Financial institutions like banks and insurance companies provide their clients with expertise and advice to help them on their path to a sound financial future. But where does a financial institution go when it needs advice itself? That’s where a financial institutions group can come into the picture. But what exactly is a FIG and
Month: June 2021
Hopeful investors gave up in the weeks that followed QuantumScape’s (NYSE:QS) quarterly results. QS stock tried to bounce back to above the $30 range last month but failed. Source: Michael Vi/Shutterstock.com Investors cannot get over the higher capital expenses ahead. Though liquidity fueled the stock after its post-SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) status, reality weighs
Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said he expects to close his SPAC deal to buy 10% of Universal Music Group for around $4 billion later this month. Ackman’s blank-check company Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH) is likely to finish the transaction by June 22,
A help wanted sign is posted at a taco stand in Solana Beach, California. Mike Blake | Reuters Hiring improved in May, but 559,000 new jobs aren’t enough to spur the Federal Reserve to begin to talk about tapering back its bond purchases. Friday’s Labor Department report on new payrolls was below the 671,000 expected
Sundial Growers (NASDAQ:SNDL) is down about 37% since I last wrote about it in March. That’s a bitter pill for bull-minded retail investors who remain committed to the company. But it has to be music to the ears of those equally passionate investors driving up short interest in SNDL stock. Source: Shutterstock Presently trading at $1.10,
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) stock is one of the most interesting names in the tech space. The company was one of the largest software initial public offerings (IPOs) of all time when it came out last year. And traders initially warmed up to SNOW stock, with the share price more than doubling after its debut. Source: rblfmr
Blue-chip communications giant AT&T (NYSE:T) has traded somewhat like a utility stock in recent years, and investors approached T stock as such. It has long been a reliable stock as a dividend aristocrat. Source: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock Looking for new growth opportunities, AT&T made a huge push into entertainment three years ago with its transformational acquisition
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are falling out of vogue and Lordstown Motors (NASDAQ:RIDE) is no exception. Source: Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com The stock peaked at $31.80 back in February before falling when the Nasdaq index broke down. Bears, too, are all over RIDE stock, with a short interest of 30.82%. An ugly quarterly earnings
The market conditions and technology in the mania over current meme stock AMC Entertainment are vastly different from day trading during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, online brokerage pioneer and former options trader Tom Sosnoff told CNBC on Friday. “There’s no comparison between the day traders of 1999-2000, and that first transition into
The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, MA is pictured on March 21, 2019. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images DocuSign – Shares of the electronic signature company surged 17% after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly earnings. DocuSign earned 44 cents per share on
Hyliion (NYSE:HYLN) continues to hover around its debut price of around $10. And for investors it must be starting to feel like Groundhog’s Day. It certainly does to me. Every time I’m asked to take a position on HYLN stock, I feel the same way. Except, like many analysts and investors and Bill Murray in the
Blackberry (NYSE:BB) could become a bargain stock this year if the company keeps producing large amounts of free cash flow (FCF). Even though BB stock has skyrocketed in the past month, I estimate it could be worth 32% more. That puts its value at $20.91 per share. Source: Paul McKinnon/Shutterstock.com This is based on its
Productivity measures the efficiency of a company’s production process. It is calculated by dividing the outputs produced by a company by the inputs used in its production process. Common inputs are labor hours, capital and natural resources, while outputs are generally measured in sales or the number of goods and services produced. Productivity can be
Back in March, I wrote that Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) was a good value opportunity since it was trading “well below its historical valuation parameters.” At the time, I estimated that it was worth $42.39. Since then, PFE stock has risen from about $35 to around $39. Source: photobyphm / Shutterstock.com I now think PFE stock could
Most of Wall Street underestimates the impact of cord cutting and overestimates the extent companies can compensate with internet streaming channels. As a result, most of the Street was shocked by AT&T’s (NYSE:T) decision to unload WarnerMedia for a relatively low amount of money, triggering a sizeable downturn in T stock. I believe that Disney
Starship prototype SN10 fires its three Raptor engines as it comes in for the landing. SpaceX The U.S. Air Force is expanding a small development program that wants to leverage reusable rockets, like those SpaceX is building, to deliver cargo quickly to anywhere in the world. Called Rocket Cargo, the experimental military program will be
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Inflation data is a highlight of the week ahead, as investors focus on economic news in the void between earnings season and the next Fed meeting. May’s consumer price index is reported Thursday, and it could be hot after it surged at a
The SPAC train may have been derailed a bit by the sell-off in high-growth stocks, but that doesn’t mean every SPAC is a sell. Take SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) for instance. SoFi stock is a growing fintech company with plenty of opportunity ahead of it. Source: rafapress / Shutterstock.com However, shares have struggled over the last few
Should traders and investors buy SoFi Technologies (NYSE:SOFI) stock? As a short-term trade, the shares may be profitable. This name, which merged with the SPAC known as Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings V, could attract enough buyers to bounce back towards its all time high of around $28 per share. Source: rafapress / Shutterstock.com SoFi stock
The latest news that Ocugen (NASDAQ:OCGN) is moving closer toward emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate is moving its stock. On May 25 the company submitted its master file to the Food and Drug Administration as part of the emergency use authorization (EUA) process. Source: Shutterstock But many obstacles remain for Ocugen. The first