Consumer spending tightens up during an economic slowdown as consumers prioritize essentials. This list of essentials typically includes groceries, mortgage payments, and utilities. Such belt-tightening can cause delays in discretionary spending on vehicles, renovations, vacations, and shopping. Accordingly, positioning a portfolio for a potential downturn requires taking a hard look at the products and services
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Buying and holding stocks for the long term takes up less time and can produce solid returns. Instead of looking at technical indicators and studying the market every day, investors can focus on the fundamentals and find companies with firm foundations and attractive growth prospects. Millionaire-maker growth stocks often exhibit top and bottom-line growth. They
Analysts want to hit pause on Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) stock, saying the software as a service company is overbought as an artificial intelligence play. Since four analysts downgraded PLTR stock around June 16 they’re down 15%, trading June 22 around $14. The price remains generous. The company had $1.9 billion in sales last year but
Income investors often search for stocks for long-term dividends and buybacks to round out their portfolios. The obvious starting point to locate these types of investments is by looking at yield. This tells you the percentage of that company’s share price paid out in dividends. It offers a touchpoint for investors, but it’s an imperfect
Companies within the tech sector have been a real draw for investors for a long time. Stocks like Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), which are all in the tech sector, are some of the most popular companies trading in the U.S. The upside for the tech sector keeps improving with the application of generative AI.
Electric vehicle technology will continue to advance as adoption rises. Human ingenuity always meets demand. Accordingly, as EV demand continues to grow over time, investors will be focused on only on conventional EV stocks, but those of companies enabling the growth of this sector and providing the infrastructure necessary for such growth. Indeed, advances in
In this article PACW GOOGL LCID MRNA TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Tesla electric car is plugged into a recharging terminal at a Healthy Living Market store June 18, 2023 in South Burlington, Vermont. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Tesla —
China-based electric vehicle manufacturer Nio (NYSE:NIO) is finally waking up to the idea that vehicle price cuts could be a winning strategy. Nio’s management doesn’t seem to think that battery swapping should be a free service. Nio’s pricing policy changes shouldn’t inspire confidence in NIO stock traders. I don’t always agree with analysts. However, I agree
It’s not easy to find affordable blue-chip stocks from a valuation perspective. Since these stocks represent fundamentally strong business stories, there is a valuation premium attached. A good example of my point is Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST). On a sustained basis, the stock trades above a forward price-earnings ratio of 30. Aggressive buying is seen on
When financial traders are willing to buy a stock at any price, that’s not a good sign. It’s hard to be a contrarian with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) now, as MSFT stock continues to steamroll ahead on artificial intelligence hype. Yet, no company – not even the almighty Microsoft – can remain a darling of the markets forever.
For those that want a path to riches, jumping aboard innovative enterprises offers a sensible methodology, thus bringing us to millionaire-maker robotics stocks. Thanks to the integration of manufacturing acumen and the rise of automation (through artificial intelligence and machine learning), the robotics industry has never been more pertinent. And this pertinence should only rise
Investors find themselves in a landscape transformed by persistent inflation and a banking sector crisis that has rattled most publicly traded firms. However, amidst the chaos, a group of resilient contenders has emerged, representing the top growth stocks to buy. Tech stocks that took a major beating last year hint at a vibrant resurgence. Meanwhile,
In recent years, several U.S stocks reached market capitalizations near, at, or above $1 trillion. Now the question is – what will it take for these top valued stocks to reach $10 trillion? The answer to this $10 trillion question varies from company to company. For starters, some members of the “trillion dollar club” have
In this week’s Growth & Income video, I discuss both Luxfer Holdings (LXFR), and CVR Refining (CVRR). Both of these companies are not well-known stocks, but that does not mean they don’t have positive future growth drivers and pay impressive dividends. Luxfer Holdings: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/LXFR?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID CVR Refining: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/CVR?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Follow us on StockTwits: stocktwits.com/ZacksResearch Follow us on
New CEOs can breathe new life into a company by launching new initiatives, hiring more effective managers, and/or entering new markets. One great example is General Electric. (NYSE:GE). When Larry Culp took the helm of that storied firm in 2018, it was losing billions of dollars. However, after cutting GE’s costs and making it far
Doing good and profiting handsomely don’t have to be mutually exclusive endeavors, which brings us to high-potential renewable energy stocks. Sure, people shouldn’t aspire to philanthropy to enhance their own wealth; that sort of defeats the purpose. Nevertheless, you can kill two birds with one stone (literally, I guess) with renewability-oriented enterprises. First, let’s get
With oil prices hovering around $70 and some analysts believing they could go as high as $100. Therefore, it may seem like a waste of time to think about high-risk oil stocks. However, there will come a day – perhaps later than 2050 – when the only place you’ll find an internal combustion engine vehicle is
To paraphrase a passage from Ecclesiastes, there’s a time to bump and a time to dump and that brings us to overvalued value stocks to sell. Listen, nobody likes talking about this subject because, psychologically, it’s akin to hurting puppies. And if there’s one thing you don’t do in America, it’s hurting puppies. There will
I’m on the record as being a big fan of dividend stocks. But not every dividend stock is a good one. In general, dividends are great because they provide an easy way to grow your portfolio, especially if you reinvest your payouts into the market. Other investors use dividends as a reliable source of passive
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