Peak excitement is kicking in now. The market has risen in 15 of the last 17 weeks. Nvidia’s forecasts that beat the street by a couple of billion dollars led to a $250 billion surge in market capitalization. And retail traders are pouring into out-of-the-money call options in the hopes of making life-changing returns on popular stocks.
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Technical charts are littered with examples of historical comparisons. Is the most recent bullish run-up in the S&P 500 similar to the 1929 peak? Is the hype around AI similar to the buzz around the internet in 2000? Is the soaring Nvidia stock chart akin to the bull run in Cisco 24 years ago?
It’s hard to tell looking at a stock chart alone whether history will repeat or simply rhyme,
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Some stock market indicators are better than others but have you heard of one being perfect for over a century? If the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, better known as CAPE, is to be believed, then the markets could be set for a rocky road this year.
Unlike traditional PE ratios, the CAPE figure factors in inflation and smooths the peaks and troughs of unforeseen or surprising events –
Lantheus Holdings isn’t a healthcare firm that springs to the top of investors’ minds as say a United Healthcare might but it’s attracted the interest of one money manager who oversees almost $20 billion, Farallon Capital Management.
What is it that this astute asset manager sees in this off-the-radar firm which has sold off big time in the past 3 months?
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Most people think of index funds as boring but that’s because the majority don’t have a good understanding of how these funds actually work. To simplify it, consider the following analogy.
Imagine you’re betting at a horse race but you don’t know which horse will win so you’re permitted to bet on all the horses and whoever wins you win.
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You would probably assume that Apple’s rise to become a $3 trillion market capitalization company cements its holding on the title of the best performing stock over the past quarter century. If not Steve Jobs’s firm, surely Microsoft holds the top spot as the largest company by valuation in the S&P 500 today?
It turns out neither company has the title,
In the investing world, Jim Cramer grabs a lot of headlines, but other less well-known names arguably deserve substantially more attention. Oliver Kell is one such name. He’s got the distinguished title of US Champion Trader with a 941.1% return in 2020.
He’s also got quite a knack for finding the hottest stocks in the market,
When a market leader does an about turn, it’s time to pay really close attention to the sentiment changing in the market.
On Friday, February 16th that’s precisely what happened with SMCI, a market leader that had run up from $55 per share in September 2022 to over $1,000 per share by February 2024.
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When we first spotlighted Verizon, it had a yield that approached 8% but after its recent move higher, it still offers a handsome yield of over 6.4%.
That’s more than enough to turn a $15,000 investment into an annual payout of $1,000+, assuming the dividend stays in place, but will it?
Here’s what you need to know about Verizon and its potential to pay a steady income stream for the foreseeable future.
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With an $863 billion market capitalization, Berkshire Hathaway is not the largest company in the world, not by a long shot. That title goes to Microsoft with Apple a close second. Both tech giants are about 3x larger than Buffett’s firm but what the Oracle of Omaha has built is the largest company by revenues.
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