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    Should You Buy AppLovin Stock For Its Widening Margin?

    AppLovin (APP) stock trades at $312.01, at about 43% of its 52-week high, after a 44.6% fall over the past three months. After the June quarter, the market treated one light quarter of model improvement as the growth engine breaking, though year-...


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    Is Eaton Stock Amplifying A Risk You Already Own?

    Eaton (ETN) makes the power equipment that goes inside data centers, among much else, and it has climbed 5.0% over the last five trading days while the S&P 500 slipped 0.2%. A run like that pulls money in. The question worth answering is not ...


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    Is Synopsys Growing Faster, Or Just Bigger?

    Synopsys (SNPS) sells chip design and verification software, and its revenue is now growing more than four times faster than its own long-run pace. The share price has done the opposite. For anyone holding it, one question is worth settling: is t...


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    What Is Really Behind CrowdStrike Stock’s Doubling?

    CrowdStrike (CRWD) trades at $210.02, roughly double where it stood a year ago while the S&P 500 returned 19.3%, and it sits at about 91% of its 52-week high. The easy read is that the AI security trade has already happened and you are late t...


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    Why Did Autodesk Stock Drop So Soon After Raising Its Forecast?

    Autodesk (ADSK) shares fell 16.6% in the eight days from their Sep 1 close to Wednesday, Sep 9, ending at $206.62 while the S&P 500 gained 0.1%. The drop came less than two weeks after the software company reported revenue and earnings per sh...




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    What Is The Market Seeing In Accenture Stock That You Are Not?

    Accenture (ACN) produced free cash flow worth 11.7% of its market value over the last twelve months, against 4.4% for the median S&P 500 company. A yield that wide means one of two things: a bargain, or a business the market expects to shrink...


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    Is The Next Leg In Verizon Stock Riding On Customers Who Stay?

    Verizon Communications (VZ) shares sit at the top of a $36.56-to-$50.59 52-week range, up 22.7% over the past twelve months. The exciting part of that story is the dark fiber Verizon has begun selling into AI infrastructure builds. The part that ...


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    What Does Buying A Vertiv Dip Cost You Before It Pays?

    Vertiv (VRT) has fallen about 11% from its mid-August high, and the reflex is to ask whether that is the discount worth taking. Its history after sharp falls says most of them were. What that history does not advertise is the months of discomfort...


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    Should You Buy Comcast Stock Because Its Cash Outruns Its Earnings?

    Comcast (CMCSA) has lost 19.2% over the past year, while the S&P 500 returned 18.5%, and the reason given is usually broadband: 167,000 subscribers gone in the June quarter. The stock trades at 0.7 times sales, its own ten-year low. The numbe...


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    Is Visa Stock Expensive, Or Just Waiting On Its Margin?

    Visa (V) trades at about $367 a share. On the last twelve months of adjusted earnings, meaning normalized net income with stock-based compensation added back, that is about 28.6 times earnings . Nobody buys a payments network expecting a bargain....


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    Is Applied Materials Stock Amplifying A Risk You Already Own?

    Applied Materials (AMAT) has added 6.1% over the last five trading days, while the S&P 500 gained 0.1%, and a run like that pulls money in. The five-day move is not the question here. What matters is what this stock does to your money every t...


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    Qualcomm Stock Looks Cheap, But Is The Discount Deserved?

    Qualcomm (QCOM) trades at about $176 a share, down about 14% over the past three months and up 12.4% over the past twelve. At 20.1 times earnings against an S&P 500 median of 22.9, a profitable chip designer sits below the market. The questio...


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    Should You Buy Elevance Health Stock For The Margin It Lost?

    Elevance Health (ELV) has returned more than 40% over the past six months, though it is down 6.5% over the past three while the S&P 500 gained 3.4%. The next leg will not come from selling more insurance. It will come from keeping more of the...

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