With former U.S. retail stalwarts like J.C. Penney Company (JCP) and Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD) seemingly on the brink of death, it goes without saying that the U.S. retail sector has been difficult to navigate for investors over the last few years. According to Goldman Sachs analyst Alexandra Walvis, the difficulty will continue in coming…
Bitcoin prices fell below $6,500 this week following reports that Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) is scrapping plans to roll out a cryptocurrency trading desk. However, some analysts say Goldman isn’t bitcoins biggest problem, and the currency is getting crushed under the weight of a strong U.S. dollar.
FOLLOWING SEVERAL WEEKS of heavy selling pressure, Tesla Inc (Nasdaq: TSLA) stock bounced on Thursday after CEO Elon Musk retweeted a new report claiming Tesla dominated the electric vehicle market in August.
Bank of America is monitoring a number of themes analysts believe will create long-term value for investors, and the firm’s top-performing theme over the past four years is the Sharing Economy. The Sharing Economy is a term used to describe a number of activities and services that are shifting to online platforms, including on-demand, rental,…
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is pursuing an aggressive asset sales plan to improve its balance sheet, focus its business and get its stock price back on track. Unfortunately for GE stock investors, UBS analyst Steven Winoker says GE stock will likely continue to struggle until the power market shows signs of improvement.
After a nine-year rally in U.S. stocks, some investors are starting to rotate away from high-growth, high-risk stocks and into the relative safety of dividend-paying value stocks. Unfortunately, the Standard & Poors 500 index’s price-to-earnings ratio is currently 25.2, roughly 60 percent above its historical average. In other words, it takes some digging to find…
IT HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT few months for Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) after a guidance miss sent the stock tumbling in late July. However, MoffettNathanson analyst Michael Nathanson says FB stock investors shouldn’t expect a rebound any time soon as the company prepares to once again appear before Congress this week.
Investors never like to see companies closing more locations than they are opening. The total number of McDonald’s Corp (NYSE: MCD) U.S. locations has been on the decline since 2014, but analysts say there’s a good explanation for the decline and McDonald’s will once again be expanding its U.S. footprint by 2020.
Tesla Inc (Nasdaq: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has taken a lot of heat for his infamous “funding secured” tweet earlier this month. A new Security and Exchange Commission filing by BlackRock (BLK), one of Tesla’s 10 largest shareholders, has revealed that BlackRock wanted to replace Musk with a new chairman even before his deal to take the…
Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE: CRM) disappointed the market this week, reporting a second-quarter earnings beat but issuing third-quarter guidance that fell short of expectations. Analysts say long-term investors shouldn’t be worried about the guidance miss, and any near-term earnings weakness in CRM stock is a buying opportunity.