A man walks past Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s headquarters building in Osaka on April 2, 2024. Yuichi Yamazaki | AFP | Getty Images Company: Kobayashi Pharmaceutical (4967.T) Business: Kobayashi Pharmaceutical manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals and consumer products in Japan and internationally. The company operates in three segments: The Domestic Business and International Business segments offer health care,
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A potential future trillion-dollar company, Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) has seen impressive interest this year. The company’s strong performance this year has been driven by its AI-powered Snapdragon processors, which work for PCs, gaming, smartphones, and automotive models. Despite the stock seeing a 20% drop over the past month and concerns regarding the U.S. economy, Qualcomm may
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The S&P 500 is a well-recognized benchmark within the stock market. It holds shares in 500 companies and prioritizes them by market cap. Trillion-dollar corporations have more influence over the index than companies with $20 billion market caps. This market cap-weighted setup explains why the Magnificent Seven stocks continue to impact the stock market’s performance.
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Weakness is an opportunity with solar stocks. Granted, there have been concerns that a Trump presidential win could derail clean energy stocks. But as I’ve said before, a repeal isn’t likely for two reasons. First, unless the Republicans take full control of Congress, it’s not likely to happen. Second, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has
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The AI boom has made finding high-growth stocks at fair value challenging, especially in the tech and chip sectors. Despite Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) recent drop from $134 to $112 per share, stocks related to the AI trend remain pricey, to say the least. That said, some growth opportunities are now fairly priced after sector pullbacks, offering
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Red ink is usually never a pleasant sign, especially after you acquired a significant position in certain publicly traded companies. Nevertheless, cheap stocks also provide a long-term opportunity for forward-thinking speculators. It takes discipline to buy the pain and not be discouraged with the volatility. However, if you pick the right ideas, the immediate discomfort
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Earlier this month, the CBOE Volatility Index or VIX shot higher, indicating extreme pessimism among investors. While not a directional index per say, the VIX measures anticipated market movement. Since equities tend to accelerate faster during downcycles than up, a heightened VIX is generally equivalent to negative expectations. Not surprisingly, several high-flying Nasdaq stocks suffered
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As our lives become increasingly online and digital workloads migrate to cloud-based environments, cybersecurity has not been more critical to safeguarding both enterprise and consumer data. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative artificial intelligence models, which rely on swaths of public and even proprietary data, underscores the importance of a unified cybersecurity apparatus.
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AMC Entertainment’s (NYSE:AMC) second-quarter results strongly indicate it is being badly victimized by slowing consumer spending and the continued decline of the U.S. movie theater sector. Although AMC’s financial performance could improve somewhat in the medium term, the firm still in all likelihood won’t generate the strong profits needed to stave off eventual disaster for
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Wall Street pays significant attention to the technology sector as tech companies typically deliver substantial returns to investors. However, the volatile nature of this industry means that tech stocks can especially short-term experience downturns. This volatility is typically a result of macroeconomic factors, company-specific challenges and market sentiment. Recently, the First Trust NASDAQ-100-Technology Sector Index
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