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1708, 2023

Lyft CEO Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is With $1.1m Stock Purchase: Should You Follow Suit?

By |August 17th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , |

Lyft (LYFT) has been trending positively over the past few months, and CEO David Risher has decided to hop aboard with an insider purchase of $1.15m in company stock. He flat out said, “I’m putting my money where my mouth is”. The purchase works out to 100,000 shares of the company’s common stock. Risher just took over this year [...]

1608, 2023

Target Points to Weakening Demand and Pride Month Debacle in Latest Earnings: How Bad is it?

By |August 16th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , |

Early this morning Target (TGT) reported second-quarter earnings that beat expectations while revenue fell just short of analyst estimates. But, the key takeaway from the call was that the company was reevaluating its full-year guidance, walking back its previous forecast. In fact, the company is expecting sales to decline by mid-single digits for the full fiscal year. Inflation has [...]

1608, 2023

When to Sell Stocks to Capture Profits and Avoid Losses: Introducing Stop Prices

By |August 16th, 2023|Categories: Highlight, Market Timing|Tags: , , , |

When to sell stocks: a decision laden with complexity, suspense, and often, a hefty dose of emotion. Knowing when to bid farewell to a part of your portfolio can feel like navigating a maze without a map, filled with questions of timing, profit, loss, and market shifts.  The decision to let go is the crossroads where hope, fear, and pragmatism [...]

1508, 2023

The Metals Company Stock Pops After News of a $27m Capital Raise: Does it Justify Buying the Stock?

By |August 15th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

Word broke on Monday morning that the Metals Company (TMC) has been approved to raise gross proceeds of as little as $27 million or up to $38 million through a registered direct offering. The company specializes in deep-sea floor mining, pulling low-impact battery metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules. And after struggling to retain its footing in the stock market [...]

1408, 2023

Can Stealthgas Inc. Continue Higher From Here?

By |August 14th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Stealthgas Inc. (GASS), is a Nasdaq-listed firm incorporated in 2004 with headquarters in Athens, Greece.  The company provides global seaborne transportation services to LPG producers and users, as well as ships natural gas and crude oil.  The company maintains a fleet of 36 LPG ships with a capacity of nearly 300,000 cubic meters. Revenues [...]

1408, 2023

U.S. Steel Gains 30% After Declining $7.3b Offer – Should You Buy X as Other Offers Are Considered?

By |August 14th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , |

Shares of U.S. Steel (X) have skyrocketed more than 30% so far in Monday morning’s trading session. The company just turned down a whopping $7.3 billion offer to acquire the company from Cleveland-Cliffs.  This deal would have had incredible implications for the steel industry as a whole - but for now, it’s business as usual for the country’s largest [...]

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