Month: July 2020

Some 180 companies in the S&P 500 index have pulled their earnings guidance because of novel coronavirus uncertainties limiting the visibility of investors and analysts, the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend. Source: Shutterstock Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) unofficially kick off earnings season this week. Corporate earnings among companies
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Money management is one of the most important (and least understood) aspects of trading. Many traders, for instance, enter a trade without any kind of exit strategy and are often more likely to take premature profits or, worse, run losses. Traders should understand what exits are available to them and attempt to create an exit strategy that
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Business spending showed some signs of green shoots in June, as manufacturers bought more equipment and spending shifted away from stay-at-home sectors to ones that could rebound in a reopening economy,  according to Cortera, a software company which analyzes business-to-business credit transactions. But overall June spending was still depressed, down 10.9% from the same month
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As of June 29, Beijing-based coffee retailer Luckin Coffee (OTCMKTS:LKNCY) got delisted from the NASDAQ Exchange. Now, Luckin stock is a penny stock that may also be a bankruptcy-candidate. Source: Keitma / Shutterstock.com There has recently been increased day trading interest in shares of potentially bankrupt companies, such as Hertz Global (NYSE:HTZ), JCPenney (OTCMKTS:JCPNQ), and Whiting Petroleum (NYSE:WLL).
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As one of the world’s biggest providers of computers, network servers, and related products and services, Dell Technologies Inc. competes with a range of giant technology companies, including HP Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Group, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., and Apple Inc. After putting up billions of dollars of his own money to take the company
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If you’ve restricted yourself to domestic stocks, then you could be missing out on the virtually unstoppable growth of a massive and successful Chinese company. I’m referring to Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), the e-commerce giant, as the momentum in Alibaba stock isn’t likely to slow down. Source: testing / Shutterstock.com Of course, a black-swan event such as
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Thursday: Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) — The pharmacy operator fell more than 3% in the premarket on weaker-than-expected results for its fiscal third quarter. Walgreens reported earnings per share of 83 cents, well below a FactSet estimate of $1.19 per share. The company’s fiscal-year earnings guidance
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Carnival’s (NYSE: CCL) fiscal second-quarter earnings fell short of investor expectations by a wide margin. Analysts, on average, were expecting a net loss of $1.76 per share on $737.8 million of revenue.  On June 18, Carnival reported a net loss of $3.30 per share on $700 million of revenue. Since the announcement CCL stock has shed
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A battle heats up between a deep-research investor with a private equity mindset and an underperforming small cap software stock. This is a textbook case of good activism — a company with poor operating history, horrible corporate governance, underperforming stock, overpaid CEO and a large, long-term shareholder with a very friendly and reasonable request with impressive
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