With Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock holding steady, is it time to sell? After last year’s epic run, the high-flying chipmaker may be peaking. With Advanced Micro Device’s (NASDAQ:AMD) mixed guidance, investors are starting to scale back their expectations for the other chip names as well. Source: Hairem / Shutterstock.com As I’ve discussed in prior analyses for
Optimism has returned to the equity markets in a hurry. U.S. stocks moved higher for a fourth consecutive session Thursday. The S&P 500 now has risen almost 4% this week alone. The NASDAQ Composite is up almost 5%. Source: Shutterstock Even in this confident market, however, a few stocks have been left behind. Friday’s big
CNBC’s Jim Cramer expressed concerns about the fundamentals of Casper Sleep‘s business ahead of the online mattress startup’s Thursday debut as a publicly traded stock. Shares opened at $14.50, an over 20% increase from its offering price. “The losses here are staggering” for the business, Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” Casper, which started
Russia’s reluctance to jump on board a bigger OPEC production cut may signal a potential fissure within the oil producer alliance, known as OPEC plus. Led by Saudi Arabia, other OPEC producers and Russia were considering an emergency meeting to cut production in response to the impact of the coronavirus, but it’s not now clear
Not too long ago, cable television was all the rage. Now it’s a point of concern for the companies that offer it. This is thanks largely to Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), which changed the way the world wants to consume its media. Online streaming is the wave of the future and the rest of them are playing
I like high-yield dividend stocks that also have the ability to buy back their shares. These are called total yield dividend stocks. They offer investors attractive total returns. Source: Shutterstock The amount of share buybacks during the year divided by the market value equals the buyback yield. By adding the dividend yield and the buyback
Since mid-2016, AMD (NASDAD:AMD) stock has climbed steadily higher. The shares have now advanced around 25 times from their lowest point of the last four years. Source: Hand Robot/Shutterstock.com Surely that incredible stock price appreciation has coincided with the tremendous growth of AMD’s profits over that span, right? Well actually, not so much. The company generates
Thursday was another strong day for equities as the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit another all-time high, positioning the S&P 500 for its best weekly showing in about two months. More than 50 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange hit 52-week highs today, including several Dow components. Source: Provided by Finviz The S&P
The market had expected a 124 bcf withdrawal from storage Only seven weeks to go until stockpiles begin to grow Natural gas sits near the recent low, and the lowest price since 2016 as seasonality continues to point lower The price of natural gas fell to a marginally lower low over the past week when
Elon Musk Mike Blake | Reuters Longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader on Wednesday sounded a warning about the recent rally in Tesla’s stock and called on regulators to consider a probe into trading based on its recent meteoric run. “I think the Securities and Exchange Commission should pay attention to the protection of investors here
Russia could be holding up a decision on whether OPEC+ will make emergency production cuts. Analysts said Moscow’s apparent reluctance to make further production cuts seems to have delayed a technical committee’s recommendation to OPEC+ on whether to hold an emergency meeting. The technical committee, which consists of country representatives from OPEC and Russia, extended
Time and time again over the past several years, I’ve called technology behemoth Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) a long-term winner: buy on dips, hold onto for the long haul. That’s the strategy I’ve preached with Adobe stock since 2017. Source: r.classen / Shutterstock.com During this stretch, Adobe stock hasn’t disappointed. In 2017, the S&P 500 rose less
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
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