Increased concern over inflation and valuations have brought choppiness back to equity markets. As the stock market recovers from a volatile month of trading, investors have turned their attention towards more defensive stocks. For many market participants, dividend shares seem to be the most reasonable plays. High-yield dividend stocks are prized among income investors, as
Month: July 2021
Although there has been some encouraging news about Lordstown Motors (NASDAQ:RIDE) recently, there have not yet been any concrete signs that the automaker can avoid bankruptcy, while RIDE stock remains vastly overvalued. Consequently, I continue to urge investors to sell the shares. Source: Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com Moreover, I believe that risk-tolerant investors looking for
Virgin Galactic shares surged on Friday after the space tourism venture announced its next spaceflight test will carry founder Sir Richard Branson. The mission – with two pilots guiding spacecraft VSS Unity carrying Branson alongside three Virgin Galactic employees – plans to launch on July 11 from the company’s operations hub at Spaceport America in
Rendering of the Krispy Kreme Times Square flagship. Krispy Kreme Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Virgin Galactic — The space tourism company’s stock is up 3% after announcing founder Sir Richard Branson will be aboard its next spaceflight test. The stock jumped as much as 25% shortly after the open before
Senseonics (NYSEMKT:SENS) stock has jumped 70% in the last month on hype from Reddit contributors. But SENS stock may be appealing for a reason beyond its short-squeeze potential; the sales of the company’s flagship diabetes monitoring product, Eversense, could soar in the coming years. Source: Minerva Studio / Shutterstock.com But the stock’s current market capitalization
Editor’s note: This column is part of InvestorPlace.com’s Best Stocks for 2021 contest. Charles Sizemore’s pick for the contest is Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) stock. 25% year-to-date (YTD) returns ain’t too shabby. But they’re not going to cut it when the competition is up by 142%. And that’s what we have going on with my pick for InvestorPlace.com’s Best
When a company becomes the newest darling among retail traders, watch out. I actually like video-game hardware and accessories company Corsair Gaming (NASDAQ:CRSR), but its apparent popularity among Reddit users may be a warning sign for CRSR stock. Source: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com Don’t get me wrong. I find it fascinating that r/WallStreetBets participants are standing up to the
Even the most enlightened citizen curses taxes at least once a year—possibly while simultaneously acknowledging that they’re the price of a civilized, developed society. Even knowing the value of that bargain, loathing the taxman is as inevitable as taxation itself. In the U.S., at the federal level, that unenviable duty falls on the Internal Revenue
Trading information for GameStop is displayed on the Robinhood App as another screen displays the Robinhood logo in this photo illustration January 29, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The first time Robinhood restricted trading on its app, during the GameStop event in January, may not to be the last, the company said Thursday. In January,
Workers prepare the ground for construction at the Duette solar site which is being developed on previously agricultural land in Bowling Green, Florida, March 24, 2021. Dane Rhys | Reuters June jobs growth is expected to outpace May and more Americans rejoined the workforce, even as companies continued to struggle to find employees to hire.
They’re not gangsters; they’re meme-sters. Evidently, Reddit users targeted Geo Group (NYSE:GEO), of all companies, for a wicked short squeeze. And all of a sudden, traders love to talk about GEO stock. Source: Shutterstock / TY Lim The crowds are fickle, aren’t they? It seems like just yesterday when I couldn’t get anybody to pay attention
It’s no secret anymore that Target (NYSE:TGT), under Brian Cornell, is America’s best-run retailer. That’s why I recommend TGT stock to anyone who will listen. Source: Robert Gregory Griffeth / Shutterstock.com Since Cornell became CEO in 2014, in the wake of a credit card breach that forced out his predecessor, Target shares are up 300%.
Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ:CLNE) reminds me of another company that briefly became extremely popular among retail investors: Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO). The shares of both GEVO stock and CLNE stock are now about 50% off their 52-week highs and have generated mediocre returns in recent weeks , as many investors apparently started to realize that neither of
In this article AMC GME Michael Burry attends the “The Big Short” New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on November 23, 2015 in New York City. Jim Spellman | WireImage | Getty Images “The Big Short” investor Michael Burry believes Reddit-favored meme stocks are set to crash like the dot-com and housing market bubbles of
Pedestrians walk past a Walgreens store in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Didi — Shares of the Chinese ride hailing company surged more than 14% in their second day of trading, rising back above $16 per share. The stock had a muted session
After a volatile and exhausting run in the first half of this year, GameStop (NYSE:GME) stock look to finally be stabilizing somewhat. Source: rblfmr / Shutterstock.com Of course, “stable” is a relative term when it comes to GME stock, which, at this point, seems to operate completely outside normal investing and trading rules. While the
Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), China’s leading “Cloud Emperor,” has had a horrible, terrible, no-good and very bad year. But having gone through a fire that its peers still face, BABA stock looks like a buy again. Source: zhu difeng / Shutterstock.com The e-commerce giant’s bad year was largely driven by the Chinese government. Alibaba has been slapped
Is there still hope for Ocugen (NASDAQ:OCGN)? Or are the OCGN stock bulls just delusional? In my view, you can count on the latter. Any way you slice it, this biotech company has little chance of generating big profits — or even big sales — from its Covaxin Covid-19 vaccine candidate. Source: Shutterstock As you
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An aerial view of the company’s planned factory near Long Beach Airport in California. Relativity Space 3D-printing specialist Relativity Space is adding a second factory in Long Beach, California on the site of a former Boeing facility, where the company will move its headquarters and focus work on building fully reusable rockets. “This is really