Investors will often pour through dozens or even hundreds of stocks looking for the best investment options to add to their portfolios. Before doing this, however, it’s important to first understand what a good stock is.
Let’s take a look at some of the factors that define a good investment to understand what makes a potentially lucrative stock.
Today, music streaming accounts for 84% of music industry revenue, and the sector is still growing. Revenue is expected to reach $30 billion by 2025, and the popular audio-streaming Europe-based platform Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) is leading the way.
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A few months ago, we wrote an article titled Is This Stock Set To Blast Off in which we featured Planet Labs, trading at under $2 per share at the time.
Since then, the stock is up by over 50% on a slew of positive news including a new 7-figure deal with NATO.
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An old Buffett adage goes something like this “we don’t have to be smarter than others, we have to be more disciplined” and what’s true for the investing world goes for the trading world too.
In that realm, champion traders have to watch stocks like a hawk. Waiting for the precise moment for breakouts to occur and then pouncing on them when they do.
If you’re on the sideline wondering where bitcoin will go, we’re about to demystify it.
Warren Buffett famously described bitcoin as “rat poison squared” and a major reason for that view was the cryptocurrency’s failure to produce cash flows, or anything else really.
Buffett was viewing bitcoin more like an asset than something more elementary,
A lot is made of Buffett’s approach to investing but it can be simplified to a level even a 12-year old understands.
While it’s easy for sophisticated investors to get caught up in the weeds of price-to-earnings multiples, competitive advantages, book values, and balance sheets, there is arguably a much simpler approach Buffett has taken to investing that can be applied by just about any investor willing to spend a little time musing on the topic.
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Stocks have pulled back in the past month, as interest rates and inflation continue to dog the market. The AI excitement that gripped investors earlier in the year has abated somewhat, leading to recent pullbacks in stocks like Nvidia and Microsoft.
Apple has struggled to make an impact with investors because the company has lagged behind its competitors in launching AI-powered products.
Buffett says he doesn’t time the market but when you look at his past moves, it’s clear that the old sage uses metrics that happen to coincide well with smart market timing.
Take his purchases at the bottom of the market in 2008-09 when he deployed almost 50% of his cash pile within the space of just a few weeks in October 2008.
A battle between a great trader and a prominent money manager has taken place in recent years. Mark Minervini, 2x US trading champion, has taken shots at billion dollar money manager, Cathie Wood of ARK Invest.
His primary critique appears to be based in a rule that he has observed over time. A stock that has fallen 80% can decline by another 50%.
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On August 1st, Intel released its Q2 earnings report, much to the chagrin of longtime shareholders.
In the release, the company reported a 1% year-over-year revenue drop alongside a quarterly net loss of $1.6 billion. Much more concerning was the company’s plan for a cost reduction campaign that involved layoffs, reduced capital expenditures and a suspension of the company’s quarterly dividend.
