- CNBC•2 hours ago
Goldman: Here are the 10 stocks most loved by hedge funds — including Microsoft
Goldman's "Hedge Fund VIP" list has outperformed the S&P 500 by an average of 2.2 percentage points per year since 2001. The bank's hedge fund VIP (very important positions) list consists of the 50 stocks that "appear most often among the top 10 holdings of fundamentally driven hedge fund portfolios" for the June quarter. Popular technology companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet are among the top holdings.
- CNBC•23 hours ago
Here's how much debt Americans have at every age
Credit cards, student loans, mortgages, car loans, personal loans: Most Americans have a combination of these sources of debt. The average American now has about $38,000 in personal debt, excluding home mortgages. "Despite recognizing that debt is dangerous waters, Americans are jumping in with both feet and struggling to stay afloat," says Emily Holbrook, director of planning for Northwestern Mutual.
- InvestorPlace•22 hours ago
Are WANG Stocks Really the New FANG?
A few years back, CNBC personality and former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer coined the FANG acronym. Last week, he replaced it with WANG stocks. The FANG acronym was supposed to encapsulate the market’s four big growth tech stocks that represented the
- InvestorPlace•18 hours ago
Ford’s (F) Engine Is Ready to Turn Over
Ford (NYSE:F), one of the most celebrated names in business history, has been hammered so far this year, losing more than a third of its value since January 18. It is remarkable how far the once-mighty Ford has fallen. Ford’s total value is now substantially lower than Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), a company with a tiny fraction of Ford’s revenues, and whose CEO has been behaving erratically on social media and elsewhere all year.
- InvestorPlace•16 hours ago
With GE Stock at Nine Year Lows, Is It Time to Buy the Dip?
Industrial conglomerate General Electric (NYSE:GE) made headlines again this week — and not in a good way. GE stock dropped below $12 for the first time since July 2009. To put that in perspective, GE stock was a $30-plus stock at the beginning of last year. GE stock momentary stopped the bleeding when it dropped below $20.
Associated Press•21 hours agoHow to reset retirement plans to weather a downturn
Financial planners say the following actions can help make your money last. Investors who haven't regularly rebalanced back to a target mix of stocks, bonds and cash probably have way too much of their portfolios in stocks. The right asset allocation depends on your income needs and risk tolerance, among other factors, but many financial planners recommend having a few years' worth of withdrawals in safer investments to mitigate the urge to sell when stocks fall.
- CNBC Videos•23 hours ago
JP Morgan predicts Tesla stock plunge because funding to ...
J.P. Morgan now believes funding behind Tesla CEO Elon Musk's plan to go private was "not secured." The firm slashed its December price target for Tesla shares to $195 from $308.
- Investopedia•21 hours ago
Buy Verizon While the Stock Is Cheap: Barron's
While its peers in the telecommunications space are making big moves into new markets with headline acquisitions, Verizon Communications Inc. ( VZ) has been relatively quiet. "Fundamentals in U.S. wireless have turned the corner," wrote Deutsche Bank analyst Matthew Niknam in a note responding to Verizon's most recent quarterly results posted July 24. In the second quarter, investors applauded Verizon for posting earnings above the Street's estimates while growing overall revenue, including gains in wireless, despite the industry suffering from a long-lasting price war.
- Fortune•16 hours ago
People Sharing Netflix, Hulu, Cable Passwords with, You Guessed It, Millennials in the Lead
Millennials have ruined most everything, according to news reports, so why not kill video-streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, too? People aged around 22 to 36 are the most likely to share their passwords paid streaming services, according to new data shared by an executive from media-research company Magid on CNBC. Jill Rosengard Hill told CNBC that her company’s research shows 35% of those classified as millennials share passwords, while only 19% of Gen Xers, and 13% of Baby Boomers do so.
InvestorPlace•19 hours ago5 Top Stock Trades for Tuesday — Buy AMD, IQ and LULU?
Remember, don’t fight price! Here’s a look at our top stock trades for the week. Despite the rebound though, the coast is not all clear yet for IQ stock. If IQ can do so, a rebound up to the 50-day is in the cards.
- MarketWatch•3 hours ago
Alibaba earnings: Spending for a future beyond e-commerce
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. dominates online shopping in China, but the company has bigger plans in mind. “We think Alibaba is years ahead of any competitor in driving digital commerce forward,” MKM Partners analyst Rob Sanderson, who rates the stock a buy with a $280 target price, wrote earlier this summer. Alibaba’s investments have weighed on recent results, and the question is whether investors will show patience going forward as the company plays the long game.
- Zacks•17 hours ago
3 "Internet of Things" Stocks to Buy Right Now
Throughout the chip-making space, companies have successfully adapted to the changing needs of the consumer, including an increased demand for small, high-powered chips that enable “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. For those that don’t know, the Internet of Things is the growing world of interconnected household and industrial devices. Everyday products and machines can now be embedded with sensor technology to process data or interact with other electronic devices.
- InvestorPlace•yesterday
8 Undervalued Biotech Stocks to Watch
From an overall perspective, biotech stocks have enjoyed respectable gains this year. The sector exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (NYSEARCA:XBI) is up double digits since January’s opening session. That said, the market movement has been anything
MarketWatch•52 minutes agoThe Dow is on the verge of busting out of correction phase for the 1st time in 6 months
The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday was on the brink of bursting out of correction territory for the first time in more than six months, underscoring some signs of renewed optimism on Wall Street. The Dow (DJIA)stands less than 0.5% shy of emerging from correction territory. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP) narrowly avoided its own corrective phase and has put in more than two dozen records in 2018.
- CNBC Videos•15 hours ago
Cramer's lightning round: Buy Twitter despite imperfect q...
Jim Cramer shares his take on callers' favorite stocks, including why he thinks Twitter is worth buying.
- Barrons.com•20 hours ago
Ford's Big Bet Could Lead to Even Bigger Stock Gains
Shares of Ford Motor (F) have had a difficult year, falling more than 22% as a variety of headwinds buffet the automaker. The stock is trailing behind shares of both General Motors (GM) and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCAU). Where we're headed: Ford needs to make a change.
- InvestorPlace•yesterday
Exxon Stock Is Packed Full of Easy Profits in 2018
Last February, the stock market had a sharp correction from fears of runaway interest rates. In addition to the February market-wide fears, Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) stock had its own reasons to fall over 20% from an earnings event. Furthermore, the bounce in XOM stock has merely been to recover half of the first quarter 20% correction.
- Bloomberg•19 hours ago
Tesla Bull Has ‘Dream’ Tim Cook Will Help Elon Musk Run Company
Ross Gerber, the chief executive officer of fund manager Gerber Kawasaki Inc. and one of the most outspoken bullish investors in Tesla Inc., told Bloomberg Television on Monday there’s “no doubt” that the electric-car maker needs a skilled operator to swoop in and help Elon Musk. When asked who he’d want, Gerber responded with a doozy of an idea: Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook. “That logistical expertise is exactly what he did for Steve Jobs,” Gerber said of Cook, who was COO and interim CEO of Apple before succeeding the late co-founder when he died in 2011.
- Barrons.com•18 hours ago
Why Apple Stock Could Be In for a Clobbering
Shares of Apple (AAPL) have outperformed the broader market, the tech sector in general, and fellow FAANG components Facebook (FB) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) since the start of the year in its journey to become the first company with a $1 trillion market capitalization. Where we were: Apple has risen 27.3% since the start of the year, nearly double the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF's (XLK) 14.3% gain, and it's remained popular with smart-money players like hedge funds even when other tech stars have fallen out of favor. Where we're headed: Potentially lower, argues New Street Research, if iPhone sales disappoint next year.
- Zacks•17 hours ago
Netflix (NFLX) Stock Surged Monday: Time to Buy Again?
Netflix NFLX saw its stock price climb over 4% Monday, which helped stop some of NFLX’s post-Q2 earnings decline. Plus, is it time for you to jump back into Netflix stock now? Netflix started to run short ads for other NFLX content based on its recommendation algorithms during the countdown period before the next episode of a show automatically starts to play.
- InvestorPlace•5 hours ago
Why You Shouldn’t Invest in FANG Stocks
Over the last five years, the FANG stocks have been big winners. Named by stock guru Jim Cramer, these companies include tech giants Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL). Since 2013, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet (Google) have returned a cumulative 347.13%, 561.29%, 752.49% and 793.22%.
- Investopedia•yesterday
This is What Bill Gates's Portfolio Looks Like (BRK.B, MSFT)
Bill Gates is the second richest man in the world (after Amazon's Jeff Bezos), with a net worth of over just under $95 billion as of August 17, 2018, according to Forbes. Gates has since retired from the day to day functioning of Microsoft and focuses his efforts on his philanthropic causes through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation has a substantial portfolio of investments.
- Investopedia•2 days ago
Top 4 Technology Penny Stocks to Watch
It tends to range in and out of the penny stock category, as it rises over $5 per share on occasion, and after year-to-date gains of approximately 24%, the stock is currently trading at $5.56. As you might expect, the company is very small, with a market cap of just over $301 million. With data breaches and privacy concerns drawing ever more attention to cybersecurity issues, Zix shows promise for investors who are willing to take on the risk of a penny stock.
- Morningstar•5 hours ago
Ultimate Stock-Pickers: Top 10 High-Conviction and New-Money Purchases
For the past nine years, our primary goal with the Ultimate Stock-Pickers concept has been to uncover investment ideas that not only reflect the most recent transactions of our grouping of top investment managers but are also timely enough for investors to get some value from them. In cross-checking the most current valuation work and opinions of Morningstar's own cadre of stock analysts against the actions (or inactions) of some of the best equity managers in the business, we hope to uncover a few good ideas each quarter that investors can dig into a bit deeper to see if they warrant an investment. With all but two (24 out of 26) of our Ultimate Stock-Pickers having reported their holdings for the second quarter of 2018, we now have a good sense of what stocks piqued their interest during the period.
- MarketWatch•8 hours ago
Investors have misdiagnosed Amazon’s push into the pharmacy business
Or more precisely, how will Amazon’s entrance into the retail pharmacy business change this industry? Then we had a small but important insight that shifted our thinking on Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) : The preponderance of drugs in the U.S. is consumed by an older population, whose habits change slowly or not at all. Accordingly, it’s likely that Amazon’s (AMZN) online pharmacy will not significantly impact the existing drug industry.
