The Spotlight

Vanguard’s Extended Market ETF (VXF) is a broad fund made up of thousands of stocks across essentially every part of the American business landscape. Like many ETFs, VXF attempts to give investors access to a broad selection of stocks without the difficulty and risk involved in picking individual companies.

Today, let’s take a deeper look at VXF to see if the fund is a good investment at the moment.

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While earnings appeared mixed at first glance, management’s comments on the most recent earnings call were sufficient to ignite a sharp rally in GEO shares.

Prior to the earnings call, GEO stock had been in a sustained downtrend with little cushion on the horizon ready to halt the decline but that all changed when management revealed a new,

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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,

 » Read more about: Palantir’s Path to $10 Billion: Can This AI Giant Keep Growing?  »

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.

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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,

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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.

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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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