Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Lululemon – Lululemon reported quarterly profit of 96 cents per share, 7 cents a share above estimates. Revenue also beat forecasts. The apparel maker’s comparable-store sales jumped 15%. Lululemon also raised its full-year guidance. Results were boosted by strength in online sales and in the menswear
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., GoPro Inc., and Nike Inc. After Wednesday’s closing bell, Bed Bath & Beyond BBBY, +7.08% reported quarterly earnings that fell short of analysts’ estimate. Shares fell 5.7% in after hours. GoPro
[Editor’s note: This story was previously published in August 2019. It has since been updated and republished.] Investing to “buy and hold” is trickier than it looks. The increasing pace of technological change means even the most successful, dominant companies have to continually adapt to keep up. Industries like energy, real estate and even consumer products are facing
When it comes to U.S. automaker Ford (NYSE:F), you have a stock which, for five years now, has been in a secular decline. Many investors expect this weakness in Ford stock to persist for the foreseeable future, as the auto market continues to shrink with the rise of the sharing economy and as Ford loses
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL, NASDAQ:GOOG) has become range-bound. Google stock has failed to gain traction over the last year. Despite double-digit profit growth, lawsuits and privacy concerns have left Alphabet stock unable to gain traction. Source: Valeriya Zankovych / Shutterstock.com To be sure, the company continues to innovate. Although it still derives the majority of its revenue
It’s anything but the ideal bullish thrust, as we’ve now seen two consecutive bullish gaps left behind … gaps the bears may try to fill in with a pullback. Nevertheless, yesterday’s 1.3% advance has prodded the S&P 500 index above some major technical resistance. Source: Shutterstock Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) set the pace, and then some, rallying
Seems traders paid attention to all those articles about the gold-silver ratio after all. heh heh. There’s another interesting development no one seems to be talking about yet, so to continue the tradition of being first to point these things out, your friendly Gold Enthusiast will now give you something new to consider. Leveraged silver. There’s been
Shutterstock Wall Street is working on a new platform which will ease the trading, storing and spending digital assets. That’s bullish for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It will help them gain acceptance among investors, merchants and consumers. Last week, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced plans to form a new company, Bakkt, with the purpose to create
Photo: Sergei SavostyanovTASS via Getty Images. This article looks at two terrific growth and income shares whose share prices could detonate in the days ahead. Bellway There’s no doubt that earnings growth for homebuilders like Bellway are set to slow considerably as the excessive house growth of recent decades grinds to a halt. But in my
In this photo illustration, a visual representation of a cryptocurrency sits on display in front of a Facebook logo. Chesnot | Getty Images When it comes to the development and regulation of cryptocurrencies, many in Washington have been producing more heat than light. By all accounts, the crypto industry and its dozens of digital asset
Traders and financial professionals work at the opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 6, 2019. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Corporate America’s aggressive program of buying back stock slowed in the second quarter. Data provided by Standard & Poor’s indicates that corporate buybacks totaled $166 billion in
DocuSign CEO Daniel Springer. Source: DocuSign Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of DocuSign surged as much as 22% after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue and issued strong third-quarter and full-year revenue guidance. That news outweighed DocuSign’s second quarter earnings per share, which fell 3 cents short of Refinitiv consensus
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday’s session are DuPont, Nike Inc., and KB Home. DuPont DD, +0.67% : The chemical company late Thursday cut its second-quarter and full year profit outlook due to worse-than-expected performance of its agriculture unit. Shares fell 1.9% in extended
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up around 14% year to date, which isn’t too shabby given what’s happening outside U.S. borders. Adding to this bit of sunshine is the fact the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book came out yesterday and also said the U.S. economy is doing all right. That was reinforced by Fed Chairman
[Editor’s note: “6 Safe Dividend Stocks to Buy Now” was previously published in June 2019. It has since been updated to include the most relevant information available.] From continuing concerns about the China-U.S. trade war to worries about the yield curve inversion, the stock market still faces many steep risks. America’s political situation hasn’t been
It was not a good August for General Electric (NYSE:GE) stock. Accountant Harry Markopolos, famous for blowing the whistle on Bernie Madoff, published a 175-page report, which alleged that GE had widespread fraud, including concealing $38 billion of losses. On the news, General Electric stock plunged 11%. Source: testing / Shutterstock.com But GE’s management swiftly
U.S. stocks have put together an impressive couple of days, with the S&P 500 rallying over 3% from this week’s lows. While the action has been solid, Thursday marked the turning point. In the stock market today, we saw a bevy of buyers, with major U.S. indices hitting their highest levels in more than a
Silver can be a highly volatile member of the precious metals sector, at times. Both gold and silver have a long history as a means of exchange, hard currency, or real money. If gold is analogous to banknotes, silver is the change in our pockets or change purses. For many years, coins had high levels
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Shutterstock Looking at the underlying holdings of the ETFs in our coverage universe at ETF Channel, we have compared the trading price of each holding against the average analyst 12-month forward target price, and computed the weighted average implied analyst target price for the ETF itself.