Recession concerns have been kept at bay by a handful of economic sectors, including pharmaceuticals, food, and big-box retail. These economic areas are grouped into the S&P Consumer Staples Index. Until recently, the Consumer Staples Index was one of just three sectors in the S&P 500 that hadn’t suffered in 2022. Now that Target and Walmart have released warnings about earning expectations,
Some stocks were darlings in 2020-21, only to become pariahs in 2022. Look no further than Peloton to see an example of how high a company can fly and how low it can fall. Others have solid business models but now seem to be chasing near impossible year-over-year comps. Best Buy falls into this latter category,
Over the last several quarters, the stock market has been on the fringe of a bear market. While this has many investors scrambling to limit their losses, others are swarming in to buy stocks with predictable growth trajectories and stable cash flows. One stock that should catch the eye of many savvy investors is Mastercard.
It’s a tough environment. Inflation is rising so cash makes little sense. But after a tumultuous start to the year, the risk of investing is high.
Growth stocks fell out of favor when the first signs of inflation appeared and the Federal Reserve hiked rates. Investors flocked to safer havens, and dividend stocks became an obvious group to screen but which one is best?
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Last March, Amazon announced that it would split its shares. The split happened officially on June 3, but it will only apply to investors who own shares on or before May 27. If you own one share of Amazon pre-split, you will have 20 shares on Monday, June 6 when trading resumes.
So,
Promising growth stocks like Peloton, Zoom, Tesla, and Netflix have dropped significantly since the start of the year. In some cases, the massive gains they made during the pandemic have been completely erased. Even tech companies like Snowflake, Amazon, and Upstart have struggled, despite continued demand for their products and services.
For some,
One such stock is NIO (NASDAQ: NIO),
When it comes to finding new investment opportunities, the education sector may not be top of mind. But if you can reserve judgment for a few minutes, an education stock with as much as 53.5% upside may be worth your consideration.
We applied a discounted cash flow analysis to John Wiley & Sons and discovered that this 200-year old education company has a lot going for it beyond its financials.
Buying shares in the Oracle of Omaha’s firm Berkshire Hathaway won’t net you a dime of dividend income because Warren Buffett has famously resisted paying dividends to Berkshire shareholders.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t look under the Berkshire hood to discover lots of high-paying dividend stocks that could net you an extra $6,000 a year,
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Stock splits are not uncommon. There have been dozens of announcements this year alone, including Alphabet’s 20-for-1 stock split and Tesla’s 5-for-1 stock split.
Shopify is another large company that recently announced a 10-for-1 stock split, which will take place in June 2022. However,
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