Merger Trends Point to Continued Market Strength

Many traders are expecting a market pullback. The question is how much stocks could drop in the next few months. It’s likely based on a number of factors to be a limited pullback at best. One top reason is simply the number of deals being made right now. If deal flow were slowing and mergers were going away, that would be a sign of poor market liquidity, a much bigger harbinger of a big market selloff. Yet mergers remain alive and well, ...
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This Market Match Indicates Further Upside Ahead

Typically, a growing company will hit certain milestones in its career. The most important for getting onto the radar for investors is being included in a major index. Over time, companies that hit earnings and revenue goals may find they join more and more prominent indices. The S&P 500 has recently started rebalancing, taking a few companies out, but adding some new players as well, who are seeing their shares soar now. Case in point? Match Group (MTCH). The owner of Tinder, ...
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How to Stay a Winner in the Streaming Wars

The past few years has seen a major jump in streaming services from various media companies. The competition has heated up, but the big players are up for the challenge. That’s seen with the original streaming giant Netflix (NFLX), which not only started streaming old shows, but started creating award-winning content to keep subscribers content with their monthly payments as well. To stay on top, the king of content has now bought the king of comedy. Shares got a boost late last ...
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Regulatory Warnings Create Buying Opportunities: Big Pharma Edition

Stocks never move up in a straight line. One reason is profit-taking. In a bull market like this, that’s a bit rare. But other events can also temporarily weigh on a stock’s long-term uptrend. One big event is a regulatory warning. While big tech names sometimes take a one-day dive as some agency announces a record fine, or even a bank, which have collectively paid billions in fines, big pharma is the latest industry to come under fire as well. Consider AbbVie ...
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Unusual Options Activity: Northern Oil & Gas (NOG)

Shares of energy producer Northern Oil & Gas (NOG) have been moving higher over the past year. Shares trended down over the summer, but are now starting to move higher, and one trader sees that rally continuing. That’s based on the March $20 calls. With 192 days until expiration, over 2,645 contracts traded against a prior open interest of 131, for a 20-fold rise in volume. The buyer of the calls paid about $2.10 to make the trade. Shares are currently in ...
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Build Your Own Infrastructure Winner With this Unstoppable Energy Trend

While some big spending bills are being discussed in Washington, the private sector is already moving towards growing out the technology of tomorrow. From the rollout of the 5G network to the ground-up monetary overhaul of cryptocurrency, the next decade looks to be the most transformative one yet. That’s also true with transportation. The last decade saw that the mass production of electric vehicles was possible. This decade, trends will move even more strongly in favor of these vehicles. One of the ...
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This “Stay at Home” Stock Still Has a Long Rally Ahead of It

The past earnings season has been tough for many “stay at home” stocks that benefitted in 2020 from the pandemic. The biggest issue is that these companies are still growing, but their rate of growth has slowed substantially. Over time, it’s likely many of these companies will recover from the market fears. One company that just faced an earnings selloff, has more to it than being a “stay at home” play. The company is Chewy (CHWY). Shares faced a drop on Thursday ...
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Investor Knee-Jerk Reactions Create Buying Opportunities

Some investors are a nervous bunch. They’re always looking for a reason to sell off shares. They can be human, or simply algorithms looking for trading opportunities based on negative headlines. The latter may have recently prevailed, when a high-end semiconductor firm saw its shares drop 5 percent on a day. The reason? Some company insiders sold shares. Never mind that most tech executives are given shares for performance, and have many reasons to sell. The company? NXP Semiconductor (NXPI). Shares dropped ...
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