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Although I live in Michigan, I’ll admit to not being familiar with UWM Holdings (NYSE:UWMC) prior to this article. And yet UWMC stock went public as one of the largest SPACs in a 12-month period that has seen a record number of SPACs. Source: Shutterstock However, I’m familiar with them now. As it turns out,

Marathon Digital (NASDAQ:MARA) has been one of the single biggest winners of the past year. Incredibly, over the past 12 months, MARA stock is up more than 12,000%. Some of that is due to how low shares plunged during March of 2020, of course. But the run has been incredible regardless. As recently as November, MARA

Maybe no news would be good news for Castor Maritime (NASDAQ:CTRM) stock. The dry bulk carrier and tanker drew the attention of the Reddit crowd earlier this year. Strong retail hands are hanging tight, but the volume on CTRM stock shows that many people have fled. Source: VladSV / Shutterstock.com I admit to being among

There is no question Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA) is on a roll. MARA stock is up more than 350% year-to-date. There’s been no stopping this crypto miner.  Source: Shutterstock In fact, InvestorPlace’s Ian Cooper recently named it one of the 5 Stocks to Buy and Hold For the Next Decade. They’ve all got the potential

Canadian pharma small-cap Milestone Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MIST) has had a tumultuous ride since shares starting trading nearly two years ago. MIST stock was soon going for over $27. It dropped below $2 a share a year ago, clawed its way back to nearly $9 in early February, and now sits around the $6 level. What is

In 2020, the number of initial public offerings (IPOs) picked up serious pace despite the pandemic as the stock market soared and investors pondered new issues. Source: Shutterstock In fact, the volume of IPOs reached 494, more than doubling 2019’s figure, while the share offerings raised $174 billion, a 150% jump from 2019, according to

Investors looking to establish a position in Fisker (NYSE:FSR) stock likely come in two flavors. There are those looking to capitalize on short-term gains in FSR stock while the shares could be appealing for long-term buy-and-hold investors.  Source: Eric Broder Van Dyke / Shutterstock.com For the latter, there’s a chance that current dynamics could soon

Tilray (NASDAQ:TLRY) will hold a shareholder meeting on April 14 to vote on its proposed merger with Aphria (NASDAQ:APHA). In effect, it will be a reverse merger. Aphria shareholders will end up controlling the total TLRY stock outstanding. The combination will make Tilray as the surviving company the largest cannabis company. It will also likely

Less than four years ago, Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ:RIOT) was a failed animal health company named Bioptix. What is now RIOT stock was then BIOP stock — and it traded for less than $4 per share. Source: Mark Agnor / Shutterstock.com That wasn’t because investors put much value on the business: Bioptix in fact had more

Opportunities. Source: Shutterstock That’s the key word for today. And let me tell you … there are a lot of them right now. On today’s new episode of MoneyLine, I share multiple opportunities popping up in a variety of investment trends. They’re being created by everything from the blow up of a $20 billion hedge

Ocean Power Technologies (NASDAQ:OPTT) has been around for a long time and has yet to take off as a solid commercial entity. OPTT stock has been on a roller coaster, mostly going down, over the past five years. There are signs now that management is getting serious about being a real commercial company. That could

I’ve been following Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) stock since not long after it joined the public markets. It’s been a bumpy ride. Source: Christopher Penler / Shutterstock.com In November, just days after its SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) merger closed, I highlighted SPCE stock on my Moneyline podcast. At the time, SPCE stock already looked like

Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp VI (NYSE:IPOF) is the sixth iteration of the SPAC series, superstar investor Chamath Palihapitiya is taking to the market. This shell company doesn’t have a target yet, which it has planned to be a large private technology company. Despite not having a target, IPOF stock is a bet on the

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) about even with its mid-September $240 initial public offering but it’s far below peak prices in the last six months. For example, SNOW stock closed at $325 a share on Nov. 30. Source: rblfmr / Shutterstock.com Year-to-date the shares have fallen 16.5%. The problem is the company’s sky-high valuation. It may be a while

Churchill Capital Corp. IV (NYSE:CCIV) has taken it on the chin in the past week. CCIV stock is down about 13% on news the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) had not had any contact with its tentative merger partner, Lucid Motors, until after an article appeared in Bloomberg on Jan. 11 that suggested they were

Castor Maritime (NASDAQ:CTRM) stock is fairly alluring. The company is a shipping operator that is aggressively growing its fleet. There is a logical, if speculative, economic argument underpinning an investment in shipping stocks.  Source: Pavel Kapysh / Shutterstock.com The company now has a fleet in excess of a dozen ships. CTRM stock is currently trading

I’ve been handed another assignment to cover a stock I’ve never heard of. Apparently, Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) specializes in next-generation zero-carbon-emission fuels for planes, trains and automobiles — I made that last part up because I love John Candy movies — and is a business I ought to know about. More importantly, GEVO stock is up more

I am often asked when one should sell stocks and get out of the market. Source: Sergii Gnatiuk/ShutterStock.com Longtime MoneyWire readers already know my answer. But let me remind you … If there is ever a time when you feel like giving up, selling your stocks, and waiting for the “bottom” in order to buy

Social Capital Hedosophia V (NYSE:IPOE), a SPAC (special purpose acquisition corp.), should close its merger with Social Finance (SOFI) soon. The deal was announced on Jan.7, and at the time, the firm indicated it would close by the end of first quarter of 2021. Overall, though, IPOE stock (to be renamed Social Finance) looks undervalued

The stock market has bounced around quite a bit this week, up on Monday, and then down on Tuesday, Wednesday and again today. The reality is the market continues to oscillate, which is why stocks will be up one day and then down the next. This is the oscillating market I have referred to several