Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

For over a quarter of a century after its 1996 IPO, fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) had been unable to produce reliable shareholder returns. Even the stock’s noteworthy rallies to...

Financial stocks have outperformed tech stocks over the past 12 months and YTD. Financials have beaten all sectors except for one over those time periods. Can the outperformance continue? It has...

GeneDx (NASDAQ:WGS) was the top performing midcap stock of 2024, rising more than 2,700% last year. It started 2024 at about $2.70 per share and ended it at just under $77 per share. The stock’s...

In January, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) unexpectedly rose to 3%, surpassing the expected 2.9% annualized inflation rate which is still far from the Fed’s 2% target. This was the highest inflation...

For a few months now, I’ve been referring to today’s heightened geopolitical climate as the “new red Cold War,” where artificial intelligence (AI)—not necessarily fighter jets and nuclear...

Q4 S&P 500 EPS growth is expected to come in at 16.9%, the highest growth rate in three years Large-cap outlier earnings dates this week include: ANSYS, Akamai Technologies and Trimble...

When the stock market seems to be on a roll, trending ever so higher without much interruption, there comes a point when the excess returns begin to concentrate in a single area while leaving most...

In December 2024, the travel industry hit an important milestone, at least in terms of air travel. That is, traffic in many continents exceeded 2019 levels for the first time since the 2020 pandemic....

Warren Buffett sold large shares of Bank of America and Citigroup, increasing his already large cash pile. Among his additions, Constellation Brands has a strong position in the beer market but...

The momentum factor is crushing the competition year to date, based on a set of ETF proxies through Friday’s close (Feb. 14). After a strong run last year, momentum is roaring higher in 2025 in...

Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) is a major player in the United States energy sector. The company recently released its fourth-quarter earnings report for 2024. The quarter's financial results signaled a...

Bonds (and bond proxies) are hated right now. That’s our shot at big dividends—because mainstream investors’ thinking here is totally backward. We’re going to pounce, and use this opportunity to grab...

Cloud and other IT infrastructure and services provider Kyndryl Holdings (NYSE:KD) has impressed with a return of nearly 98% in the year leading to February 14, 2025. Indeed, as of that date, the...

Airbnb's (NASDAQ:ABNB) stock price surged over 14% on February 14, 2025, following the release of the company's impressive Q4 2024 financial results. However, the company's cautious forward-looking...