Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images The strong rally on the stock markets since 2023 has also led to a solid stabilization of share prices for many former high-flyers. Normalized expectations met with an increasing risk appetite among investors. This was not the case with Teladoc (NYSE:TDOC): the share was unable to benefit from this in…
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…
jetcityimage Walgreens (NASDAQ:WBA) is set to report their fiscal Q2 ’24 financial results before the opening bell tomorrow morning, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Analyst consensus is expecting $38.9 billion in revenue, $672 million in operating income and $0.82 in EPS, resulting in +3%, -45% and -29% yoy growth for the three metrics, respectively. Rather than…
PM Images Heritage Global (NASDAQ:HGBL) is a distressed assets broker in physical and financial assets. I wrote about the company one year ago, with a Hold rating. At the time, I considered the stock price already discounted most positive developments and that the market was prone to disappointments, as one-time earnings from asset sales would…
Justin Sullivan Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a great company, held in almost every portfolio, including Warren Buffett’s, but it is underperforming the S&P 500 Index (SP500), and that is a problem for portfolio managers who want to beat the Index. AAPL is overvalued and priced to perfection because it is still considered a growth company…
Tinnakorn Jorruang Soft-landing has been promoted as a solution to the economy’s ills. Let me ask a simple question. Which ones does it solve? Dueling mandates There is nothing in the history of soft-landings that would make any of us think that the soft-landing strategy is a rabbit being pulled out of the hat to…
Mongkol Onnuan/iStock via Getty Images VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF (NYSEARCA:PFXF) is a fund designed to give investors a diverse pool of preferred stock in various companies and sectors. Preferred shares typically have appeal as a higher-yielding income source than bonds or common stocks, while also enjoying the tax treatment of dividends instead of…
vkyryl Summary From the beginning of 2021 to its peak in early 2022, BSR’s unit price nearly doubled. Shortly following its peak at almost $22 per unit, the market darling has come on hard times. BSR’s units have roughly halved from their peak, are down ~17% over the past year, and barely participated in the…
Bitcoin miners provide a valuable service to the ecosystem. In exchange for the work they do securing the network, they are rewarded by the same network they protect. This sound and elegant design by Satoshi is surely one of the most remarkable aspects of Bitcoin. What is increasingly being forgotten, however, is that there is…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News With short-dated treasury yields standing at around 5%, the case for high yielding and slow growth consumer staple businesses has waned. That is why it is hardly a surprise that even a high quality business, such as Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) has a solid Hold rating. Seeking Alpha The current period…
Nathan Howard Tesla, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) weak performance in Q3 indicates that the company is no longer a no-brainer investment in the current environment, which is full of macroeconomic and geopolitical risks that have already begun to negatively affect the company’s business in different markets. Even though Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk tried to soften the blow…
thitivong The market has been kind to shipping company ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. (NYSE:ZIM) this year as its stock price has plunged from a 52 week high of $29.38 all the way down to $9.17 as of yesterday’s close. The shipping company lowered its expectations for 2023 adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter, implying…
KanawatTH After Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) disappointed multiple times with its delivery achievements in FY 2023 and dropped its EV prices by a considerable percentage, the electric vehicle company on October 5, 2023, announced that it was producing a lower-cost version of the Lucid Air, Lucid’s first-ever production car and flagship electric vehicle model. The announcement…
Introduction The Byzantine Generals Problem is a game theory problem that reveals the challenges of achieving consensus among a group of mutually suspicious entities using unreliable communication channels. Game theory refers to the best strategy adopted by independent and competing actors in decision-making. This article explores the concept of the Byzantine Generals Problem, its foundation,…
Serjio74 AIA Group (OTCPK:AAGIY) is a comprehensive L&H insurance pick from Hong Kong. The economics are good, with a lot of premium renewals, on top of new business. While the operations look good, the investment backend is where we have worries. A lot of it is in Chinese securities. AIA itself is listed in Hong…
vadimguzhva/iStock via Getty Images Shares of Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) have been a poor performer over the past year as the company’s shift to prioritizing its own brands has gone poorly, costing it market share and causing margins to contract. Shares fell another 7% on Tuesday as S&P downgraded AAP into “junk territory,” which may…
ogichobanov/iStock via Getty Images EMX Royalty (NYSE:EMX) is a precious metals R&S company with an attractive valuation compared to the industry standards, a large asset portfolio, one of the biggest in the industry, and good growth prospects. However, over the last 20 months, its share price has been negatively affected by a dispute with Zijin…
FinkAvenue/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Identifying attractive investment opportunities, without simply going for high momentum stocks and hoping that their high sales growth would be even better next year, involves a contrarian approach. That was the case with Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), which just three years ago was the ugly duckling of the cloud sector that…
Morsa Images Trulieve’s (OTCQX:TCNNF) stock saw an impressive 311% gain between its IPO and its 2021 peak. However, since then, it has lost over 90% of its value. This decline sparked my curiosity, prompting me to delve deeper into the stock to determine the potential for a turnaround. While I don’t dismiss the possibility of…
DNY59 Investment Overview It’s been nearly three years since I last covered Exelixis (NASDAQ:EXEL) for Seeking Alpha, and in that time, the share price has moved just 9% – in a downward direction. There have been peaks and troughs, but overall, the stock has not exceeded highs of $27 per share, and not sunk lower…
SHIB, BONE, and LEASH tokens have all crashed over the past 24 hours because of a problem that allegedly resulted in lost Shibarium tokens. Tokens in the Shib universe have plunged to different levels following a problem with bridging on the recently-launched Shibarium. Members of the community holding these tokens were left disappointed as many…
This is an opinion editorial by Daniel Hinton, the head of finance and operations for sFOX, a bitcoin prime broker and custodian, and Steve Jeffress, creator of Bitcoin UTXO set visualizer UTXO.live. We now know how to infer the daily price of bitcoin within 1% by looking only at the unspent transaction output (UTXO) set….
This is an opinion editorial by Sydney Bright, a software developer with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. Bitcoin is not merely a medium of exchange. That is not to say that bitcoin is not money. Bitcoin is undoubtedly money. However, to think it is merely a technological innovation that transcends the archaic systems of…