To avoid that frustration, investors would do well to deploy a simplifying strategy for particularly risky investments. One such strategy that can help reduce your risk is dollar-cost averaging. If you had implemented this tactic when buying shares of Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) last year, it would have reduced your losses on the stock by 20%.
Shares of Bill.com Holdings (NYSE: BILL), the payments specialist for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), were taking a dive today after the company posted strong results in its fiscal second quarter but offered disappointing guidance for the current period. Bill.com, which is a software-as-a-service company that helps SMBs handle payments and back-office accounting, said core revenue rose 49% in the quarter, and total revenue jumped 66% to $260 million, which beat estimates at $243.5 million. CEO Rene Lacerte said, "We delivered strong second-quarter results and achieved another quarter of non-GAAP profitable growth as we executed on our strategy to be the essential financial operations platform for SMBs."
As of 12:59 p.m. ET, the stock was up 21.9%. Last night, DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria raised his rating on the AI-focused software-as-a-service (SaaS) stock to "buy," saying C3.ai is "a truly scarce asset in a critical software arena," and that the generative AI could be a "killer app" for artificial intelligence. The analyst endorsement was the latest piece of good news for C3.ai, whose shares have surged this week as investors look for ways to get exposure to the artificial intelligence boom.
Palantir makes data analytics software used by government and commercial customers. In a regulatory filing overnight, the company disclosed that on Jan. 29 Chief Accounting Officer Jeffrey Buckley announced plans to step down as soon as Palantir's 2022 10-K is filed. Palantir also said that Chief Operating Officer Shyam Sankar was named chief technology officer and Chief Legal Officer Ryan Taylor was named chief revenue officer.
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The year has started well for stock market investors, no doubt of that. The S&P 500 has jumped 9%, and the NASDAQ is up nearly 17%. While this doesn’t reverse last year’s losses, the gains, prompted by several releases of positive economic data, do indicate a shift to more positive investor sentiment. But there is always a voice of caution, and today it’s coming from JPMorgan strategist Marko Kolanovic, who warns that the stock rally likely won’t last – and that it has only postponed, not ended,
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Shares of enterprise-software company Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM) plunged on Friday morning after it reported financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2023. In Q2, Atlassian generated revenue of nearly $873 million, up almost 27% year over year. Atlassian was able to add more than 4,000 net new customers during Q2, which is encouraging.
Shares of 2U (NASDAQ: TWOU) exploded higher on Friday morning after the online learning company reported a modest earnings beat in its fiscal Q4 2022 results last night. Analysts had expected 2U to earn only $0.21 per share for the quarter, and 2U topped that forecast with an adjusted profit of $0.23 per share. While 2U reported a profit for the quarter on a non-GAAP (adjusted) basis, when calculated according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), 2U actually lost $0.15 per share.
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