Growth stocks outshone value stocks in the past decade. But no matter how high growth stock share prices go, there’s one thing that value stocks tend to have that growth stocks don’t – downside protection. Throughout history, the price-earnings ratio of the S&P 500 index has never fallen below 5, suggesting there’s theoretically a floor in how…
For many Americans, 401(k) investment plans may as well be written in another language. Aside from the general idea of equity funds, mutual funds, bond funds and relative strategies and risks, many 401(k) account holders may have no idea which stocks are in their plan and how much they own. Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, known as…
Apple Inc (Nasdaq: AAPL) investors got more bad news this week after the Wall Street Journal reported President Donald Trump is prepared to expand U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods to potentially impact iPhone imports.
IN A NEW INTERVIEW that aired Sunday on HBO, controversial Tesla Inc (Nasdaq: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk says the company narrowly dodged a potentially fatal financial bullet earlier this year when ramping up its Model 3 production. Musk says Tesla was only weeks away from death at one point, and analysts say the company is still not out of…
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is no longer the company it was when most investors bought the stock. Share price is down 73 percent in the past three years, recently dipping below $8. GE has suffered repeated credit and analyst downgrades, earnings misses and guidance cuts. The last remaining silver lining, the stock’s dividend, was just cut…
Value stocks have taken a back seat to growth stocks in recent years, with investors willing to forgive high earnings multiples if companies are consistently reporting double-digit revenue and earnings growth. Growth stock investors believe these stocks will eventually grow into and exceed their current market valuations as long as the companies can keep their long-term expansion…
Target Corporation (TGT) stock dropped more than 9 percent on Tuesday after the company reported higher-than-expected costs and margins and missed Wall Street earnings expectations. Analysts say there are still plenty of things to like about TGT stock despite the mixed quarter.
THE 2018 CRYPTOCURRENCY bloodbath continued on Monday, with bitcoin prices tumbling another 7.8 percent. Bitcoin prices are now below $5,200 for the first time since October 2017, and even bitcoin bulls admit that cryptocurrency pessimism seems to be gaining momentum.
FOR THE SECOND consecutive quarter, Nvidia Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) stock was hammered after the semiconductor giant failed to clear the market’s high revenue and guidance bars. Nvidia stock dropped 17 percent on Friday morning following the report, but analysts say long-term investors who can stomach near-term volatility should be scooping up shares of NVDA stock.
Some of the best-performing companies of the bull market have grown so big that their growth has understandably started to slow. While the big tech stocks and S&P 500 large-cap stocks get most of the headlines on Wall Street, there are plenty of small-cap stocks that are flying under the radar. Bank of America’s Endeavor List is…