December 14, 2023 @ 4:21 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, MRNA |
Shares of Moderna (MRNA) were up 13.67% to $89.15 as of noon New York time today, December 14. They closed ahead 9.25% at $85.87. A vaccine developed by Merck and Moderna helped prevent the recurrence of severe skin cancer for three years, according to new results...
October 4, 2022 @ 7:34 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
I added Freyr Battery to my 10 Perfect Stock Special Report today on my JubakAm.com subscription site. Tomorrow I’m adding the stock to my Jubak Picks Portfolio with a target price of $21 a share. This is what I wrote about Freyr in my Special Report. My #5 Pick...
September 16, 2022 @ 11:21 am | Breaking News |
My one-hundred-and-seventy-sixth YouTube video: “Quick Pick Kroger” went up today. Grocery stocks aren’t very volatile. Normally. So when shares of Kroger, the nation’s free-standing largest grocery chain, went up almost 7.5% on Friday,...
May 5, 2022 @ 7:59 pm | Breaking News |
Shares of Booking Holdings (BKNG) were up 3.26% as of the close in New York today, May 5, after the company announced first quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates. The company reported adjusted earnings of $3.90 a share, up from a loss of $5.26 in the first...
May 2, 2022 @ 7:24 pm | BABA, Breaking News |
My one-hundredth-and-twenty-eighth YouTube video “Quick Pick Alibaba” went up today. Alibaba (BABA) and other Chinese internet companies have been struggling recently under the pressure of a government crackdown. However, with the slowing of the Chinese...
April 5, 2022 @ 12:01 am | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, WMT, You May Have Missed |
Tomorrow I will add shares of Walmart (WMT) to my Jubak Picks Portfolio. The stock is one of the 12 “Recession Picks” in my current Special Report: A Recession is Coming–Three Portfolio Strategies for a Recession; and 12 Recession Stock Picks on my...
March 24, 2022 @ 7:52 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, LULU |
I’m starting up my video again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My one-hundredth-and fourteenth YouTube video “Three Recession Sells” went up today. This week’s video takes a look at what I’m calling consumer discretionary...
January 28, 2022 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News, CMG, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My ninety-fourth YouTube video “QuickPick CMG” went up today. (By the way, I added Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) to my Jubak Picks Portfolio on January 26. The stock closed...
January 14, 2022 @ 7:53 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Picks Portfolio, WFC, You May Have Missed |
Sing along: One of these banks is not like the others. One of these banks doesn’t belong. This morning big money center banks JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Citigroup (C) delivered disappointing reports on fourth quarter revenue and earnings. Shares of JPMorgan Chase...
November 30, 2021 @ 6:51 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Even as losses accelerate for almost all stocks as we head into the close today–the Standard & Poor’s 500, which was down 1.31% at 2:30 In New York had moved to a loss of 1.74% as of 3:30–shares of Apple (AAPL) continue to hang onto the green....
November 23, 2021 @ 7:49 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Buy, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
It was sure hard to see a market melt up today, November 22. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was down 0.32% and the NASDAQ Composite fell 1.26%. Market leaders in the melt up rally like Applied Materials (AMAT) and Microsoft (MSFT) were down 1.65% and 0.96%,...
November 22, 2021 @ 7:44 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
It was sure hard to see a market melt up today, November 22. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was down 0.32% and the NASDAQ Composite fell 1.26%. Market leaders in the melt up rally like Applied Materials (AMAT) and Microsoft (MSFT) were down 1.65% and 0.96%,...
October 29, 2021 @ 7:54 pm | Breaking News, ERIC, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
I bought Ericsson (ERIC) back on August 5, 2020 because of the growth it would see, I thought, from the roll out of the next generation–5G–of wireless systems. The problem for the company–and the stock–is that it has been hit hard the global...
October 12, 2021 @ 7:00 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index is now down 8.7% from its September 16 peak. The slump comes as investors and traders sell on fears of supply-chain problems in the sector and especially in the memory chip market. The drop has left the index testing its 200-day...
October 12, 2021 @ 6:54 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My fifty-seventh YouTube video “Trend of the Week Cyber Security Stocks” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
October 11, 2021 @ 7:23 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, XYL |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My fifty-sixth YouTube video “QuickPick Xylem” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
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...
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...
June 24, 2021 @ 7:13 pm | Breaking News, CAT, DE, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, VMC |
The White House has announced that it has struck an infrastructure deal with a bipartisan group of 10 Senators. There are almost no details on the deal and it’s not at all clear that President Biden will be able to convince the progressive wing of his own party...
May 25, 2021 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News, EQNR, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Oil prices have bounced back big time and with them the prices on oil stocks. I still think the long-term trend is against oil producers as efforts to combat global warming lead to lower consumption of fossil fuels. Equinor (EQNR), Norway’s state oil company,...
October 26, 2020 @ 6:59 pm | Breaking News, IFNNY, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NJDCY, Volatility |
Autoliv (ALV) reported third quarter earnings per share of either $1.48 (non-GAAP) or $1.12 (GAAP). (GAAP is generally accepted accounting principles.) Â That consensus was $1.09 a share on Wall Street. Revenue of $2.04 billion was in line with expectations and up 0.5%...
October 20, 2020 @ 7:58 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
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...
October 20, 2020 @ 7:50 pm | Buy Hold Sell, ERIC, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
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...
September 23, 2020 @ 7:39 pm | Breaking News, ILMN, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
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...
June 3, 2020 @ 7:10 pm | Breaking News, Buy |
As I wrote in my previous post this morning, I like the upward momentum in the biotech sector resulting from the race for a coronavirus vaccine and treatment and the cash flows into the sector from investors and big drug companies such as Pfizer (PFE.) That has pushed...
April 6, 2020 @ 7:23 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Sell, VMC |
Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw in the towel on any near-term chance for a big infrastructure spending package. The horrific jobs numbers had convinced her, she said, that sending more aid to unemployed workers and small businesses took a higher priority....
March 10, 2020 @ 7:55 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NVDA, Volatility |
I’m taking advantage of the “Hope the White House has a plan” rally today to sell Nvidia (NVDA) out of my Jubak Picks Portfolio. Nvidia shares are up 3.05% as of 2:35 p.m. today, March 10, for a gain of $7.44 a share to $252.92. The shares are up...
December 17, 2019 @ 6:13 pm | Breaking News, Buy, GM, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Yesterday, December 16, I made General Motors (GM) Bargain Pick #7 in my Special Report: 12 Bargain Stocks Picks NOW. (That Special Report is available to subscribers to my JubakAm.Com paid site.) And I also added it to my Jubak Picks portfolio. On the bargain front,...
November 18, 2019 @ 6:03 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NVDA |
After the close on November 14 Nvidia (NVDA) announced fiscal third quarter 2020 quarterly earnings of $1.78 a share, 20 cents a share above the Wall Street consensus. Revenue of $3.10 billion was $92.21 million above projections. Chip stocks are currently among the...
September 9, 2019 @ 7:10 pm | Breaking News, GOLD, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
It’s by no means a guarantee of gains, but owing shares of a company that is riding the wave of positive macro and micro trends does indeed usually result in solid profits. On the macro side, Barrick Gold has global trends pointing toward toward higher gold...