Dan Burrows

Dan Burrows

Dan Burrows is a veteran of CBS MoneyWatch, DailyFinance, SmartMoney and Dow Jones MarketWatch, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports and other publications. He favors value investing and writes about asset prices and macroeconomic trends for the long-term investor. He holds no individual securities.

Recent Articles

An Offer It Can’t Refuse: HZMP Goes After Depomed

Horizon Pharma's (HZNP) growth-through-acquisitions strategy has another target. It will be hard for Depomed to escape this hostile bid.

Too Late to Trade Advance Auto Parts on S&P 500 Nod

Advance Auto Parts (AAP) popped on news of its inclusion in the benchmark, but the quick-score trade happened too fast for retail investors.

Are Stock Buybacks a Necessary Evil?

Stock buybacks may be wasteful use of capital, but they've been a savior of shareholder returns in an era of no-to-low sales growth.

Q2 Earnings Season Won’t Be as Ugly as Headlines Suggest

After stripping out the catastrophe that is the energy sector, estimated second-quarter earnings and sales growth isn't half bad.

Univision IPO Offers a Way to Play Big Demographic Trends

Univision's IPO could give the Spanish-language broadcaster a market value of $20 billion at a time when the Latino population is booming.