There are good reasons to be skeptical about buying retailers these days. Theft is so rampant in certain cities that flagship stores are closing down. Inflation is a hidden tax on consumers hurting their pocketbooks. High interest rates are translating to even higher credit card interest rates, further hurting consumers’ wallets. Amid all the concerns,
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Barely a couple of weeks ago, the tenor of the markets changed. Cathie Wood, the poster girl for high growth stocks, reported massive gains among her portfolio of stocks.
In a single week, Nurix Therapeutics gained 16%, Pinterest rose by 19%, Verve Therapeutics flew higher by 18%, Ceres was up 15%, Shopify soared by 22% and Palantir was up 20%.
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It’s no secret that Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has a soft spot for dividend paying stocks. Perhaps more surprisingly is that Buffett keeps a $157 billion cash hoard on the Berkshire balance sheet and refuses to pay a dividend to his own shareholders.
The reasoning is simple, Buffett thinks he and Berkshire can earn a better return on that cash than shareholders can.
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Sometimes a deal just falls in your lap and that might well be the case now with Match Group. The online dating giant houses many, perhaps even most, of the dating apps you have heard of, from Tinder to Hinge.
Sadly for shareholders, the stock has had a downright awful year, plunging 26% year-to-date after a poorly received earnings report a few days ago.
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IPG Photonics has carved out a niche in the laser technology industry and today stands head and shoulders above its peers, not least because of its extensive patent portfolio, featuring over 1,700 patents. Combined, these create an intellectual property fortress that not only protects the firm’s innovations but also presents a barrier to entry for competitors.
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Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has a track record that speaks for itself. Over the years, his investment decisions have consistently outperformed the broader market by an average factor of 2x annually since he took the helm.
Following its recent earnings report, a standout feature of Berkshire Hathaway now is its substantial cash pile.
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If you have been keeping a close eye on markets and recent earnings reports, one figure that might cause you to scratch your head is Berkshire Hathaway’s enormous $157.1 billion cash pile. Why is Buffett holding so much cash?
One theory is that something ominous lies ahead for the economy and markets more generally.
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Last week, Cathie Wood of ARK Invest had perhaps one of the greatest weeks of her entire investing career. Famous for buying up growth stocks with potentially disruptive innovations, Cathie reported a week that any trader would envy.
Below we highlight eleven charts that reflect just how incredible the performance of her portfolios were,
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Some things are just hard to explain away, like why a stock will dramatically outperform at certain times of the year. But that’s exactly the case for Performance Food Group, a company very few investors have even heard of let alone invested in.
Performance Food Group is a standout candidate over the next couple of months for investors who are willing to bet on the increasingly embraced idea of seasonality.
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Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has been in business for 20 years but it’s only recently that it’s accomplished one of its most impressive feats to-date, tripling the number of users of its artificial intelligence platform in a single quarter.
That spike in demand translated to a spectacular Q3 that blew away Wall Street’s expectations.
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