November 2, 2023 @ 7:49 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
So let’s see how the market takes this tomorrow. Today stocks staged an impressive upside more. The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed up 1.89% and the NASDAQ Composite ended the day 1.78% higher. The small cap Russell 2000 was the day’s best...
September 24, 2023 @ 5:31 pm | ADBE, Breaking News |
Now that Fed day is done and behind us, we return to our regularly scheduled programming. Back on September 15, I posted “A tough day for tech–Part 1” after news on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) reporting that the company was slowing...
July 27, 2023 @ 9:34 am | Breaking News |
The comparisons with 2022 continue to hurt shares of Danaher (DHR). For the second quarter, reported Monday, July 24, the company saw revenue down 8% and adjusted earnings per share off 26% year over year. The culprit is easy to see. In 2022 Danaher’s...
June 22, 2023 @ 2:00 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, ZBH |
I made Zimmer Biomet (ZBH) Pick #6 in my “10 Stocks for Your Core Portfolio.” Now I’m adding it to my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio. Here’s what I wrote in that earlier post. “Core Portfolio Pick #6: Zimmer Biomet Holdings (ZBH). Seems...
May 11, 2023 @ 10:20 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-seventy-second YouTube Video: Quick Pick Albemarle Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years: Free download for...
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...
April 24, 2023 @ 11:04 pm | Breaking News, ISRG, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Last week Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) surprised everybody, including, apparently, management. Intuitive Surgical’s first-quarter revenue grew 14% year-over-year to $1.7 billion. (Wall Street was expecting $1.6 billion.) Surgical procedures performed using the...
March 9, 2023 @ 7:33 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-forty-sixth YouTube video: Quick Pick Apple Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years: Free download for subscribers...
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 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...
January 9, 2023 @ 10:57 pm | Breaking News |
News, rumor, and speculation from the Consumer Electronics Show point to a second half of 2023 launch for Apple’s (AAPL) AR “metaverse” headset. Apple has been “launching” this high-performance AR headset since 2017 but plans for a launch...
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...
October 25, 2022 @ 7:46 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO |
This morning before the stock market open Coca-Cola reported earnings of 69 cents a share for the third quarter. That was up from 65 cents a share in the third quarter of 2021 and was above the 64 cents a share expected by Wall Street analysts. Revenue of $11.1...
October 19, 2022 @ 9:48 pm | Breaking News |
I hate to do this. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) is the premier chip manufacturer in the world and I see the company continuing to grow revenue from the increasing demand for smaller and more powerful chips. And I certainly hate to sell a stock that’s...
October 11, 2022 @ 8:06 pm | Breaking News |
Today I’m selling ASML Holding (ASML) out of my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio. My take on Asmel hasn’t changed: this is one of the key chip equipment companies in the drive to produce smaller and denser chips. What has changed in the market and the global...
September 29, 2022 @ 7:24 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
My one-hundred-and-ninetieth YouTube video: “Quick Pick Nvidia” went up today. This week’s Quick Pick: Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). I believe Nvidia will be the dominant chip stock for the next decade–but the stock is struggling during this bear...
August 25, 2022 @ 11:13 pm | ALB, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Lithium producer Albemarle (ALB) closed up 2.71% today after hitting an all-time high of $298.17 in intraday trading. The shares closed at $295.68. The gains for Albemarle, and across the lithium sector, came as Goldman Sachs upgraded lithium battery maker Freyr...
August 9, 2022 @ 10:34 pm | AMAT, AMD, Breaking News, IFNNY, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NXPI, QCOM |
First, it was Nvidia (NVDA) cutting its guidance for revenue and earnings due on August 24. Today, August 9, it was Micron Technology (MU) warning that its revenue for the fourth-quarter revenue may come in at or below the bottom end of a forecast range provided in...
July 26, 2022 @ 7:27 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, MCD |
With Walmart (WMT) shares down 7.74% as of noon New York time today, July 26, on the company’s warning yesterday about falling revenue, the pool of safe consumer stocks continues to shrink. Which is bad if you owned Walmart or Dollar General (DG), also down...
July 20, 2022 @ 11:13 pm | AMAT, AMD, ASML, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA, Volatility |
The Chips for America Act looks headed to a cloture vote in the Senate on Thursday. As the $52 billion bill now stands, it includes $39 billion for semiconductor companies to “build, expand, or modernize domestic facilities.” This funding is targeted at new...
June 29, 2022 @ 11:43 pm | Breaking News, COST, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, PEP, WMT |
It’s not surprising given the greater than expected decline in U.S. first quarter GDP reported on Wednesday, which followed on the slump in consumer confidence reported Tuesday, that stocks in the consumer staples sector outperformed both consumer discretionary...
June 7, 2022 @ 7:34 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NTR |
Logic says that demand for fertilizer should be soaring as North American farmers look to increase production at a time when grain prices are near record highs thanks to the severe reduction in exports from the Ukraine and Russia. Logic, however, looks to be wrong. An...
June 6, 2022 @ 7:49 pm | ALB, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
My one-hundredth-and-forty-first YouTube video “Trend of the Week: Danger of a Lithium Drought” went up today. My Trend of the Week video looks at the effects of Chile’s 15-year drought on global lithium production and prices. In particular, I look...
May 20, 2022 @ 3:13 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PANW |
I’m actually surprised that shares of cyber-security company Palo Alto Networks (PANW) rose only 10.7% in after-hours trading after the company reported adjusted fiscal third quarter earnings of $1.79 a share. That was ahead of the adjusted earnings of $1.68 a...
May 18, 2022 @ 5:12 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, PEP |
Ok, the bad news on profit margins from Target (TGT) was a big deal. No argument. When you’re operating margin falls to 5.37% when Wall Street was projecting 9.5%, it’s a big deal. And after yesterday’s earnings miss from Walmart (WMT), it’s...
May 17, 2022 @ 11:37 pm | BABA, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TCEHY, Volatility |
Today, Tuesday May 17, China’s top economic official, Vice Premier Liu He, said that the government will support the development of digital economy companies and their public stock listings. The comments delivered after a symposium with the CEOs of some of the...
May 13, 2022 @ 9:30 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MIDD |
My one-hundredth-and-thirty-fourth YouTube video “Quick Pick Middleby” went up today. My Quick Pick this week is Middleby (MIDD), a company that produces restaurant equipment. I’ve been following them for 20 years, during which time they’ve...
May 9, 2022 @ 10:37 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PEP |
Last week PepsiCo (PEP) declared a quarterly dividend of $1.15 a share, up about 7% from $1.075 a share. That brings the dividend yield up to 2.7%, almost exactly Coca-Cola’s (KO) 2.72% yield. On the basis of that yield and the pricing power that the company...
May 3, 2022 @ 10:59 pm | BABA, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TCEHY |
My one-hundredth-and-ninth-eighth YouTube video “Trend of the Week China’s back!” went up today. At the end of last week, the Chinese government sent signals that it would make moves to stimulate the slowing economy amid widespread lockdowns, as well...
May 3, 2022 @ 10:50 pm | Breaking News, COF, EQNR, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, LNG, PXD |
Normally at this time of year natural gas prices retreat and companies actually stash natural gas in storage for use during hurricane outages in the fall and winter heating season. Not this year, however. Today natural gas prices in the U.S. hit a new 18-year high. At...