The allure of dividend stocks should be increasing right now. The Fed has signaled that it will soon begin tapering the market stimulus it provided during the pandemic. Following the news in late September, there hasn’t been any immediate shock. In general, broader markets including the S&P 500 index traded down after Labor Day. But
Olaplex (NASDAQ:OLPX) just had a unique IPO on Sept. 30. The IPO price of $21 resulted in a huge capital raise of $1.78 billion from the sale of OLPX stock. However, as opposed to almost every other IPO there is, this capital raise is going straight to the pockets of the existing private equity owners,
Lucid Motors (NASDAQ:LCID) and a number of other EV stocks have performed really poorly lately. Sept. 1 was not a good day for LCID stock, which closed lower more than 10% on the day. Source: ggTravelDiary / Shutterstock.com However, at the session low, Lucid Motors stock was down almost 20%. Even though it was bid
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Starship prototype 20 is stacked on top of Super Heavy Booster 4 on August 6, 2021. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX has become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, and Morgan Stanley believes the Starship rockets the venture is developing will have wide-reaching implications. Starship is the massive, next-generation rocket SpaceX is developing to be
In this article OMC IBKR NFLX UAL Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: United Airlines — Shares of United added about 2% in after-hours trading following the airline’s better-than-expected financial results as travel rebounded in the third quarter. United posted a loss of
UiPath (NYSE:PATH) is a $25.79 billion technology stock that is draining out cash and seems to be having trouble with top-line growth. This means that the company may have trouble maintaining this high valuation. As a result, PATH stock is likely to keep falling. Source: dennizn / Shutterstock.com In fact, from its peak of $85.00
Ocugen Inc (NASDAQ:OCGN) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. A penny stock in 2020, shares neared the $16 level in early February. At that point, OCGN stock had posted an eye-popping gain of 5,352% between then and mid-December 2020. Source: shutterstock.com/PhotobyTawat As you’ve no doubt guessed, that massive stock growth is all about a Covid-19 vaccine
The big cap stocks retreated at the end of 2020 as the small caps took the spotlight. Will the mega-cap FAANG stocks lead them back this earnings season?
Since their debut in 1996, 529 savings plans have been one of the best vehicles available for covering college costs. Congress expanded these plans to cover K–12 education in 2017 and to pay up to $10,000 in student loan debt in 2019. But as useful as they can be, 529 savings plans are not your
Installment-payment broker Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) is sometimes known as a specialist in the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) niche market. Folks who own AFRM stock are, oftentimes, counting on the emerging BNPL industry to grow over time. Source: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com So far, their bets on Affirm have paid off. The share price is surging –
An animated trajectory map shows the path of the Lucy mission, with the spacecraft (blue) launching from the Earth (green) out to the asteroids around Jupiter (orange). NASA NASA’s latest exploration spacecraft launched over the weekend, beginning a 12-year journey to visit Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. A tool familiar to Wall Street was used to craft
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Zillow (Z) – Zillow slid 6.4% in premarket trading, following a Bloomberg report that the company has temporarily stopped its home-buying service due to overwhelming demand. Revance Therapeutics (RVNC) – Revance shares plunged 33.2% in the premarket after the Food and Drug Administration
Over the 12 months the price of crude oil has doubled and the share price of Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) is up more than 80%. And while that’s three times the gain in the S&P 500 index, XOM stock is still a cheap. Source: Shutterstock At $258 billion, the market capitalization offers a premium of just
After months of sideways price action, Covid-19 vaccine play Ocugen (NASDAQ:OCGN) stock is zooming higher once. Source: shutterstock.com/PhotobyTawat The big development is a likely Emergency Use Listing (EUL) from the World Health Organization (WHO) for Covaxin. Developed in India by Bharat Biotech, Ocugen holds the U.S. and Canadian rights to market this vaccine. An EUL certainly
Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock deserves to be valued as it has been, and it may still be worth a buy. Source: xiaorui / Shutterstock.com The Chinese electric vehicle maker rolled 50,000 cars off the assembly line in July 2020, in the teeth of the pandemic. In early April of this year, it passed the 100,000 mark,
Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) is a company that provides CDN (content delivery network), web infrastructure and online security services. When the pandemic hit in 2020, the company was in the perfect position to pick up a lot of business. Online shopping ramped up while remote work and learning suddenly became a necessity. Given the rapid growth in
In this article HOOD GME Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission said online brokerages, enticed to increase revenue through the controversial industry practice of payment for order flow, are turning stock-trading into a game in order to encourage activity from retail investors. Wall Street’s main regulator on Monday released its
In this article ACI OXY SPCE ZG The New York Stock Exchange welcomes The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), today, Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in honor of Star Wars Day. Source: NYSE Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Occidental Petroleum — Shares of the energy company gained 5.7% after Truist upgraded the
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) stock has underperformed the market in recent years. INTC stock stock has gone up by only around 20% over the past three years, trailing much behind the PHLX Semiconductor Index‘s return of over 150%. INTC stock currently hovers around $54, up 8% year-to-date (YTD). Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com Analysts have put the blame