A sputtering economy, implosions at financial institutions, or just plain bad management -- on any given day, investors can name a number of reasons to sell a stock. Yet while panic is never beneficial to investors, it's good practice to play devil's advocate with investments from time to time.
In Motley Fool CAPS, more than 125,000 members have weighed in on nearly 5,400 stocks, sharing bullish and bearish opinions alike.
In the case of investment-bank-turned-bank-holding-company Goldman Sachs
Out with the old: Like Morgan Stanley
Writedowns and losses: In a period when Lehman Brothers went down and Merrill Lynch
High uncertainty: A high level of uncertainty still looms around banks and companies that hold potentially toxic assets that are difficult to accurately value. To reflect the continued deterioration of the changing banking industry, Standard & Poor's recently cut its credit rating on Goldman and UBS
Of course, Goldman Sachs has survived and thrived despite dozens of obstacles in the past. But the question about whether the company can recover in these unprecedented times is why CAPS is such a great resource to augment your own analysis.
To see what the very best CAPS members are saying now about Goldman Sachs, just click on over to Motley Fool CAPS and have a look.
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