Seeking Alpha: Middleby Not Giving Many 'Buy The Dip' Opportunities

When an investor is watching a great growth story from the wrong side of the glass, there's little to do but hope for the occasional st...

Investopedia: Sysco's Benefit Of The Doubt Looking A Little Fuzzy

Like a bag of produce left in the back of the fridge too long, the argument for Sysco (NYSE: SYY ) being a dependable year-in/year-out per...

Seeking Alpha: Is Lincoln Electric's Stumble Another Chance To Buy?

Sooner or later, there will be a point when buying Lincoln Electric ( LECO ) on weakness doesn't make sense, but I don't think we...

Investopedia: 3M Okay On Growth, But Margins A Growing Worry

For a company that trades largely on the basis of being a defensive stock with strong margins, 3M 's (NYSE: MMM ) repeated margin weakn...

Investopedia: Caterpillar's Numbers Look Ugly, But That Was Expected

Even though the mining and construction markets stubbornly refuse to get better as quickly as analysts want them to, there's still a “w...

Investopedia: Illinois Tool Works Comes Up Short On Growth

Margins typically drive industrial stocks over the long term, but growth can certainly impact share prices on a more short-term basis. That...

Investopedia: Dover Does A Little Better

Dover (NYSE: DOV ) is doing nothing to contradict the notion that this company may be one of the better organic growth stories in the indu...

Investopedia: Fastenal Still Growing, But Still Highly Valued

Even when sluggish manufacturing activity weighs down growth in the industrial distribution/MRO space, Fastenal (Nasdaq: FAST ) still manag...

Investopedia: Stanley Black & Decker Offers Leverage To Construction And Internal Improvements

Investors have already started making moves on the basis of positioning themselves for the expected recovery in U.S. housing, but the leadi...

Investopedia: Roper A LIttle Short On Growth, But A Proven Builder Of Value

As much as investors and analysts talk about growth, you'd think that would be the be-all end-all of stock selection. The data tells a...

Investopedia: It Should Be Up From Here For Eaton

The whole point of equity investment to assess, and discount, the value of tomorrow's earnings into today's dollars. To that end, E...

Investopedia: Middleby Keeps Sticking To A Successful Recipe

Remaining faithful to a value-oriented philosophy sometimes leaves you feeling like you're rooting for certain companies to stumble. Ta...

Investopedia: Johnson Controls Has A Lot Of Improving Left To Do

One of the investment and corporate finance topics that has been getting more airtime recently is the notion of “peak margins” - the idea t...

Investopedia: 3M Ends Up In The Same Industrial Tar Pit As Everybody Else

Investors who prize 3M 's (NYSE: MMM ) ability to muddle through the tough times a little better than most had to be a little disappoi...

Investopedia: Good Margins Outweigh Weak Growth For ITW Investors

You never can quite tell what the market will value on one day or the next. For much of this reporting cycle growth has been all that inve...

Investopedia: Dover May Be Bottoming, But The Street's Already Thinking Recovery

Dover (NYSE: DOV ) is one of those industrial conglomerates that is so diversified, it's not hard to feel a little sympathy for the a...