Is Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) the future of eCommerce? Investors are increasingly betting that Shopify stock will be the next online star. Source: Jirapong Manustrong / Shutterstock.com A new wave of eCommerce is forming and threatens Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). Shopify demonstrated that fact with its Black Friday sales last holiday season when its platform averaged nearly $1 million in
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Canada-based marijuana producer Aphria (NYSE:APHA) has been rather volatile so far in the new year. When the company released its Q2 FY2020 (ended in November) results on Jan. 14, investors were not impressed and Aphria stock sold off about 8% initially to hit a recent low of $4.87. Source: Shutterstock In the second half of the
The shares of consumer packaged goods giant Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) dipped slightly recently after the company reported mixed second-quarter numbers. Its profits topped analysts’ average expectations, its gross margins expanded, and PG increased its full-year sales and profit guidance. But PG’s organic volume and sales growth slowed versus Q1, its expense/revenue ratio rose year-over-year,
According to a Jan. 17 SEC filing, UK investment management firm Baillie Gifford has increased its stake in Nio (NYSE:NIO), the up-and-coming Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer. It now owns 101.4 million American Depositary Shares or 13.1% of Nio stock. Source: xiaorui / Shutterstock.com At this time last year, Baillie Gifford owned 11% of NIO. Already
U.S. equities are pulling back on Thursday as the worries over a global contagion out of China spreads. New cases have been reported in places like Scotland and the U.S. The worry is that officials will have no choice but to lock down travel to prevent the disease from spreading, which would dampen global growth.
2019 was a year cannabis investors would like to forget, including Aurora Cannabis (NYSE:ACB) shareholders. But it still might be optimistic to assume cannabis stocks have bottomed out. The same holds true for ACB stock, and I maintain a bearish view for 2020. I believe that balance sheet concerns coupled with industry headwinds will ensure
There are much better, less risky ways to invest in the clean energy and electrification revolutions than FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ: FCEL). With the company facing steep competition and apparently failing to save its customers money, FCEL stock isn’t worth buying at this point. Source: Shutterstock Unlike, for example, solar energy and Plug Power’s (NASDAQ:PLUG) material-handling
After at least several dozen headlines affirming the phase-one U.S.-China trade deal in recent weeks, markets continue to float higher. And as more bullish investors participate in the market, fair valuations are of little concern. Slowing growth for companies whose stock prices are at 52-week highs is getting ignored, too. When the market’s optimism gets
In some ways, my predictions about Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) in 2019 were tremendously off the mark. After all, I wrote in May that the shares could tumble below $100 by the end of the year. Instead, they ended the year near $300 and have since rallied close to $320. But my warnings about Apple stock having
In late 2019, shares of premium fast casual restaurant chain Shake Shack (NYSE:SHAK) plummeted on the heels of a disappointing third-quarter earnings report that included the company’s slowest comparable sales growth rate in a year, significant margin compression and a reduced full-year comparable sales and margin guide. SHAK stock, which was flying high around $105
Cloud computing and virtualization giant VMware (NYSE:VMW) has had a rough run the past few months. While the broader market has surged to all-time highs, rising roughly 10% over the past six months, VMW stock has shed more than 10% over that same stretch, as the company’s revenue growth trajectory has flattened out amid dwindling
Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) is the very definition of a “dead man drilling.” The only reason to keep it alive is to try and pay off some of its roughly $9 billion in debt. This is working for its bankers, but not CHK stock investors. Source: Casimiro PT / Shutterstock.com The other analogy that comes to
My thesis on e-signature pioneer DocuSign (NASDAQ:DOCU) stock is pretty simple, and it ultimately boils down to the fact that while DocuSign is a great company, DocuSign stock is fully valued, and this full valuation will ultimately limit how much higher the stock will go in the near- to medium-term. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com At this
My thesis on small Canadian cannabis producer Hexo (NASDAQ:HEXO) and Hexo stock has been very simply for a long time. It goes something like this. Source: Shutterstock There are a lot of pot stocks out there. When all is said and done, only a few of them will survive and become global cannabis giants —
For the past six weeks, several analysts on Wall Street have sung a bullish tune about shares of cloud communications giant Twilio (NYSE:TWLO). Specifically, Bank of America, Northland Securities and Oppenheimer have all come out and called Twilio stock a “top pick” over the past six weeks, citing strong fundamental momentum and a relatively attractive
Amid the much hyped but ultimately disappointing spate of initial public offerings stands Luckin Coffee (NASDAQ:LK). Unlike names such as Uber (NYSE:UBER) or Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT), Luckin doesn’t deal with technology per se. Rather, it focuses on delivering a longtime crowd favorite, coffee, to an emerging economic superpower. But has the dramatic enthusiasm for LK stock
Acasti Pharma (NASDAQ:ACST) is a classic example of the extreme volatility of small-cap biotech stocks. It was only in late December that the shares were fetching $2.87, up from $1 a year earlier. But now ACST stock is trading around 79 cents, with a market cap of about $70 million. To provide some context, in
Who knew furniture sales can be so exciting? Yet that’s the perfect word to describe shares of furniture and home-goods e-commerce specialist Wayfair (NYSE:W). Early in 2019, I was on both sides of the investment thesis of Wayfair stock. Almost a year later, how should prospective buyers approach this wild entity? Source: Jonathan Weiss /
Shares of Chinese streaming giant iQiyi (NASDAQ:IQ) have gone parabolic over the past few months, rising from $15 in early October 2019 to $25 by early January 2020. That’s a jaw-dropping 65%-plus rally in IQ stock in just three months. Source: NYC Russ / Shutterstock.com What’s behind the recent strength in the company? More importantly,
Sure, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are at record highs. But that doesn’t mean all the stocks in the stock market are doing well. There are over 3,700 stocks that are traded on U.S. exchanges. And those two indexes only cover the biggest of them. There are plenty of mid-sized and small