ismagilov Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) recently reported its Q1 results. You can see my analysis after they reported their Q4 2023 results here where I considered the stock to be overvalued and overhyped, assigning it a Sell rating in the process. The stock continues to be range-bound despite the company generating strong growth due to valuation…
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….
JHVEPhoto Dear readers/followers, I’ve been covering the company Securitas AB (OTCPK:SCTBF) (OTCPK:SCTBY) for a number of years, and maintain as of today a continued position in the business that I believe may generate a solid sort of return – at some point. The company’s profitability has been affected, but gross and operating margins are slowly…
RiverNorthPhotography/E+ via Getty Images Is This A Turning Point For Bonds To Lead? Heightened geopolitical fronts and deflated hopes for lowering interest rates held the S&P 500 index (or SPDR S&P 500 ETF, SPY) under pressure, pulling the benchmark down below 5,000 for the first time since February to a sixth consecutive slide, its weakest…
Max Zolotukhin/iStock via Getty Images Having been cautious about Chinese equities pre-Lunar New Year (see ASHR: Too Early To Be A Mainland China Contrarian), more upbeat news flow out of China, particularly related to capital market stabilization and policy stimulus, has significantly altered the risk/reward. The market seems to agree, with A-shares (i.e., mainland China…
adamkaz/iStock via Getty Images Ambac Financial Group (NYSE:AMBC) is an interesting case of a turnaround insurance company. Known as the American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation decades ago, the 2008 Financial Crisis forced the company into a tight spot, as it has provided guarantee insurance on numerous bonds that went into default. For more than a…
Sundry Photography Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) has been perhaps one of the most discussed biotech companies as an investment. The company effectively was the first to cure Hepatitis C, capitalizing on an incredibly strong HIV business, before competition hurt its market position substantially. Since then, the company has become known for massive acquisitions that have struggled…
Frank Armstrong/iStock via Getty Images We previously covered Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) in October 2023, discussing its crown jewel’s promising performance, TTS, with it being the fastest-growing business, well exceeding the previous Investor Day revenue CAGR target of high single digits. While this outperformance had yet to be translated to its bottom line as it also…
Vertigo3d After a 13-year experiment with near-zero interest rates, this key driver of UK house prices has, at long last, returned to historically normal levels. This is a seismic shift for the UK housing market, and it could be the pin that finally pops the UK’s 20-year property bubble. “A 20-year bubble? Impossible!”, I hear…
BlackJack3D Introduction Cybersecurity has always been one of my major interests. That’s why I have been screening for high-quality companies in this space recently. It is a highly fragmented market, and the universe of public companies is large, offering a lot to choose from. One of the companies that I found more attractive than its…
PhonlamaiPhoto Potential has a shelf life.”― Margaret Atwood, Today, we put American Battery Technology Company (NASDAQ:ABAT) in the spotlight. The company came public late in 2020. Like most IPOs/SPACs that debuted in 2020/2021 in this space when interest rates were basically zero, the stock has destroyed a massive amount of shareholder value to date. Competitor…
champpixs Investment Overview – Sana’s Desire To Be A Pioneer In Allogeneic Cell Therapy Sana Biotechnology, Inc. (NASDAQ:SANA) completed one of the largest biotech IPO’s of all time back in February 2021, raising close to $600m via the issuance of ~23.5m shares priced at $25 per share. Prior to that, the company raised ~$700m from…
olm26250 In December of 2022, Gladstone Commercial Corporation (NASDAQ:GOOD) slashed its dividend by a whopping 20% to realign its payout with lower underlying earnings for its real estate portfolio. The real estate investment trust has paid a stable $0.10 per month dividend since, however, and the dividend remained well-covered by the trust’s funds from operations…
Klaus Vedfelt Investment action I recommended a hold rating for The Duckhorn Portfolio (NYSE:NAPA) when I wrote about it the last time, as I remained concerned about the near-term uncertainties regarding the business performance outlook and the lack of a proper CEO. Based on my current outlook and analysis of NAPA, I recommend a hold…
The extended wait for repayment has been a source of frustration for Mt. Gox creditors, and the delay has led to speculation about its potential impact on the crypto market. After a decade of uncertainty and numerous delays, creditors of the now-defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox are finally starting to receive compensation for their blocked…
A woman works on a laptop. Rockaa/E+ via Getty Images At just 26 years old, I don’t claim to be the most knowledgeable investor in the world. Heck, the investing legends have forgotten more than I even know about this business. As long as I live, though, the beauty of investing is that time and…
kynny Intro We wrote about ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) back in June of this year when we warned investors that a continuation of the established bearish trend was a clear possibility over the following months. Our premise played itself out with shares of Adtran losing almost 19% of their value over the past 6+ months….
izusek First Trust Capital Strength ETF (NASDAQ:FTCS) and capital strength as a stock market “factor” has lagged the largest S&P 500 badly this year. In fact, that multi-year underperformance is toward the upper end of its recent historical range. This may or may not be primed for immediate reversal. But it has caught my attention….
Toby Jorrin A key to any business is to make transactions that set the company up for success. For a long time, AT&T (NYSE:T) has been trapped into paying escalating prices for wireless spectrum that provided the company no real economic benefit. My investment thesis remains Bullish on the stock, as the telecom giant appears…
simonkr Intro We wrote about FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ:FONR) back in August of last year when we pointed to how the company’s significant balance sheet strength would ultimately result in share-price gains for the healthcare company. Although cash & shareholder equity numbers were growing meaningfully on Fonar’s balance sheet, shares at the time were testing underside…
Bet_Noire The Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund (NASDAQ:CSQ) is a closed-end fund aka CEF that can be employed by those investors who are seeking a high level of current income from the assets in their portfolios and are unwilling to sacrifice the upside potential of common equity in exchange for income. This is something that…
tiero VICI Properties Inc. (NYSE:VICI) investors have suffered a torrid year since VICI topped out in August 2022. Notwithstanding its position as a market-leading experiential REIT, macroeconomic factors matter, suggesting investors must consider the broader view even when assessing individual REITs. I last updated my thesis on VICI in mid-September 2023, urging investors to be…
Creditors will start receiving cash repayments from the Mt. Gox Trustee this year. These repayments are specified to be cash and may not include crypto. The defunct Japanese crypto exchange Mt. Gox is set to begin creditor repayments this year, about a decade after its collapse. Creditors of the exchange received an email on Wednesday where rehabilitation…
courtneyk We previously covered The Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) in July 2023, discussing the massive euphoria embedded in its stock valuations and prices, as the cruise line continued to raise its FY2023 profit guidance, thanks to the robust consumer demand. We had preferred to rate the stock as a Hold then, attributed to the minimal…
insjoy Tuesday’s CPI report was a huge relief for the Federal Reserve and their fight against inflation. Headline CPI came in at 3.2% and core inflation came in at 4%. Expectations were for modestly higher inflation. The details showed a broad slowdown in the positive rate of change in prices, which is another sign that…
images-twiston/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Introduction The stock of U.K.-based alcoholic beverage company Diageo plc (NYSE:DEO, OTCPK:DGEAF) fell sharply on Friday, November 10, after the company issued a trading update revising its guidance for the first half of fiscal 2024 (ending December 31, 2023) due to significantly weaker than expected performance in its Latin America…
The first time I heard about bitcoin was from my husband. He came home from work one day very excited to tell me all about this magic internet money. I was not impressed. I told him he sounded crazy and that was that, or so I thought. He brought up the conversation again maybe a…
Justin Sullivan Amid extreme market volatility especially in small and mid-cap stocks over the past month, one thing rings true: investors have to be willing to constantly update their theses as different companies respond differently to macroeconomic conditions, and as valuations change. Being a committed bull or bear is only workable as long as our…
Viktor Aheiev I have a trend of my own. – Andrei Platonov. You’re supposed to buy when no one else wants to. Let me say that again. You’re supposed to buy when no one wants to. We just went through the greatest bond market crash in history. That sounds bullish. And that’s why the iShares…
adventtr Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:MX) is a long-time holding of mine, and it is time to review where things stand. The stock has gotten massacred recently. There are legitimate reasons for bailing on this, but I’d argue there are also very good reasons to stay on board. Short-term momentum is definitely against you, as evidenced…
DarioGaona Just over six months ago, I wrote on Endeavour Silver (NYSE:EXK), noting that while it was one of the few names to beat its FY2022 guidance and Terronera being green-lighted was a positive catalyst, there was limited upside in the stock from a share price of US$3.50. This is because it was trading near…
RiverNorthPhotography Investment Thesis My price target was triggered a couple of days ago, which is prompting me to look at T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ:TROW) again to see how the company has developed since February of this year and if it is a good time to start a position or if will we see further declines….
Water running from tap into a sink. Liudmila Chernetska/iStock via Getty Images If you’re a dividend growth investor such as myself, you probably highly value reliability from your investments. This is because your bills will consistently rise with each passing year, so you expect your investment holdings to throw off growing passive income to offset…
Kagenmi The U.S. economy has surprised many with its resiliency, despite aggressive rate hikes by the Fed. Alex Gorewicz, Portfolio Manager, Active Fixed Income at TD Asset Management, looks at whether recent data may suggest signs of economic softness are emerging. Transcript Greg Bonnell: The economy is showing some signs of slowing as central banks…