Most Americans encounter some form of debt in their lives. However, not all debts are created equally and some are considered better than others. Indeed, while debt comes in several forms, all personal debt (not corporate or government debt) can be categorized within a few main types, including secured debt, unsecured debt, revolving debt, and
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While Cloud Czars Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) still sell for around 35 times trailing price-to-earnings, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is currently selling for 26.72. Why? Because right now, there’s a misunderstanding about the business and power behind Facebook stock. Source: Ink Drop / Shutterstock.com Investors are told it’s a social network stealing “the
Over the weekend, I was doing research on large-cap stocks and noticed an important detail: buying pressure is dissipating on otherwise good stocks with positive sales and earnings. Source: madamF / Shutterstock.com One example right now is Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). In its fourth-quarter announcement on January 27, the company reported earnings of $3.88 per share, which was
Download Preston’s 1 page checklist for finding great stock picks: http://buffettsbooks.com/checklist Preston Pysh is the #1 selling Amazon author of two books on Warren Buffett. The books can be found at the following location: In this lesson, Students learned about the fundamental aspects of preferred stock. Although Preferred shares are a proportional ownership of equity
Rushing trades can destroy your account, especially if you’re making this mistake often. Example: -If a stock goes up and down several times and you’ve missed opportunities to sell when it peaked, you may get “ants in your pants” -This can cause you to buy before the stock begins to ascend again, and it may
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Workhorse W-15 Electric Pickup Truck. Source: Workhorse Shares of Workhorse Group dropped more than 50% at one point on Tuesday after the company was passed over for a key contract from the U.S. Postal Service. Amid heightened volatility, the stock was halted multiple times during the last half hour of trading, before ultimately finishing the
Cathy Wood Crystal Mercedes | CNBC Some called it the “Cathie Wood sell-off.” At the open Tuesday, the top names owned by Ark Investment Management were the biggest decliners in the market. Shares of Palantir, Tesla, Roku, Square, Paypal, Teladoc, Baidu, Zillow, Shopify and Spotify were all down big, in many cases by double-digits. All
Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Monday: Square – Shares of the financial services company slipped 4.1% amid news news that Square purchased $170 million in Bitcoin. Square also reported quarterly results that beat analyst expectations. The company earned 32 cents per share
Much of the United States felt the sting of extremely cold weather this month. Perhaps no part of the country was hurt more than Texas, which saw millions go without power. This has caused energy prices to surge higher. For investors, that puts the focus on energy stocks. Consider that WTI crude increased 6.5% over
Marathon Patent Group (NASDAQ:MARA)has climbed nearly 200% in 2021. And going back to Dec. 2020, MARA stock is up approximately 400%. The reason for the mania surrounding this crytocurrency mining stock is Bitcoin (CCC:BTC:USD) which is up nearly 150% in the last three months. Source: Useacoin / Shutterstock.com Another catalyst for Marathon is that it
In 2021 investors have gone cuckoo for Alpha, that measure of a stock’s ability to outperform the markets. They aren’t interested in growth, or business fundamentals. They want pure gains, driven by pure greed. Buy what’s hot now and get someone else to buy it off you for more. In this new world, all the
Aviation companies aren’t as hot as they were in the back half of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic has been stubbornly persistent. With the emergence of variant strains comes more challenges for American Airlines (NYSE:AAL) and its peers in the airline industry, along with a sense of hopelessness for some AAL stock holders. Source: GagliardiPhotography /
Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Hedge funds are still licking their wounds after a retail trading frenzy forced the industry to slash its overall exposure to stocks, leading to an underperformance in 2021. Last month, an army of retail investors who coordinated on social media managed to push GameStop shares up 400% in
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Home Depot (HD) – The home improvement retailer beat quarterly estimates by 3 cents with earnings of $2.65 per share. Revenue came in above estimates as well. Comparable store sales jumped 24.5% during the fourth quarter, more than the 19.2% consensus estimate of analysts polled by FactSet. Home
Ahead of its earnings report, Tilray (NASDAQ:TLRY) came under some pressure. Note that TLRY stock fell about 9% or so. Then again, many other cannabis stocks fell as well. Source: Jetacom Autofocus / Shutterstock.com But volatility is nothing new for Tilray. For the most part, Wall Street liked the performance for the quarter. Revenues rose
Homeowners are often surprised to learn that damage to the underground water-sewer lines connecting their homes to service isn’t always covered by their municipality or by their homeowners insurance. But a new report on private service-line warranties—increasingly marketed as a solution—contends that these plans confuse consumers and may be largely unnecessary. Key Takeaways Water-sewer line
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) is a chipmaker that has made the most of the pandemic. In fact, AMD stock is at some of its highest performance levels in recent memory. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com Now, the company is looking to expand its market share this year. Once traded in the $2 range, AMD currently
Many analysts believe the stock market is about to go lower. They cite the recent bubble characteristics that are occurring in different areas of the market as proof. These include the GameStop (GME) frenzy, the parabolic rally in penny stocks and the cryptocurrency craze. All stock market peaks have common characteristics, and one of them is
Listen to Preston’s podcast about studying billionaires here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-investors-podcast/id928933489 Carl Icahn is part of the top 50 richest men in the world with a net worth of $16.9 billion, according to Forbes. He is widely known as one of the most polarizing people in Wall Street with a reputation for delivering controversial decisions and initiatives
What is Volatility? -The magnitude of the change -It is independent of direction, it refers to the change of ups and downs Why is it Important? -The more volatile the market is, the crazier it gets -Trends are harder to spot when they are more volatile -Swing trading becomes riskier -It is better to stick
http://www.zacks.com – Kevin Matras goes over a seldom talked about options strategy called Ratio Back Call Spreads. Learn how it works and how you might be able to use them.
An image from the video taken by multiple cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA on Monday released first-of-its-kind video of a spacecraft landing on another planet, as multiple cameras captured its Perseverance rover touching down on the surface of Mars. The U.S. space agency landed Perseverance on
Julie Wainwright, CEO, The RealReal Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Monday: Palo Alto Networks – Shares of the cybersecurity company fell nearly 1% after Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected results for its second quarter. The company reported earnings per share of $1.55, compared to a Refinitiv
In all the electric car hoopla that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) inspires, Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM) has been ignored. TM stock continues to be a low-volume name. About 330,000 shares trade on an average day, while TSLA stock averages almost 41 million. Source: josefkubes / Shutterstock.com But Toyota is the world’s largest car company, having passed Volkswagen (OTCMKTS:VLKAY)
There’s a lot to be said about dividend stocks that’s positive. The companies they represent are shareholder friendly. They are usually issued by companies with a long-term view of the markets and growth in their sector. They offer income in a world bereft of decent traditional dividends. But there’s also another side to these stocks.
Biotechnology companies can be broad in their medical ambitions, or they can be specific. Interestingly, Bionano Genomics (NASDAQ:BNGO) is both a specialist and a generalist, and the company’s Saphyr System addresses multiple important medical issues. This duality is what makes BNGO stock so unique as an investment. Source: Shutterstock I’ll admit, the technical aspects of BNGO
New Brunswick-based cannabis company OrganiGram (NASDAQ:OGI) recently made news when it appointed Marni Wieshofer as its first U.S.-domiciled director. While it did little to move OGI stock, the appointment deserves closer scrutiny. Now before you get all accusatory about my implication, it’s not for the reason you think. While I don’t know Ms. Wieshofer, her
Zambato Mountain View Office Source: Zambato JPMorgan Chase is taking a stake in a private stock trading platform with links to Palantir to boost the bank’s efforts to connect buyers and sellers of hot pre-IPO company shares, CNBC has learned. The bank’s investment in Zanbato, a Mountain View, California based fintech start-up, is set to
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Dish Networks (DISH) – The satellite TV provider rose 3.2% in premarket trading after it reported quarterly earnings of $1.24 per share, well above the consensus estimate of 75 cents a share. Revenue came in above estimates as well. Dish lost a net