Month: October 2019

Real estate investment trusts have been on a roll for a while now. It might be that the last time you heard from the REITs was when shopping malls were emptying out due to e-commerce competition and everyone was writing an epitaph for mall REITs. But those days are gone. And there are far more
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The Gold Miners Index has rallied 60% off of its September 2018 lows. Despite this significant move higher, valuations remain subdued on a historical basis. Given the likely robust revenue growth rates we’ll see in Q3 and Q4 earnings reports, any weakness is likely to get bought up by funds into Q1 2020. The Gold
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I recently read an article celebrating Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) 21st birthday. In it, the author reeled off 21 reasons why Google stock was worth buying.  Source: BigTunaOnline / Shutterstock.com This article got me thinking about Alphabet’s need to buy back more Google stock despite the fact that the shares are up 21% in 2019.  Loads
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Accounting for the nasty post-earnings tumble in shares of semiconductor maker Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN), things could have been much worse for stocks on the Dow Jones today than the final tallies showed. Source: Venturelli Luca / Shutterstock.com Semiconductor stocks are widely considered to be tech bellwethers, so when one of those names struggles in fashion
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Semiconductor ETFs are soaring this year; here is what investors need to know about four ETFs in the space (SOXX, SMH, XSD, PSI). IShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/SOXX/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Van Eck Semiconductor ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/SMH/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/XSD/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID PowerShares Dynamic Semiconductors Portfolio: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/PSI/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Follow us on StockTwits: stocktwits.com/ZacksResearch Follow us on Twitter:
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Etsy (NASDAQ:ETSY) is an online marketplace for handmade goods. That may not seem like a big business, but it’s big enough for the company to carry a $6.7 billion market cap. Certainly that’s about 20% of the size of online merchandiser eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) and more than two orders of magnitude smaller than Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). But
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