MR.Cole_Photographer/Moment via Getty Images The US employment data blew away expectations, jumping by 353k, nearly twice the median forecast. That, coupled with the 0.6% rise in average hourly earnings, which was also twice expectations, helped drive home the Federal Reserve’s reluctance to endorse what had been market speculation of a March rate cut and an…
bluecinema Introduction Krones (OTCPK:KRNNF) (OTCPK:KRNTY) is a German producer of machines used in the packaging and bottling sector. Its main specialty is to produce lines for filling aluminum beverage cans, glass bottles and plastic PET bottles. As you may know, I have been bullish on the packaging sector as a whole, and I think Krones…
Sundry Photography Though many tech stocks have lost their luster in the wake of the post-pandemic era, Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) has long remained a Wall Street favorite. This cybersecurity company – one of the leading vendors that secures cloud-based applications from cyber threats – has seen its share price surge nearly double over the past year,…
ryasick Dividends are probably being overlooked by many investors today. Consider that low-yielding Communication Services sector companies are leading the global stock market this year, with gains also seen in the high-growth Semiconductor industry. The Fab 5, Super 6, or whatever you want to call them, it’s clear that a handful of tech-related firms are…
Just_Super Elevator Pitch Ganfeng Lithium Group Co., Ltd. (OTCPK:GNENF) [1772:HK] shares are assigned a Hold investment rating. I wrote about Ganfeng Lithium’s near-term woes pertaining to lithium price weakness and its vertical integration approach for the long run in my November 12, 2023 article. With the current update, I draw attention to GNENF’s recently disclosed…
Bilanol/iStock via Getty Images Shares of Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) have risen to fresh all-time highs. A rather stagnant stock and business in the 2010s has really come to life post-pandemic, as it simply has become a better business with a real focus on ESG, insulation and the energy transition. Structural sales growth, margin expansion and…
koto_feja There’s been a plethora of ETFs launched in the last couple of years that use an options overlay to generate income on a volatile underlying investment. Whether it’s single stock ETFs or broad market based ones, investors seem to love that yield, independent of whether it actually hurts the total return profile in the…
NYCstock Quick Overview With banks making headlines this week again, I wanted to touch upon a subsector of the financials segment that is often under-covered but often presents an interesting investing opportunity as I’ve written about in the last year, and that is insurance. Though it may not be the mainstream media’s hip and cool…
SeventyFour Investment Thesis Within the vast Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) sector, there is a subsector that, in my opinion, stands out for its high quality, and that is self-storage. In this article, we will delve into why these businesses possess attractive qualities as investments and why Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR) appears to be one…
SDI Productions First Foundation (NYSE:FFWM) is a small bank based in Dallas, Texas. It operates mainly in California, Florida, Texas, Hawaii, and Nevada. The current macroeconomic environment is putting it in serious trouble; in fact, NIM has plummeted precipitously in recent quarters. The main problem was mismanagement of capital allocation in 2022, and to date…
Tanaonte/iStock via Getty Images Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. You might have heard this saying many times before. Many investors argue in favor of diversification to minimize the risk of losing capital, making it a fundamental rule in one’s investment objectives. Yet when we look at the top 10 richest people on…
BING-JHEN HONG/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Introduction On February 1, I stumbled upon an article on CleanTechnica about the Latin American expansion plans of Taiwanese electric scooter firm Gogoro (NASDAQ:GGR). I’ve written a total of four articles on SA about the company, the latest of which in March 2023 when I said that Gogoro was…
gorodenkoff It’s been 5 months since I published my first article about it Danaher (NYSE:DHR). Many things have happened since then, such as the presentation of annual results or the spin-off of Veralto. This article will aim to summarize all of this and update the thesis, as well as outline the new segments that make…
Coprid/iStock via Getty Images The Goldman Sachs Hedge Industry VIP ETF (NYSEARCA:GVIP) is a passively managed vehicle offering exposure to about 50 worthiest hedge-fund picks selected using quarterly 13F filings. This is a relatively simplistic yet nonetheless potent strategy with a respectable track record, though, as it always happens in investing, not a completely flawless…
Viktor Aheiev/iStock via Getty Images As the UK share market shows possible signs of weakness early in 2024, we look at ways of reducing equity risk. In an earlier blog, we explored the FTSE 100 Target Volatility index, which adjusts its exposure to equities and cash to target a specific level of index volatility. In…
KDDI Corporation (OTCPK:KDDIY) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript February 2, 2024 1:30 AM ET Company Participants Makoto Takahashi – President, Representative Director and CEO Nanae Saishoji – Managing Executive Officer, CFO and Executive Director of Corporate Sector Toshitake Amamiya – Executive Vice President and Executive Director of Personal Business Sector Yasuaki Kuwahara – Senior Managing…
Thanakorn Lappattaranan/iStock via Getty Images “Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.” – Count Basie Despite all of the other headlines that surround investors they will be focused on earnings. The big banks have already started to report and some of the high-profile names visited the earnings confessional…
Allexxandar/iStock via Getty Images By Seema Shah, Chief Global Strategist and Han Peng, CFA, Quantitative Strategist In response to the recent China equity market rout, policymakers vowed last week to stabilize the market through more forceful measures. Despite a very positive initial market reaction (an 8% rebound in three days), deeper fundamental issues such as…
tadamichi By Catherine Yoshimoto, Director, Product Management After a sharp downturn in 2022, large cap equities bounced back to deliver strong performance in 2023. The Russell 1000 Index posted a 26.5% return for the year, largely buoyed by the Magnificent Seven. However, several other constituents were contributors to strong 2023 index performance—and these companies wouldn’t…
Kagenmi/iStock via Getty Images We believe the Brazilian market faces a favorable environment in 2024 due to factors such as continued rate cuts, GDP growth, and attractive valuations. In 2023, Brazilian equities experienced significant growth, with the Bovespa Index rising by 22.3% for the year, approaching its all-time high. This performance is notable given the…
Just_Super POSCO Holdings (NYSE:PKX) is a South Korean conglomerate encompassing steel, chemicals, construction, and trade businesses. While steelmaking remains its core activity, PKX is strategically repositioning itself toward becoming a future-proof, eco-friendly materials provider. Through its Future M business segment, for instance, PKX manufactures anode and cathode materials, two of the main components of EV…
Ratana21 The data sourced in the article below is derived from Lipper’s Global Fund Flows application. GFF can be found on LSEG Workspace (“FundFlows”). During LSEG Lipper’s fund-flows week that ended January 31, 2024, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the second week in three, injecting…
WendellandCarolyn Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG), founded in 1960 and headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, is a REIT that owns, acquires, (re)develops, and operates open-air shopping centers and mixed-use assets across the country. With a very well-diversified portfolio, remarkable recent growth, and a healthy solvency profile, this REIT seems to have a lot of potential. Additionally,…
marrio31 Welcome to another installment of our BDC Market Weekly Review, where we discuss market activity in the Business Development Company (“BDC”) sector from both the bottom-up – highlighting individual news and events – as well as the top-down – providing an overview of the broader market. We also try to add some historical context…
Suchada Tansirimas This Analysis Assigns a Hold rating for Ero Copper Corp Ero Copper Corp. (NYSE:ERO) (TSX:ERO:CA) – a metals company based in Vancouver, Canada with copper and gold mining and exploration assets in Brazil – is given a “Hold” rating by this analysis, reflecting a downgrade from the “Buy” rating of the previous analysis…
Capuski By Doug Young Lots has been happening lately in the kitchen of appliance maker JS Global Lifestyle Co Ltd. (OTCPK:JGLCF, 1691.HK). Most recently, the maker of gadgets like coffee makers and blenders warned this week that its profit fell nearly 40% last year. But the big story for this company is the major haircut…
SusanneB This article is part of a series that provides an ongoing analysis of the changes made to Yacktman’s 13F stock portfolio on a quarterly basis. It is based on Yacktman Asset Management’s regulatory 13F Form filed on 2/2/2024. Please visit our Tracking Yacktman Asset Management series to get an idea of their investment philosophy…
Diego Thomazini Even though the earnings reports from Amazon (AMZN), Meta (META) and Apple (AAPL) aren’t in the data because LSEG cuts off the earnings and market data as of Thursday night’s market close, the upside surprise for Q4 ’23 S&P 500 EPS closed the week at +6.4%, versus the +7.2% from Q3 ’23. That…
ebrublue10 Prelude Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PRLD) is an early stage developer of cancer therapeutics. In 2022, their lead candidate, and the one program with efficacy data, used to be PRT811. PRT811 is a PRMT5 inhibitor which ran a phase 1 trial in solid tumors, including glioma and splicing mutated uveal melanoma, where it saw some positive data….