Markel (NYSE: MKL ) may be one of the most promising long-term-oriented financial holding companies the stock market has to offer, but recent SEC filings from the company reveal that not everyone should be buying more shares right now, says Fool contributor Steve Symington in the following interview with the Fool's Alison Southwick.
Specifically, Markel employees currently own a significant chunk of Markel in their own retirement accounts -- in fact, Markel common stock represents more than a quarter of the total value of all investments in the company's retirement plan.
But what do you think? Are Markel employees' retirement holdings dangerously overexposed to their company's stock, or are they wise to put so much of their nest eggs in one basket? Please watch the video to get Steve's full take, and weigh in using the comments section below.
Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: Br.land(BLND.L)
The British Land Company PLC engages in managing, financing, and developing commercial property in the United Kingdom. Its property portfolio comprises retail warehouses, super stores, town shopping centers, department stores, high street shops, retail parks, and supermarkets. The company qualifies as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. The British Land Company was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: Old National Bancorp Capital Trust I(ONB)
Old National Bancorp operates as a holding company for Old National Bank, which provides financial services to individuals and commercial customers primarily in Indiana, eastern and southeastern Illinois, and central and western Kentucky. The company?s Community Banking segment originates loans, such as home equity lines of credit, residential real estate loans, consumer loans, commercial loans, commercial real estate loans, letters of credit, and lease financing; and generates deposit products comprising noninterest-bearing demand, negotiable order of withdrawal, savings and money market, and time deposits. It also offers debit and ATM cards, telephone access, online banking, and other electronic banking services. In addition, this segment provides investment services and various brokerage products, including investment options and investment advice. Further, it offers merchant cash management and other services relating to the general banking business; reinsures credit life insurance; and provides property and casualty insurance. The company?s Treasury segment manages investments, wholesale funding, interest rate risk, liquidity, and leverage for the bank; and provides capital markets products, including interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange, and industrial revenue bond financing for its commercial clients. Old National Bancorp also offers fiduciary and trust services; and insurance brokerage services, such as commercial property and casualty, surety, loss control services, employee benefits consulting and administration, and personal insurance. As of December 31, 2010, it operated 161 banking financial centers, as well as loan production or other financial services offices. The company was founded in 1834 and is headquartered in Evansville, Indiana.
Best Stocks To Invest In Right Now: St. Joe Co (JOE)
The St. Joe Company, incorporated on May 26, 1936, owns land, timber and resort assets located primarily in Northwest Florida, Jacksonville, Florida and Tallahassee, Florida. The Company operates in five segments: residential real estate, commercial real estate, resorts, leisure and leasing operations, forestry, and rural land. Its residential real estate segment plans and develops mixed-use resort, primary and seasonal residential communities of various sizes, primarily on the Company's existing land. In the Company's commercial real estate segment the Company plans, develops, manages and sells real estate for commercial purposes. Its leisure and leasing operations includes the Company's resorts and clubs financial information, which was presented in the residential real estate segment. The Company owns and operates forestry operations in the Southeastern United States. It traditionally sells parcels of varying sizes ranging from less than one acre to thousands of acres.
Residential Real Estate
The Company owns large tracts of land in Northwest Florida, including Gulf of Mexico beach frontage, and other waterfront properties and land in and around Jacksonville and Tallahassee. Within the Company's residential real estate business, the Company has two types of communities and is planning to add a third type. The first, the Company's residential resort communities, are positioned to attract primarily second home buyers. The Company's l projects in this category include the WaterColor and WaterSound Beach communities, which were built in a region of Florida. The Company's second category of residential communities is the Company's primary home communities for buyers who will use the community as their primary residence. The Breakfast Point, RiverTown and SouthWood communities are the Company's largest projects in this category. The Company's third category of residential communities is active adult communities.
Commercial Real Estate
The Company focuse! s on commercial development and sales in Northwest Florida because of its large land holdings surrounding the new Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (the Airport), along roadways and near or within business districts in the region. The Company provides development opportunities for national and regional retailers and its strategic partners in Northwest Florida. The Company offers land for commercial and light industrial uses within large and small-scale commerce parks, as well as a range of multi-family rental projects. The Company also develops commercial parcels within or near existing residential development projects.
Resorts, Leisure and Leasing Operations
The Company's leasing operations were presented in both its residential real estate and commercial real estate segments. The Company's resorts, leisure and leasing operations segment includes recurring revenue streams from the Company's resort and leisure businesses and its leasing operations. The Company's WaterColor Inn and Resort is a boutique hotel, which provides guests with a beach club, spa, tennis center, restaurant and complementary retail and commercial space. The day-to-day operations of the WaterColor Inn and Resort is managed by Noble House Hotels & Resorts. In addition the Company's vacation rental business rents private homes in the WaterColor community and surrounding communities, primarily in those that the Company has built, to individuals who are vacationing in the area. The Company does not own the homes, but for a fee, the Company advertises , take reservations, check-in and check-out , and clean and maintains the home for the homeowner. The Company owns four golf courses in Northwest Florida. Three of them are in the Panama City Beach area and the fourth is located in Tallahassee. The golf courses are situated in or near the Company's residential communities. The Company also own two marinas. The Company's golf courses and marinas are managed for the Company by a third party management c! ompanies.!
The Company's leasing operations business includes the Company's retail and commercial leasing. The Company has several small retail shopping centers located in or near to some of its residential projects, such as the WaterColor, SouthWood and WindMark Beach communities that are managed by its leasing team. The Company's commercial leasing business includes industrial parks and several commerce parks. One of the industrial parks is the Company's VentureCrossings Enterprise Centre, a 1,000 acre commercial and industrial development adjacent to the Airport.
Forestry
The Company has 545,000 acres designated for forestry operations, including land in West Bay. Southern Pine, the Company's main product, is a product that fits well into cost-conscience supply chains. The Company's forestry operations can produce about 1.3 million tons of trees for lumber and pulp on an annual, sustainable basis. The Company rigorously examines the characteristics of individual trees in a forest and the interactions of those trees with each other and with the forest ecosystem as a whole in order to maximize the timber output. The Company produces both sawtimber (lumber used in construction) and pulp (timber used to make pulp for products like linerboard).
Rural Land
The majority of rural land sold is undeveloped timberland and is managed as timberland until sold, although some parcels include the benefits of limited development activity, including improved roads, ponds and fencing. The pricing of these parcels varies significantly based on size, location, terrain, timber quality and other local factors.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Roberto Pedone]
One potential earnings short-squeeze candidate is St. Joe (JOE), a land, timber and resort assets owner in Northwest Florida, which is set to release numbers on Wednesday after the market close. Wall Street analysts, on average, expect St. Joe to report revenue of $25.10 million on a loss of 1 cent per share.
The current short interest as a percentage of the float for St. Joe is pretty high at 15.9%. That means that out of the 92.17 million shares in the tradable float, 14.68 million shares are sold short by the bears. If the bulls get the earnings news they're looking for, then shares of JOE could easily rip higher post-earnings.
From a technical perspective, JOE is currently trending below both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, which is bearish. This stock has been downtrending badly for the last three months, with shares falling from its high of $24.44 to its recent low of $18.83 a share. During that downtrend, shares of JOE have been consistently making lower highs and lower lows, which is bearish technical price action. That said, shares of JOE have recently started to bounce off that $18.83 low and it's now quickly moving within range of triggering a near-term breakout trade.
If you're bullish on JOE, then I would wait until after its report and look for long-biased trades if this stock manages to break out above both its 50-day at $20.49 a share and its 200-day at $20.83 a share with high volume. Look for volume on that move that hits near or above its three-month average action of 417,000 shares. If we get that breakout, then JOE will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $22 to $23.50 a share. Any high-volume move above $23.50 will then put $24.50 to $26 into range for shares of JOE.
I would avoid JOE or look for short-biased trades if after earnings it fails to trigger that breakout, and then drops back below some key near-term support levels at $18.83 to $18.79 a share with high volume. If we get that move, then JOE will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major support levels at $16.50 to $15.50 a share.
Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: Jeffersonville Bancorp(JFBC)
Jeffersonville Bancorp operates as the holding company for The First National Bank of Jeffersonville, a national-chartered bank that provides a range of commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, and municipalities. The company accepts various types of deposit products, including demand deposit accounts, interest-bearing transaction accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. It also offers residential real estate, commercial real estate, commercial business, consumer, and agricultural loans. The company serves customers in the Sullivan County, New York, as well as in some areas of adjacent counties in New York and Pennsylvania. As of December 31, 2010, it operated 11 branch offices in Bloomingburg, Eldred, Liberty, Loch Sheldrake, Monticello, Livingston Manor, Narrowsburg, Callicoon, Wurtsboro, White Lake, and Monticello. The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Jeffersonville, New York.
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