Author: Tony Daltorio

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This Luxury Giant’s Stock Is Dirt-Cheap

France’s LVMH (LVMUY) is a titan in the global luxury goods industry and is guided by billionaire Bernard Arnault and his family. The company’s brands include Louis Vuitton, Moet Hennessey, Christian Dior, Tiffany, Givenchy, Sephora, Bulgari, Tag Heuer, Princess Yachts, and many brands spread across these broad categories: fashion and leather goods, perfumes and cosmetics, […]

Time to Buy This Mining Giant

Time to Buy This Mining Giant

The mining sector’s largest company by market capitalization is BHP Group Ltd. (BHP). And, unlike its peers, this mining giant is growing by sticking to its proverbial knitting. BHP is using its healthy balance sheet both to buy smaller miners and to build organically, but the company has kept to well-traveled paths. This year’s $6 […]

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This Top BioTech Just Went on a Buying Spree

What can you do if you’re a biopharmaceutical company whose top-selling drug is seeing rapidly declining sales? You go on a buying spree—or at least, that’s what this top biotech is doing. Here’s why the results for shareholders are set to be fantastic. More than a third of AbbVie’s (ABBV) 2022 revenue came from Humira, […]

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Get in on This Gas Powerhouse Stock

Merger and acquisition activity continues to sweep across the energy sector. In the latest deal, Chesapeake Energy (CHK) agreed to acquire rival Southwestern Energy (SWN) for about $7.4 billion, in an all-stock transaction that will create the largest natural gas producer in the U.S. The enterprise value of the newly combined company will be around […]

Forget Boeing – Fly With This Stock Instead

Forget Boeing – Fly With This Stock Instead

When Boeing (BA) was building a seemingly dominant position in commercial aviation in the 1960s and 1970s, passengers’ faith in its relentless focus on quality inspired the slogan: “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.” To say that the quality of Boeing’s products in recent decades has gone downhill is an understatement. That’s why, today, […]

This Bank Turnaround Story Could Soar

This Bank Turnaround Story Could Soar

The multinational financial services group Citigroup (C) is best known as the parent company of Citibank. This bank has a long and rich history, having been founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, and later becoming First National City Bank of New York. But in recent decades, it has become the one […]

You Can Still Profit from Japan

You Can Still Profit from Japan

Japan’s poor economic performance since the late 1980s has gone hand-in-glove with an even lousier stock market. However, the 2023 recovery of the Nikkei and Topix indices to levels not seen since the start of the 1990s showed that global investors have finally begun to take the country seriously again as an investment destination. The […]

Another Reason to Buy Munis Today

Another Reason to Buy Munis Today

Ever since Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell told the markets to expect the Fed to cut interest rates several times in 2024, the bond market has been on a tear. Falling interest rates should ease issuers’ financial burden, so investors should, in theory, be willing to push a little further out on the credit risk […]

Forget Nvidia – Buy This AI Stock Instead

Forget Nvidia – Buy This AI Stock Instead

Everyone knows that Nvidia (NVDA) currently has the best AI chips. However, there is another segment of the semiconductor industry that is just as important to AI as Nvidia’s GPUs (graphics processing units). The demand for advanced packaging is growing rapidly because the computers training AI programs need high-bandwidth memory (HBM) interfaces. There is no […]

Muni Bonds are Booming – And You Can Still Get In

Muni Bonds are Booming – And You Can Still Get In

Recent weeks have seen a massive global bond rally on growing optimism the Federal Reserve has nearly finished hiking interest rates and will soon have to hit pause on its tightening regime. Just look at what has happened in the normally very quiet world of municipal bonds. Spoilers: there’s still time to get in… Munis […]