Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Snap (SNAP) is a popular social media company that has struggled in recent months. The company recently announced it would be cutting 20% of its workforce, which sent the share price up about 9% at the time. A strategist used the opportunity to place what looks like a long-term covered call. It was a 5,000-lot […]
A recent Wall Street Journal article highlights the significant number of companies that suspended common stock dividends in the early days of the pandemic and have not yet restarted payouts to shareholders. A company’s dividend strategy tells you a lot about how they think about us, the little guy investors. So let’s take a look […]
On August 24, we had confirmation of what I’ve been saying for a while now: energy is the place to invest if you’re looking for dividends, specifically oil dividends. As Reuters reports: “Energy companies reaping record profits from soaring oil and gas prices have helped global dividend payments to shareholders soar above pre-pandemic levels and […]
The Euro-to-Dollar just hit a 20-year low the last few weeks. The Dollar (DXY) has broken out of a 7-year consolidation period and moving higher. And, as this happens, things will start breaking. We’re already seeing the cracks in Europe with their economy tanking fast. In my free video this week (I do this every […]
America has a history of welcoming refugees from foreign shores. And now Wall Street is doing its part by welcoming a refugee from the United Kingdom. Unlike the U.S. market, the U.K. market has never been very fond of technology stocks, including biotechnology companies. Their valuations—and the levels of interest the attract—are usually low. That’s […]
For the dividend-focused investor, nothing is better than one of your stocks announcing a dividend increase. So you can be assured that this Seeking Alpha headline caught my eye: 100 REIT Dividend Hikes Investing for dividend growth is a sure-fire way to build your wealth over the long term. The article explained that 100 real […]
If you want to stop worrying about using the wrong trading strategy… picking good stocks… and this unpredictable market… Then you need this brand new trading plan. You see, The Wall Street Journal reports, “This Could be a Lost Decade for Stocks.” And many options traders will be left in the dust! That’s because most […]
The share price of Peloton (PTON) has taken a massive beating after being a darling of the Covid era. The exercise bike maker has struggled to appease investors as sales growth has slowed. However, investors liked a new deal between PTON and Amazon (AMZN) last week, which sent the shares up 20%. A bullish block […]
About as big of an options trade as you’ll ever see hit the tape last week in Petrobras Brasileiro (PBR). This trade appears to be a put spread executed 150,000 times, expiring in October. The trader spent about $12 million in premiums to buy the put spread. This position may be a hedge for an […]
I am a huge fan of special situation investing. Situations that involve unusual buying activity by insiders or corporate activists, merger arbitrage and bidding wars, and other unusual events can offer the opportunity for outsized profits no matter what the markets might do. Sir John Templeton once remarked that it is impossible to beat the […]
