January 14, 2021 @ 6:53 pm | AMAT, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
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...
January 8, 2021 @ 6:46 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TSM |
Today, January 8, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, reported December sales that translate into record quarterly revenue with estimated sales in the quarter climbing to $12.9 billion (361.5 NT$). (The company...
December 22, 2020 @ 7:05 pm | Breaking News, GLW, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
“While Corning (GLW) shares have rallied, we believe that a ‘stronger for longer’ consumer trend augurs well for underlying demand drivers in Corning’s business segments exposed to consumer electronics, with further tightening in the glass supply demand environment...
November 3, 2020 @ 6:12 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NJDCY |
Can’t say Nidec (NJDCY) isn’t ambitious when it comes to expanding its share of the market for motors for electric vehicles in Europe, which has become along with China one of the world’s top markets for electric vehicles. The Japanese company, based...
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 21, 2020 @ 6:33 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
On October 15 I noted that the hike in revenue guidance from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) on huge demand for its chips in AI and gaming (among other sectors) was good news for gaming, AI, and data center leader Nvidia (NVDA.) And I hinted at buying shares...
October 15, 2020 @ 7:10 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TSM |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) reported earnings of 90 cents per American depositary receipt today on sales of  $12.14 billion for the company’s September quarter. Net income climbed 36% year over year. Analysts had expected the company to earn 81...
September 25, 2020 @ 10:43 pm | ALB, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SQM |
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...
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...
September 17, 2020 @ 7:07 pm | Breaking News, ILMN, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
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...
August 17, 2020 @ 7:43 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, GOLD, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Shares of Barrick Gold (GOLD) are up 11.10% today to $29.99 as of 1:30 p.m. New York time on Monday, August 17. The continued climb in Barrick Gold shares comes on the strength of an ongoing rally in gold prices and news that broke on Friday that Warren...
July 20, 2020 @ 7:46 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SCHW, You May Have Missed |
On Thursday, after the close of trading in New York, brokerage Charles Schwab (SCHW) reported net revenue of $2.4 billion for the second quarter, a 9% drop year over year and short of the $2.47 billion projected by Wall Street analysts. Non-GAAP adjusted earnings fell...
July 20, 2020 @ 7:02 pm | AMZN, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
This morning shares of Amazon (AMZN) burst higher out of the box, gaining 5.98% as of noon New York time. The catalyst, it appears, was a new target price from Goldman Sachs of $3800 a share, up from the previous target of $3000. The shares had closed at $2961.97 on...
May 21, 2020 @ 7:32 pm | Breaking News, GOLD, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Stock Pick of the Day |
I can think of two reasons to buy shares of Barrick Gold (GOLD) now. Either one alone would be enough to justify a “buy.” First, sentiment is shifting among investors toward the idea of buying gold as protraction against currency depreciation. The U.S....
May 20, 2020 @ 7:19 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Stock Pick of the Day, TSM |
Announcing a new feature–my stock pick of the day. With Taiwan Semiconductor as my first pick. The hoo ha at the end of last week over restrictions on the sale of U.S. semiconductors to China’s Huawei Technologies, high-lighted the central role that Taiwan...
May 5, 2020 @ 7:19 pm | Breaking News, DIS, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Volatility |
How did Wall Street analysts get Disney (DIS) earnings today so wrong? Analysts had been projecting earnings of 86 cents a share. The company reported earnings of just 60 cents for the company’s second quarter. The bigger-than-Disney takeaway here is...
April 16, 2020 @ 7:17 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NJDCY |
No, the problems in the Chinese auto industry–a big customer for Nidec’s (NJDCY) small motors and electric drive trains–didn’t suddenly spike and cut Nidec’s share price in half. The Japanese company executed a 2/1 split on April 9. I...
April 8, 2020 @ 7:22 pm | Breaking News, DIS, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Volatility |
You know that Disney (DIS) is really serious about the likelihood of continued social distancing measures disrupting movie going for months when it delays the release date of Black Widow, once intended as the tentpole of its summer schedule. Black Widow has been...
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 31, 2020 @ 7:19 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MIDD, Sell |
I love this stock. It’s been in the long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio since May 3, 2013. And someday I think the company’s strategy of buying smaller commercial and domestic kitchen equipment companies and then super-charging their sales by giving them access...
March 25, 2020 @ 7:26 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Sell, SERV |
I wish I hadn’t bought ServiceMaster Global Holdings (SERV) in my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio back on December 17. But I did. It was a bargain then. It’s not now. And now I think it’s time to cut my losses after some relatively minor gains on March...
March 25, 2020 @ 7:20 pm | Breaking News, FQVLF, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
I still like my long-term thesis for copper miner First Quantum Minerals (FQVLF)–that copper prices will rise with a pick up in global economic growth and that when growth resumes the world will be looking at a shortage of copper. First Quantum has a lot of new...
March 24, 2020 @ 11:20 pm | Breaking News, HDB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Sell, Volatility |
In normal markets I don’t sell stocks out of my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio on changes in market direction. This is definitely a buy-and-hold-ish portfolio. But these aren’t normal times either for financial markets or economies and today, March 24,...
January 28, 2020 @ 8:13 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Sell, Volatility, ZNH |
Airline stocks have been among the hardest hit equities in the coronavirus selling. As the biggest airline in China and indeed in all of Asia China Southern Airlines (ZNH) has sold off especially quickly. The New York traded ADRs sold at $35.41 on January 14 and were...
January 22, 2020 @ 7:48 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
There’s no official announcement from Apple yet, but iPhone assemblers including Hon Hai Precision Industry, Pegatron, and Wistron, are planning to begin producing a new lower-cost iPhone in February. Apple is expected to official announce the new phone in...
January 21, 2020 @ 7:41 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PANW, SCHW, VEEV, WST |
In my most recent Special Report: When to sell: What to sell on my JubakAM.Com subscription site I recommended that any current rebalancing build up some cash. To implement that cash-building strategy, when you sell to rebalance a portfolio for 2020, buy fewer stocks...
January 9, 2020 @ 7:30 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Volatility |
Apple’s iPhone shipments in China grew 18.7% year over year in December to roughly 3.18 million units, according to Bloomberg. (Bloomberg’s calculations are based on data from the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology, a government...
January 8, 2020 @ 7:58 pm | Breaking News, JCI, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Today, January 8, I made Johnson Controls stock pick #9 in my Special Report: 12 Bargain Stock Picks NOW on my JubakAM.com subscription site. If you haven’t looked at Johnson Controls in a while, but you used to follow the stock, today even a glance will show...
January 6, 2020 @ 6:36 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Before I move onto looking at future buy and sells for this long-term portfolio, let me take a look at where the 50 Stocks Portfolio has been over the last two years. It makes some sense to treat your portfolio returns for 2018 and 2019 as one giant two year period...
January 2, 2020 @ 7:20 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
In an ideal world, every stock market trend–up, down, sideways–would begin on January 1 and end on December 31. That would make an annual rebalancing of any portfolio as easy as falling off a madly spinning log in a Canadian logging festival. Most market...