by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Purchasing ETFs is more complex than purchasing mutual funds and individual stocks when you take into account their key attributes and the dizzying number of choices available. With a universe of 3,159 ETFs, investors and traders struggling to select a few ETFs for their regular and retirement portfolios may [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Risk is the name of the game in life as well as investing. No matter what you do there is an element of risk that things may not turn out the way you want. In the investment arena the common belief is that the riskier an investment the higher [...]
Toast (TOST) released second-quarter earnings earlier this week in Tuesday’s after-hours trading session. Shares climbed more than 20% on the news before settling off a bit lower - but in Friday morning’s session, the stock picked back up and has gained more than 4% so far. The company creates technology for the restaurant industry, [...]
It’s been a tumultuous 48 hours for WeWork (WE), as the co-working space provider has seen shares drop more than 45% in Wednesday’s trading session before recovering almost 38% so far in today’s (Thursday) trading session. This was all put into motion after the company put out a warning to investors on Tuesday that [...]
Beyond Meat (BYND) has had a brutal start to the week as the stock has slid almost 19% over the past few days. This came on the heels of a dismal earnings day in which the company missed revenue expectations, cut its full-year forecast, and walked back its goal of seeing positive cash flow [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL), is a NYSE-listed firm founded in 1928 with headquarters in Atlanta. As one of the world’s largest airlines, it offers over 300 destinations with a workforce of 95,000, revenues of $51 billion, and a market cap of $28.7 billion. The firm provides global airline [...]
Shares of Datadog Inc. (DDOG) have fallen more than 18% in Tuesday morning’s trading session so far. The company delivered quarterly earnings that topped the analyst outlook for the quarter that just ended - that’s not the issue. The problem is in the forecast for the current quarter and the remainder of the year [...]
Friday’s trading session was a frenzy for investors of US Cellular (USM), as the stock jumped more than 93% - from around $17/share to more than $33/share. That being said, it appears the hype has died down over the weekend. The stock is gradually headed back toward earth, down 4.5% so far this morning. [...]
by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Investors dream of a reasonable portfolio return devoid of risk, but that precondition does not exist and is naive. Even investing in bonds is not without risk, as investors learned in 2022, when both stocks and bonds declined by 18.6% (S&P 500) and 13.7% (Vanguard Total Bond Index --BND), [...]
FuboTV (FUBO) reported company earnings this morning, and so far in Friday’s trading session, the market has rewarded the streaming provider with a nearly 9% bump for its efforts. The results came in well above analyst expectations. Despite taking a net loss for the second quarter of $49.9 million, or 17 cents/share, FuboTV took [...]
