Is Your Favorite Pharmacy About To Go Belly Up?
Walgreens Boots Alliance stands at a critical juncture in the company’s 170-year history with revenues of $147 billion but a market capitalization of just $7 billion.
A heavily burdened balance sheet has been the prime culprit of the stock’s downfall but, under new CEO Tim Wentworth, management is undertaking an ambitious realignment aimed at stabilizing the core pharmacy business while taking the chop to some of its healthcare investments. » Read more about: Is Your Favorite Pharmacy About To Go Belly Up? »
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Market Commentary: Up 600% This Year, We Nailed It
On June 6, we featured IONQ. If you’re not familiar with it, IonQ is a quantum computing company that develops and operates trapped ion quantum computers.
The technology uses individual atoms as qubits, which are the basic units of information in a quantum computer. IonQ’s computers are designed to solve the world’s most complex problems,
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Market Commentary: Is Musk Making a Massive Mistake?
Tesla reported record profits and production in the second quarter of 2023, but its stock price fell 11%. The company’s revenue increased 47% year-over-year to almost $25 billion, and delivered just shy of 900,000 vehicles. However, Tesla’s gross margin fell by almost 7% points from 25% in the previous quarter, due to price cuts.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company is “
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Market Commentary: Toss This Burrito Stock Now?
Investors crave companies with exceptional long-term capital growth, and Chipotle Mexican Grill has emerged as a rare gem. Over the past five years, its share price skyrocketed by almost 5x, easily outperforming the S&P 500’s 63%+ return since 2018.
But what sets this humble burrito outlet apart from the rest, and is its stock overvalued?
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37.9% Upside In Overlooked AI Stock
Some concerns have arisen in recent months that the fuel behind the AI fire is starting to wane. The flagship AI stock, NVIDIA, gained 156% through the first six months of the year, but Nvidia shares only gained 18.8% since the midpoint of 2024. While that is still substantial growth, it reflects investors’ concerns about AI’s ability to generate substantial revenue.
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1 Stunning Stock Set To Join Magnificent 7
While Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon garner the headlines, Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) has quietly become one of the fastest-growing cloud infrastructure companies. Its cloud business grew by 47% year-over-year in the latest quarter and that rate of growth puts it firmly on the radar of investors looking for the next stock to join the Magnificent 7 grouping.
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Spotlight: Dine On Steak After This Brazilian Breakout
Rates are going up everywhere, at least that’s what the financial press would have you believe. On July 26, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell oversaw a rate hike that placed interest rates at 22 year highs, pegging them at 5.25-5.50%.
The market had largely priced in the rate hike and so the S&P 500 fell just 0.17% on the day.
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Trump offers support to Musk’s car company in a surprising post as Tesla stock plunges
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump took to social media Thursday morning to support Elon Musk’s car company, a startling development given their bitter public feud.
”I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The post wasn’t enough to help Tesla’s stock,