A stock market sell-off in 2022 led shares in Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) to plunge between 40% and 50% since last January. Macroeconomic headwinds brought declines in the companies' respective industries, dragging their stocks down.
In this video, I will discuss why I sold my shares of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) and bought more shares of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). Both companies will do well in the future but in the current macroeconomic environment, it makes more sense for me to go with Amazon.
Peloton Interactive's (NASDAQ: PTON) stock closed at a record high of $167.42 on Jan. 13, 2021, representing a whopping 477% gain from its IPO price of $29 per share on Sept. 26, 2019. At the time, investors were impressed by the connected exercise bike maker's dazzling growth ra
The economic slowdown dealt a blow to the stock market in 2022, with the benchmark S&P 500 index losing 20% of its value and spending most of the year in bear territory. But there might be some good news ahead for investors, because the average bear market only lasts about ni
The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price. Do they really
Looking back on 2022, it will be tempting for investors to focus solely on the agonizing downturn inflicted on the major U.S. stock market indexes. The bear market has mauled each one, but the worst performer -- by a country mile -- is the Nasdaq Composite. The tech-centric index
It's finally 2023 -- an end to a horrific year for Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), which saw its share price collapse by 50% in 2022. While the company will face near-term headwinds in its e-commerce business, the long-term future looks bright.
Wall Street's main indexes were set to open higher on the first trading day of the year, with a slew of economic data on tap this week as well as the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes that would provide more clues on the path of future interest rate hikes.
For many advisors, 2022 was likely the year they rediscovered the merits of value investing. The value style of index-based ETFs that favors stocks with relatively low price-to-earnings and price-to-book ratios significantly outperformed the growth style that prefers companies with strong sales and earnings growth records. Based on VettaFi’s survey data, the majority of advisors [...]
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E-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched the now-ubiquitous Amazon Web Services way back in 2006. It took a while for the concept of cloud computing to really catch on, but today, AWS is churning out over $20 billion of revenue each quarter.
Launched on 07/24/2000, the iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF (IUSG) is a smart beta exchange traded fund offering broad exposure to the Style Box - All Cap Growth category of the market.
Long-term investing would not necessarily be described as exciting. And buying a stock and leaving it alone for 30 (or more) years doesn't require much thinking at all. People like to do things that make them feel smart or at least offer some excitement. So long-term investing ta
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett has a knack for outperforming Wall Street. Since the beginning of 1965, he's delivered a 120-times greater return than the benchmark S&P 500, including dividends paid. That's a 3,641,613% gain for Berkshire Hath
Elon Musk's SpaceX is raising $750 million in a new round of funding that values the rocket and satellite company at $137 billion from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, CNBC reported late Monday.
Today, I tell you the 10 best stocks to buy in January 2023, which I believe have significant upside for long-term investors. I provide a blend of stocks, from hypergrowth stocks to mature growth stocks and dividend stocks.
Many e-commerce stocks stumbled over the past year as investors fretted over their slowing growth in a post-pandemic market. The impact of inflation on consumer spending made them even less appealing, and rising interest rates exacerbated that pressure by driving investors toward
In mid-August, shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) were near an all-time high and down only slightly on the year. Today, Apple is hovering around a 52-week low and is down around 30% from its all-time high.
Yet despite the sell-off, Apple is still outperforming other big tech names y
Today's video focuses on Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and how it recorded over $120 billion in sales for Q3 2022. From its well-known e-commerce platform to its growing cloud computing services, the video explores the diverse markets and strategies that contribute to Amazon's massive sa
In this video, I will be talking about the three growth stocks I added to my portfolio in December. Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is down 69% year to date and has been underperforming lately because of the Twitter deal and Elon Musk's selling of Tesla stock. The other two are both down 50