Stocks to buy

Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL) will survive the latest Covid-19 variant scare. Many travel stocks, including CCL stock, took a plunge on Friday, Nov. 26, after news came spread that this Covid-19 strain, named Omicron, could possibly be impervious to existing vaccinations. According to The Wall Street Journal, Omicron’s mutations could make it more transmissible and could

Shares of chip and semiconductor designer Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock look unstoppable following the company’s latest earnings beat. Source: Steve Lagreca / Shutterstock.com NVDA stock has gained 18% since the company announced its third-quarter results on Nov. 17. The latest increase brings Nvidia stock’s total gains for this year to 162%. Over the last month alone,

Skillz (NYSE:SKLZ) reported excellent Q3 2021 earnings results on Nov. 3. Yet, investors chose to focus on the negative, sending SKLZ stock lower over the remainder of November.  Source: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com As I write this, SKLZ is trading below $10 for the first time since mid-October. Before that, you have to go back to March 2020

Peloton (NASDAQ:PTON) stock is not for the faint of heart investors. Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com The company had the misfortune of coming to market just before the pandemic hit. The first few months of existence were going fairly well. PTON investors succeeded at building a base. There were sizable rallies and reasonable declines, but then

Equity prices on Wall Street have never been higher, yet Zillow (NASDAQ:ZG) stock is 73% off its highs. A year ago, ZG stock exploded in a 140% rally to start the year. Then its momentum died suddenly in the middle of February. The bears have controlled the price action since then in a harsh descending

Ready to step directly into the metaverse? Or at least, get portfolio exposure to it? If so, then consider spatial data company Matterport (NASDAQ:MTTR), as MTTR stock is a pure-play investment in the metaverse’s future growth. Source: Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com It’s a speculative play, I’ll admit. The metaverse is still a new concept to

Right after the release of its earnings on Nov. 7, Roblox’s (NASDAQ:RBLX) stock jumped 40%. It hasn’t stopped since. Source: Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com RBLX stock has moved even higher in recent days, breaking past a strong resistance level at $90 and topping the $140 mark. and even though it pulled back slightly, Roblox is

Countries all across the world are taking the big step to slash carbon emissions. What does that mean for Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock? Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com In the U.S., President Joe Biden announced a goal of a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. This move gave a direct push to electric vehicle

C3 AI (NYSE:AI) stock has undoubtedly been a losing investment thus far. Source: Phonlamai Photo / Shutterstock.com It peaked at $180 during last year’s massive tech rally and proceeded to then lose a large chunk of its value. Momentum has left AI stock and a clear negative sentiment has taken root. However long-term investors should

I last wrote about BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) in early September, saying there was more to it than its meme stock status. Since then, BB stock has tumbled around 13%. But I still believe in it as an investment, provided you have the patience to wait for the company to find its footing. Source: BlackBerry BlackBerry beat

I’ve been helping investors for over a decade, and a persistently difficult point to make involves earnings trades. Zoom (NASDAQ:ZM) stock fell almost 20% yesterday on its earnings headline. Source: Girts Ragelis / Shutterstock.com For years I have struggled in convincing investors that the reaction to those headlines is completely binary overnight. Of course, the

Fisker (NYSE:FSR) announced on Nov. 19 that it won a ZEVAS Award — the zero-emission awards at the Los Angeles Auto Show — for the best crossover vehicle under $50,000. FSR stock jumped more than 5% on the news. This is the latest piece of good news for long-time investors. In the last month alone,

The Federal Reserve is expected to begin tapering later this month. The obvious implications for the market and for investors in tech stocks are broadly negative. However, investors wouldn’t know this by looking at the stock market. Valuations have absolutely skyrocketed through the end of the year, as appetite for risk assets remains very high. Regardless

With gold under-performing in the last few months, even the best gold stocks have been sideways to lower. However, the sentiment for gold seems to be changing. There are growing concerns related to inflation. It’s very likely that the current inflationary trend in the United States is not transitionary in nature. Gold finally seems to

We’re all quick to analyze stocks to buy at face value without ever considering how they generate revenue. But that’s a critical oversight. Not only is it important for investors to understand how their holdings make revenue in the present, it’s also important for investors to know how they plan to do so in the

As the first wave of the pandemic swept across countries in 2020, consumer spending fell dramatically. And companies rely on consumers to buy their goods and services. So, when consumer spending plateaued, consumer stocks also were in freefall. But the time is ripe for investors to get involved again. The consumer sector consists of companies

On Oct. 14, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a report that tries to explain the saga that pushed up GameStop (NASDAQ:GME) over 10 times in price this year. For example, GME stock ended Dec. 31, 2020, at $18.84 and was trading for $208.64 by mid-day Nov. 18. Source: Northfoto / Shutterstock.com Moreover, at

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) announced on Nov. 15 that a number of its original shareholders were going to sell some of their shares. This included Softbank (OTCMKTS:SFTBY), and some VC/private equity firms (Silver Lake Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, Red Crow Capital, LLC, etc.). The resulting sale of SOFI stock has pushed down the price by about

Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) might be on cloud nine after posting another solid quarter of earnings. Altogether, when you add in several contract wins, it seems like the data analytics company can’t put a foot wrong. However, there are genuine concerns about overvaluation here. Right now, PLTR stock is trading at nearly 110 times forward earnings, according

With ample liquidity in the financial system, 2021 has been a banner year for wealth creation. Be it equities or cryptocurrency, multifold returns over just a few months or even weeks have been frequent. Of course, there have been speculative stocks to buy among the top performers. However, I prefer to focus on non-speculative stories

It hasn’t been a good year for AT&T (NYSE:T) stock. The shares have fallen 14% this year, as Wall Street has frowned on the conglomerate’s divestment of its WarnerMedia unit and its subsequent decision to announce a future dividend cut. Source: Lester Balajadia / Shutterstock.com Still, as I pointed out in a prior column, the

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) is a small business in the space services business. But RKLB stock makes it seem like a big company. Source: Andrzej Puchta / Shutterstock.com Rocket Lab said it had $5.3 million in revenue during the third quarter. Its backlog stood at $183 million at the end of September, and the company expects

Cybersecurity is a major concern for our time. The rapid spread and proliferation of attacks like ransomware make it clear that this problem will only get worse with the advent of new malware. IronNet (NYSE:IRNT) is one of the top up-and-coming firms offering a unique solution to minimize cybersecurity threats. With its incredible cloud acceleration,

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) reported results for its first quarter as a publicly traded company this week. If Lucid was an established automaker like General Motors (NYSE:GM) or Toyota (NYSE:TM), we would be talking about the bottom line. For what it’s worth, the electric vehicle startup lost 43 cents per share for the third quarter, much

For years, Zillow (NASDAQ:Z, NASDAQ: ZG) was known as just an online real estate marketplace — and a very popular one, at that. Z stock mostly drifted sideways as the company stayed in its lane, collecting online home sale and rental listings for prospective buyers to view. Source: OpturaDesign / Shutterstock.com The next thing you know,

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) just released its Q3 financial results on Nov. 15, showing that its order book is growing nicely. It is now clearly seen as a real force in the luxury end of the electric vehicle (EV) market. As a result, LCID stock is bound to move substantially higher from here. Source: Around the

After a nice rally in early summer, Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) stock fell apart midway. Since its August highs, ROKU lost 45% of its value. Moreover, technically there’s potentially more downside from here. But, today my message is positive overall. This is a stock to own for the long term. Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com Meanwhile, investors should

There’s a pretty good chance that you haven’t spent much of your time thinking about functional materials. As an enterprising investor, however, you could discover serious profit potential with Meta Materials (NASDAQ:MMAT), as MMAT stock offers pure-play exposure to this high-conviction market. Source: Yuriy Golub / Shutterstock.com To put it simply, meta materials are a

I admit to thinking I was going to be writing a different article about Nio (NYSE:NIO). The company recently reported earnings and it seemed like that might be just the tonic the electric vehicle manufacturer would need to push its stock higher. Source: Andy Feng / Shutterstock.com But despite posting solid numbers — which has become a

Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) bulls are finally rejoicing. Shares shot up after Indonesia, one of the top five most populous countries globally, greenlighted its vaccine recently. That came on the heels of the biotech filing emergency use authorization (EUA) packages with several authorities, including the world health organization (WHO) and the European Union (E.U.). All of this