Welcome to the March 10, 2008 edition of the Festival of Stocks. I hope you remembered to “spring” your clocks forward by an hour this weekend. Daylight savings time began yesterday, March 9th, here in the United States. I’m sure many of you are struggling to stay awake this morning. I sure am. Hopefully this week’s Festival of Stocks will charge you up for this morning’s market opening. This edition of the Festival of Stocks is organized below into the categories: stock analysis, investing concepts, investment strategies, avoiding mistakes, and tools. Read the rest of this entry »

The 78th edition of the Festival of Stocks is up at Dividend Growth Investor. Get your fill of financial articles while they are still fresh.

Next week’s Festival of Stocks will be here at Fat Pitch Financials. Please submit your best recently written stock investing articles for my consideration.

I’m also taking voluteers for future editions of the Festival of Stocks. It’s a great way to get the attention of fellow financial bloggers and it gives you a great excuse to read lots of blog entries that you might not normally stumble upon. Contact me if you are interested and let me know what week you are available to host.

This week’s Festival of Stocks is back at Timothy Sykes blog. The Festival of Stocks gets wild this week as Timothy turns it into a jungle party. I could use a party. I’ve had a long day today and it seems like there is no end in sight. Pass me one of those cans of Beast and let’s enjoy this week’s submissions together.

By the way, Timothy, who are you calling a sissy value investor. You cry baby traders won’t be calling us value investors sissies when you end up selling us your shares for pennies on the dollar on the next market plunge. Value investors are the only market participants with any real cohones.  ;-)

This week’s 76th edition of the Festival of Stocks is at The StockMasters. I loved the Festivus graphic used in the post. Frank did a great job pulling together this week’s Festival.

My favorite submission this week was Dividends4Life analysis of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). Be sure to download the PDF report to get the full analysis.

You can catch up on past editions by visiting the Festival of Stocks homepage. There you can also find out how to submit an article for next week’s Festival or learn about how you can volunteer to host an edition of the Festival of Stocks on your own blog.

This week’s Festival of Stocks is at Stock Market Prognosticator. There are lots of articles to review this week. One of them includes my list of Consistent Cash Creators. I enjoyed reading the articles on the proposed Microsoft (MSFT) buyout of Yahoo (YHOO) at My Wealth Builder and MarketVise. I hold Microsoft in the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio and I expect to be following this story for quite some time.

You can catch up on past issues of the Festival of Stocks at the archives hosted at Value Investing News. Next week’s Festival of Stocks will be hosted by The StockMasters. You can use the Festival of Stocks submission form to have your articles considered for next week’s edition.

This week’s Festival of Stocks is hosted at the newly redesigned Timothy Sykes blog. Timothy included my article detailing the Special Situations Real Money Portfolio for January ‘08. It’s interesting to see a traders perspective on us value investors.

We are in need of hosts again for the Festival of Stocks. Please check the schedule of available dates at the previous link and contact me if you are interested in hosting an edition. The Festival of Stocks is a great way to network with other bloggers and gain exposure.

The 73rd edition of the Festival of Stocks is hosted this week by Jorge at My Adventures into The Street. My notes on the recent Shake n Steak earnings conference call were included in this week’s Festival of Stocks. This edition also featured an exclusive from Value Investing News written by Michael Davey titled, “Tracking Liberty’s John Malone“, which examines Liberty Capital and Liberty Interactive.

This week’s Festival of Stocks is hosted at Disciplined Approach to Investing. The editor’s choice this week includes The Sun, in the center by Political Calculations and Market Response to Recessions by A Dash of Insight.

I hope you have enjoyed Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I had a very relaxing long weekend. However, it looks like tomorrow will be a very rough day according to the latest news I’m seeing at Value Investing News. Prepare yourselves mentally for an emotional week on Wall Street as the U.S. market responds to the steep declines across international markets today.

This week’s Festival of Stocks has just been posted at Investment Quest. My article on the 2007 performance of the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio was included along with several other good articles.

This week’s edition of the Festival of Stocks is hosted by The Dividend Guy. This was a very nicely done Festival of Stocks and well worth checking out. The Dividend Guy marked his favorite posts, which included my submission, Top 10 Value Investing Stories of 2007. In addition, I also recommend the stock analysis of Sysco (SYY) by Dividends4Life.

You can check out all the past editions by visiting the Festival of Stocks home at Value Investing News. On that page you can also learn how to sign up to host a future edition or submit a post for next week’s edition.