In this article NIO AMAT EL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT American multinational skincare and beauty products brand Estée Lauder’s logo seen in Hong Kong. Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Friday. Palo Alto Networks — Shares of the cybersecurity company edged 1.8% lower
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Not every dividend stock is a slam-dunk choice. And not every great dividend stock comes to mind when you start looking for yield because top-rated dividend stocks sometimes hide in out-of-the-way places. If you’ve followed my portfolio for a while, you know the major names that typically make up the lists of top dividend stocks.
So far this month, Mullen Automotive (NASDAQ:MULN) has popped back on the radars of many investors. A big reason for this is several major developments directly related to MULN stock. These include announced progress with some of the early-stage electric vehicle maker’s growth efforts. A reverse-stock split, which will enable Mullen to keep its Nasdaq
Despite their potentially high growth potential, there are also a handful of quality lithium stocks that pay dividends. Buying these companies may be an effective way for some investors to maximize their total return, via share price appreciation as well as annual dividends. It’s clear that the clean energy transformation has just gotten started. Governments
A technician checks on a stack of wafers at the Applied Materials facility in Santa Clara, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after hours. Applied Materials — Applied Materials rose nearly 2% in extended trading after beating analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom lines in
Micro-cap stocks represent companies with a valuation of less than $300 million. It goes without saying that these are high-risk stocks. Therefore, I want to start by saying that investors should not allocate more than 5% of their portfolio toward these investments. That said, it’s worth noting that micro-cap stocks are not purely speculative. These
Dividend stocks have become investors’ favorites in recent months. Tech turbulence and high-interest rates combined to make high-yield stocks an alternative to riskier equities while still beating the yield on fixed-income investments like treasuries. Unfortunately, many investors chase the bottom-line yield stat without looking too closely into the underlying company. Dividend stocks are usually seen
Peruse the cesspool of the Internet long enough and you’ll come across admonitions to ignore Wall Street upgrades or more simply, stocks that analysts love. These fools and charlatans don’t know what they’re talking about, keyboard commandos proclaim. While analysts are humans and are subject to errors, they can be incredibly valuable, too. First, they
In this article HE ADBE CSCO TPR WMT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Walmart logo is seen near the shop in Williston, Vermont on June 19, 2023. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Walmart — Shares added as much as 1% after
Finding the best small cap stocks to buy can be tricky. The markets have had a great run since last year, but now there’s showing signs of losing steam. Large-cap companies are nearing their previous highs, and investors are wary of entering overvalued trades. Some of them have looked into the next big thing —
With stocks with high exposure to the artificial intelligence mega-trend pulling back recently, now may be the time to make an exit from overvalued AI stocks. Since late last year, when the launch of OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot ChatGPT kicked off a massive move by big tech into this new digital frontier, investors responded by
C3.AI (NYSE:AI) stock had revenue of $72.4 million for the quarter ending in April. A year earlier, before the AI hullaballoo began, sales were $72.3 million. Losses have been averaging $60 million per quarter. Almost as much money gets lost as comes in. It’s a poor man’s Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR). Investors are now paying $33 per
A runner jogs past the Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California, Feb. 8, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Cisco Systems — Shares of the computer networking giant gained about 2.5% after posting fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations. The
Investors always hope to buy low and sell high. In order to do so, it’s necessary to identify stocks that are undervalued. The healthcare sector, like all other sectors, is rife with opportunities and offers lots of value. While the undervalued pricing is important, it’s also important to note that healthcare stocks to buy offer relative safety.
If you are a public equities investor betting on the digital economy, semiconductor stocks would have to be in your portfolio. Semiconductors are tiny electronic devices powering everything from our smartphones and personal computers to cars and commercial airplanes. If you take any run-of-the-mill semiconductor exchange-traded fund (ETF), say, the iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX), many
The narrative around the strength of the consumer economy is, simply put, nonsense. The reality painted by retail stocks, particularly the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEARCA:XRT), is quite different. Does this look like a chart that is in a “new bull market?” Man – that new bull market in retailers is really something. $XRT pic.twitter.com/c9baCY2Prc
In this photo illustration, a Target logo is displayed on the screen of a smartphone. Sheldon Cooper | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Target – Target shares popped nearly 8% before the market opened even as the retailer slashed its full-year forecast and posted
Financial Technology (fintech) stocks have come to revolutionize the financial industry. With all their improvements, technology and sophisticated yet simple processes, they undoubtedly offer all consumers friendly, efficient, fast and completely effective tools to carry out all our banking needs. However, the companies did not come to displace traditional banking. Instead, they complemented those financial
Adam Aron, the CEO of global movie-theater chain AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC), cited the new Barbie movie in the company’s latest quarterly earnings report. I suppose we should have expected Aron to be enthused about Barbie‘s success. But will it be enough to bring AMC stock back to its former glory? Not likely. AMC Entertainment’s second-quarter results weren’t
The New York Stock Exchange welcomes executives and guests of Cava in celebration of its initial public offering, June 15, 2023. NYSE Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. H&R Block — The tax preparer rose nearly 5.9% after posting quarterly earnings per share of $2.05 that beat Wall Street’s expectations of $1.88,