andipantz Introduction It’s time to talk about Deere & Company (NYSE:DE), one of my all-time favorite dividend growth stocks and one of the best sources providing intel for investors interested in agriculture and construction. Since 2020, I have frequently covered the company as it became a cornerstone of my long-term vision and a core holding…
Trevor Williams Introduction Recently, I published an article where I briefly discussed the healthcare sector and its driving investment theses. After that, I’ve felt myself wanting to dive deeper into healthcare specifically. This has led me to the SPDR Healthcare Sector ETF (NYSEARCA:XLV), which holds the healthcare components of the S&P 500. This sector covers…
Torsten Asmus Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF (NASDAQ:PNQI) is focused on investing in some of the largest and fastest growing tech companies. This ETF has about $751 million in assets, and it has an expense ratio of 0.60%. It holds about 80 positions, which gives investors a diversified portfolio. This ETF is not as well-known nor…
alengo It’s been a little while since I’ve published a portfolio review, but in recent months, I’ve continued to take strides reshaping my portfolio into my desired long-term form, so I wanted to take some time this week to provide an update for everyone. In short, I’ve been intensely focused on accumulating shares of blue…
$100 U.S. banknotes in stacked bundles. photoman/iStock via Getty Images As my investment philosophy, I believe in picking quality businesses operating in industries with trends on their side. That is because, over the long run, such companies tend to deliver revenue and earnings growth. The global alternative asset management industry is one industry that appears…
4kodiak/E+ via Getty Images I’ve been buying more Trinity Capital (NASDAQ:TRIN) since the internally managed venture debt BDC last declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.51 per share, this was a 2% increase from its prior quarter and $2.04 annualized for a 13.8% dividend yield. This hike came as the Fed gears to keep base…
Jack Andersen/DigitalVision via Getty Images Molson Coors Beverage Company (NYSE:TAP) is a leading maker and distributor of beer and other beverages. This company was formed in 2005, when Molson of Canada merged with Coors in the USA. In addition to the namesake brands, this company owns and/or distributes many other well-known brands including: Arizona Hard,…
BNP Paribas, the second largest European bank, has purchased exposure to Bitcoin via a spot ETF, per recent 13F filings with the SEC . The filings show BNP Paribas bought BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT). JUST IN: 🇫🇷 Second largest European bank, BNP Paribas reports exposure to #Bitcoin ETF in 13F filings. It's just…
Derick Hudson Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) stock recently tumbled due to its lighter-than-anticipated revenue forecasts. Yet, Q1 sales surged by 27% YoY, and Meta’s Family of Apps operating income increased by 57% to about $17.7B. The Reality Labs loss was also considerably narrower than expected, and Meta’s net income more than doubled to $12.37B last quarter….
Ryan Fletcher/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) is a conglomerate, leading in defense, aviation, industrial products and more. This company owns several well-known brands such as Bell, and Cessna, which can be seen below. Textron makes everything from planes to golf carts, to helicopters to snowmobiles. I have followed this company off and…
Trygve Finkelsen/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Co-authored by Treading Softly. Lifebuoys are often overlooked on watercraft such as boats, yachts, or cruise ships. However, these lifebuoys and the buoyant heaving lines they are attached to can be crucial in the event of an emergency. Even if you don’t think you’ll ever need it, it’s important…
imaginima On Friday, April 26, 2024, oil and gas supermajor Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced its first quarter 2024 earnings results. At first glance, these results were somewhat mixed. The company did manage to beat the expectations of its analysts in terms of revenue, but unfortunately, it missed their earnings expectations. For its part, the…
vzphotos Alphabet, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares are seeing a massive spike higher, as the tech giant’s first-quarter earnings release showed better-than-expected results in both revenue and earnings. On the revenue side of the equation, Alphabet saw strong annualized growth rates of 15% (which is the best quarterly performance that the company has reported since the beginning…
chaofann Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) (VNQ) are today priced at near their lowest valuations in a decade, with many REITs trading at large discounts relative to their fair value of their real estate. Valuations have gotten so low that even private equity players like Blackstone and Starwood are now aggressively buying REITs. Just recently,…
New 13F filings with the SEC reveal that a major pension consultant, Global Retirement Partners (GRP), is buying into US spot Bitcoin ETFs. Bitcoin investors have been eagerly awaiting these SEC filings to gauge the level of institutional interest in Bitcoin ETFs, which launched in the first quarter of 2024. JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Retirement consulting firm GRP…
blackdovfx/iStock via Getty Images Semiconductor stocks have had a big run over the last several months, and this sector was due for a pullback. As shown in the chart of the VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) below, we just got a big pullback. This was even a plunge in some stocks, with some top names…
Image Source/DigitalVision via Getty Images Main Thesis/Background The purpose of this article is to discuss the border market backdrop with a specific focus on gold and how it may continue to do well deeper into Q2. This is an asset class I have held for a long time – but it has often been a…
J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images Come for the dividend stock picks, stay for the economic analysis. Or come for the economic analysis and stay for the stock picks. Or just read one section and skip the other. Whyever you’re here, let’s get to it. The market has given us plenty to ruminate on, both on…
Richard Drury The Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:VGT) is down over 7% over the past three weeks, which is equivalent to around 10 years of the ETF’s dividend yield. VGT has underperformed the return on cash since its 2021 peak, which marks a two and a half year period of zero excess returns, which included…
hyejin kang Investment thesis My initial bullish thesis about Realty Income (NYSE:O) did not age well as the stock delivered a -7.6% total return since December 2023, notably lagging behind the broader market. Despite a decent latest earnings report, the share price dipped due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Fed’s monetary policy, which is weighing…
FabioIm/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Investment Thesis I recommend holding Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) shares. The company is the largest in market cap in Latin America, and is still reaping the benefits of its strategy of divestment of non-strategic assets and focus on core business. As a result, Petrobras continues to generate a lot of cash. However,…
jetcityimage Since the start of the year, the share price of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has experienced a sustained increase, from about $370 to $425 – a near 15% run in just 4 months. In the same year, the company eclipsed Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) as the most valuable company in the world by market capitalisation. Being one of…
Sundry Photography In my view, investors should fully embrace the volatility that is shaking the markets right now. Though the majority of investors are hooked into interest rate-driven headlines and continued speculation over the pace of rate cuts this year, volatility is also a great time for investors to scoop up big movers in single…
The latest 13F filings with the SEC reveal that major institutional investors have been acquiring shares in the new spot bitcoin ETFs that launched this quarter. JUST IN: Wall Street firms with a combined $15 BILLION in AUM bought exposure to #Bitcoin ETFs in Q1 This is just the beginning 💥 pic.twitter.com/MQ1TZp8tQp — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine)…
Japanese firm Metaplanet announced it is purchasing 1 billion yen (about $6.5 million) worth of Bitcoin as part of its corporate treasury strategy, a move that mimics MicroStrategy’s high-profile Bitcoin accumulation. Metaplanet, a publicly traded company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a diversified enterprise, revealed the Bitcoin buying initiative on X. The company cited hedging…
ipopba Investment Thesis AppLovin Corporation (NASDAQ:APP) is a mobile advertising company. AppLovin provides services for mobile app developers and advertisers. In simple terms, it helps app developers make money from their apps by showing ads to users. In essence, AppLovin acts as a middleman between app developers who want to monetize their apps and advertisers…
Kenneth Cheung Investment Thesis PDD Holdings (NASDAQ:PDD) delivered very strong results. The company is extremely secretive and keeps its prospects very close to its chest. By the details we can glean, we can see a company that is growing at such a rapid pace, with such strong free cash flows, that paying approximately 13x forward…
Jonathan Kitchen The first quarter earnings season is on the doorstep. The big banks kick things off on Friday with JPMorgan (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), and Citigroup (C) posting profit results. Big tech doesn’t report until later in April. Something to watch for across all sectors is how often “AI” is mentioned on earnings calls….
CoreyFord/iStock via Getty Images During bull markets, which is most of the time, there’s a strong gravitational pull toward bullishness and optimism. This is a learned response. The First Law of Stocks is that stock market rallies in motion tend to stay in motion until acted upon by a countervailing force. Even so, there’s something…
mysticenergy SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) is a small, independent, oil and natural gas company headquartered in Oklahoma. All of SandRidge’s properties and proved reserves are located in the “Mid-Continent” area, more specifically Oklahoma and Kansas. The thesis behind owning SandRidge is one of valuation and more recently, capital allocation. Even with its recent runup, SandRidge is…
Torsten Asmus Thesis When investing, it is paramount to understand what it is that you are buying. It becomes even more important when dealing with complex products that have leverage and multiple risk factors. BlackRock Income Trust (NYSE:BKT) is such a product. The vehicle is a closed end fund that purchases agency MBS bonds and…
AutumnSkyPhotography After a considerable downdraft in QUALCOMM Incorporated‘s (NASDAQ:QCOM) stock price since the beginning of 2022 due to a declining mobile phone market, investors started waking up to its potential opportunity in generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) near the end of 2023. Although the company may no longer be a go-go growth stock, when investors began…
AerialPerspective Works Vornado Realty’s (NYSE:VNO) 1-year rally has been incredible with the REIT now trading for 11.4x its annualized fiscal 2023 fourth quarter FFO. The Manhattan-focused office REIT generated fourth-quarter FFO of $0.63 per share, down 9 cents from its year-ago comp but outperforming consensus estimates by roughly 2 cents. The REIT’s common shares staged…
House surrounded by cash money. HAKINMHAN/iStock via Getty Images In the last 12 months, I’ve been buying a lot of income investments. Much more so than I did in 2022. The current market has seen no-or-low dividend tech stocks rally to nosebleed valuations, while many stocks in the “income” category have floundered. The NASDAQ-100 is…
triloks Welcome back to my weekly variety show! Two of my favorite sectors of the stock market are enjoying a nice rally over the last few days. Those two sectors are Real Estate (VNQ) and Utilities (XLU). (Yes, I know — REITs and utilities. I’m really popular at cocktail parties.) Data by YCharts This mini-rally…
Phillip Spears/DigitalVision via Getty Images Last week, I explained why I stopped buying real estate to buy real estate investment trusts, or REITs, instead. I recommend that you read the whole article, but in short, REITs (VNQ) are today a lot cheaper than private real estate. They also give you the benefits of leverage with…
Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images Intro & Thesis I initiated coverage on Viatris Inc (NASDAQ:VTRS) in October 2021, and then updated my bullish thesis a few months ago, stating that the stock looked dirt cheap. The VTRS stock rose significantly by 26.7% since my last update, outperforming the S&P 500 Index (SPX) (SP500): Seeking Alpha,…
mouu007 Warren Buffett once said: Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble. Right now, numerous high yield dividend stocks (SPYD) presents investors with such an opportunity. In this article, we will discuss why and share some of our top picks of the moment. Why High Yield Dividend Stocks…
400tmax/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ:RIVN) shares have been crushed over the last couple of years. I remember when I saw this stock trading up to around the $170 range, and I was wondering what are people thinking, paying this much for the stock. However, now I am wondering what people are…
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…
mohd izzuan/iStock via Getty Images To quote the pithy Abraham Lincoln, Better to be silent and thought a fool than post your thoughts on the Internet and remove all doubt. Is that how the quote goes? It’s something along those lines. Well, I don’t claim to have ole Abe’s wisdom, but I’d like to think…
Feverpitched I have been in real estate quite literally my entire life. I was born into a family of real estate professionals. We moved to France when I was 5 due to my father’s real estate ventures, and I grew up visiting countless construction sites with him. Eventually, I went to university to study Finance…
Michael Saylor faced obstacles before he successfully added Bitcoin to MicroStrategy’s balance sheet in 2020. Speaking at the 2024 Abundance360 Summit this week, Saylor revealed how he offered to buy out MicroStrategy shareholders in a Dutch action when they moved to first acquire $250 million worth of Bitcoin. The comments come after Saylor and his…
Edwin Tan Humana (NYSE:HUM) is one of those rare stocks that received quite a beating from investors this year as most stocks seem to be having a party and making new highs every week. When the company announced its earnings in January, investors didn’t like its newly updated guidance for 2024 as the company said…
Feverpitched/iStock via Getty Images The National Association of Realtors or “NAR” just announced a $418 million settlement in a deal that is supposed to “spare” home sellers from automatic commission to the buyer’s agent. This news seemed to get lots of publicity but in reality, I believe it is much ado about nothing. First of…
Alistair Berg/DigitalVision via Getty Images This article was coproduced with Leo Nelissen. As some of my longer-term followers may know, I have a background in supply chains. My Master’s degree had a focus on purchasing and supply chain management, which has guided me very well in my investing journey. I believe that buying companies that…
andreswd In my recent articles covering the Brazilian mining company Vale (NYSE:VALE), my investment thesis revolves around its ability to generate shareholder returns through dividends or share buybacks. Moreover, despite its performance closely tied to commodities, Vale enjoys an operational advantage as a low-cost producer. This allows it to remain profitable even during low iron…
Michael Vi The case to buy Zscaler shares now Has the long awaited consolidation trade finally arrived? Tuesday, March 5th, was not a pleasant day on which to hold high growth IT stocks. Apple Inc.’s report (AAPL) of a 24% decline in its iPhone sales in China in the first 6 weeks of this year…
Dmytro Skrypnykov CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS) reported its Q4 results on the 7th of March, showing weakness in financials with customers’ inventory management and cautious customer spending. In my previous write-up titled “CPI Card Group: Bullish Long-Term Future Despite Short-Term Challenges”, published on the 13th of December 2023, I initiated the stock at a buy…
Arsgera FS KKR Capital (NYSE:FSK) has seen significant selling pressure after the BDC reported net investment income results for the December quarter that matched adjusted NII consensus expectations. However, FS KKR’s earnings release, which was not bad at all, was overshadowed by an increase in the non-accrual percentage which unnecessarily caused irritations about the BDC’s…