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Bearish Bets: 3 Stocks You Definitely Should Consider Shorting This Week
Each week we identify names that look bearish and may present interesting investing opportunities on the short side. Using technical analysis of the charts of those stocks, and, when appropriate, rece...
Normally I Would Shun This Stock, But Now It’s a ‘Smart’ Option
This is the type of stock I have been avoiding like the plague throughout this year: A name that is delivering stellar revenue growth, but has not achieved profitability yet. It’s SmartSheet (SM...
Find Renewable Income With These Alternative Energy Dividend Stocks
As much of the world is going through a secular shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources to help slow climate change, many renewable energy stocks have promising growth prospects ahead. Let...
Burger King Parent Restaurant Brands Makes a Whopper of a Breakout
Restaurant Brands International (QSR) owns four prominent quick service restaurant brands: Burger King, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Tim Hortons and Firehouse Subs. The QSR stock price has soared highe...
3 High-Dividend Bank Stocks With Yields Above 4%
Many investors have been caught off-guard in the ongoing bear market and thus wondering how they should position their portfolios. The surge of inflation to a 40-year high exerts great pressure on the...
ChargePoint Stock Needs Its Own Boost
EV charging firm ChargePoint Holdings (CHPT) is losing some “amps” on the charts. Let’s check. In this daily bar chart of the Action Alerts PLUS holding below, we can see that C...
Trade AMD and Never Underestimate Lisa Su
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released earnings that disappointed less than two weeks ago. The third quarter had been rough on the entire semiconductor space. Expectations had already been ratcheted in...
Bearish Bets: A Chip Giant and 2 Other Stocks You Should Think About Shorting
Each week we identify names that look bearish and may present interesting investing opportunities on the short side. Using technical analysis of the charts of those stocks, and, when appropriate, rece...
7 Tips for Finding Your Next Great Stock Pick
Hunting for your next great stock pick is one of the most rewarding and entertaining aspects of trading and investing. It is very satisfying to discover what looks like a great opportunity and watch a...
These 3 Dividend Energy Stocks Can Help Protect Against High Inflation
Despite this week’s consumer price index report, inflation is still at high levels, giving investors anxiety. Inflation has been imparting a double-hit on many stocks; it has compressed the oper...
Here Are Three Steady Dividend Stocks for Unsteady Times
Securities that have much lower risk than the broad market can still offer attractive dividend yields. These are usually mature, stalwart companies in non-cyclical sectors and thus they can be interes...
The ‘Sky Is Falling’ at Tyson Foods
Tyson Foods (TSN) was downgraded to underperform from neutral (sell from hold) at a major sell-side firm. This comes ahead of next week’s release of quarterly results. The stock price target is ...
These 2 Value Stocks Are Cheaper Than They Appear
Growth stocks have taken it on the chin throughout 2022 as interest rates have moved relentlessly higher. Even the old FAANG stocks that led the rally for most of 2021 have not been immune. The highes...
Sit Down for This: The Trade Desk Doesn’t Look Like a Good Trade
The Trade Desk Inc. (TTD) is trading lower Wednesday after reporting earnings Wednesday morning. Despite beating expectations on earnings per share and revenue, the stock is less than one dollar away...
Disney Disappoints and I Want Out: Here’s How to Trade It Now
On Tuesday evening, The Walt Disney Company (DIS) released the firm’s fiscal fourth quarter financial results. To say that Disney had an absolutely awful quarter would be to understate reality. ...
Affirm Looks Weak Ahead of Earnings
In our August 26 review of Affirm (AFRM) we wrote that “The charts and indicators of AFRM are weak and traders should avoid the long side for now. Maybe later…” With AFRM scheduled...
Palantir Is Almost Ready to Boogie, But Which Way? Try This Trade
On Monday morning Palantir Technologies (PLTR) released the firm’s third quarter financial results. The results were seen as pedestrian at best. Palantir was an old favorite of mine going back t...
Bearish Bets: 3 Brand-Name Stocks You Should Consider Shorting This Week
Each week we identify names that look bearish and may present interesting investing opportunities on the short side. Using technical analysis of the charts of those stocks, and, when appropriate, rece...
3 Small-Cap Stocks That Pay Solid Dividends to Shareholders
Investors are facing several macro issues in the current environment. Inflation remains stubbornly high, tight energy supply and demand conditions have made energy very expensive, the war between Russ...
Here’s the Inevitable Outcome From the Fed’s Monetary Tightening
On Wednesday the Federal Reserve hiked the Fed Funds rate by another 75bps. Stocks initially rallied as the statement that accompanied the announcement was interpreted to be ‘dovish’. Howe...
AMD Is Tradable But Here’s When I’ll Really Jump on Board
On Tuesday evening, long-time Sarge name Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released the firm’s third quarter financial results after having warned/pre-announced early in October. The numbers reported...
All Is Not ‘Peachy’ at Ford and There’s No Reason for Traders to Chase It
On Monday morning the Wall Street Journal reported that the Ford Motor Co (F) would offer severance packages to some white-collar employees who have eight years of service or more and whose performanc...
Doug Kass: Here’s Why Easy Money Often Winds Up in Money Heaven
There are an increasing number of examples of the tide going out and exposing us to who is swimming naked. Excessive monetary growth gave capital to the likes of Chamath Palihapitiya, Cathie Wood and...
3 High Dividend Stocks to Buy and Hold
When it comes to finding great stocks to hold for the long-term, investors have many routes that can be taken to accumulate wealth. Some stocks are value-oriented, offering shareholders a cheap purcha...
Market Does a Head Fake and the Fed Can’t Be Happy About It
After poor earnings reports from Amazon (AMZN) , Microsoft (MSFT) , Meta (META) , and Alphabet (GOOGL) , the logical move was for the market to the sell off. Even the mighty Apple (AAPL) talked about ...
3 of the Highest Yielding Dividend Champions to Buy Now
The turmoil the stock market has been through this year has caused significant pain to a lot of investors. However, periods like this are inevitable, and while it is painful to endure, it also creates...
Pioneer Natural Resources: Buy, Sell or Hold?
Shares of Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) were trading lower Friday following an earnings and revenue miss. Should we sell? Stand pat? Or look to be a buyer? In our October 18 review of PXD we wrote ...