Category: Stocks Watch

Stocks reversed higher Monday to start a week chock full of earnings reports, including Alphabet (GOOGL) earnings that came out after the close. Alphabet, the parent of Google, leapt as much as 6% after the close, following the company’s second-quarter results. The company reported adjusted earnings of $11.75 a share and sales of $32.66 billion. […]

This week is one of the biggest for tech-sector earnings, with $2 trillion in market cap across Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet, but experienced investors who actively trade accounts worth $1 million or more are focused less on FANG and more on the overall view of the tech sector. And they don’t like tech right now […]

Twitter stock is one to watch as the social media giant gets set to report second-quarter earnings while working through a business recovery that started in the third quarter of 2017. An area of focus during the earnings report will be user growth, as Twitter (TWTR) has reportedly slashed millions of suspicious accounts. The suspensions […]

Stocks were flat last week as second-quarter earnings season kicked off and trade-war fears continued to filter through the markets. Both the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) gained less than 0.2%, to leave the indexes modestly higher so far in 2018: Earnings season hits full swing over the next few […]

A popular protection strategy against the U.S.-China trade dispute may soon collapse. Mayflower Advisors’ Larry Glazer warned recently that a lot of investors are setting themselves up for pain by paying an “absurd and ridiculous premium” for small cap stocks. “Investors are fearful, and they’ve been positioning for the smallest stocks they can get their […]

With Americans spending more money than ever on footwear it is the perfect time to invest in stocks that offer a channel into this growth. We have recommended two companies, Boot Barn & Shoe Carnival, that we believe could support your feet as well as your investments. A study posted by the U.S. Bureau of […]

Tech stocks are still where the best action is at. This made us wonder: how is the top analyst on Wall Street choosing to invest? TipRanks — a platform that ranks Wall Street analysts on financial calls — pinpoints Canaccord’s Richard Davis as the Street’s best-performing analyst. That’s an impressive honor: #1 out of over […]

Crypto markets are seeing mostly green today, July 21, continuing the momentum of this week’s upswing. The top ten altcoins are solidly regaining strength today, up as much 8 percent, according to Coin360, with Bitcoin (BTC) only slightly in the green, hovering near yesterday’s levels. The top cryptocurrency is currently trading at $7,426 at press […]

Just about everyone wants to know what famed investor Warren Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, owns and whether or not they should own those stocks, too. The answer, as with every investment decision, isn’t usually a simple yes or no. Which is why these three Motley Fool investors have looked at the stocks that […]

David Herro (Trades, Portfolio), Oakmark portfolio manager and Morningstar’s international fund manager of the year 2016, disclosed in his shareholder letter this week that he purchased Southwest Airlines and Reckitt Benckiser in the second quarter. Herro has until Aug. 15 to provide details of his second-quarter buys and sales but reported the trades and this […]

You can’t deny that investors who recognized Netflix’s (NASDAQ:NFLX) staggering potential early on have already enjoyed life-changing gains. And following its post-earnings plunge earlier this week, there’s certainly a case to be made that the video-streaming giant will continue to beat the broader market. Still, that raises the question: Are there any stocks today that […]