Smart Money Stocks
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This basket consists of stocks widely-held by hedge funds.
11 symbols
MSFT206.261.56%
Microsoft Corporation
AMZN2,890.3011.60%
Amazon.com, Inc.
GOOG1,464.7026.66%
Alphabet Inc.
FB233.42-4.13%
Facebook, Inc.
CMCSA39.25-0.45%
Comcast Corporation
CHTR517.69-4.22%
Charter Communications, Inc.
AGN193.020.03%
Allergan plc
KHC31.810.14%
The Kraft Heinz Company
TEVA11.35-0.16%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited
IEP48.320.13%
Icahn Enterprises L.P.
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- Motley Fool
3 Stocks to Buy in the Market That Could Mint the World's First Trillionaire
These stocks might not make you a trillionaire. But they just might make you wealthy over the long run.
- Motley Fool
10 Things to Do When the Stock Market Crashes
In less than five weeks, the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) plunged 34%, representing the fastest bear market descent in history. Of the past eight bear markets, there have been 13 total corrections of at least 10% within the three years following a bear market bottom. This means the typical rise from a bear market bottom features one or two substantive corrections.
- Motley Fool
Warren Buffett's 3 Biggest Winners in the First Half of 2020: Are They Still Buys Now?
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) shares fell 21% in the first six months of the year. Most of the stocks in Berkshire's investment portfolio were down as well. Here are Warren Buffett's three biggest winners in the first half of 2020 -- and whether or not they're still great stocks to buy for investors who aren't yet legends.
- Motley Fool
How New Consoles Could Power Take-Two Stock to New Heights
Gaming stocks like Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) are flying high as the COVID-19 pandemic left millions with both the time and inclination to play video games. Industry analysts expect both Sony and Microsoft to release their next-generation game consoles during the upcoming holiday season. At the beginning of the year, few likely anticipated that a pandemic would drive an increased interest in gaming, and by extension, Take-Two stock.
- Motley Fool
Why Datadog Stock Surged 22% in June
Shares of IT monitoring software company Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) surged 22% in June, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Momentum continued for Datadog, as its positive May earnings report was followed by several customer wins announced in June. In mid-June, Datadog announced a support for the Elastic File System run on the AWS Lambda platform.
- Motley Fool
3 Large-Cap Stocks to Buy in July
Large companies with great balance sheets are looking good right now. Here are three at the top of my list.
- Motley Fool
Why ESG Stocks Are Perfect for Retirement Portfolios
Many retirement portfolios are based on long-term strategies, and many ESG stocks are based on long-term issues with high growth potential.
- Motley Fool
5 Top Stocks to Secure Your Financial Independence
On this day, 244 years ago, all but one of the 13 United Colonies officially adopted the Declaration of Independence, thus declaring their collective right to govern without England calling the shots. If you have spare cash that won't be needed to pay bills or cover emergencies, then the following blend of growth and income stocks should be perfect to help you secure your financial freedom. The first top stock that'll put you on the path toward financial independence is e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).
- Motley Fool
Why Pinterest Stock Is Up 19% Through the First Half of the Year
After crashing during the coronavirus sell-off in March, shares of Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) bounced back and finished the first half of the year up 19%, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. While the company's advertising business has been challenged by the crisis, investors have enthusiastically returned to growth stocks like Pinterest, believing that the crisis will accelerate a shift in advertising spending to digital platforms like the virtual pinboard. The stock jumped on Jan. 14 when eMarketer said it passed Snapchat to become the third-biggest social media app in the country, finishing 2019 with a projected 82.4 million users in the U.S. The research firm also predicted that the gap between the two apps would widen over the coming years, with Pinterest reaching 90.1 million domestic users by 2022.
- Yahoo Finance
The 100 Greatest Things about America 2020
This Fourth of July Yahoo Finance unveils its list of 100 things that make the nation great, in no particular order.
- Motley Fool
2 Hot Stocks to Buy in July
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) have been crushing the market all year long, and both look like fantastic buys today -- with or without another game-changing health crisis. The smiling Amazon logo is virtually synonymous with "online retail," and the industry as a whole has been crushing traditional big-box stores and strip malls for a couple of decades. At the same time, Amazon's revenues rushed 26% higher.
- Zacks
Microsoft (MSFT) Launches New Initiative to Help Jobseekers
Microsoft's (MSFT) new initiatives to aid high-risk communities develop skills and find employment are expected to expedite economic recovery.
- Motley Fool
Google Stays in the Augmented Reality Race with a New Acquisition
The tech giant buys a struggling smart glass maker -- but it won’t necessarily launch a new version of Google Glass anytime soon.
- Motley Fool
Is Nintendo Stock a Buy?
The video game giant faces tougher headwinds this year as the COVID-19 crisis disrupts its core business.
- Zacks
Facebook's Ad Controversy Continues
Zuckerberg is taking a tough stand on the obvious, he could have been more agreeable.
- Zacks
Pick These 4 Low P/CF Stocks for a Balanced Portfolio in 2H
Investment in stocks made on diligent value analysis is usually considered one of the best practices. In value investing, investors pick stocks that are cheap but fundamentally sound.
- Motley Fool
Don't Expect Explosive Growth From the Amazon of Today
Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos continues to run the company with the mindset that it is always Day 1. In his 2016 letter to shareholders, Bezos gave investors a glimpse into what Day 2 is -- stasis, followed by irrelevance, decline, and, ultimately, death.
- Zacks
5 Cloud Stocks Set to Rally in the Second Half of 2020
The coronavirus outbreak drove the remote-working trend, forcing businesses to reset priorities and in turn boosting cloud stocks.
- Zacks
Choose These 5 Price-to-Book Value Stocks for High Returns
P/B ratio is emerging as a convenient tool for identifying low-priced stocks that have high growth prospects.
- TechCrunch
Facebook makes education push in India
Facebook, which reaches more users than any other international firm in India, has identified a new area of opportunity to further spread its tentacles in the world’s second largest internet market. On Sunday, the social juggernaut announced it had partnered with the Central Board of Secondary Education, a government body that oversees education in private and public schools in India, to launch a certified curriculum on digital safety and online well-being, and augmented reality for students and educators in the country. Through these subjects, Facebook and CBSE aim to prepare secondary school students for current and emerging jobs, and help them develop skills to safely browse the internet, make “well informed choices,” and think about their mental health, they said.
- MarketWatch
Here are the major brands that have pulled ads from Facebook
Since an advertising boycott of Facebook Inc. was organized in mid-June, a veritable Who’s Who of major brands have either added their names to the StopHateForProfit campaign or otherwise pulled their ads.
- MarketWatch
Here’s the revenue hit Facebook will take as Diageo and Starbucks join the list of companies pulling ads from platform
Diageo and Starbucks just became the latest companies to halt advertising on social-media platforms over ineffective policing of hate speech.
- MarketWatch
Zuckerberg said to say of Facebook ad boycott: ‘All these advertisers will be back’ soon enough
Hundreds of companies around the world have joined a temporary ad boycott against Facebook Inc., but Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says he’s not worried and has no intention of changing its policies, according to a new report.
- Barrons.com
There Are Now 4 Trillion-Dollar Stocks. Why There Might Not Be a Fifth Anytime Soon.
Alphabet just became the fourth U.S. company with trillion-dollar status. There’s only one other company with a market value above even $500 billion.
- Reuters
Canada's biggest banks join boycott of Facebook platforms
Canada's biggest lenders confirmed on Friday they had joined a widespread boycott of Facebook Inc begun by U.S. civil rights groups seeking to pressure the world's largest social media platform to take concrete steps to block hate speech. More than 400 brands have pulled advertising on Facebook in response to the "Stop Hate for Profit" campaign, begun after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. Canadian lenders Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, National Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce all said they will pause advertising on Facebook platforms in July.
