December 10, 2021 @ 6:43 pm | Breaking News, F, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Ford Motor (F) CEO Jim Farley said yesterday, December 9, that pre-orders for the soon-to-launch F-150 Lightning pickup truck are so great that it had to stop taking reservations. “We are completely oversubscribed with our battery electric vehicles, Lightning...
December 8, 2021 @ 7:08 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NKTR |
With the VIX “fear index” falling back closer to “normal” levels–it dropped to 21.89 yesterday from 31.12 on December 1–it sure feels like the extreme volatility of the end of November and early December is on the ebb. The move to...
December 6, 2021 @ 7:03 pm | BMY, Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
As I noted in my posts over the weekend, I think that along with all the general volatility and the rotation away from high moment and higher price-to-earnings ratio technology stocks, the last week or so saw a rotation into “safe” haven stocks such as...
December 1, 2021 @ 7:00 pm | AMAT, Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, DIS, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MGM |
After a huge rally like we’re had this year, it’s easy to fall into one of the most common buy on the dip traps. Just because a stock is cheaper than it was, it’s not necessarily a bargain. There’s nothing that says a stock has to return to its...
November 30, 2021 @ 6:58 pm | Breaking News, DHR, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
It’s hard today, November 30, to find any stock with the kind of momentum that I’m looking for in the last month of 2021. Apple (AAPL) looks like a good possibility, which is why I made it Pick #5 in my Market Melt Up Special Report on my subscription site...
November 29, 2021 @ 6:46 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
When I bought Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) back on June 28, 2021, I thought the stock was moderately over-valued. But that, like many over-valued stocks with momentum, it would move higher. I set a target price then of $596 a share. Well, moderately over-valued has...
November 8, 2021 @ 6:55 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
I wouldn’t call the Glasgow Global Climate Summit, which wraps up on November 12, a failure. The pledge to reduce methane emissions is an important step forward: Methane is an extremely powerful global warming gas. And the promise of a big step up in global...
October 29, 2021 @ 7:59 pm | Breaking News, F, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
So far Ford Motor (F) is meeting the expectations I had when I added it to the Jubak Picks Portfolio on June 9, 2021. On Wednesday, October 27, the company raised its earnings forecast (EBITDA) for 2121 to $10.5 billion to $11.5 billion on an improved supply of chips,...
September 29, 2021 @ 7:54 pm | AMD, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
With supply chain “glitches” continuing to shred revenue and earnings forecasts for technology companies such as Micro Technology (MU) on Tuesday of this week, I think the risk/reward trade off from a high momentum chip stock such as Advanced Micro Devices...
September 28, 2021 @ 7:18 pm | Breaking News, F, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Shares of Ford Motor (F) were one of the few stocks closing in the green today with a gain of 1.20% to $14.33 a share. Yesterday, September 27, Ford announced that it looking to hire 11,000 new workers and that it would spend an additional $11.4 billion to build...
August 30, 2021 @ 7:51 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, OKTA, PANW |
In last week’s YouTube video QuickPick of Palo Alto Networks (PANW) I promised a longer take on the cybersecurity sector and another pick for my portfolios to go with Palo Alto Systems and CrowdStrike (CRWD). This post is that (somewhat) longer take and OKTA...
August 27, 2021 @ 7:51 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, PANW |
I’m starting up my videos on again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-fifth YouTube video “QuickPick: Palo Alto Networks” went up today. The post to add another cybersecurity pick to my portfolios will go up this evening. Palo Alto...
August 24, 2021 @ 7:39 pm | Breaking News, F, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Shares of Ford Motor (F) are up 2.75% as of the close in New York today, August 24, on news that the company has doubled its production target for the F-150 Lightning because of strong early demand for the full-sized electric pickup truck ahead of its 2022 launch. The...
August 19, 2021 @ 7:35 pm | BABA, Breaking News, JO, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TCEHY |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-second YouTube video “3 China stocks to buy but not now”-went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it below:...
August 17, 2021 @ 7:26 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, MGM, WH |
I try to use big up and (especially) down days in the stock market to stress test my portfolio. One of the things I look to learn from a high volatility down days is how the hedges that I’ve put on to protect my portfolio work under big stress. So, for example,...
August 3, 2021 @ 7:43 pm | BABA, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NPSNY, TCEHY |
Last Wednesday, July 28, Chinese financial regulators told big investors–banks and investment groups heavily exposed to China’s stock market–not to worry. China’s financial markets were sound and despite the fears engendered by the...
July 19, 2021 @ 6:52 pm | Breaking News, IFNNY, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA, NXPI, TSM |
On Thursday, July 15, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), the world’s leading chip foundry, reported earnings of 93 cents a share for the second quarter, up 18% year over year. That was inline with analyst estimates. Sales rose 28%. The company raised its...
July 15, 2021 @ 7:58 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My thirty-fourth YouTube video “QuickPick: 3 reasons to buy Deere” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
July 1, 2021 @ 11:14 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Yesterday in my video “3 Picks for an Earnings Blowout” I argued the case that even the 61% second quarter year to year jump in earnings in the Wall Street analyst consensus was unerstated. For example, I noted that the current estimate of $44.91 a share...
June 29, 2021 @ 10:53 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
That didn’t take long. On Thursday the Federal Reserve reported that all 23 big banks tested in its annual stress test, passed. Which means that the last remaining restrictions on dividend increases and share buybacks are now history. Yesterday big banks started...
June 25, 2021 @ 7:53 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
On Monday, June 28, I’ll be adding shares of Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) to my Jubak Picks Portfolio to increase my exposure to the infrastructure sector after the Thursday, June 24, announcement at the White House of a bipartisan infrastructure deal. You...
June 24, 2021 @ 7:16 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The twenty-ninth YouTube video “5 stock picks for the infrastructure deal” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
June 24, 2021 @ 6:52 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Copper stocks have been moving steadily higher recently in anticipation of a turn in the eight week downward trend in the price of copper itself. Now the price of copper is showing some of the upward movement that the rally in copper stocks anticipated. For example,...
June 16, 2021 @ 7:06 pm | Breaking News, F, GM, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
General Motors (GM) will boost global spending on electric and autonomous vehicles to $35 billion through 2025. That’s a 30% jump over its last spending plan, Reuters reported today. The No. 1 U.S. automaker will build two additional U.S. battery plants and...
June 11, 2021 @ 7:15 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Investors looking for a theme to buy in an expensive market where the Standard & Poor’s 500 hit a new all-time high yesterday today, June 11, looked to Cyber Security stocks. And why not with the newest round of ransomware attacks clearly not the last...
June 9, 2021 @ 6:59 pm | Breaking News, F, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Today I made Ford (F) my fifth pick for a falling market in my Special Report: Five Picks and Five Hedges for a Falling Market on my JubakAM.com subscription site. Some of the logic of that pick is laid in n more detail in the Special Report. With momentum stocks...
June 3, 2021 @ 7:33 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, SMOG, VWDRY |
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...
May 13, 2021 @ 7:47 pm | Breaking News, DIS, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Disney (DIS) shares tumbled by 3.64% in after-hours trading after the company reported fiscal second quarter numbers that beat Wall Street estimates on earnings but missed projections on revenue and on subscribers to the company’s Disney+ streaming service....
May 11, 2021 @ 7:11 pm | Breaking News, DE, SCCO |
Sure looks like a market struggling with rotations between growth and value stocks. One day the growth stocks sell off on fears of higher interest rates and rising inflation or something–and because after such a strong rally in the style growth stocks are very...
May 4, 2021 @ 7:33 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Wheat prices hit new highs at $7.46 a bushel at the end of April. That the highest since February 2013. Corn climbed to a new eight year high. The day soybeans rose for a tenth straight session to reach on eight year high. When the prices of farm commodities climb,...