Lumber Liquidators' margin: 5 best charts on week
Below CNBC Pro highlights the five best charts that came across our desk from strategists, technical analysts or investors.
Kase Capital's Whitney Tilson (March 6):
"This chart captures what was a key factor in my initial (Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL)) short thesis: since when does a commodity business, competing against giants like Home Depot and Lowe's, with an operating margin consistently between 4-8 percent, suddenly (in less than two years) more than double margins? That's so unusual and inexplicable that I figured they had to be cheating."
RBC's Jonathan Golub (March 3):
"U.S. strength (in February) was driven by cyclical sectors, which represents a shift in market leadership. Importantly, we believe this represents a much-healthier trend."
Jonathan Krinsky, MKM Partners (March 2):
"While the vicious downtrend has clearly been halted, we still view crude as in the middle innings of a base-building process. The 50 DMA (daily moving average) is starting to flatten out, and we would view a rising 50 DMA as a sign that the medium-term trend has turned positive."
Frank Longman, Brean Capital (March 5):
"Airlines look to be topping and have lost momentum after a completed move higher."
Andrew Wilkinson, Interactive Brokers (March 6):
"Highs for global equities and the comfort blanket of additional monetary stimulus to aid the economic recovery around the world, have sent gold bugs into convulsions. The precious metal just took out its lowest price of 2015 set on the first trading day of the year. And with the U.S. labor force looking brighter by the month, the established turn lower for gold prices may yet pick up steam."
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