October 10, 2022 @ 11:08 pm | AAPL, AMD, ASML, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
If you liked the Trump administration’s trade war with China, you’ll love the Biden administration’s new, more dangerous, escalated version. Rather than slapping tariffs on Chinese goods, and inviting retaliatory tariffs by China on American...
October 6, 2022 @ 7:50 pm | AMD, Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, INTC, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
After the close today October 6, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ) announced that its preliminary estimate of revenue for the third quarter would be just $5.6 billion. That’s well below Wall Street forecasts of $6.71 billion. On the news shares of Advanced Micro...
September 30, 2022 @ 7:27 pm | AMAT, ASML, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Yesterday, September 29, after the close of trading DRAM chipmaker Micron Technology (MU) reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $1.35 a share and adjusted earnings of $1.45 a share. That was down from $2.42 a share in adjusted earnings in the fiscal fourth...
September 29, 2022 @ 7:24 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
My one-hundred-and-ninetieth YouTube video: “Quick Pick Nvidia” went up today. This week’s Quick Pick: Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). I believe Nvidia will be the dominant chip stock for the next decade–but the stock is struggling during this bear...
August 25, 2022 @ 11:13 pm | ALB, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Lithium producer Albemarle (ALB) closed up 2.71% today after hitting an all-time high of $298.17 in intraday trading. The shares closed at $295.68. The gains for Albemarle, and across the lithium sector, came as Goldman Sachs upgraded lithium battery maker Freyr...
August 18, 2022 @ 7:35 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
If you’re looking for a catalyst to move slumping technology shares higher, circle September 7. That’s the date for Apple’s (AAPL) launch event to unveil the new iPhone 14 line. It’s just one–but the biggest–of Apple’s product...
August 9, 2022 @ 10:34 pm | AMAT, AMD, Breaking News, IFNNY, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NXPI, QCOM |
First, it was Nvidia (NVDA) cutting its guidance for revenue and earnings due on August 24. Today, August 9, it was Micron Technology (MU) warning that its revenue for the fourth-quarter revenue may come in at or below the bottom end of a forecast range provided in...
July 26, 2022 @ 7:27 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, MCD |
With Walmart (WMT) shares down 7.74% as of noon New York time today, July 26, on the company’s warning yesterday about falling revenue, the pool of safe consumer stocks continues to shrink. Which is bad if you owned Walmart or Dollar General (DG), also down...
July 20, 2022 @ 11:13 pm | AMAT, AMD, ASML, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA, Volatility |
The Chips for America Act looks headed to a cloture vote in the Senate on Thursday. As the $52 billion bill now stands, it includes $39 billion for semiconductor companies to “build, expand, or modernize domestic facilities.” This funding is targeted at new...
July 19, 2022 @ 7:18 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
The bill, known as the Chips for America Act, is a pared-down version of a broader set of competition measures and would authorize $52 billion in grants and loans for chip manufacturers, as well as a new, four-year 25% investment tax credit for chip making. Senate...
June 29, 2022 @ 11:43 pm | Breaking News, COST, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, PEP, WMT |
It’s not surprising given the greater than expected decline in U.S. first quarter GDP reported on Wednesday, which followed on the slump in consumer confidence reported Tuesday, that stocks in the consumer staples sector outperformed both consumer discretionary...
June 9, 2022 @ 1:37 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TSM |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), the world’s largest independent chip producer, expects revenue to grow about 30% in 2022. Sales growth this year should accelerate from 2021’s 24.9% (in dollar terms), Chairman Mark Liu said at the company’s annual...
June 7, 2022 @ 7:34 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NTR |
Logic says that demand for fertilizer should be soaring as North American farmers look to increase production at a time when grain prices are near record highs thanks to the severe reduction in exports from the Ukraine and Russia. Logic, however, looks to be wrong. An...
June 6, 2022 @ 7:49 pm | ALB, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
My one-hundredth-and-forty-first YouTube video “Trend of the Week: Danger of a Lithium Drought” went up today. My Trend of the Week video looks at the effects of Chile’s 15-year drought on global lithium production and prices. In particular, I look...
May 27, 2022 @ 5:32 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
On Tuesday, Snap (SNAP) fell 43.08% as the company lowered guidance for the remainder of 2022. On Thursday, the shares were just 4.59%. At today’s close of $14.81 they’re still trading well below the 50-day moving average of $29.86. Should you chase them...
May 24, 2022 @ 6:39 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Snap (SNAP), the online company best known for its SnapChat platform, closed down 43.08% today, May 24. On April 21 when the company released its first quarter earnings report, the company had forecast second quarter revenue growth of 20% to 25%. That was already...
May 23, 2022 @ 10:47 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
The most important indicator of market direction and sentiment this week will be Nvidia’s (NVDA) earnings report for the quarter that ended in April on Wednesday, May 25. Wall Street analysts and expect earnings of $1.09 a share. (That’s the consensus. The...
May 20, 2022 @ 3:13 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PANW |
I’m actually surprised that shares of cyber-security company Palo Alto Networks (PANW) rose only 10.7% in after-hours trading after the company reported adjusted fiscal third quarter earnings of $1.79 a share. That was ahead of the adjusted earnings of $1.68 a...
May 18, 2022 @ 5:12 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, PEP |
Ok, the bad news on profit margins from Target (TGT) was a big deal. No argument. When you’re operating margin falls to 5.37% when Wall Street was projecting 9.5%, it’s a big deal. And after yesterday’s earnings miss from Walmart (WMT), it’s...
May 17, 2022 @ 11:47 pm | ALB, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Volatility |
New registrations for electric vehicles jumped 60% in the first quarter of 2022 from the first quarter of 2021. according to Experian Automotive. Electric vehicles made up an all-time record 4.6% of the total market. The news was even more positive given that overall...
May 17, 2022 @ 11:37 pm | BABA, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TCEHY, Volatility |
Today, Tuesday May 17, China’s top economic official, Vice Premier Liu He, said that the government will support the development of digital economy companies and their public stock listings. The comments delivered after a symposium with the CEOs of some of the...
May 17, 2022 @ 5:47 pm | ALB, Breaking News, DE, FQVLF, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MRVL, NVDA, SCCO, USB |
In my weekend Saturday Night Quarterback on my subscription JubakAM.com site I said that this week would, probably, answer the question of whether Friday’s big bounce was just a bounce, the start of a buy on the dip rally, or even a bear market rally with a bit...
May 13, 2022 @ 9:30 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MIDD |
My one-hundredth-and-thirty-fourth YouTube video “Quick Pick Middleby” went up today. My Quick Pick this week is Middleby (MIDD), a company that produces restaurant equipment. I’ve been following them for 20 years, during which time they’ve...
May 9, 2022 @ 10:37 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PEP |
Last week PepsiCo (PEP) declared a quarterly dividend of $1.15 a share, up about 7% from $1.075 a share. That brings the dividend yield up to 2.7%, almost exactly Coca-Cola’s (KO) 2.72% yield. On the basis of that yield and the pricing power that the company...
May 3, 2022 @ 10:59 pm | BABA, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TCEHY |
My one-hundredth-and-ninth-eighth YouTube video “Trend of the Week China’s back!” went up today. At the end of last week, the Chinese government sent signals that it would make moves to stimulate the slowing economy amid widespread lockdowns, as well...
May 3, 2022 @ 10:50 pm | Breaking News, COF, EQNR, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, LNG, PXD |
Normally at this time of year natural gas prices retreat and companies actually stash natural gas in storage for use during hurricane outages in the fall and winter heating season. Not this year, however. Today natural gas prices in the U.S. hit a new 18-year high. At...
April 29, 2022 @ 7:13 pm | AMZN, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
My one-hundredth-and-twenty-seventh YouTube video “Lessons from Amazon” went up today. Today I’m covering Amazon’s (AMZN) earnings report after hours on April 28. The company delivered its first quarterly loss in 7 years. The shares closed down...
April 28, 2022 @ 11:55 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT |
On Tuesday, April 26, Microsoft (MSFT) reported net income of $16.73 billion or $2.22 share for the company’s fiscal third quarter. That was up from net income of $15.46 billion or $2.03 a share in the third quarter of fiscal 2021. Wall Street analysts had...
April 28, 2022 @ 11:50 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, V, You May Have Missed |
After hours on Tuesday, April 26, Visa (V) reported earnings of $1.70 a share. That modestly beat analyst projections of $1.65 a share for the quarter. But it was a big jump from the $1.35 a share in the first quarter of 2021. Visa said payment volumes rose 17% and...
April 27, 2022 @ 7:09 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT |
On Tuesday, April 26, Microsoft (MSFT) reported net income of $16.73 billion or $2.22 share for the company’s fiscal third quarter. That was up from net income of $15.46 billion or $2.03 a share in the third quarter of fiscal 2021. Wall Street analysts had...