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Cash In Your SPYV Gain, Or Let It Ride?
The fund is trading near its high, but acting on that feeling might be the costliest move you can make. The State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF (SPYV) holds 440 positions, but its ten largest holdings make up 24% of the fund. This ...
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LOW Stock: A Discount With An Asterisk
After a steep slide, the home improvement giant looks cheap, but investors are right to wonder if the foundation is cracking. Lowe’s Companies (LOW) sells lumber, paint, and appliances for the American home. Yet the market has marked its ...
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Applied Digital Sheds 44%: Buy the Dip or Run?
The company is building large data centers for the AI boom and has billions in contracts, but you are buying a story of future growth that carries significant execution risk. Applied Digital (APLD) has had a volatile ride. After soaring 156% ov...
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The Peer-Group Mispricing Sitting On VG Stock
In the world of energy giants, one company is posting chart-topping results while its stock price languishes with the laggards, forcing a hard look at what the market truly values. Venture Global (VG) liquefies and exports U.S. natural gas, a c...
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After A Steep Run And A Sharp Drop, Is Marvell Technology Stock A Bet On The AI Buildout?
The chipmaker is forecasting rapid growth from its data center business, but owning a piece of that future comes at a steep price and with significant execution risk. After a strong 167% run-up over the past year, shares of Marvell Technology (M...
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How Much Upside Can ANET Stock’s Growth Deliver?
Instead of returning cash to shareholders, Arista has halted stock buybacks. The company is making a massive bet on future growth, amassing inventory obligations at an unprecedented rate. Purchase commitments have swelled to $8.9 billion, a clear...
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CLX Paid Holders $3.8 billion While The Stock Went Nowhere
Clorox showered its owners with cash while the stock price sank. Here is the honest accounting of what that trade-off actually delivered, and what it means now. Over the last five years, Clorox (CLX) has handed its shareholders $3.8 billion in c...
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How Time, Not a Trade, Could Re-Rate Chevron Stock
The oil major looks expensive on paper, but the real question is whether you believe in the growth that makes it cheaper over time. At first glance, Chevron (CVX) stock seems to carry a premium price tag. Over the last twelve months of reported ...
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Buying This ILF Dip Has A Price
The fund’s history shows that buying a drop has often paid off, but not without some serious bumps along the way. For owners of the iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF), the median return in the twelve months after a dip of this size was +9%...
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Are You Paying A Fair Price For What’s Inside VOO?
The popular index fund trades at a premium to its own history, but the real question is whether the growth of its biggest holdings actually earns that price. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) currently trades at a trailing price-to-earnings rat...
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Are You Paying For Skill Or Just The Market?
A handful of funds deliver returns well beyond what the market’s own movement would suggest; here are the leaders. Many funds that beat the market did so by taking on more of its risk, not by adding unique insight. This select group is dif...
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When The Stock Market Fell JEPI ETF Outperformed
A fund that actually holds its ground when stocks are falling is what real portfolio diversification looks like. When the S&P 500 tumbled 9.4% in a 2020 selloff, that familiar knot in the stomach was a reminder that most stock funds fall whe...
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CrowdStrike Stock Has Its Own Story
The cybersecurity leader is running hot, but its real value to your portfolio lies in how it moves on its own. In a week where the S&P 500 slid 1.6%, CrowdStrike (CRWD) stock stood out, climbing 8.5%. This kind of divergence in a weak market...
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Does This Dip In Cadence Design Systems Stock Signal An Opening?
The company is pushing a new AI-driven future, but you’ll have to pay up to own a piece of it, even after the recent drop. Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) is all-in on what it calls the “agentic AI era.” On its latest earnings call, managem...
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The Robot Maker’s Paradox
You can be forgiven for doing a double-take on Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) on Friday. The company posted second-quarter revenue of $2.89 billion, up 19% from a year ago and comfortably ahead of Wall Street estimates. Yet the stock ended the day dow...
