Tesla (TSLA) Stock Drops as $25B Spending Plan Alarms Investors Despite Q1 Earnings Beat
Key Takeaways
- Tesla’s first-quarter revenue reached $22.4 billion, falling short of analyst projections, though profit figures exceeded expectations
- Per-vehicle gross profit climbed to $9,558, marking an increase from the previous quarter’s $8,000
- The company shipped 358,203 vehicles while producing 408,386 — creating the largest production-delivery mismatch in over five years
- Management increased 2026 capital spending projections to $25 billion from $20 billion,
Oil Stocks Are Surging: 3 to Buy and Hold for Decades
Crude oil has rocketed more than 60% this year to around $100 a barrel due to the war with Iran. That has fueled a surge in energy stocks, with the average one in the S&P 500 rallying more than 28%.
This year’s turmoil in the global energy market is a reminder of how vital oil is to the economy.
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Read MoreA veteran strategist says a famed recession indicator is signaling underperformance for tech stocks
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Strategist Jim Paulsen says tech stocks are poised to underperform.
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When the yield curve steepens, tech earnings tend to lag behind the market within 18 months, he said.
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Economic conditions are easing,
The Fed Meets on Rates This Week. What Should Investors Expect?
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which sets interest rates, will hold its third meeting of the year this week (it meets eight times a year).
As usual, this will be a two-day meeting, and the Fed will issue its monetary policy statement and announce any change to interest rates on Wednesday,
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Read MoreCathie Wood's Robotics Bet Dips After 350% Run — JPMorgan Says Buy
Cathie Wood has a $722 million reason to pay attention to the latest move in Teradyne, Inc.. Her funds hold about 2.36 million shares, a position worth roughly $722 million and over 5% of the portfolio, with an average entry price near $87.
That conviction has already paid off.
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Read MoreThe Burst
1 Red Hot Latin Growth Stock
About ten years ago, MercadoLibre was a holding in Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management firm. At the time, the Latin e-commerce firm had barely made a dent on the radars of top money managers and traded around $117 per share. Now sitting close to $1,795 per share, the holding has proven to be a massive winner for the asset management firm,
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Read MoreThe Ivy
1 High-Yield Dividend Stock to Buy and Hold
Forget the Magnificent 7 for a moment, and consider the merits of owning a boring old real estate company that has grown revenues predictably at a rapid rate for the past 3 years.
Rexford Industrial Realty owns one of the most concentrated portfolios of industrial real estate in Southern California, an area where vacancy rates for industrial properties have hovered near 1% over the last decade.
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Is This Crypto Bank Massively Undervalued?
The concept of currency dates back to the dawn of civilization. Over the centuries, everything from salt to dolphin teeth has been assigned value for the purpose of buying and selling goods and services. Gold and silver might hold the record for most-widely-accepted currency, but metals were eventually deemed impractical for everyday use.
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