Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stocks are now in a choppy period, and technical analysts say it has the look of a short-term pullback. Strategists say it would make sense for this week’s selling to fit in the pattern of many pullbacks with a 3% to 5% decline.
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The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, keeps hitting new all-time highs. However, not all stocks are taking part. In fact, many more speculative areas such as special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and electric vehicles (EVs) have sold off sharply in recent weeks. As a result, investors are looking to play some defense.
GameStop (NYSE:GME) sells gaming discs in physical stores that no one is going to anymore. Kids can just as easily rent or buy them online. So why is GME stock trading so high? Source: Shutterstock / mundissima The stock has been on a roller coaster as of late. At the end of December 2020, GME
The past year’s price action in the shares of video-game retailer GameStop (NYSE:GME) have been exciting, to say the least. The famous Reddit-fueled short squeeze of GME stock has created wealth for some traders, and destroyed the accounts of others. Source: quietbits / Shutterstock.com For old-school, valuation-obsessed investors such as myself, it’s been fascinating and perplexing.
There is a bull case for AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) stock. To be clear, I don’t subscribe to that case. But as with nearly every stock out there, a reasonable investor can make a case for being long. Source: QualityHD / Shutterstock.com The end of the novel coronavirus pandemic should boost the company’s revenue after an
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Kansas City Southern (KSU) – Shares of the rail operator surged 18.9% in premarket trading, after Canadian National Railway (CNI) offered $325 per share in cash and stock for the company, topping a prior $275 per share offer from Canadian Pacific (CP). The
To achieve dividend kings status, a company has to provide its shareholders a dividend increase for at least 50 consecutive years. This is no mean feat, but consumer goods companies may have an advantage. Source: iQoncept/shutterstock.com Companies in the consumer staples sector sell everyday items, such as toothpaste, snacks, beverages and laundry detergent, that consumers
Canoo (NASDAQ:GOEV) closed its SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) merger on Dec. 21, 2020, and received $607 million. Since then, however, GOEV stock has dropped precipitously. Source: Shutterstock In fact, Canoo has not announced the production partners for its Canoo lifestyle electric vehicle (EV). Maybe this has something to do with the fall in GOEV
Listen to Preston’s podcast about studying billionaires here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-investors-podcast/id928933489 Oprah Winfrey is a media proprietor, highly acclaimed talk show host, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and actress. According to Forbes, the “Oprah Empire” is currently worth $2.9 billion. She is widely known for her talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which had been hailed as the highest rated
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Measuring Oil and Gas Production Oil and gas exploration and production companies, or E&P companies, use three basic formats for measuring and reporting oil and gas production: (1) Oil production is measured and reported in barrels, or “bbl.” Production rates are typically reported in terms of barrels per day, which may be abbreviated in several
There may come a time when the once-hyped real estate loan originator UWM Holdings (NYSE:UWMC) will have its day in the sun again. Until then, we’ll have to wrap our heads around the surprisingly low price of UWMC stock. Source: Shutterstock For six years running, UWM Holdings has been (according to the company, at least) America’s
Not all blue-chip companies are the same. Some are better positioned for the future, either through diversification, their competitive position or because they happen to operate in a sector that is on the cutting edge of where society is headed. While most blue-chip companies are well-run and established businesses, not all of them will continue
Rendering of a United Launch Alliance’ Atlas V rocket carrying Amazon satellites. ULA/Amazon Amazon is preparing to send its first Project Kuiper internet satellites into orbit, with Jeff Bezos‘ company announcing on Monday that it signed a contract with United Launch Alliance for nine launches. ULA, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, will
In this article STLD ZION ELS UAL IBM Pedestrians walk past the IBM building in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Monday: IBM — Shares of the computer hardware company ticked up 2.9% after IBM reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter. IBM posted earnings
Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA) has been one of the biggest stock stories of late. Shares were well under $1 a year ago, and now trade near $35. At this point, the Bitcoin (CCC:BTC-USD) miner’s meteoric rise should cause trepidation on the part of investors. Source: Shutterstock In fact, its mining business does seem overpriced. It’s
Currently, Discovery Class A (NASDAQ:DISCA) stock and Class C (NASDAQ:DISCK) stock (but not the Class B (NASDAQ:DISCB)) look very undervalued, given the company’s huge free cash flow (FCF). In fact, there is now a wide gulf in the Discovery stock shares. Class A and C shares trade at $36.37 and $31.20 respectively, versus Class B
Gold and silver miners in North America will start reporting their first-quarter earnings reports the week of April 26. Gold stocks have been tracking the gold price, which means the economic recovery has weighed on their performance. Source: allstars / Shutterstock.com In a recent note, RBC Capital Markets analyst Josh Wolfson and his team outlined what
The shadow of NASA’s Ingenuity is seen on the surface of Mars as the helicopter hovered during its first flight on April 19, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA successfully conducted the first flight of an aircraft on another planet, as the space agency’s helicopter Ingenuity completed a historic feat on Mars on Monday that it called a
Traders on the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE This is a very powerful rally. The combination of surprisingly strong economic reports and even more surprisingly strong earnings reports is pushing broad swaths of the U.S. stock market to new highs. Even the technicians are impressed. “The vast majority of NYSE stocks are in intermediate-term