It has been a while since investors greeted what’s expected to be a strong earnings seasons with such disdain. Earnings for S&P 500 companies are expected to grow 17% over the next 12 months, according to FactSet. Yet, valuations that investors are attaching to these earnings have dropped over the past few months, largely due […]
A combination of rising interest rates and lower corporate taxes could be a boon to bank stocks in 2018, but this is an industry where investors can afford to be picky, because the banking industry is unlike any other. With more than 400 banks trading on major American exchanges, investors have the ability to select […]
Whether you’re looking for a steady and dependable source of income, potential for big capital growth, or both, these Motley Fool contributors have identified three top dividend stocks that should be at the top of your “buy” list this month. Their recommendations include a technology leader with a dominant position in its niche in Garmin […]
Investors have plenty to worry about, but their growing gloominess actually could be bullish for the stock market. That’s the suggestion from David Templeton, portfolio manager and principal at Horan Capital Advisors. “With much of the sentiment now decidedly bearish, just possibly the market is nearing a bottom,” Templeton wrote in a blog post dated […]
U.S. stocks fell on Friday as several banking companies weighed down the major indexes on the final day of an otherwise strong week for equities. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 122.91 points to close at 24,360.14, with J.P. Morgan Chase as the worst-performing stock in the index. The S&P 500 closed 0.3 percent lower […]
Wall Street is hoping that first-quarter earnings growth and corporate forecasts are strong enough to bring the FAANG group of stocks back into favor and take the spotlight off worries that caused the recent sell-off in the high-flying group. With valuations below recent peaks, the group – comprised of Facebook, Amazon.com, Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Netflix […]
James Cakmak just left his job as a Wall Street analyst covering internet stocks to focus on running Snailz Inc., an app he co-founded and refers to as “the OpenTable of nail salons.” As a result, Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. had to discontinue coverage of Twitter Inc. TWTR, -0.83% PayPal Holdings Inc. PYPL, -0.25% […]
Technology companies, banks and industrial companies all rose Thursday as investors got ready for big banks to announce their first-quarter results and let go of some of their concerns about the trade dispute between the U.S. and China. Big tech companies like Apple and Microsoft, the market’s leaders over the last year, rose again. Industrial […]
As the stock market rose sharply on Thursday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer pinpointed a key component of the bull case that helped equities climb. the lack of “explosive” Trump tweets. “We didn’t see a threat to Russia,” the “Mad Money” host said. “We didn’t get a tweet about an attack on the FBI or special prosecutor […]
Stocks opened higher on Thursday as the market begins to show signs of a possible comeback, though there is hardly a guarantee the worst is over amid continued trade uncertainty. This means that many investors are eagerly awaiting first quarter earnings season to help avoid any further volatility. Finding stocks that look poised to top […]
The U.S. shale-oil revolution is mature enough that a few rounds of boom-and-bust have elapsed. Even the companies that managed to hang on after the recent down cycle—which saw crude futures shed more than half their value from a June 2014 peak—have been forced to retool some of the industry’s biggest projects and streamline their […]
Investors were anticipating a more volatile 2018, but few expected the severity and frequency of the swings seen on Wall Street this year. Markets have not seen moves this wild since the financial crisis, according to LPL Financial’s Ryan Detrick. “Last year, 2017, was one of the historically least volatile markets we’ve seen since the […]
