avid_creative Investment Overview Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) will announce its Q1 2024 earnings next Thursday, April 25. Analysts’ consensus opinion is that earnings per share will be in the region of $1.99 on a normalized basis, or $1.87 on a GAAP basis, on revenues of ~$15.2bn. Big pharma is generally regarded as a strong…
Sundry Photography Investment thesis My previous bearish thesis about Enphase Energy (NASDAQ:ENPH) aged well as the stock price declined by 4% over the last three months, substantially underperforming behind the broader U.S. market. A lot of developments happened since early January and today I want to share my view on them. My analysis of recent…
tupungato Tapestry, Inc. (NYSE:TPR) has captured a new wave of operating and financial momentum, quietly pushing shares to a near 3-year high. The company’s latest quarterly report beat expectations, highlighted by expanding margins, turning the page on a challenging last couple of years between the pandemic disruptions and the more recent wave of inflationary cost…
Shutter2U Investment thesis BYD Company Limited (BYD) is the largest manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs) in the world with annual sales exceeding 3.0 million vehicles. The global electric vehicle market is in the midst of a price war, especially among various Chinese manufacturers, which has led to a decrease in the stock price of BYD….
JulPo Dear readers/followers, I added to my position in Intrum in 2023 as the share price declined, using a combination of common share buys and cash-secured Puts. I stopped adding during the end of November in 2023 when my position reached the absolute justifiable maximum for any position. Normally, when a company does a 30%+…
chekyfoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Dear readers/followers, Iberdrola (OTCPK:IBDSF) has been an investment of mine for over a year. It’s a business that’s an attractive EU-based utility, though not as attractive currently as some other businesses, including the European utility Enel (OTCPK:ENLAY). The two utilities, together with Fortum (OTCPK:FOJCF), have been my “bets” on this…
show999 Investing in gas is still very much possible and one of the better options right now is The Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE:WMB) a massive enterprise valued at over $42 billion. In most recent news the company managed to win a lawsuit of $495 million about a failed Energy Transfer deal. This is a short-term…
samafoto/iStock via Getty Images “The flood of cash into money market funds over the past eight and a half months–a trend concentrated mainly in the U.S.–puts vehicles on course for record inflows of $1.5 trillion by the end of this year….” “…the persistent flood of cash into such funds, which typically hold very low-risk assets…
Reimphoto Dear readers/followers, It’s fairly clear to me that Scandinavian banking overall has fallen a bit under the radar, and is offering 7-9% yields with very high margins of safety that either people aren’t all that aware of, or that they actively choose to ignore or not invest in. I view such a choice as…