Since SoFi’s CEO began snapping up shares of the student lender, the price has approximately doubled. It’s not entirely a surprise given that SoFi is an all-in-one fintech firm offering personal loans, home mortgages, car loans, credit cards, and digital banking. Over and above the broad array of products it’s grown like a weed on the customer front too.
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Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has emerged from a growth slowdown into a phase of reaccelerating revenue and improving profitability in 2024-2025. After a modest ~17% revenue growth in 2023, Palantir’s top-line expanded by 29% in 2024 to $2.87 billion, buoyed by rising demand for its data analytics and AI platforms.
The company also achieved GAAP profitability,
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Twilio is one of those companies that not many individuals know much about but which is used widely by over 300,000 businesses.
It essentially powers SMS communications so let’s say you’re a Dell or Shopify or Toyota and want to message your own audiences, you would sign up to Twilio to engage with them.
Few traders in history have the capacity to seamlessly transition across asset classes, zooming out to see the big macro picture and in to see the minutia of a company’s 10Q but Stan Druckenmiller ranks as one of the few who have succeeded in so doing.
Stan’s thesis has been that the Fed is really in a bind,
Following comments by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang about the probable timeline for practical quantum computing, quantum startups have had a rocky start to 2025.
Huang, himself an expert in cutting-edge computing technologies, said he believed that it could take about 20 years for quantum computers to become a useful technology.
While the comment attracted criticism from some technologists and quantum bulls,
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There’s a reason even Warren Buffett advocates his heirs to buy an exchange-traded fund over Berkshire Hathaway when he passes on. They are low-cost, tax-efficient, and, for the most part, transparent.
But not all ETFs are built the same, and the Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF has some features that will be highly attractive to some investors.
Semiconductor and data infrastructure company Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) absolutely trounced the market last year by a factor of over 3x, delivering a trailing 12-month return of almost 94%.
While the stock was rising gradually all year, the company’s shares soared in early December and finished the year extremely strong.
Why are Marvell shares rising,
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Costco’s stock price has experienced enormous growth over the last few years. At the beginning of 2020, you could purchase a share for a little less than $300. Today, shares trade for closer to $1,000.
Not surprisingly, this growth has encouraged a lot of analysts to speculate about when Costco will split its shares.
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Few realize that Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) traces part of its engineering DNA back to Atieva, a company that initially specialized in developing advanced battery systems for Formula E racing teams. Before the high-profile splash of the Lucid Air sedan, Lucid’s engineers were quietly perfecting electric drivetrains in the crucible of motorsports.
This racing pedigree helped the company engineer a powertrain that offers truly impressive range—up to 516 miles on a single charge for the Lucid Air Grand Touring edition,
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Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) is doing very well and making great progress with its 21st Century Security® strategy. The bold plan concentrates on three main initiatives that aim to boost the company’s role in the defense and aerospace industries.
The first initiative focuses on making Lockheed Martin’s production system stronger and able to handle more.