John Train article about a Texas rice farmer and hog raiser named Mr. Womack. The story begins with an investor who spent years trying every stock market strategy he could find. He studied charts. He followed the experts. He traded in and out...

When experienced bankers start buying a bank stock, I pay attention. When they buy enough stock to file a Schedule 13D, I pay even closer attention. That is exactly what just happened at Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI), the holding company for CCFBank, a Wisconsin-based community bank with...

Commercial real estate has spent the last three years serving as Wall Street’s favorite horror movie. Every week seems to bring a new headline about empty office buildings, maturing loans, distressed refinancing, regional bank exposure, or the imminent collapse of the entire property market....

Commercial real estate has spent the last three years serving as Wall Street’s favorite horror movie. Every week seems to bring a new headline about empty office buildings, maturing loans, distressed refinancing, regional bank exposure, or the imminent collapse of the entire property market....