Word: halliburton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...natural gas, were market darlings from 1995 to 1997, but now have more detractors than anything west of Indonesia. Though many oil-service firms are already trading near two-year lows, analysts' earnings estimates for them will soon be revised further downward. No brokerage will want the likes of Halliburton or Schlumberger on its "recommended" list. The gloom around these stocks is only deepening. And I am buying them hand over fist...
...their average price over the previous 12 months. Note: that's not from their high point, but from their average price, a proxy for the price most people paid for the stock over that period. On the list are plenty of big, widely held companies, including oil-services giant Halliburton, tractor company Deere, Northwest Airlines and food-and-tobacco conglomerate RJR Nabisco...
This isn't the dicey game of timing it may seem. For example, you can guard against missing a quick recovery by buying another depressed stock in the same industry. Sell Halliburton, down 41%, to lock in the tax benefits; then buy rival Schlumberger, down about 30%. Likewise, swap Philip Morris for RJR, AMR for Northwest, Caterpillar for Deere...
...budget $7 billion annually for the 300,000 reservists already trained and paid to do those jobs. It's all good for Brown & Root, which has pocketed around $250 million from the Pentagon for work in places like Somalia and Haiti. The firm is owned by the Dallas-based Halliburton Co. The man who runs Halliburton: Dick Cheney, who was Secretary of Defense when Brown & Root won the support-staff contract...
...billion in revenue over the next few years. Bechtel, which has operated in Kuwait for more than 40 years, is gearing up to hire 4,300 workers for the project. Other U.S. heavyweights likely to land big contracts include Fluor, based in California, a leader in petroleum projects, and Halliburton, a Dallas firm that built a major Kuwaiti oil refinery...