Thursday, April 25, 2024
One of the hottest topics of conversation on Wall Street, and among my colleagues like Tim Plaehn and Tim Melvin here at Investors Alley, is the state of the U.S. commercial real-estate market (CRE). The story on Wall Street, as articulated by media outlets such as Bloomberg, is that a $1.5 trillion “Wall of Debt”—mortgages […]
It seems like just yesterday—actually, it was October 2021—that Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook would be rebranded as Meta Platforms (META). Facebook was going all-in on the metaverse. Some wondered why. After all, the company’s stock was up 70% over the prior two years as the pandemic boosted social media businesses. A Facebook face plant soon […]
I always find the oil industry interesting… For instance, did you know that unconventional oil production – U.S. shale – was the only source of growth in global oil supply over the last 12 years? The only growing non-OPEC basin is the Permian Basin in West Texas. Never before has global oil supply growth been […]
The stock market offers pockets of opportunity in sectors that combine a decent dividend yield with a good quality business. In other words, growth and income. One such sector is the pharmaceuticals sector, which overall has lagged the S&P 500 in the past five years, although not by much. There are, no doubt, some world-class […]
Warren Buffett has done it again, racking up another profitable investment in the span of a few years. This time, he went across the Pacific Ocean to the stock bargain basement known as Japan. His surprise bet on five Japanese companies has nearly tripled in size—to $17 billion—in under three years. The surge partially reflects […]
In the first part of my look at Nvidia (NVDA), I stated that most of the hype surrounding the company comes from the belief it will be the leader in the parallel computing era. Jefferies analyst Mark Lipacis refers to this as “the fourth tectonic shift in computing.” The first computing era was that of […]
Citigroup (C) is the third-largest lender in the U.S. and the least-loved major bank by investors—and for good reason… The bank has been a chronic poor performer seemingly forever. Its low return on equity, poor stock market underperformance, and low valuation made the point for quite a while that Citigroup’s business model did not work […]
I wrote to you about Nvidia (NVDA) on March 1, calling it the real winner of the AI wars. Needless to say, a lot has happened since, with Nvidia’s stock having soared 75% from March 1. But can the company live up to all the current hype? Let’s take a deep dive… All sorts of […]
Dividends issued in the first quarter of 2023 by the world’s largest listed companies just hit a new all-time record. According to the latest quarterly report from fund manager Janus Henderson, the 1,200 biggest publicly-traded companies in the world collectively issued $326.7 billion in dividends in the first quarter of 2023—an increase of 12% over […]
The pandemic certainly turned the semiconductor industry on its head. Despite record production of semiconductors, there were shortages everywhere. That led to months-long waiting lists for many consumer products. So, to meet consumer demand, semiconductor makers ramped up supply. But then inflation arrived and decided to stay awhile. Central banks responded by raising rates, and […]
