She said that there are services that you can subscribe to that let you know when a company's stock is about split. She then said right before the split, the price of the stock shoots up so traders play that. She also said it's a good service for longer term investors because when a company's stock splits, it is a show of confidence from the company that the stock will go higher.

What are yalls thoughts on this

While that is often true, you have to faster than the rest of the street to make a profit on that. You might be better off buying a put after it gets overbought following the split and playing it back down. Also, Don't listen to Sally Guyton!!!

Stocks that split have a recent history of price appreciation. The split shouldn't change that trend up. Reducing the share price might invite new investors to the party.

first, there is a reason your prof is lecturing and not working in corporate.

second, finance is more of an art than a science. wait until you figure out that pretty much everything you learned about finance in a classroom is greatly oversimplified or just wrong.

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first, there is a reason your prof is lecturing and not working in corporate.

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She could be retired (wealthy), and/or selling videos on TV (teaching others to become wealthy like her).

the reason i don't think she is wealthy is that she talks about how much money she has. the (truly) wealthy people i know don't go around telling everyone how much money they bank. also, she (guyton) seems pissy all the time, leading me to believe that she doesn't teach for the fun of it...

You don't need to subcribe to anything to learn when a stock splits. Just look it up on Yahoo Finance. Can't believe a FINC professor would tell you to subsribe to something when so much info is out there for free.

Like another poster said, there is a reason they are not in the corporate world.

She seemed happy enough when I had her. Of course, I think she had just gotten divorced and it was a bull market. I think she was a fan of Google at the time. I hope she got out of that before this year.

That strategy only worked during a strong bull market.

Same person who was crowing back in spring 2000 that "we have Greenspan!". This was around NASDAQ 5,000 (yes, it actually got to 5,000). Yeah, he looks great now. He should be renamed "Bubblicious" in all future text books.

Andy...

Proffesors dont know jack about what happens in the real world.

If you cano. If you can't:teach.

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wealthy people i know don't go around telling everyone how much money they bank.

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I guess you don't pay attention to people from Dallas/California.

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she talks about how much money she has

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Not a topic of polite conversation. One does not flaunt his/her wealth without being either a liar or self-indulged fool.

So how much money does she have? She never alluded to having much money when I took her class.

I don't think it is ever "I have $XXXX" it is more about how great her stocks are or just talking up her stuff in such a way as to make it sound like it is seriously expensive. Seems she was in love with Qualcomm in the ancient times when I was in her class. I didn't take it seriously, professors are all strange, you learn to deal And the other couple of FINC profs I have dealt with were pretty unique in their own ways, something about that department. Check their coffee.

"my college aged son just bought a boat"

"my bf has a MIG"

"my stocks did this..."

I see. I don't think she mentioned what stocks she held or how well they were doing when I was in her class. However, I was distracted by thoughts of doing dirty things with her and the insanely hot girl sitting next to me. Guyton was newly divorced and had a pretty athletic body at the time. She also was asking if anyone wanted to go to a hockey game with her.

I'm not a fan of the A&M finance department.

Her boyfriend has a Russian fighter jet? He must be crazy rich.

Dang,

Thats the rumor going around Mays. Not kidding.

Wow, I thought a MIG was a fancy watch or something that I had no idea what it was.

I never would have thought that you were actually talking about a MIG jet.

Does she look like Kelly McGillis and does he wear a cool bombers jacket?

dude, with that winky emoticon i have no idea what you are trying to convey.

Does her website get the info out before any other websites/press releases?

Just because it comes out on the internet before CNBC doesnt give you any advantage over the rest of the market.

Once info is public it is public anything else is probably illegal and most likely WOM and not recordable.

Who's dating Larry Ellison?

Maybe Sally Guyton (FINC professor at A&M.) It is rumored that her boyfriend has a MIG.

is that who we are talking about?

I thought you might be talking about Adkisson

I have Guyton for Finance and she is the one who suggested this. She told us one stock she is still big on is Cisco Systems. She has also suggested we get into the S&P Spyder because when the market eventually turns around it will go up big and we wouldn't want to be left out.

Is she a bookie or a professor?

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he has also suggested we get into the S&P Spyder

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if she feels that strongly she should have recommended BGU it will go up bigger