So what’s the matter with Incyte stock? Just about nothing although you wouldn’t know it from the recent price movement
Shares of biotech stock Incyte (INCY) have been down significantly in 2021. For the year to date, as of the close on March 2, the shares were down 8.45%. In the last month they’ve tumbled 12.42%. So what’s wrong? Pretty much nothing. With the individual...
Keeping Palo Alto Networks with a big boost to my target price
After the close on Monday February 22 Palo Alto Networks (PANW) reported a loss of $1.42 million (or $1.48 a share) on revenue of $1.02 billion million for the company’s fiscal second quarter. Adjusted earnings–which exclude share-based compensation and...
Stocks bounce back as bond prices take a breather and yields fall slightly
As of 2 p.m. New York Time today, March 1, the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 2.57% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was higher by 2.30%. The NASDAQ Composite had climbed 2.80% and the NASDAQ 100 had gained 2.83%. The small cap Russell 2000 had added...
Watch my new YouTube Video: 5 Picks for the next 6 months
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The twelfth YouTube video “5 Picks for the Next Six Months” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
Jubak Picks recommendation Applied Materials blows out the quarter and raises guidance
Given how strong the earnings beat was for the last quarter and how big the increase in guidance was for the next quarter from Applied Materials (AMAT) after the market close last night (February 18) today’s stock gain of 5.19% was actually rather modest. For...
Watch my new YouTube video: Lessons from the Texas Winter Storm–How to invest in the Energy Grid
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The eleventh YouTube video “Lessons for the Texas Winter Storm: How to Invest in the Energy Grid” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like...
Intuitive Surgical Pick #10 for my new Millennial Portfolio (for investors who have more time than money); also adding it to Jubak Picks
In my first 10 (actually to be 11 since I’ve got another pick up my sleeve today) picks for my new Millennial Portfolio (for investors who have more time than money) on my subscription site JubakAm.com I’ve been on the hunt for shares of companies with...
MGM Pick #9 for my new Millennial Portfolio (for investors who have more time than money) on my JubakAM.com site; also adding to Jubak Picks on this site
I’m taking advantage of today’s drop in shares of MGM Resorts International (MGM) after yesterday’s earnings report to add these shares to my new Millennial Portfolio. The stock dropped on bad pandemic performance from the company’s Las Vegas...
Yield on 10-year Treasury climbs to 1.16%–time to rethink some bond market assumptions and to start some selling
A year ago, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note stood at 1.59%. From that point yields fell, leading to big gains for Treasuries and other bonds. (The Shares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF) gained 10.01% in 2020, for example.) Yields were down to 0.73% as of the...
FCX hold: Mixed signals still add up to plus
Back on January 26 copper miner Freeport McMoRan (FCX) dropped sharply–down 6.5%–when the company lowered guidance for production in 2021. For 2021 Freeport McMoRan expects sales of 3.8 billion pounds of copper and 1.3 million ounces of gold. In October...
GameStop Reddit trade plunges; money seeks new plays
As of 3:15 p.m. today, February 2, in New York, shares of GameStop (GME)were down 56.22% to $98.50. That a big drop from the January 27 closing high o #347.51, but it’s still significantly above th $17.25 price on January 4. Other stocks that have ridden the...
Nektar should be climbing but this fast?
Nektar (NKTR) is another one of those stocks that looks to be moving up more strongly right now than the relatively sparse news would explain. Shares of this biotech are up 18.96% in the last week and 24.37% for the last 3 months. I can see a stream of positive news...
Selling First Majestic Silver on Friday on Reddit rally
Shares of First Majestic Silver (AG) climbed 21.38% Thursday, January 28, as silver futures climbed on a post on Reddit suggesting profiting from a short squeeze on silver. “Any short squeeze in silver paper shorts would be EPIC,” a post on Reddit’s...
Market sees fourth quarter GDP slowdown as good news
U.S. GDP growth slowed in the fourth quarter, gaining just 1% from the third quarter. For the full year the U.S. economy contracted by 3.5%. That makes 2020 the first time that the economy has contracted for a full year since 2009 and the Great Recession. At the...
Microsoft blows away analyst earnings projections after close today; Apple and Facebook report tomorrow
Microsoft (MSFT) reported its earnings for the company’s fiscal second quarter 2021 earnings today, Tuesday, January 26, after the close. Revenue of $43.1 million easily beat Wall Street projections of $40.2 billion. Earnings per share of $2.03 crushed...
Adding Applied Materials to my Jubak Picks Portfolio on chip shortage
As I noted in my January 13 video “4 picks for the chip shortage,” investors are looking at shortage of silicon chips that has hit the auto industry especially hard and that argues for a multi-year increase in capital spending to expand chip production at...
Adding copper miner Freeport to Jubak Picks Portfolio tomorrow
Commodities have soared on prospects for a post-coronavirus vaccine economic recovery. And copper is one of the best commodities to own in order to in the recovery of the global economy–and especially the growth in the Chinese economy–as the coronavirus...
Reminder: Today is the deadline for selling to take tax losses in 2020
Sell today if you’re looking to sell to generate tax losses for 2020. After today, December 29, you can still sell but the losses will count for the 2021 tax year. Remember you can rebuy any stocks or other financial assets you sell to generate a 2020 tax loss...
Buying Omnicom, the first of my post-vaccine dividend picks in my JubakAM.com Special Report, for my Jubak Picks Portfolio today
I started my research on this dividend indicator by comparing the current yield with the historical yield on the stock. For example, as I’ve noted in my Special Report Omnicom Group (OMC) currently pays a forward yield of 4.00% on its closing price of $64.99 on...
Eversource is my fifth utility pick in my Special Report on dividend stocks (on my JubakAM.com subscription site)–I added it to my Jubak Picks portfolio on Monday
Eversource Energy (ES) pays a 2.65% dividend but I’m adding it on Monday, December 7, not to my Dividend Portfolio but to my Jubak Picks list. Why’s that? Because of the high potential for capital gains–above the dividend payout–from this stock...
Autoliv beats on prospects for global auto recovery–but I think you’ve got better stocks to play this trend
Autoliv (ALV) reported third quarter earnings per share of either $1.48 (non-GAAP) or $1.12 (GAAP). (GAAP is generally accepted accounting principles.) That consensus was $1.09 a share on Wall Street. Revenue of $2.04 billion was in line with expectations and up 0.5%...
Danaher blows out earnings again–raising target price
Shares of Danaher (DHR) were up just 3.28% today. I say “just” because the company delivered a blow out earnings report today. Danaher reported adjusted earnings of $1.72 per share on $5.88 billion in sales for its third quarter. Analysts had expected...
Parsley Energy next oil shale domino to fall
A day after ConocoPhilips (COP) announced it would buy big Permian Basin oil shale play Concho Resources (CXO) for $9.7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported that Pioneer Natural Resources, by some measures the biggest oil shale operator in the Permian Basin, is...
Ericsson goes into tomorrow’s earnings riding a lot of momentum
For the second quarter Ericsson (ERIC) reported a 43% positive earnings surprise. Could the company surprise again tomorrow? Analysts are looking for the company to report third quarter earnings on October 21 of 16 cents a share. That would be a huge improvement of...
Catching up on my October 5 buy of Twilio
This is something of a catch up post. On October 5 I added Twilio (TWLO) to my Jubak Picks and Volatility portfolios. I announced that buy in a post on October 2 and then again in my Special Report: “Your Investing Guide for the Next 6 Dangerous Stock Market...
Twilio jumps 13% today on increase in company estimates of sale growth
Twilio (TWLO), which makes cloud-based software, climbed 13% today after analysts raised price-target after Thursday’s investors day event. (For example Morgan Stanley raised its price garget for Twilio to $270 from $240. I would note the stock closed at $290...
Lithium stocks bounce back as market downgrades Tesla threat
On Wednesday, September 23, shares of Albemarle (ALB) and SQM (SQM), the two dominant lithium producers in the world, fell 11.56% and 11.82%, respectively, on an announcement at Tesla’s (TSLA) Battery Day that the electric car maker would start its own lithium...
It Iooks like Illumina selling has exhausted itself
With the Standard & Poor’s 500 falling 2.37% at the close and the NASDAQ 100 down 3.16% for the day, shares of Illumina (ILMN) climbed 1.67%. Yesterday and today the selling of Illumina looks to have exhausted itself. The stock traded at $400.74 as recently...
Adding Illumina to Jubak Picks on today’s pullback
Shares of Illumina (ILMN) dropped 8.44% today, September 16, on reports by both Reuters and Bloomberg that the genetic sequencing marketing leader is in talks to acquire Grail, a still private startup focused on blood tests for the early detection of cancer. I think...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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