April 21, 2024 @ 7:04 pm | Breaking News |
I’m sure you’ve noticed. The technology sector, which led the stock market rally in 2023 and in the early days of 2024, is in a slump. The Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) tumbled 6.27% last week and is down 7.16% in the last month. For 2024 to date, as of the...
February 23, 2024 @ 5:23 pm | AMAT, AMD, ASML, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT, NVDA, TSM |
Yesterday, Thursday, February 22, Nvidia (NVDA) gained 16.40% at the close after beating Wall Street expectations on earnings and revenue after the market close on Wednesday. And then raising guidance for the rest of 2024. I think it’s safe to say we’re in the midst...
January 30, 2024 @ 5:22 pm | Breaking News |
It is perhaps too early to draw meaningful conclusions, but Microsoft’s failure to jump on better than expected earnings sure seems like more evidence that this is a market priced to perfection. After the close today, January 30, Microsoft reported fiscal second...
November 21, 2023 @ 5:29 pm | Breaking News |
I’m trying to decide if we’re watching a legitimate rally or a classic bear trap. If this rally is real, and likely to run for a while, investors should be putting cash to work even at market highs. If it’s a bear trap–you know one of those...
October 23, 2023 @ 5:35 am | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Hope you like earnings news. This week brings a ton of third-quarter earnings reports with news from Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Alphabet quite capable of moving the entire market. We’ll also get more consumer company (Coca-Cola and Kimberly-Clark for...
October 2, 2023 @ 5:59 pm | Breaking News |
I’m going to take advantage of today’s pop in Nvidia (NVDA) to sell the shares out of my very short-term Volatility Portfolio tomorrow on my subscription JAM.com site, Tuesday, October 2. The shares closed up at the close today at $447.82, a gain of 2.95%...
June 14, 2023 @ 12:32 pm | ADBE, ALB, AMAT, Breaking News, CMI, Dividend Income Portfolio, GOOG, JCI, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT, NVDA, SCCO, ZBH |
I think a well-constructed portfolio should resemble an onion. (Yes, to continue the analogy, it may make you cry in the short term, but the end result after cooking time is yummy.) At the center of that onion is a core built of stocks with extremely high,...
June 14, 2023 @ 12:25 pm | ADBE, ALB, AMAT, Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, CMI, Dividend Income Portfolio, GOOG, JCI, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT, SCCO, ZBH |
I think a well-constructed portfolio should resemble an onion. (Yes, to continue the analogy, it may make you cry in the short term, but the end result after cooking time is yummy.) At the center of that onion is a core built of stocks with extremely high,...
June 1, 2023 @ 7:39 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Artificial intelligence really is a paradigm-breaking, transformative technology. Right now, investors are so enthusiastic about the sector, especially the obvious leader Nvidia (NVDA), that we’re looking at a potential bubble that will collapse with much...
April 26, 2023 @ 12:24 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT |
Back on March 24, I added shares of Microsoft (MSFT) to my Volatility Portfolio on my subscription JubakAM.com site on the thinking that in a quarter when earnings were projected to be down for the Standard & Poor’s 500 as a whole, reliable technology...
February 7, 2023 @ 7:00 pm | Breaking News |
This isn’t exactly unexpected. Microsoft (MSFT) today unveiled new versions of its Bing search engine and Edge browser powered by the newest artificial intelligence technology from ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Microsoft recently invested $10 billion in OpenAI. “This...
January 27, 2023 @ 11:53 am | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-ninth YouTube video: Quick Pick Microsoft This week’s Quick Pick: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Microsoft came out with earnings on Tuesday (shortly after filming this video). The earnings were expected to be disappointing as...
January 25, 2023 @ 10:57 pm | Breaking News |
Yesterday, shares of Microsoft (MSFT) rose by more than 4.6% on an earnings report for the December quarter that showed the company slightly beating analyst estimates on earnings and training only slightly on revenue. Today, investors and traders had second thoughts....
January 17, 2023 @ 11:00 pm | Breaking News |
Granted these are all reports from outside news sources but there are a number of them. Where there’s smoke there might well be fire. U.K. broadcaster Sky News has reported that Microsoft plans to cut about 5% of its workforce or about 11,000 roles. Bloomberg...
October 26, 2022 @ 8:16 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Microsoft (MSFT) managed to beat Wall Street earnings estimates for its fiscal first quarter, reporting earnings of $2.35 a share versus the $2.29 expected by analysts after the market close on October 25. But the stock is down strongly today, October 26, on the...
August 1, 2022 @ 7:00 pm | Breaking News |
My one-hundred-and-sixty-second YouTube video “Earnings Not as Bad as They Could Be” went up today. Microsoft (MSFT) serves as my example. We’re seeing some companies that, despite very meager earnings growth, give investors the impression that...
July 24, 2022 @ 4:59 pm | Breaking News |
What a week ahead. I’d expect speculation about what the Federal Reserve will say on Wednesday to dominate a very lengthy slate of market news. No real suspense about whether or not the Fed will raise rates at its July 27 meeting. The central bank has made it...
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 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...
January 26, 2022 @ 6:44 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Picks Portfolio, MSFT |
The reaction to Microsoft’s (MSFT) earnings report yesterday after the market close tells you that this market is poised at an earnings inflection point. Earnings, especially technology company earnings, are going to be strong this quarter, but the earnings...
January 20, 2022 @ 7:56 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, GOOG, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My ninetieth YouTube video “3 Picks on Tech Stock Guidance” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s the...
December 27, 2021 @ 7:32 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell |
Judging from the close of Monday’s trading session, there looks to be enough fuel for a Santa Claus rally to end 2021. The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed up 1.38% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.98%. The NASDAQ Composite was ahead by 1.39%...
August 25, 2021 @ 8:00 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-fourth YouTube video “Amazon miss is a big deal…for all stocks” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can...
August 19, 2021 @ 7:24 pm | Breaking News |
Today Microsoft (MSFT) closed up 2.08%. The NASDAQ 100 was ahead just 0.51% and the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained only 0.13%. The gains took Microsoft shares to a record intraday high of $297.35. Why the extra pop in Microsoft shares? Because today Microsoft...
August 11, 2021 @ 7:44 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My fortieth YouTube video “3 picks for the fall tech rotation”-went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it below:...
July 23, 2021 @ 7:41 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, MSFT |
After picking up; 1.3% yesterday, shares of Microsoft added 1.23% today, Friday, July 23, as Wall Street analysts raised earnings estimates ahead of the company’s July 27 earnings report. It’s a tried and true earnings season game: No analyst wants to be...
July 22, 2021 @ 7:38 pm | Breaking News |
The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed up 0.20% today, July 22. The Dow Jones Industrial Average squeezed out a 0.07% gain. But if you were looking for bigger upside moves, turn your eyes to the technology sector. The NASDAQ Composite was up 0.36% and the NASDAQ...
July 19, 2021 @ 7:06 pm | Breaking News |
Today, Monday, July 19, stocks accelerated their retreat from the end of last week on fears that a fourth wave of the pandemic, fueled by the Delta variant, will crush hopes that the economy is headed back to normal. As of the close New York the Standard &...
July 5, 2021 @ 7:40 pm | Breaking News |
Friday’s market action argues that investors and traders are looking to buy shares of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft–you know the usual suspects–ahead of what looks like a blowout earnings season that will start on July 13 when JPMorgan Chase (JPM) reports...
June 17, 2021 @ 7:57 pm | Breaking News |
The Standard & Poor’s 500 is basically flat with a loss of just 0.04% as of the close today. If you want ACTION!!! you have to look elsewhere: To the NASDAQ Composite, which was up 0.87% at the close and to the small cap Russell 2000, which was down 1.18%...