On its surface, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is a fine and stable consumer and pharmaceutical healthcare giant, supported by steady demand drivers for health care products and healthy profit margins which have room to keep expanding with scale. All else equal, that slow and steady growth profile should theoretically lead to slow and steady gains
Month: February 2020
Improbably, U.S. stocks have returned to new all-time highs. Coronavirus fears have faded, and as a result the S&P 500 has rallied over 3% in the last three sessions. Source: Shutterstock Put another way, it looks like investor attention has returned to the market’s underlying fundamentals. And as we’ve noted in recent editions of Big
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Signage is displayed at the FirstEnergy Corp. Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Justin Merriman | Bloomberg | Getty Images The best two sectors so far this year are the fast-growing tech sector and stodgy old utilities, continuing an odd race that has been going on for more than 18 months. The utilities
A view of the Casper mattresses during Casper’s LA celebration at Blind Dragon on July 9, 2015 in West Hollywood, California. Rachel Murray | Getty Images Mattress firm Casper priced its initial public stock offering at $12 a share on Wednesday evening, Dow Jones reported, a significant haircut to its prior price talk. The firm
Visitor walk past a Ford Escape Titanium at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai on April 17, 2019. Greg Baker| AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ford — Ford was the biggest loser in the S&P 500 in early trading, with shares plunging more than 9% after the
VBI Vaccines’ (NASDAQ:VBIV) stock is on the move. The shares have rallied on the heels of a successful clinical trial. But is it too late to buy the stock? While VBIV has soared around 130% since Nov. 1, more gains could be in the cards. Everything hinges on the company being able to market its
Last year was certainly the year of the IPO, or more accurately, the year of the failed IPO. In 2019 we saw a range of buzzy tech firms fall significantly in the days, weeks and months following their debuts. Ride-hailing service Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) is one such company. Source: Roman Tiraspolsky / Shutterstock.com With LYFT stock
[Editor’s note: This story was updated on Feb. 5 to correct the list of companies that report earnings tonight.] It’s been a very interesting week, made even more interesting by the action in the stock market today. Can we recap for just a moment? On Friday, stocks dropped into the weekend, as the S&P 500
It’s been a rough start to February for investors in the silver space (SLV), with the metal down 3% to start the month, and the Silver Miners ETF (SIL) down over 4%. Unfortunately, this has left many speculators trapped without much ammunition to do any buying, given that we had exuberant levels of long exposure among speculators heading into this
Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors. Yuriko Nakao | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Tesla are roaring higher — but some are worried Elon Musk’s electric carmaker might be a speculative bubble that sometimes occurs in financial markets, especially near the end of bull markets. Rising more than 110% in
A Tesla car dealership in Munich. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla— Shares of Elon Musk’s automaker roared more than 15% higher, continuing a surge begun on Monday after major shareholder Ron Baron called for the company’s
Finnish telecommunications company Nokia (NYSE:NOK) will report its fourth-quarter earnings on February 6. As the big day approaches, the market seems concerned about the results. The company’s third-quarter earnings came in below analysts’ average estimate, sending NOK stock plummeting 24% in a single day. Source: RistoH / Shutterstock.com Although the shares have subsequently stayed well
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) reported its fourth-quarter results on Jan. 31 that showed lower revenue but 3% higher net income per share. Moreover, its cash flow remains very healthy. CAT stock remains very cheap with a forward price-to-earnings ratio below 13 and a 3.2% dividend yield. Source: astudio / Shutterstock.com One potential downside is the company’s outlook
In the midst of the eCommerce revolution, Pier 1 (NYSE:PIR) doesn’t have what it takes to generate positive returns for the owners of PIR stock. Source: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com In all likelihood, the troubled retailer’s results will continue to deteriorate. It may stay in business in zombie-like form for a long time while its
Investors have bought the dip again. The three major equity indices all gained at least 1.4% on Tuesday, with the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite climbing over 2%. After coronavirus fears rocked the market last week, a return to all-time highs is less than two percentage points away. Source: Shutterstock Hopes are rising that the virus will
A bearish winter season The spring could get worse The summer could see natural gas react to politics in the US The 2019/2020 peak season for demand in the natural gas futures market began in early November when the price of the nearby NYMEX futures contract rose to a high of $2.905 per MMBtu. The
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On Monday, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) rallied 1.5%. However, despite those gains, it closed well off the highs. It left a lot of investors wondering what type of action was heading our way in the stock market today. Not many were pricing in a 1.5% surge on Tuesday, as the S&P 500 ground
Tesla CEO Elon Musk presented the first batch of made-in-China cars to ordinary buyers on January 7, 2020 in a milestone for the company’s new Shanghai “giga-factory”, but which comes as sales decelerate in the world’s largest electric-vehicle market. STR The Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund dumped 39,000 shares of Tesla in the fourth quarter
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