Back in 1850 when American Express was originally founded, it was a mere express mail service. Today, it’s one of the most prominent financial services companies globally and has won Warren Buffett’s favor as a long-term investor.
That’s in large part due to its stunning business model that features four major categories: U.S.
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In a move that has piqued the interest of many investors, Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, recently purchased call options on Broadcom.
Her stake, valued at somewhere between $1 million and $5 million, is a significant vote of confidence from a well-connected political figure. It also raises the question,
Nancy Pelosi is among the highest earners in Congress with a salary of $223,000 yet her stock portfolio has grabbed the attention of watchers for its performance relative to the market and size.
Her portfolio has some grown to an astonishing $223 million. In the words of one X user, what started as a mockery,
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Riddle me this. If a stock is so awful why does the CEO keep buying so much of it? That’s precisely the situation with SoFi. The share price is down an astonishing 33% year-to-date and yet the boss keeps acquiring stock at a furious pace, and Motley Fool just ranked it one of the safest banks in America.
Happy July 4th to our American readers.
PayPal has faced its fair share of difficulties but with the S&P 500 setting new all-time highs, this beaten down market leader may be on the cusp of returning to former glories.
While PayPal rode the wave of an upsurge during the pandemic lockdowns that drove contactless ordering,
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Spruce Point Capital has earned a reputation for highlighting companies with high downside risks that are potential shorts. Remarkably, they have spotted a highly bearish opportunity in Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway portfolio.
Their attention has honed in on Floor & Decor, which Spruce Point believes has expanded too aggressively and is now entering markets with lower median incomes that will not sustain current margins.
The market is much like a pendulum, swinging back and forth, or more precisely up and down. With each dip, it finds the energy to power higher to break new highs. Until the buyers are exhausted that is, and then a correction follows.
Usually, it climbs up steps, slowly and methodically, but falls down the elevator shaft.
Weirdly enough, Roku started out as a project within Netflix, when the streaming giant decided it didn’t want to compete with Apple and Amazon in the TV hardware market.
Since then Roku has gone on to become a leading player in the connected TV market, featuring sports, live news, movies and a vast array of content.
C3.AI was among the first stocks to bring the idea of artificial intelligence to the forefront of investors’ minds. But it was weighed down by short sellers pointing their arrows at it with claims that have since been contested and refuted.
Today, the company is looking to put those gloomy days in the rearview mirror and anticipates faster growth thanks to its pivoted revenue model,
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Buffett seems to know something about where energy prices are going, but what is it? Why is he taking such a large stake in Occidental Petroleum when the share price has been drastically underperforming the broader-based market?
Up just 9.4% in the past 12 months and 4.3% so far this year, OXY is a laggard relative to the S&P 500,
