23 10, 2023

Perdocoe Education Corporation Jumps 70% in Past Year With a Recent Yearly High: Is Now the Time to Take a Position?

By |2023-11-08T15:40:42+00:00October 23rd, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , , |

By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Perdocoe Education Corporation (PRDO) is a Nasdaq-listed firm headquartered and incorporated in Schaumburg, Illinois in 1994 with 2,400 employees. It was formerly known as Career Education Corporation when the name was changed in January 2020.  The company offers postsecondary education to almost 34,000 individuals using three approaches: online, campus-based, [...]

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21 10, 2023

Understanding Bullish Leveraged ETFs – Part 1

By |2023-10-16T17:15:21+00:00October 21st, 2023|Categories: ETF, Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA In 2006, a handful of equity leveraged ETFs came to market.  And over the years the number has expanded to the current 154 with assets under management of $70.3 billion with an average expense ratio of 1.03%.  They come with various levels of leverage from 1.5, 2 and 3 [...]

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20 10, 2023

Tesla Drops More Than 15% on Poor Earnings and Production Concerns: Time to Sell TSLA Stock?

By |2023-12-07T19:49:29+00:00October 20th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Tesla (TSLA) delivered earnings for the third quarter yesterday, sending shares more than 10% lower in a single day and reaching its lowest point in more than 2 months. The stock continued that trajectory into Friday’s trading session and is down 5% so far this morning. While revenue did climb 13% year over year [...]

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19 10, 2023

Netflix Gains 15% on Profitability Boost, Subscriber Growth: Is it Time to Buy, Though?

By |2023-12-07T19:49:31+00:00October 19th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Streaming giant Netflix (NFLX) is up 15% so far in Thursday morning’s trading session after the company delivered solid third-quarter earnings, which featured a boost to both profitability and subscribers. We’ve talked about the company’s efforts to crack down on password sharing in the past and what it could mean for the streamer financially. [...]

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18 10, 2023

United Airlines Drops on Warnings of Profit Problems: It May Be Time to Sell This Stock

By |2023-12-07T19:49:34+00:00October 18th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , , |

United Airlines (UAL) dropped more than 8% in Wednesday morning’s trading session after the company issued a grave profit warning along with its 3rd quarter earnings results. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $3.65 compared to the $3.35 analysts were looking for. Revenue narrowly outperformed the estimate at $14.48 billion compared to $14.44 [...]

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17 10, 2023

Johnson & Johnson Beats Earnings & Raises Forecast – So Why is the Stock Falling?

By |2023-12-07T19:49:36+00:00October 17th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , |

Yesterday, we highlighted Pfizer’s challenges in pivoting as a post-pandemic company. Today, its competitor Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reported earnings itself.  But, Johnson & Johnson painted an entirely different picture - beating out the earnings estimate on the top and bottom line while raising the forecast for the remainder of the year. The company [...]

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16 10, 2023

Why is Pfizer Up 5% After Cutting Sales Outlook? 3 Things Investors Need to See

By |2023-12-07T19:49:39+00:00October 16th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , |

Pfizer (PFE) ended last week on a sour note, announcing after the market closed on Friday that it will cut $9 billion from its sales outlook. And yet, the stock is up more than 5% so far in Monday morning’s trading session. The full-year EPS has been adjusted to $1.45 to $1.65 on revenue [...]

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16 10, 2023

Virco Mfg. Corp. Backs Off Recent All-time High on September 29 by Falling 11.4% on October 13. Is Now the Time to Get In?

By |2023-11-08T15:42:07+00:00October 16th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Virco Mfg. Corp (VIRC) is a Nasdaq-listed firm headquartered and incorporated in Torrance, California in 1950 with 800 employees. The company’s main business produces, designs and sells its wide array of furniture in the United States, including specialty chairs and stools, rockers, stacked chairs and ergonomic seats.  Moreover, it [...]

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14 10, 2023

Actively Managed ETFs: A Worthwhile Choice, or Not?

By |2023-10-09T15:27:54+00:00October 14th, 2023|Categories: ETF, Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , , , |

by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Currently, out of the 3,278 ETFs available, just over 800 are actively managed, while the rest are passively managed. However, the assets under management (AUM) for the latter make up only 6% of all ETF assets. The availability of actively managed ETFs didn't occur until a handful of them [...]

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13 10, 2023

Dollar General Jumps 10% On CEO Returning, But VectorVest Says It’s Time to Sell – Here’s Why…

By |2023-12-07T19:49:43+00:00October 13th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Shares of Dollar General (DG) have fallen more than 11% in the last month, but things started to turn around this Friday morning. The company reported that CEO Todd Vasos would return to the helm and shares jumped 10%. This is the biggest single-day jump since May of 2022. This came after the previous [...]

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