A combination of poorly performing stocks and an ongoing focus by activist investors on corporate governance suggests that 2022 will be ripe for corporate battles between management and significant shareholders. At least, that’s according to a recent article on stocks from Fortune and Cox School of Business finance professor Shane Goodwin. “Hedge fund activists like
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Finance can be a fiercely competitive field. After all, it’s a famously high-paying industry known to deal out six or seven figures in salaries and bonuses for those at the top. Even those on the bottom rung can expect to start at a good wage compared with other fields. You may not walk into your
Preston Pysh talks with Bitcoin educators Jimmy Song and CJ Wilson about their new lobbying effort. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 0:00:00 – Intro 0:00:12 – Cj’s Experience in the MLB. 0:11:13 – Why Was Cj in Washington DC Recently? 0:18:30 – What Do Most Staffers Think of Bitcoin? 0:20:09 – What Do Most Politicians
Headquartered in California, solid-state electric-vehicle (EV) battery maker QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) stock is part of the electrification revolution of the 2020s. To take part in this exciting movement, all you have to do is pick up a few shares of QS stock. Source: Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com Don’t get me wrong — an investment in QuantumScape isn’t for everyone.
Inflation in the U.S. may not be able to go any higher in the current economic cycle, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday on the heels of yet another hot price index report. “I think this is the highest I’ve ever seen these numbers, and they merit attention, they merit what Mr. Bullard said yesterday, and
In this article ABNB The Airbnb logo is seen on a little mini pyramid under the glass Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris, France, March 12, 2019. Charles Platiau | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in after hours trading: Airbnb — Shares of the property rental company advanced 5% during extended trading
Did you know that The National Chicken Council estimated Americans would consume 1.42 billion wings during yesterday’s Super Bowl? I wonder how many of them were processed by Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN). I wonder about a lot of strange things, but this one is specific because while this year’s the first since 2015 with no projected
Investors probably should consider not buying Teladoc (NYSE:TDOC) stock prior to its upcoming Feb. 22 earnings announcement. Source: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com Although there is news which suggests it could significantly outpace guidance, there are just too many other negatives. We’ll dig into the negatives but first: the good news for TDOC stock. The Good
Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock has a few significant headwinds to fight off. At the same time, there are expectations that it should perform well when it releases earnings in March. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com Let’s jump right into the positive first, and then the negative. That said, my intuition is that the negatives right now
Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) has a solid growth story and one that attracts admiration from across the world. The company has successfully survived the pandemic. It is also the closest service one can get to Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). SHOP stock went from the pandemic low of $1,040 in March 2021 to a whopping high at $1,762 by November
In this article SPLK CSCO Weber, which plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ‘WEBR’ could be valued between $4 billion and $6 billion. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Weber – Shares of the grill maker tumbled
Dividend aristocrats are companies that have raised their dividend payments at least once a year for the past 25 years. Many of these names move on to become dividend kings that have increased payouts for 50 consecutive years. Investors who want sustainable passive income as well as capital appreciation usually look at such dividend stocks,
Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR), a data analytics company, was one of the hottest stocks out there in early 2021. Due to excitement over the narrative surrounding it, investors bid up PLTR stock to unsustainable levels. The “meme stock” phenomenon may have played a role too in its big run-up last year. However, this is not for
The late great comedian George Carlin was often fond of saying that nobody could spout “nonsense” (he used a different term here) like organized religion. I’m curious what his thoughts would have been on electric vehicle firms like Canoo (NASDAQ:GOEV). While investments like GOEV stock appear compelling on paper, the actual performance for many of
Millions of Americans have participated in the United States Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), getting access to basic food products that they might have otherwise been unable to afford. Given that SNAP is a federal program, it would be easy to assume that it functions relatively uniformly throughout the U.S. In practice, however, the presence
Ryan McQueeney uses Steelcase (SCS) and Buckle (BKE) as examples of what dividend investors should look for when considering low-priced stocks. Steelcase: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/SCS?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Buckle: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/BKE?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Follow us on StockTwits: http://stocktwits.com/ZacksResearch Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZacksResearch Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZacksInvestmentResearch
Despite suffering heavily due to the pandemic, the real estate industry was one of the quickest to pick back up. It has gone through a prolonged period of falling and stabilizing and then falling again, but the property prices are expected to start rising soon. Opendoor Technologies (NASDAQ:OPEN) works around the housing market and it
Artur Widak | NurPhoto | Getty Images The bitcoin narrative could be tested this week as investors monitor tense developments between Ukraine and Russia and weigh the possibility of the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates by 50 basis points, or 0.5 percentage point, in March. The largest cryptocurrency by market capital currency has long been
In this article CAR ANET BKD People wait in line at Avis rental agency in the Miami International Airport Car Rental Center on April 12, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell Monday: Avis Budget — Avis shares dipped slightly even after the car
The good news in 2021 is that dividend payments were back after many companies cut or suspended their payments due to Covid-19. Dividend ETFs were the net beneficiary of this return to normalized payouts. S&P 500 companies increased their dividends last year by more than $70 billion. Morningstar market strategist Dave Sekera believes some of the companies in