Another week of tech stock weakness ahead
I expect technology sector weakness to continue this week with earnings worries still unanswered. What could put an end to selling in tech stocks? The NASDAQ 100 is down almost 4% in the last week. Certainly earnings news that showed earnings growth at the companies...It’s a make or break earnings week for tech
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...
Confusion on Tesla climbs ahead of April 23 earnings report
Can’t figure Tesla (TSLA) out? Welcome to the club. The stock was down another 5.59% today, April 15, and is now down 31% for 2024. Is Tesla a growth stock that has temporarily stumbled. You might well think so given the company’s repeated price cuts. Surely, the goal...
Tesla shocks Wall Street with size of quarterly sales drop
Yesterday, April 2, Tesla (TSLA) reported that it delivered just 386,810 vehicles in the first three months of the year. That was the biggest difference between actual sales and Wall Street sales estimates in data going back seven years, according to Bloomberg. Most...
Buy/Sell/Hold: Sell Tesla
Right now Tesla (TSLA) is a case study in how sentiment on a stock changes, how long it takes sentiment to change (and recover), and the stages of sentiment change. Your understanding of this process should be your guide to whether you want to own Tesla stock and...
Will the Magnificent Seven stocks let the market down?
The Magnificent Seven stocks accounted for virtually all of 2023’s 24% stock market gain. The Magnificent Seven stocks are Alphabet (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and Tesla (TSLA). And according to Wall...
Hertz pulls the plug on electric cars–especially Tesla
Hertz (HTZ) plans to sell a third of its U.S. electric vehicle fleet and reinvest in gas-powered cars. The company says the shift is due to weak demand and high repair costs for its electric vehicle fleet. Which is dominated by Tesla’s electric vehicles. Electric...
BYD climbs over Tesla to become No. 1 in electric car deliveries in the fourth quarter
This change at the top of the electric car market was widely expected. The only debate was whether it take place in the last quarter of 2023 or early in 2024. Now, we know. With both Tesla (TSLA) and BYD (BYDDF) reporting fourth quarter delivery numbers in the last...
Adding Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD to portfolios tomorrow
Today I made BYD (BYDFF) the eighth pick in my Special Report 10 GREATER Growth Stocks. Here’s what I wrote in my post on JubakAm.com. Pick #8: BYD (BYDDF). I know; I know. What’s a Chinese stock doing on this list? It’s here because BYD, not Tesla (TSLA) is the big...
Could be a rocky day for Tesla shares tomorrow, Monday.
It could be a rough day ahead for Tesla (TSLA).The company has broken four quarterly car delivery records in a row, but then the results for the current quarter–which could be announced as early as Monday, Ocroer 2, are likely to show that deliveries have...
Tesla once again shows that it’s really, really bad at managing expectations and stock tumbles
Yesterday’s investors day could have been a huge positive that sent Tesla (TSLA) shares soaring today. Instead, because the company and its CEO Elon Musk once again over-promised and underdelivered, investors went away disappointed and today, March 2, the stock...
Wednesday’s rally in the market’s most speculative stocks is the last straw for me: I said I’d be a seller into any post-Fed rally–but what specifically would I be selling? Here are the 12 stocks I’d sell now
The rally on February 15 sure looked like a speculative blowout of the kind that often signals a market top. For me, it was the last straw and I’m selling into the rally. This post tells you what I’m selling and how I arrived at these decisions. But first,...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Quick Pick Watch Tesla
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-first YouTube video: Quick Pick Watch Tesla This week’s Quick Pick isn’t a “buy,” it’s a “watch.” Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) saw its stock down 37% in December–not for the year, but in...
It’s too soon to buy Tesla–stock drops another 12% on delivery “miss”
Tesla (TSLA) can’t win for winning. On Monday, while U.S. markets were, fortunately, closed, the company reported record quarterly deliveries for the fourth quarter of 2022 of 405,278 cars. Unfortunately, Tesla had convinced Wall Street to look for delivery of...
Is the today’s jobs number a lagging indicator of labor market strength? Tech layoffs in the last few weeks say, Yes
On Thursday, November 3, Lyft (LYFT) said it would trim 13% of its staff, or around 683 people. Amazon announced a “pause” on corporate hiring after halting hiring in its retail division last month. And Apple (AAPL) has suspended hiring for jobs outside of...
Please watch my new YouTube video: China Retaliates, Act 2 of the U.S-/China trade war
Today I posted by one-hundred-ninety-fourth YouTube video: China Retaliates, Act 2 of the U.S./China trade war. The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party has rubber-stamped a third term as president for Xi Jinping–a move that required amending the...
Selling Tesla tomorrow out of the Volatility Portfolio on China slowdown and trade war uncertainties.
Even before the Biden administration launched a new U.S./China trade war by imposing restrictions on U.S. exports of advanced chip technology, Tesla (TSLA) was facing a sales slowdown in China. Now, with what I regard as the near certainty that Tesla will be one of...
It’s a new trade war with China and this one is really, really serious
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...
Buy/sell/hold: Tesla’s near-term pivot points
The long-term case for buying Tesla (TSLA) is easy to make (or easy to argue.) The company has created electric vehicle technology that delivers faster speeds, longer range, and greater efficiency than any of its emerging competitors. The company has done a...
Tesla finally announces date of 3/1 stock split
Oooh! What a tease. Back in the spring Tesla (TSLA) sorta announced a likely stock split on Twitter. Without a date. Then two weeks ago, company shareholders approved the anticipated 3/1 split. Without a date. Finally, on Friday, August 5, in documents filed with the...
What to sell in a Bear Market rally–and two sells for Monday, Omnicom and Alcoa
I ended my recent post “This looks like the Bear Market rally I’ve been waiting for” on my subscription JubakAM.com site by saying “Enjoy the ride but look to sell shares of companies that look most exposed to the return of recession/high...
Everything EV was up today on news of soaring new registrations
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...
Tesla crushes earnings
Tesla (TSLA) crushed Wall Street projections for first quarter earnings today, Wednesday, April 20. After the market close, the company reported record revenue of $18.756 billion, up 80.5% from the first quarter of 2021. (Wall Street analysts had expected revenue of...
Expect earnings fireworks when Tesla reports on Wednesday, April 20, after the market close
Forget about all the hoopla over Tesla (TSLA) founder Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter (TWTR). (If you can.) On Wednesday, when the electric car leader announces first quarter 2022 earnings the story will be China, China, China. China’s strict Pandemic...
Tesla to split so it’s time to buy Costco
Tesla (TSLA) announced today that it will ask shareholders for permission to split its stock. No news yet on what the ratio of the split will be, but on the news shares of Tesla were up 8.03% at the close today, March 28, to $1,091.84. That split comes on the heels of...
Please watch my new YouTube video: Trend of the Week Supply Chain Chaos Continues
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My ninety-fifth YouTube video “Trend of the Week: Supply Chain Chaos Continues” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video....
With sell of Apple tomorrow I’ll start to unwind my end of the year rally buys
When I bought shares of Apple (AAPL) in my Jubak Picks and Volatility Portfolios, I was looking for gains from the end of the year rally (which kind of fizzed out) and the traditional Santa Claus rally (which came through as expected) to drive shares higher in the...
Selling VanEck Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF out of my Jubak Picks Portfolio on June 3
Back when I bought the VanEck Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF (SMOG) for my Jubak Picks Portfolio on January 7, 2021, it looked like this ETF’s overweighting in shares of Tesla (TSLA) would be an advantage. After all, the shares of the maker of the world’s...
The financial market is feeling better today about risk–time to put on your worry hat?
You can judge the stock market’s mood pretty accurately today, Tuesday, March 30, from just a few price movements. Take a look at the performance of bank stocks, the small cap Russell 2000, the CBOE VIX “fear index,” and technology stocks to see...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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