Thomas Barwick People love to let their imagination run wild, and no sector allows for visualizing a fantastical future like Technology. Flying cars and robots cleaning my bathroom? Sign me up. We all know it’s never that simple, but for those who believe longer-term in disruptive technologies that can enable those futures, there are funds…
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…
Oddity Tech Ltd. (NASDAQ:ODD) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript May 8, 2024 8:30 AM ET Company Participants Maria Lycouris – IROran Holtzman – Co-Founder and CEOLindsay Drucker Mann – Global CFO Conference Call Participants Dara Mohsenian – Morgan StanleyAndrew Boone – JMP SecuritiesYoussef Squali – Truist SecuritiesJavier Escalante – EvercoreLauren Lieberman – Barclays Operator Good…
amgun When you trade, you need to have a plan Last week, I suggested to readers that the market was likely to sell off leading into the FOMC announcement on Wednesday Buy The Sell-Off Into The FOMC Meeting, Stay With Tech. So now I expect my readers to wonder what happens next. This coming week’s…
Andy Roberts First and foremost, we define technology (TECH) exposure as the combination of the Communication Services and Information Technology GICS sectors. Tech spans multiple customer segments (consumer vs. enterprise), business models (advertising, subscriptions, hardware, chips, etc.), and end-markets. For example, a large internet company monetizing consumer attention via advertising will look and behave a…
Brett_Hondow/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Introduction In “Big Tech’s Big Breakdown, The Technical Setup Ahead Of Earnings,” I wrote the following about Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN): Along with Meta and Google, Amazon has been one of our largest holdings at TQI since its inception in late 2022. After being undervalued throughout 2022-23, Amazon’s stock has finally…
This article was written by Follow Michael A. Gayed is portfolio manager, and author of five award-winning research papers on market anomalies and investing. He has a BS with a double major in Finance & Management from NYU Stern School of Business, and is a CFA Charterholder. Michael runs the investing group The Lead-Lag Report,…
LD Magnificent 7, is now the Super 6, and on the way to the Fantastic 5, then there were 4 We’ve had a sideways price action for the S&P 500 for months, and the first few weeks of April we slid into a mini-correction. More specifically, according to Gabriella Santos, JPM Asset Management CIO, on…
canakat JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI) and JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) are two popular, high-yield monthly pay, diversified ETFs that have become very popular with income investors, as evidenced by their rapidly rising assets under management since launching just a few years ago: Data by YCharts In this article, we will…
yodiyim/iStock via Getty Images The stock market has been acting strange for the last 2-3 weeks The truth is, the market has been acting strange for longer than that. We have seen the volatility index trading under 15 for weeks, yet in the last 2 weeks, we are in a range from 16 to almost…
Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images Covered call strategies have been all the rage in the ETF world as traders and investors look to juice up income with options overlay. One of the more interesting funds doing this is the REX FANG & Innovation Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:FEPI). FEPI is an innovative investment product that…
We Are One of the things that worries me is concentration risk. It’s been a growth world for some time now, with Technology being the outsized winner from a momentum perspective. The result of this tech dominance on growth-oriented portfolios is concentration risk, with funds like the Russell 1000 Growth Index having a whopping 44%…
flavijus/iStock Editorial via Getty Images The Big Tech story Before discussing the reasons why the Big Tech could be fundamentally vulnerable, it’s important to understand the Big Tech story. First of all, the Big Tech companies are the tech giants on forefront of innovation: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Nvidia (NVDA), Amazon (AMZN), Meta (META) and…
Sundry Photography It’s interesting how market cycles play out. 25 years ago, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) was arguably the hottest stock in the world. At one point, it briefly obtained the title of being America’s largest market cap company with its valuation touching $500 billion at the peak. At the time, investors were betting on a…
Hiraman Are we in a new demand cycle for tech hardware as the COVID-era PC- and smartphone-purchase boom hits the first leg of its replacement cycle? And will AI-enabling devices act as a tailwind? If so, how can investors benefit? Those are the questions we sought to answer earlier this year when five of our…
seb_ra Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ:ZM) initially soared after its earnings report in February, as the company posted solid results as well as authorizing a significant share repurchase program. While management appears to be still looking for M&A opportunities, the share repurchase program may have been viewed as a real catalyst for the undervalued tech stock….
Get ahead of the market by subscribing to Seeking Alpha’s Stocks to Watch, a preview of key events scheduled for the coming week. The newsletter keeps you informed of the biggest stories set to make headlines, including upcoming IPOs, investor days, earnings reports and conference presentations. The release of the U.S. inflation report for March…
Khanchit Khirisutchalual Tech stocks have helped power indices higher in the past several months, with the mega-caps continuing to dominate until recently. One area of the tech arena that’s not performed as well in the past couple of months is software, which has faced a long consolidation after a big run. One fund that purportedly…
2d illustrations and photos Four IPOs priced this past week, joined by one SPAC. After upping its terms at the start of the week, chipmaker Astera Labs (ALAB) priced above the raised range to raise $713 million at a $6.3 billion market cap. Astera offers its Intelligent Connectivity Platform, which comprises semiconductor-based connectivity products and…
BlackJack3D/E+ via Getty Images What Is The Blackrock Science And Technology Trust? The BlackRock Science and Technology Trust (NYSE:BST) is an equity closed-end fund that invests in the technology sector. The fund has performed well since its inception in 2014, beating a variety of equity benchmarks along the way. Managed by BlackRock, the world’s largest…
ESS Tech, Inc. (NYSE:GWH) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call March 13, 2024 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Erik Bylin – Head, IR Eric Dresselhuys – CEO Tony Rabb – CFO Conference Call Participants Thomas Boyes – TD Cowen George Gianarikas – Canaccord Colin Rusch – Oppenheimer Corinne Blanchard – Deutsche Bank Brian Dobson – Chardan…
Bet_Noire Above: The FY saw sharp increases in revenue, AEBITDA across every one of the verticals in the LNW portfolio. The trail from Scientific Games to Light & Wonder We go way back with Light & Wonder, Inc. (NASDAQ:LNW) stock, though we have not covered it since 2022 (Hold rating) because of its lapse into…
MarsBars Gold mining stocks represented by VanEck Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX) and VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) have been in the doghouse recently, down nearly 20% over the past two months alone: Data by YCharts The main headwinds for the sector seem to be: A growing consensus of higher-for-longer interest rates, which will likely…
Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images I’ve talked about my relative bullishness on value over growth this year, and admittedly, I’ve been wrong so far given ongoing Technology momentum. While I think growth-style investing is (beyond) extended in my opinion, strength certainly can continue and the irrational can get more rational. If that’s where we’re ultimately…
Marathon Digital Holdings, the largest publicly traded bitcoin miner by market capitalization, has launched Slipstream, a service for individuals to easily submit complex and non-standard transactions to the Bitcoin network. Slipstream is the first instance of a public bitcoin mining company facilitating direct transaction submission services, made possible by the fact that Marathon operates its…
United Airlines Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:UAL) 2024 Citi’s Global Industrial Tech & Mobility Conference Call February 20, 2024 11:20 AM ET Company Participants Mike Leskinen – Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Stephen Trent – Citi Stephen Trent Good morning, everybody and thank you very much for attending Citi’s Industrials Conference. I’m…
Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE:EMR) Citi’s 2024 Global Industrial Tech and Mobility Conference February 20, 2024 9:40 AM ET Company Participants Lal Karsanbhai – President and CEO Mike Baughman – EVP and CFO Colleen Mettler – VP of Investor Relations Conference Call Participants Andy Kaplowitz – Citigroup Andy Kaplowitz All right. We’re going to get started…
Honeywell International Inc. (NASDAQ:HON) Citi’s 2024 Global Industrial Tech and Mobility Conference February 20, 2024 8:00 AM ET Company Participants Vimal Kapur – CEO Conference Call Participants Andrew Kaplowitz – Citi Andrew Kaplowitz We’re going to get started. Again, appreciate everyone joining us. For those of you who weren’t at our first meeting, early risers,…
BackyardProduction If you are becoming nervous about recent U.S. equity market gains, especially in the Big Tech names rising to clear overvaluation levels, a great place to preserve wealth may be the 5% yielding SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF (NYSEARCA:BIL). This trust product owns a diversified list of Treasury Bill investments, rolled over into…
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images Nvidia Corporation (NYSE:NVDA) reports earnings on 2/21/2024 during or after market hours. Consensus analyst estimates are for $4.56 in normalized EPS and $4.19 in GAAP EPS. Analysts expect revenue to come in at $20.33 billion. The stock has been roaring to the point that it is all everyone…
Ralf Hahn Did Meta and Amazon Just Save Earnings Season? Big tech earnings kicked off earnings season last week and not all of the results were so magnificent. Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) got things started on Tuesday, and while both surpassed top and bottom-line expectations, it wasn’t enough for investors. Weak advertising revenues…
Justin Sullivan Thesis In my previous article about Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), I assessed Apple and elucidated why we should disregard the move by Chinese authorities to ban Apple devices for employees of state-owned enterprises. At that time, the fair value stood at $224 with a projected future price of $308.9. In this article, I will…
A senior official in Narendra Modi’s government has warned that social media companies will be held accountable for AI-generated “deepfakes” posted on their platforms in compliance with “very clear and explicit rules” as India prepares for a general election this year. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of state for electronics and IT, said that India had “woken…
gremlin Tech stocks continue to lift the market. There’s no revelation with that statement. But the advance over the past three months is remarkable in that the growth-focused sector has now outpaced all other S&P 500 sectors from the lows notched last October. Tech’s weighting in the SPX has soared to new heights (since 2000),…
JHVEPhoto In 1997, a New York City chess match changed the world. The opponents: World chess champion Garry Kasparov and International Business Machines Corporation’s (NYSE:IBM) Deep Blue computer program. Deep Blue squeaked out a win against Kasparov as the world watched, symbolically ending the age of man and beginning the age of machine. IBM stock…
Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images Assuming the Fed is done hiking rates, 2024 may end up being the year of dividend investing. If that’s the case, and you’re still bullish on Technology, the ProShares S&P Technology Dividend Aristocrats ETF (BATS:TDV) may be the fund for you. TDV offers exposure to a select group of technology-related…
da-kuk Can the leading software stocks survive a tech wreck in 2024? That’s the question I asked myself in reviewing iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (BATS:IGV), which is one ETF on a slimmed-down watchlist of 100 ETFs I now focus most of my work on. In recently cutting my watchlist in half, one of the…
ridvan_celik Summary Searching for tech funds that offer some hedge vs volatility I came across the BlackRock Science and Technology Trust CEF (NYSE:BST). This is an actively managed fund that uses covered call option writing to enhance performance while at the same time providing monthly fixed distribution. The main fear I had was that this…
With funding courtesy of ENV in place, Defibox and Noahark will be able to take these features to the next level. EOS Network Ventures (ENV), the primary steward of the EOS network, has announced a major grant to accelerate DeFi adoption. $2.4 million has been invested by ENV into NoahArk Tech Group to allow decentralized…
Marathon Digital’s spectacular performance aligns with the broader boom in the Bitcoin mining sector. In an astonishing turn of events, Bitcoin (BTC) mining stocks experienced an unparalleled jump in trading volumes this week, outperforming some of the world’s greatest tech giants. Marathon Digital Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: MARA) and Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: RIOT), two major…
MicroStockHub Almost as if a switch was pressed, the NASDAQ Composite (COMP.IND) – which encapsulates almost all Nasdaq-listed stocks – collapsed 1.63% on the first day of trading from the highs of 2023. This was the 4th-worst start to a new year since 1972 and only the 5th time that a year started with a…
bluebay2014 The ProShares UltraShort QQQ ETF (NYSEARCA:QID) has been a horrible investment over the last five years, the antithesis of owning Big Tech names through the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ). This product is the inverse design of holding the NASDAQ 100 stocks, basically shorting them with 2x leverage. How bad a ride for buy-and-hold investors…
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Wall Street stocks have begun the year with a technology-led hangover after the rally that ended 2023 turned cautious, sending tech stocks to their worst day in more than two months. The Nasdaq Composite closed…
shulz Introduction Tetra Tech (NASDAQ:TTEK) is an international consultancy company founded in 1966 and listed in 1990. The company provides solutions to complex sustainability, environmental, and infrastructure challenges, and it works with clients across industries including government, industrial, mining, energy, and more. I believe Tetra Tech is a great company to own for the longer…
Araya Doheny Logitech International (NASDAQ:LOGI) is a Lausanne, Switzerland-based multinational manufacturer of computer peripherals and software. The company produces retain technology products including, mice, microphones, keyboards, webcams, etc. Logitech Q2’24 Presentation Through these activities, Logitech reported Q2’24- which is Logitech’s equivalent of the trailing quarter- net sales of $1.057bn- a 9% YoY decline, alongside a…
da-kuk It was a stellar year for tech stocks. The Information Technology sector rose 55% in 2023. Along with the Communication Services and Consumer Discretionary sectors, there were just three S&P 500 areas that beat the overall index. Traditional bank stocks lagged, perhaps underscored by the March 2023 regional banking crisis. Interestingly, intermediate-term Treasury notes…
asbe Introduction If there’s one thing I have highlighted in recent articles, it’s my increased focus on value stocks, given that the stock market valuation hints at subdued long-term total returns. Generally speaking, this favors stocks with low valuations and/or decent yields, as we can expect a bigger part of future total returns to come…
Ivan Bajic Impressive Qualities The stock of the direct-to-consumer (DTC) beauty and wellness firm- Oddity Tech Limited (NASDAQ:ODD), hasn’t made a great deal of money for its shareholders since its listing in July this year, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that this is a bog-standard business; far from it. YCharts In fact, if you’re looking…
YinYang An Alternate Option It’s no secret a large majority of the market includes large cap, tech, and growth stocks. I personally believe these companies are overvalued and am in search of better deals. One of my favorite plays for 2024 is factor-based investing in small cap value stocks and ETFs. A great play for…