It’s easy to get lost in the financial weeds. What should you focus on? Growing revenues, technical breakdowns, sentiment extremes? The list is endless and every day the noise amplifies. Before you know it, you’ll be paying attention to excess inventories at retailers and trying to correlate it to seasonal sales cycles. But how does all that help you make money?
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Some stocks are just plain old boring. In bullish markets, you can gloss past them for better opportunities. But in bear markets, they can save your portfolio. One such company is Procter & Gamble.
Less than a year ago it was trading at over $160 per share. Since its 52-week high was reached,
Several significant headwinds are affecting Align Technology (ALGN), none of which the global medical device company has control over. As a result, the company’s stock has been punished this past year, plummeting over 68% — but it won’t be cheap forever.
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With retirement portfolios losing almost $1 in every $4 invested this year, investor sentiment is clearly bearish. Losing almost a quarter of your invested portfolio is bad, but that’s assuming you had it invested in the S&P 500.
For those who speculated on high growth names like Affirm, Upstart, and SoFi, the bear market has acted like a grim reaper to their holdings.
It’s been a brutal year for RH, better known to most as Restoration Hardware, a stock Buffett holds in his Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. The bear market has wiped out more than half of its value this year. At last count, it was down 53%.
Even the best stocks get taken out to the woodshed and chopped in a bear market.
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The day after releasing its fiscal 2023 second-quarter earnings report, DocuSign (DOCU) stock rose over 10%. Investors liked what they saw as the cloud-based e-signature leader beat Wall Street’s expectations, but there are still some major red flags.
Is now the time to buy into this leading e-signature company?
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Planet.com (PL) was one of the few stocks that defied the market trend last month by soaring over 30% in the few days after earnings alone.
The company, which operates a network of satellites to take pictures and provide data about the Earth, released its financial results for its fiscal second quarter.
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Some financial commentators deserve your attention more than others. As CNBC and Bloomberg need to trot out wealth advisors and research analysts every hour to fill up air time, it’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Stanley Druckenmiller is one of the rare voices worth listening to every time he speaks. And what he said is nothing short of frightening for the average investor.
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Is crypto dead? This question has been on the minds of many investors in recent months, with the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, down over 50% in the last year and the entire market losing $2 trillion in value.
With cryptocurrency being one of the most polarizing topics in economics today, there are countless opinions on whether this crash signals the end of crypto or it is a market correction that was inevitable before the next bull market comes running.
Yesterday the market fell as the Fed hiked rates, and more importantly signaled that it would continue to do so for longer than originally expected. But you might be surprised to discover this market reaction was highly unusual for 2022.
We’ll get back to the market in a moment but first, a quick throwback.