Saturday, April 19, 2025
2020 has been a year unlike any other, especially for the stock market. There has been a crash, a recovery, a massive sector rotation, persistent high volatility, and a host of IPOs. Despite the pandemic’s impact on the global economy, investors can’t seem to get enough of new stocks hitting the market this year. We’ve […]
Small cap stocks have been on a tear over the last month, with iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) up nearly 11% in that span. IWM is a heavily traded index ETF that tracks small cap stocks, which sometimes represents the value trade. At least one big trader is using covered calls to express a very […]
Shares of AT&T (T) have struggled throughout 2020 after coming into the year just above the $39 level. The current 25% pullback has pushed the dividend yield above the 7% level despite the company’s fundamentals remaining quite strong. Over the past four quarters, AT&T has reported solid profits 76, 79, 85 and 87 cents a […]
Apple (AAPL) tends to be one of the most heavily traded options chains, especially after the stock split this year. As popular as the stock is though, it doesn’t pay much of a dividend. That’s why a trader likely placed a large covered call trade last week. The calls don’t expire until January of 2022, […]
One of the predominant themes that we continue to see is a lot of skepticism around the current rally. We think there is more room into the equity market as we continue to see a meltup.
Shares of Grocery Outlet Holding (GO) have dropped over 20% since reaching a 52-week peak of $48.87 in early November. Some of the selling pressure came ahead of the company’s third-quarter earnings announcement and continued afterwards despite an impressive quarter. Grocery Outlet reported third-quarter earnings of 50 cents a share on revenue just north of […]
There are a few asset types that typically serve as safe-haven investments—assets commonly used by investors when they are concerned about the market. Whether the concerns are economic or political in nature doesn’t really matter. The most common safe-haven investments are gold and bonds. A third category that isn’t quite as popular is utility stocks. […]
There was a significant amount of unusual options activity in Palantir (PLTR) last week, with volume 9x the regular amount on one day last week. The data analysis company’s products are used for defense and intelligence and could replace more expensive technology/resources in the US if military spending is cut. The stock was up big […]
Is the recent energy sector breakout here to stay and do we have higher to go? Watch the video to see my thoughts on this recent market event.
Utz Brands (UTZ) recently announced Q3 earnings of 26 cents a share on revenue of $248 million versus Wall Street’s forecasts at 11 cents a share on sales of $246 million. The 15-cent beat by UTZ was impressive. Net income checked in at $17.9 million versus $8.5 million in the prior year. UTZ also recently […]
