Wednesday, September 18, 2024
For investors who follow steel stocks, there may be some good news on the horizon. Steel companies have taken a hit in recent months, including Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), which is down 14% year-to-date. However, a trader purchased what appears to be a bullish call spread in CLF options that expires in August. This 10,000-lot vertical spread […]
When I was a kid, I loved pirates. I read Treasure Island multiple times and was a huge fan of pirate movies (especially if they were on late after everyone else was asleep). That carried over into adulthood. I still read Pirate Fiction and have watched all of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Whenever […]
After watching large-cap tech stocks zoom higher over recent months, don’t you wish you could jump in your time machine and buy these stocks last year? Or even a handful of months ago, as investors bailed out on tech stocks after values had fallen by 50%, 70%, or more. Let’s use this as a lesson […]
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 […]
And like that, June is here and the first half of the year is almost over. That means it’s time for my most profitable activity of every quarter – taking a look at the 13F filings of private equity funds. These little-used SEC filings show what these massively successful investing firms have been buying, what […]
There’s a dirty game Wall Street plays. It’s been going on for ages so this isn’t something new. But it’s something many investors may not know about. As you’ve seen, many companies recently are handily beating earnings estimates even while consumer sentiment is hitting lows. What’s going on here? Well, in my Thursday video, I’ll […]
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 […]
The financial results for the Home Shopping and QVC television retail network’s owner have been, frankly, terrible for the last two years. But the company is almost one year into its “Project Athens” turnaround plan, and if the plan is successful, one particular security could pay off very nicely… Qurate Retail (QRTEA) owns and operates […]
An intriguing 3-legged options trade occurred in ride-sharing giant, Uber (UBER) last week. This strategy, known as a put spread collar, traded 24,000 times and has an August expiration. The purpose of this trade is generally to protect the downside for those that own the stock. With a put spread collar, the downside loss is […]
There is a business sector in which the number of publicly traded companies has shrunk by two-thirds over the past decade. This sector provides absolutely essential services to keep the economy running. Its consolidation offers investors the potential for long-term, attractive total returns… From the 1990s through the mid-2010s, energy midstream rewarded investors with excellent […]
