Imagine a company generating $210 billion in revenues, what do you think it would be worth? To give you a clue, Alphabet produces $297 billion in revenues and is worth almost $1.8 billion. Can you take a stab now at what this other firm is worth?
There is lots of information you need to answer the question so we’ll cut to the chase and share with you that the company in question,
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To be the best sometimes you simply have to follow the best and see what they are doing. That old adage applies to trading Nvidia recently when, on the same day, both Oliver Kell, who posted a 941.1% gain to win the US trading championship a few years ago, and Mark Minervini bought it.
Mark has famously become one of the most successful traders of all time,
When you find an investment manager overseeing $1.2 billion, it warrants further investigation when they bet one fifth of their entire portfolio on a single stock. Yet that’s exactly the conviction that Impactive Capital demonstrated by betting 20.4% of their portfolio on an automotive retailer.
Amid the universe of thousands of stocks, what is it that Impactive portfolio managers saw in Asbury Automotive that motivated them to allocate $457 million of their fund to it?
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Usually cable stocks should be avoided like the plague. The trend towards cord-cutting has been unrelenting as streaming services like Netflix came to the forefront over the past decade. After all, why pay $80 per month when you can pay $10 for a range of movies on your favorite streaming platform?
But most of the well-known cable companies compete against each other in city environments and have to fend off stark competition.
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of Nvidia but perhaps the smartest stock to buy now is Alphabet (GOOGL). Across the gamut of products and services offered by Alphabet, a whole new world of revenues opens up when AI is factored in.
We delve in to explore just how large the opportunity is for Alphabet and potentially for shareholders over the next few years.
When it comes to energy stocks, some names leap off the pages. Exxon, Valero, Conoco Phillips are all well-known but what about the lesser known names, is there an opportunity to find one trading at bargain basement prices there?
We stumbled across one such firm that likely has never crossed the radars of most investors.
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Some businesses have all the hallmarks of being average. A grocery store fits squarely into that category because goods are bought at wholesale prices, sold at retail, and the margin must cover all the other costs of the business from real estate costs to labor and everything else in between.
And then there’s Costco,
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From 1982-2023, a massive bull market in share prices took place, creating enormous wealth. But the prior decade or so between 1966-1982 was quite the opposite. Indeed, investors who bought the top in 1966 would have had to wait a full 15 years before seeing their investments turn profitable.
The bull run over the past forty years has been intermittently interrupted by stock market crashes,
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Among the first lessons any great investor learns is “Don’t Fight The Fed.” Simply put, it means when the Fed is accommodative and engaging in quantitative easing, money is cheap and economies boom. Some call this the Fed Put because as markets fall, the Federal Reserve acts swiftly to provide liquid support by buying bonds.
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By many measures, the stock market is overextended now yet calls for a correction have vanished with the wind in recent weeks.
Within a few weeks, though, we expect the market will find a plateau and turnaround. If it does top as expected and start a new downtrend, one index above all others could be the top performer in 2024.
