Food Costs Are Rising. Here Are the Stocks to Buy.

The highest inflation in decades is hitting consumers and rippling through the food industry, from farm equipment to packaged food, grocers, and restaurants. At-home food costs climbed 8.6% and out-of...

The Biggest Bitcoin Fund Trades at a Discount to Its Bitcoin Holdings. Why Only the SEC Can Solve This Problem.

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images Text size The world’s largest Bitcoin fund is trading at 73 cents on the dollar. That may look like a bargain if you want crypto in your po...

Buy FMC Stock. It Looks Ready to Rally on Flush Farmers and Sustainable Products.

FMC could benefit from rising prices for agricultural commodities and a sharpening focus on sustainable crop-protection solutions. Here, tiered farms in the Philippines. Courtesy FMC Text size Soaring...

7 Stocks to Play the Rally in Natural Gas

Tankers bringing liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Exports of U.S. LNG to Europe and elsewhere are expected to ramp later in the decade. Hollandse Hoogte/Shut...

These BDC Stocks Offer High Yields in a Low-Rate World

BDCs are a public play on private credit. They raise capital from investors and lend to small and midsize businesses. Illustration by Benedetto Cristofani Text size In a low interest-rate world, the p...

6 Quality Companies that Do Much of their Business in the U.S.

The U.S. stock market entered correction territory this past week. Growth stocks did worse, touching bear market territory. Investors worried about inflation and rising interest rates. Now war threate...

DraftKings Isn’t the Best Way to Play the Online Gambling Boom. Buy These 6 Stocks Instead.

Online sports gambling, once one of the hottest areas of the stock market, has fallen out of favor with investors. Investors worry about fierce competition and steep losses driven by heavy marketing a...

Buy Synaptics Stock. It’s the Best-Performing Chip Stock.

Synaptics historically made fingerprint sensors and other chips to power touchscreens and has more recently expanded into the Internet of Things business. Illustration by Stuart Briers Text size The s...

6 Stocks to Play Online Gambling Boom

Online sports gambling, once one of the hottest areas of the stock market, has fallen out of favor with investors. Investors worry about fierce competition and steep losses driven by heavy marketing a...

6 Stocks to Play the New U.S. Economic Reopening

UPS was a Covid beneficiary—until it wasn’t. Now, it again looks like a reopening play. Mario Tama/Getty Images Text size Covid cases are falling and the economy is about to reopen—again. Playing it, ...

Facebook Tumbled After Earnings. Now, Should You Buy or Sell Meta Stockk?

Challenges are rising for Meta Platforms—and they’re no longer just about Facebook’s legacy business. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Suddenly, investors are giving Facebook a big thumbs down. ...

Why Electric-Component Supplier Wesco’s Stock Is a Buy

Demand for cloud computing, power from renewable sources, and electric vehicles, along with more extreme weather events, mean that electrical infrastructure will need extensive investment for years to...

Moderna Faces Challenges Beyond the Covid Vaccine. Its Stock Is Still a Buy for the Long Term.

In 2019, four pharmaceutical giants shared virtually all of the $33 billion worth of vaccine revenue earned worldwide. The pandemic has upended the vaccine business. Moderna has sold or contracted to ...

Why Bill Ackman Sees More Play in Netflix Stock

Text size Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square took a large stake in Netflix with an eye to a recovery in the streaming giant’s shares. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg One pandemic play that has been laid low co...

It’s Time to Bargain Hunt. 27 Picks to Beat the Stock Market From Barron’s Roundtable Experts.

“There is no easier way to make money in the market than to buy a great company under pressure due to short-term concerns.” So said the newest member of the Barron’s Roundtable, David Giroux of T. Row...

Variable Dividends Are a Growing Trend in Resources and Energy. How to Play the Stocks.

For companies that pump out cash, dividends are a popular way to share some of it with their shareholders. But that cash-generation power may fluctuate, so many companies in the energy and resources s...

How to Invest in Commodities Using Funds

Commodities are rarely exciting—and the price of copper, corn, or even oil doesn’t stir investors the way a tweet from Elon Musk does. Yet commodities sit at the crossroads of three of today’s biggest...

Proterra Stock Sank in the SPAC Selloff. Now the Electric Bus Maker Looks Like a Bargain.

Proterra Greenville Facility Courtesy of Proterra Text size Proterra would seem to have a lot going for it. The electric-vehicle technology company operates in a hot sector and has avoided head-on com...