A newly established regional food processing company. It has canneries in five of our major West Coast cities and deals mostly in fruit and tomato products. It has recently offered shares to the public and it has been listed on the exchange for just one week. Market experts view this entry as rather speculative and are unwilling to venture any opinions on investment opportunities with Kuiper’s (pronounce KY-PERS) Foods. At present Kuiper’s Foods hopes to purchase five other regional food processors. If successful, Kroger Foods could be an excellent money maker with national markets. Of course, food industries always depend on agricultural prosperity and good crops. A strong harvest and successful merger could make many stockholders very wealthy.
This company has been long considered one of the better buys in the new field of electronics. This corporation seems to have a bright future; market experts see this corporation as a good, long term investment and could provide security for its stockholders. In the past year it has made a small gain in the electronics market share and most project the company to grow slowly. The future of Radio Hut Corporation will depend on the success of the new production models and if there is a growth in the number of radio stations and the popularity of their programming.
Owned and operated by Harry Ford Sinclair. Mammoth has oil leases in Elk Hills, California. The newly opened field, which geologists feel may be the largest oil field in the United States, has 25 producing wells at the present time. Sinclair is rumored to have the backing of influential government employees. Mammoth has borrowed large sums of money to explore for oil in California and Wyoming and to develop the expansive Elk Hills drilling site. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall is reported to be a large stockholder. However, Sinclair's company has not paid dividends (profit for stockholders) in the past five years of operation.
This bank is one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most conservative financial houses in the country. The owner is proud of saying that his bank still operates on the same principles first established by Alexander Hamilton in 1790. This stock is so stable that when it once dropped two points in a week, back in 1893, it set off a small-scale recession. This bank has paid annual dividend (profit for stockholders) for 130 years.
This corporation was founded by a well-to-do carriage maker in Flint, Michigan. Westbrook took over several undercapitalized companies and brought together 12 auto producers, including Bayside Motors. Rapid expansion has left the company badly undercapitalized and management fears that Westbrook Motors may be taken over by the banks. The company is attempting to produce a low-cost car and has hired Charles Donovan to manage a number of plants. Donovan plans to produce a car with a revolutionary “self-starter," that will make it easier for the driver to start the engine. Westbrook Motors presently produces classic, but popular vehichles, the Locomotion and the Sonic-Four. His long-range plans are to develop a giant combination of automobile manufactures that includes producing steel, rubber, and other components. At this time, however, investment in Westbrook Motors is risky due to lack of capital.
Owned and operated by financial genius and highly-respected Samuel Insull. Midland is part of a billion-dollar corporation operating in 32 states. Several of the most powerful banks and brokerage houses produces electricity for central Chicago and is expanding into the suburbs. Midland has developed and is using giant steam turbines to generate power. Insull's financial manipulation and the mass marketing of stock had made Midland one of the most powerful corporations in the Midwest.
SN&P Rail has been in existence for over 60 years. Their assets are many and diversified. In the past they have shown to be a stable company with small but regular dividends. While many railroads are faced with declining profits, the SN&P shows a steady increase in both sales and in operational efficiency. They are presently expanding into the Southwest and plan to extend their holdings into Mexico, where the consolidation of power by the Institutional Revolutionary Party may mean American businesses can safely expand south of the border.
This telephone company is just being capitalized. This is their first public offering of stock. They presently plan to raise $12 million and manufacture a dial-telephone. This process reportedly will revolutionize the use of the telephone by allowing users to signal where they want to make a call to. Their management is young and inexperienced, thus any capital invested should be considered high risk. But currently, their stock is one of the hottest on the exchange.
This investment firm specializes in acquiring capital from the United States and making strategic investments in Western Europe, particularly in Great Britain and France. The firm hires the best and the brightest from Oxford, Cambridge, or the University of Paris. No matter how intelligent or talented the brokers of the firms are, their investments are often associated with the events in Britain and France. Let’s hope that the postwar era is kinder to the British and the French than the war was.
Krieg Fond, or The People's Fund, is an investment firm that specializes in acquiring capital from the United States and making strategic investments in Germany. The firm hires the best and the brightest from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich or Heidelberg University. No matter how intelligent or talented the brokers of the firms are, their investments are often associated with the events in Germany. After the tumult of the Great War, it looks like there are great opportunities for investments under the new government—that is, as long as the state remains stable.
Yes, even though the new government in Russia is Communist, the new Soviet Union continues to engage in international trade. Fearing the possible collapse of this new state and a lack of confidence in the new government from unifying the vast lands after an appalling civil war, many banks and firms have shied away from making investments in the Soviet Union. But that is where firm Rossiya Obmen, or the Russian Exchange, comes in by taking advantage void of investors by investing in companies that make direct purchases from Soviet exports. If the Soviet Communist Party’s command economy actually works, then stock in Rossiya Obmen will be worth it. That is, if it works…
New American investors, with the support of a few British banks, have decided to invest in a new South African firm aiming to challenge the powerful De Beers in extracting gems and precious metals from the region. Explorers have recently discovered new veins of gold and a number of new diamond finds in neighboring Namibia. Afrikaners Gem hopes to extract these precious minerals quickly and bring them to market to the United States and to new middle-class consumers in East Asia. However, it remains to be seen if Afrikaner can extract gold and diamonds as effectively as De Beers and if it is capable of marketing its wares at a lower, more affordable price.