Have you ever wondered how much short-term versus long-term taxes actually affect your net worth and portfolio over time?
Let’s imagine a $100,000 portfolio goes up 20% annually and is taxed at the end of the year at 33% due to short-term capital gains. What would the portfolio grow to after 10 years?
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Celsius Holdings (NASDAQ:CELH) is the maker of a line of energy drinks that has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years.
Once virtually unknown, Celsius has used social media marketing and celebrity influencer deals to rapidly build its brand awareness.
Although the product itself has been quite successful, the stock’s performance hasn’t matched it.
After poring over Lattice’s Q3 filings it’s looking increasingly likely that the Street is missing the forest for the trees with Lattice. Yes, the headline numbers were brutal – revenue down 33.9% y/y to $127.1M. But beneath the cyclical noise, Lattice is methodically building what could become the dominant franchise in edge AI computing.
Having covered semis since the early 2000s,
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Microstrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) and its CEO Michael Saylor are in large part confounding valuation experts worldwide.
The traditional method of valuing a company goes something like this. Analyze the cash flows a company will produce over its lifetime, discount them back to present day, sum them up and arrive at a fair market valuation for the company.
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Berkshire Hathaway Class A (NYSE:BRK.A) shares are far and away the most expensive shares in the American stock market. Each Class A share of Warren Buffett’s conglomerate currently trades at over $705,000.
By now, the vast majority of companies would’ve gone through many stock splits to keep their shares affordably priced for retail investors.
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For nearly two years, the stock market has been steadily bidding up companies like NVIDIA and Microsoft that have emerged as front-runners in the AI race. In addition to these mega-cap companies, though, there are also many smaller companies trying to fill niche spaces in the AI market.
One such company is Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS),
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Billionaire Stan Druckenmiller was once asked how he thinks about performance and his answer was quite insightful. Most traders might say something like “I aim to make 15% a year” or some other specific figure, but Stan’s answer was I like to “compare myself to the opportunity set” and beat it, meaning whatever the market is doing he likes to ensure he’s generating higher returns,
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2024 has been a surprising year for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. The company became the first American business outside of the tech sector to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, and an unusually buoyant stock market has caused many of its holdings to gain substantially in value.
Despite these successes, Buffett personally appears to be turning bearish.
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Warren Buffett’s portfolio at Berkshire Hathaway has been an excellent source of ideas for generations of investors. Even though the Oracle of Omaha is pulling back to cash heavily this year, there are still some fantastic stocks being held at Berkshire that appear undervalued and bear watching.
Here are three of the best Buffett stocks to look into if you have a few thousand dollars to put to work in today’s market.
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Headlines swirled in recent days that Mark Zuckerberg was meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Some speculated Zuckerberg was going to “bend the knee” while others thought he was looking for an active role in the new administration.
What we haven’t seen anyone discuss yet is whatever conversation did take place in that room appears to have been received well by markets because Meta now seems to be breaking higher.
