By just about any measure, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has a massive content budget. It planned to spend $17 billion in cash this year, or about $14 billion on a profit-and-loss basis (which amortizes content costs over their useful life). And that massive content budget has been inst
Disney (NYSE: DIS) stock is down 14% in 2021. As the company battles pandemic-fueled disruptions, investors may ponder if Disney's business will ever be the same. Disney has some exciting catalysts going into 2022, and now may be a good time to buy the dip.
With 2021 in the rearview mirror, it's time to look forward. The new year will bring new challenges and probably some older challenges, like supply-chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. Opportunity may present itself as the world progresses in its battle against COVID-19.
The reopening of Walt Disney's (NYSE: DIS) theme parks and growth from its three streaming services (Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+) wasn't enough to push the stock higher in 2021. The stock price is currently down 14.5% year to date, trailing the 27% return of the S&P 500 index.
Paris Hilton commands as much as $1 million a night working as a celebrity DJ, entertaining partiers at clubs in China, Dubai and on the Spanish vacation island of Ibiza.
AT&T (NYSE: T) was once considered a stable blue-chip stock, but it's lost about 40% of its value over the past five years. The telecom giant's steep decline can be attributed to its debt-fueled acquisitions of DirecTV and Time Warner, the slow death of its linear pay TV busi
Stock market followers will recognize the acronym FAANG, although name changes make it somewhat dated. Facebook recently changed its name to Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB). The other companies are Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Alphabet (NAS
Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Alphabet Inc (Symbol: GOOG), where a total of 12,229 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.2 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 100.9%
The internet is one of the greatest innovations in human history. This is an undeniable truth. The global system of interconnected computers has significantly improved how we communicate, learn, and entertain ourselves.
If we want to find a stock that could multiply over the long term, what are the underlying trends we should look for? Firstly, we'd want to identify a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and then alongside that, an ever-increasing base of capital employed. Put simply, th
It's only a matter of when, not if, the stock market will crash again. Ignoring for the moment the dramatic plunge that occurred in the first quarter of 2020 at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the stock market has been on an incredible years-long tear.
Putting money to work in stocks that benefit from broad, secular trends can be a lucrative strategy. Whether it's digital payments, cloud computing, or e-commerce, when the entire industry has a strong tailwind behind it, individual businesses in these sectors stand to do well.
Should You Add These FAANG Stocks To Your 2022 Watchlist?With the broader stock market continuing to rebound, tech stocks appear to be back in focus. In particular, the biggest names in the sector continue to shine, and these are the FAANG stocks. It’s hard to not to mentio
You might be tempted to pop corks if you've invested in vintage champagne this year - the most coveted bottles have outperformed all major financial market assets, from Big Tech to bitcoin.
Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) CEO Tom Rutledge thinks mobile is his company's biggest opportunity in 2022. Meanwhile, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) CEO Mike Sievert said Charter and Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) virtual networks are taking a much larger share of the customer base t
Investors in Netflix Inc (Symbol: NFLX) saw new options begin trading today, for the February 2022 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the NFLX options chain for the new February 2022 contracts and identified one put and one cal