When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock’s price, but are they really important? Before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage, let’s see ...
Key Points Tesla believes its future lies in robotics and autonomous vehicles. Those industries are unproven, and the electric vehicle (EV) maker is facing falling auto sales and a bruised brand. With a shaky EV industry and distracted management, Tesla stock isn’t likely to set you up for life. These 10 stocks could mint the ...
There’s something big happening in Washington, D.C. tomorrow. It’s not a rally. It’s not a campaign stop. And it’s not just another political spectacle. It’s something far more important – and something I’ve been talking about for weeks. A couple weeks ago, I held a special event called Trump’s AI Day. In it, I told ...
Apple AAPL reported third-quarter fiscal 2025 adjusted earnings of $1.57 per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 10.56% and increased 12.1% year over year. Net sales increased 9.6% year over year to $94.04 billion and beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 5.75%. Overall, product sales (70.8% of sales) climbed 8.2% year over year ...
Key Points No matter how well we may think we know a company, there are still likely to be things about it that can surprise — or amuse — us. For example, one of the two brothers who founded Domino’s Pizza traded his share of the company to the other brother for a used Volkswagen ...
Investors considering a purchase of Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Symbol: AMD) stock, but cautious about paying the going market price of $171.45/share, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the December 2027 put at the $110 strike, which has a bid at ...
Key Points Amazon’s core e-commerce business remains remarkably resilient and continues to dominate the global retail landscape. Nvidia remains the undisputed leader in supplying the advanced chips powering today’s artificial intelligence revolution. Meta Platforms leads the social media landscape, operating three of the world’s top-five most-used platforms and reaching 3.4 billion daily users. 10 stocks ...
IonQ. Inc. IONQ is slated to report results for the second quarter of 2025 on Aug. 6, after the closing bell. IonQ, a pioneer in trapped-ion quantum computing and quantum networking, heads into its second-quarter 2025 earnings report riding high on a string of commercial and strategic achievements. Following a better-than-expected first-quarter 2025, where it ...
Shares of Universal Health Realty Income Trust UHT have lost 5.9% since the company reported its earnings for the quarter ended June 30, 2025. This compares to the S&P 500 Index’s 0.8% decline over the same time frame. Over the past month, the stock lost 5.9% against the S&P 500’s 2.1% growth. UHT’s Earnings Snapshot ...
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:) delivered a blowout earnings report after the market closed on July 31. That’s not showing up in the company’s stock price. The stock is up over 3% after the results dropped. However, the stock was trading just a little over 1% before the earnings call. By every metric that matters to Apple ...
