JamesBrey With interest rates at elevated levels and inflation remaining stubbornly high, income-focused investors are becoming increasingly selective, preferring stocks that offer a yield with a comfortable spread above the current risk-free rate. This compensates for the additional risk associated with investing in equities. Additionally, investors seek high-yield stocks whose payouts not only keep pace…
Alex Wong/Getty Images News Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) seems to be unstoppable. After struggling to stop the exodus of users in early 2022, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg managed to execute a proper comeback in the recent year and make his company one of the most valuable businesses in the world. In recent months, Meta’s business was…
Eoneren Introduction and investment thesis Last time I’ve covered Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) following its FY24 Q3 earnings release, where I rated the company’s shares as a Strong Buy. Important new product launches, some of which are already contributing to revenues combined with stabilizing consumption trends and a decreased valuation premium have been my main arguments in…
John Webb/iStock via Getty Images This article was coproduced with Leo Nelissen. I don’t think anyone has ever used “dumpster diving” in a positive context. However, did you know some people make decent money dumpster diving? Last year, Business Insider published an article with the interesting title: “We met dumpster diving 14 years ago and…
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Andrii Yalanskyi No one likes a dividend cut: They reduce the income stream that many retirees rely on for funding their retirement lifestyle. They often trigger a negative market response, leading to steep stock price declines. This typically adds insult to injury by adding steep capital losses on top of the steep decline in income,…
JuSun Written by Sam Kovacs. Introduction I wrote an article earlier this week titled “Sell Alert: The Slaughter of Office REITs is just beginning.” What many investors don’t realize is that when I started seriously looking at office real estate investment trusts, or REITs, in October last year, I was doing so with the intention…
peshkov Listen below or on the go on Apple Podcasts and Spotify The collapse of Li-Cycle (LICY) is called a potential warning for the broad electric vehicle sector. (00:26) Nvidia (NVDA), AMD said to make chips for Microsoft (MSFT) amid Intel (INTC) dominance. (01:59) Halloween spooks? Consumers watch as cocoa prices hit 44-year high. (02:56)…
Adam Gault The U.S. economy is currently experiencing a rare event that hasn’t been witnessed since 1949: a shrinking money supply. M2 has declined by a whopping ~$700 billion since the hiking cycle began. This phenomenon is sparking discussions and debates about its causes, implications, and effects on various financial instruments, including the SPDR® S&P…
Sashkinw/iStock via Getty Images Investors in The Trade Desk, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) celebrated a remarkable market-beating performance in 2023 as TTD surged to its early August highs. However, sellers denied further upside at the $92 level before a post-earnings selloff followed as TTD bottomed out in mid-August at the $70 level. As such, TTD briefly entered…
Sezeryadigar Co-authored with Treading Softly. It’s amazing how a little shift in perspective can completely reorient how you look at something. Have you ever seen the famous picture where, when you first look at it, it looks like a rabbit, but when you look again it is a duck? How you look at that picture…
KanawatTH Written by Sam Kovacs. Introduction Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. (PDM) just cut its dividend by 41% from $0.21 per quarter to $0.125, effectively slashing an 11% yield into an 7% yield. Ouch! PDM DFT Chart (Dividend Freedom Tribe) In the meantime, we’ve been implementing a strategy which has been generating 14% net yields,…