Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Bill Ackman has found another typical investment for him: a high quality business with predictable cash flows, durable growth and a catalyst in the coronavirus to separate it from other stocks. Company: Restaurant Brands International Inc. (QSR) Business: A quick service restaurant
An employee of Carmelina’s in the North End of Boston tapes up paper in the windows of the restaurant, which is temporarily closing during the coronavirus pandemic, on March 25, 2020. David L. Ryan | The Boston Globe via Getty Images There was a glimmer of hope in the dismal April jobs report in that
Despite more than 20 million job losses in April, equities continued to power higher on Friday. Let’s look at a few top stock trades for next week. Top Stock Trades for Tomorrow #1: Invesco QQQ ETF The Invesco QQQ ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ) hit its highest level since February. The exchange-traded fund has been resilient, rallying more
Thought a record plunge in employment would take stocks down? Not even close. The S&P 500 rallied over 1.5% in the stock market today, while the Nasdaq its highest level since February. At this point, investors shouldn’t be surprised. We’ve seemingly rallied on every poor weekly jobless claims report, and barely flinched from this week’s
As the markets look to finish the first full week of the new calendar month, the current bullish trend in motion continues to look friendly overall. But notorious fabled advice is also making sense in select overbought price charts, hinting at stocks to sell right now. It wasn’t long ago that the novel coronavirus pandemic allowed
Nora Tam | South China Morning Post | Getty Images Tesla stock has risen more than 7% since Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tweet a week ago that the company’s shares were priced “too high.” Shares of Tesla closed down down 10.3% last Friday on Musk’s tweet, but have quickly recovered those losses and then some –
CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) beat market estimates for sales in its May 6 report but the share fell 5% anyway. The CVS stock price has eked out a 3% gain since its mid-March low, while the S&P 500 index is up 5.1% in the same seven or so weeks. Source: Shutterstock That report? Earnings of $2.01 billion,
Lay Guzman stands behind a partial protective plastic screen and wears a mask and gloves as she works as a cashier at the Presidente Supermarket on April 13, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Investors will watch the economy’s reopening progress, as well as a series of economic reports in the coming
Earnings reports are a cornerstone of fundamentals-based research for stock market investors and traders. This is true across all economic sectors, and today we’ll apply this concept to companies in the pharmaceutical industry and their big stock charts. Source: Shutterstock Don’t get the wrong idea. One good earnings report doesn’t mean that a company’s stock
White-hat hackers use their powers for good. They help out organizations that might have security breaches before the organizations get hacked. Hacking doesn’t always mean hacking into someone else’s system. “The use of ‘hacker’ to mean ‘security breaker’ is a confusion on the part of the mass media,” said Richard Matthew Stallman, a well-known white-hat
It’s not like Americans just sit at home watching their calendars and clocks, waiting for this lockdown to end. Things are still going on, the economy is still working. There are still solid consumer stocks to consider. The economy is just operating on a different level and companies that aren’t usually headline grabbers — like
[Editor’s Note: “Sell Moderna (MRNA) Stock as Covid-19 Catalyst Inflates Valuation” was originally published April 2, 2020. It is regularly updated to include the most relevant information.] Source: Shutterstock Is it too late to buy Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) stock? The prospective novel coronavirus vaccine has made much headway in recent weeks. But many other biotech firms
Mehmet Ali Ozcan | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images A rally in bitcoin led the cryptocurrency market higher ahead of a major technical event for the digital coin and as industry participants report an increased interest from institutional investors. Bitcoin crossed $10,000 on Friday morning Singapore time, the first time it has hit that price
In the center of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the question on income investors’ minds is whether any stock can afford to pay its dividend. United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS) stock can handle that load. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com For the March quarter, UPS had net income of $935 million, $1.11 per share diluted, on revenue
Pedestrians wearing face masks walk past a boarded up Coach store in SoHo amid the coronavirus outbreak on May 3, 2020 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images April’s jobs report will be horrific, and with the worst job losses ever, it should provide a critical look into the
Thursday was another example of inexplicable price action, with stocks rallying even as the weekly jobless claims number spiked, setting the stage for what’s going to be an unsurprisingly dismal April jobs report before the open Friday morning. Source: Provided by Finviz The S&P 500 rose 1.15%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.89% The Nasdaq
Over the weekend, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A, NYSE:BRK.B) reported a nearly $50 billion loss for the first quarter of 2020. Berkshire Hathaway stock dropped this week following the report. Shares are now down 23% in the past month. Source: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com For decades, Berkshire Hathaway stock has consistently outperformed the S&P 500. Opportunities to
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) announced its Q1 earnings on May 5 after the market closed. The COVID-19 pandemic as well as the result of the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia have caused oil stocks to plunge. In 2020, OXY stock has tumbled about 66%. Source: Pavel Kapysh / Shutterstock.com Yet that price decline shows only
Peloton machine Source: Peloton Many on Wall Street were convinced the usual playbook would occur when this market and economic downturn hit. Bubble-like tech stocks that led the way up would get crushed as a bear market exposed their hype and sent stock speculators scrambling. But the opposite has happened. The names skeptics used to
In March, Chevron (NYSE:CVX) stock saw a sharp decline to near $50 per share, putting it in deeply oversold territory as panic-selling engulfed the markets. Source: Denis Kuvaev / Shutterstock.com Subsequently, fiscal stimulus and expansionary monetary policy triggered a sharp market rally. Production cut agreement between OPEC and non-OPEC members also boosted sentiments for the