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? »
Read MoreMarket Commentary: Will The Fed Lose Control?
From 1982-2023, a massive bull market in share prices took place, creating enormous wealth. But the prior decade or so between 1966-1982 was quite the opposite. Indeed, investors who bought the top in 1966 would have had to wait a full 15 years before seeing their investments turn profitable.
The bull run over the past forty years has been intermittently interrupted by stock market crashes,
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Read MoreThe Single Best ETF to Buy for 2024?
By many measures, the stock market is overextended now yet calls for a correction have vanished with the wind in recent weeks.
Within a few weeks, though, we expect the market will find a plateau and turnaround. If it does top as expected and start a new downtrend, one index above all others could be the top performer in 2024.
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Read MoreWhat To Do When It Hits The Fan
When markets fall, they seem to go down in sync. It’s one of the key insights into markets that many ordinary investors fail to spot, the correlation between markets.
Similarly, this year you’ll see the S&P 500 up 25%, and the NASDAQ up closer to 45%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average up too.
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Read More37.9% 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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Read MoreThe Burst
Is Terawulf the Next Big AI Stock?
Terawulf is a cryptocurrency mining firm that specializes in bitcoin.
It has a twist on mining, which is notoriously energy intensive. The unusual angle is it operates mining facilities that use clean, low-cost, and reliable energy sources.
The way it works, in a nutshell, is that the company uses specialized computers,
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457 Million Reasons to Buy This Auto Stock
When you find an investment manager overseeing $1.2 billion, it warrants further investigation when they bet one fifth of their entire portfolio on a single stock. Yet that’s exactly the conviction that Impactive Capital demonstrated by betting 20.4% of their portfolio on an automotive retailer.
Amid the universe of thousands of stocks, what is it that Impactive portfolio managers saw in Asbury Automotive that motivated them to allocate $457 million of their fund to it?
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Social Security eligibility: Born between 1960 and 1970? Here’s what you qualify for
If you were born between 1960 and 1970, you may already qualify to receive monthly Social Security benefits — or will be eligible within the next few years. This age group is now hitting key milestones that open the door to retirement payments, disability assistance, and spousal benefits.