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 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 @ 11:37 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 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...
April 26, 2022 @ 10:41 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, PEP |
Neither company crushed Wall Street earnings expectations, but both reported good enough news in a very tough environment. I own PepsiCo in my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio, where it was up 220.4% from my initial December 30, 2008 pick as of the close on April 26. I...
February 17, 2022 @ 7:05 pm | ALB, AMAT, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My one-hundredth-and second YouTube video “Strong vs. hot hands” went up today. Hello there! Today I’m looking at a few stocks that exemplify what most experienced...
February 16, 2022 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA, You May Have Missed |
After the close today, Nvidia (NVDA) reported fourth quarter earnings of $1.32 a share (versus analyst projections of $1.22) and revenue of $7.6 billion (versus expectations for $7.42 billion). As of 4:45 the stock has trading down $1.09 in the after-hours market. In...
February 11, 2022 @ 7:44 pm | Breaking News, CMI, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My one-hundredth YouTube video “QuickPick Cummins Update” went up today. Welcome back to Quick Picks. I have another update this week, this time on Cummins (CMI), the maker...
February 9, 2022 @ 7:38 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, DIS, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
So much for fears the Disney (DIS) would follow the disappointing course plotted by Netflix (NFLX) and report disappointing numbers for new subscriptions to its Disney Plus streaming service. For the December quarter, the company’s first quarter of fiscal 2022,...
February 8, 2022 @ 10:44 pm | AMZN, Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Investors have been really impressed by Amazon’s fourth quarter earnings report. And there were some impressive numbers in the report for the quarter. Amazon’s cloud services unit, AWS, saw revenue growth accelerate again to a 40% growth rate. Revenue...
January 14, 2022 @ 10:45 pm | Breaking News, ILMN, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
On January 11, Illumina (ILMN) told analysts at the annual JPMorgan Chase healthcare conference to expect 39% sales growth for 2021 when the company reports earnings on February 10. And that analyst earnings and revenue forecasts for 2022 were too low. Sales would...
December 30, 2021 @ 7:52 pm | Breaking News, CX, ITUB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
We’ve got just two more trading sessions left in 2021. And then it’s on to 2022. Which means you should have wrapped up–or making any last minute sells–to harvest tax losses from 2021 in the next day or so. Of course, being the tax-savvy...
October 14, 2021 @ 7:46 pm | AMAT, ASML, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TSM |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), the dominant independent chip manufacturer in the world, reported earnings today, October 14, of $1.08 per share for the September quarter. Wall Street analysts hd expected earnings of $1.04 a share. The stock closed up 2.35%...
October 4, 2021 @ 8:33 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My fifty-third YouTube video “QuickPick Canadian National Railway” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
September 14, 2021 @ 12:13 am | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Sign Up for Jim‘s Newsletter Back on September 4 I posted a video on YouTube and this site “September and October 2021 Worse Than Usual for Investors?” that argued that September, the worst performing month for the Standard & Poor’s 500 from 1950...
August 19, 2021 @ 7:35 pm | BABA, Breaking News, JO, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TCEHY |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-second YouTube video “3 China stocks to buy but not now”-went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it below:...
August 12, 2021 @ 7:24 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
I’m starting up my videos on again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-first YouTube video “QuickPick Johnson Controls”-went up today. (By the way, Johnson Controls is a member of my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio.) Please watch and...
August 3, 2021 @ 7:43 pm | BABA, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NPSNY, TCEHY |
Last Wednesday, July 28, Chinese financial regulators told big investors–banks and investment groups heavily exposed to China’s stock market–not to worry. China’s financial markets were sound and despite the fears engendered by the...
July 28, 2021 @ 5:18 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My thirty-sixth YouTube video “Is China un-investable?”-went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
July 21, 2021 @ 11:17 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
Nvidia (NVDA) finally began trading at a price adjusted for the stock’s announced 4 for 1 split. At the close the shares traded at $194.10, a gain of $7.98 a share (or a pre-split $31.92 gain), up 4.29% on the day. The solid move higher bodes well for...
July 19, 2021 @ 6:52 pm | Breaking News, IFNNY, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA, NXPI, TSM |
On Thursday, July 15, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), the world’s leading chip foundry, reported earnings of 93 cents a share for the second quarter, up 18% year over year. That was inline with analyst estimates. Sales rose 28%. The company raised its...