For Tesla, 2025 was a year to forget. Yes, the company finally launched its Tesla Robotaxi service after years of promises (though the couple dozen on the road are a far cry from the millions promised), but it also suffered reputational harm that many felt it wouldn't be able to fix. China: 6.4 ...
For Tesla, 2025 was a year to forget. Yes, the company finally launched its Tesla Robotaxi service after years of promises (though the couple dozen on the road are a far cry from the millions promised), but it also suffered reputational harm that many felt it wouldn't be able to fix. China: 6.4 ...
Explore the exciting world of Garrett Motion (NASDAQ: GTX) with our contributing expert analysts in this Motley Fool Scoreboard episode. Check out the video below to gain valuable insights into market trends and potential investment opportunities! *Stock prices used were the prices of Jan. 21, 2026. The video was published on March 2, 2026. Continue reading
Explore the exciting world of Garrett Motion (NASDAQ: GTX) with our contributing expert analysts in this Motley Fool Scoreboard episode. Check out the video below to gain valuable insights into market trends and potential investment opportunities! *Stock prices used were the prices of Jan. 21, 2026. The video was published on March 2, 2026. Continue reading
Household-help app Pronto raised funding at a $100 million valuation, underscoring rising demand for services such as cooking and cleaning from India’s rapidly expanding middle class. The 11-month-old upstart snagged $25 million from investors led by Epiq Capital , it said in a statement Tuesday. Existing backers Glade Brook Capital , General Catalyst and Bain Capital Ventures participated in the ...
Household-help app Pronto raised funding at a $100 million valuation, underscoring rising demand for services such as cooking and cleaning from India’s rapidly expanding middle class. The 11-month-old upstart snagged $25 million from investors led by Epiq Capital , it said in a statement Tuesday. Existing backers Glade Brook Capital , General Catalyst and Bain Capital Ventures participated in the Series B round. Pronto, launched last April, lets users order instant domestic help. More than 4,500 professionals worked at least one shift on Pronto last month, Chief Executive Officer Anjali Sardana , 23, said in a video interview. The company, which vies with fast-growing rivals Snabbit and the publicly traded Urban Co. , operates in 10 cities, drawing half of its demand from the New Delhi region and roughly a fifth from its home city of Bangalore. Founder Sardana said she owns 40% of the company, while Glade Brook is the largest external shareholder with a stake of about 15%. Sardana will use the capital to fund the company’s expansion. Bookings have grown about 20% week-on-week for the past three months, leaving Pronto “deeply supply constrained,” she said. Workers on the platform complete seven gigs a day on average. A large portion of the funds will go toward referral rewards and building tools to attract more workers. “If you acquire 20% additional supply this week, you have 20% more people who refer others into the pipeline,” Sardana said. Pronto offers workers a baseline pay for logged-in hours and per-booking incentives. A worker completing 20 days a month could earn upward of 25,000 rupees ($273) on average, with additional upside from bonuses and referrals, she said. India’s average monthly pay is a relatively low 32,000 rupees , according to job website Shine, even after the economy has grown at a rapid clip for years. The company is prioritizing growth for now and isn’t profitable yet. Profitability is a “conscious choice at each point in time,” Sardana said...
Earnings Call Insights: iHeartMedia (IHRT) Q4 2025 Management View Bob Pittman, Chairman & CEO, reported that "we're pleased with our overall performance in 2025, especially given it was a nonpolitical year." He highlighted adjusted EBITDA of $220 million, at the midpoint of guidance, and consolidated revenue of $1.1 billion, up 0.8% year-over-year and above guidance. Excluding political impact, c...
Earnings Call Insights: iHeartMedia (IHRT) Q4 2025 Management View Bob Pittman, Chairman & CEO, reported that "we're pleased with our overall performance in 2025, especially given it was a nonpolitical year." He highlighted adjusted EBITDA of $220 million, at the midpoint of guidance, and consolidated revenue of $1.1 billion, up 0.8% year-over-year and above guidance. Excluding political impact, consolidated revenue grew 7.7%. Pittman emphasized the Digital Audio Group's Q4 revenue of $387 million, up 14.1%, and podcast revenue momentum reaching $174 million, up 24.5%—both above guidance. He noted the company's "unique advantage of having what we believe is the largest local sales force in media." Pittman also discussed strategic partnerships, citing recent collaborations with Netflix and TikTok and programmatic expansion via Amazon and Yahoo! DSPs, setting expectations for increased programmatic revenue in the second half of 2026. Rich Bressler, President & COO, stated, "Our Q4 2025 consolidated revenue was above our guidance of down low single digits and was up 0.8% compared to the prior year quarter." He elaborated on advertising revenue diversification, with no category exceeding 5% of total advertising revenue and no advertiser above 2%. Bressler summarized cost initiatives: "We are currently implementing $50 million of new in-year cost savings, which will start to benefit from beginning in Q2. This is in addition to the $50 million of cost reductions we announced on last quarter's call, which will bring our 2026 in-year cost savings to a total of $100 million." Outlook The company expects Q1 2026 adjusted EBITDA of approximately $100 million and consolidated revenue to be up high single digits compared to prior year. January revenue was up about 1% year-over-year. For Q1, Digital Audio Group revenue is forecast up mid-teens, podcast revenue up low 20s, Multiplatform Group up mid-single digits, and Audio & Media Services Group up high single digits. For the ful...
Earnings Call Insights: Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR) Q4 2025 Management View CEO Todd Seyfert opened the call by noting, "Overall, it was a difficult year for the firearms industry and for consumer durables more broadly. Inflationary pressures, discretionary spending constraints and a normalization of demand following several historically elevated years have all created headwinds throughout ...
Earnings Call Insights: Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR) Q4 2025 Management View CEO Todd Seyfert opened the call by noting, "Overall, it was a difficult year for the firearms industry and for consumer durables more broadly. Inflationary pressures, discretionary spending constraints and a normalization of demand following several historically elevated years have all created headwinds throughout the market." Seyfert highlighted that despite these challenges, "the estimated sell-through of our products through distribution increased 4.5% from 2024 despite a 4.1% decrease in adjusted NICS during the same period. Against that backdrop, we also delivered top line growth versus 2024, introduced meaningful innovation and closed the year with strong underlying demand." Seyfert emphasized a year marked by significant operational changes, including "a top to bottom review of the business, strengthening of our product pipeline, capacity expansion in Hebron, Kentucky, increased CapEx commitments, and inventory rationalization and product repositioning." CFO Thomas Dineen reported, "Net sales for the quarter increased 3.6% to $151 million compared with $146 million in the prior year period. Diluted earnings were $0.21 per share compared to $0.62 per share in the corresponding period of 2024." Dineen also stated, "For the full year of 2025, net sales increased 1.9% to $546 million compared with $536 million in the full year 2024. The company reported a net loss of $0.27 per share compared to diluted earnings of $1.77 per share in the prior year." Seyfert described the product innovation strategy: "During the fourth quarter alone, we launched 65 new models, including 3 entirely new platforms: the Glenfield by Ruger rifle, the Red Label III shotgun and the Harrier rifle." Seyfert further stated, "We are focused on expanding operating margins through disciplined cost alignment and structural efficiency... In addition to innovation in our current product lineup, we plan to launch m...
Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images The market falls into panic with the intervention in Iran , and while there seems to be a flight to safe-haven assets, I look elsewhere . Could covered call strategies be a tactical portfolio solution? This is the question I asked myself, reflecting on the strategic direction that, since the beginning of 2025, I have started to assume for my model po...
Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images The market falls into panic with the intervention in Iran , and while there seems to be a flight to safe-haven assets, I look elsewhere . Could covered call strategies be a tactical portfolio solution? This is the question I asked myself, reflecting on the strategic direction that, since the beginning of 2025, I have started to assume for my model portfolio, namely to tilt ex-US . And among the ETFs that I actively follow, there is one that uses an active covered call strategy that I, personally, consider very fascinating: I am talking about the Amplify CWP International Enhanced Div Inc ETF ( IDVO ). Here it is: today, I personally follow this strategy with interest, because if, on one hand, a conflict makes expected valuations uncertain, statistically this leads with higher probability to more volatility. And covered call strategies live on that. But first… What is IDVO (All-In-One Analysis) For those new to this ETF , here is a detailed summary of what, in my opinion, are the distinctive features of this ETF: IDVO is an international income ETF with an options overlay, characterized by active management, ex-US exposure, and tactical use of covered calls on individual stocks. IDVO - profile (Seeking Alpha) It has recorded significant growth in AUM , now exceeding $1 billion, despite an expense ratio of 0.66%, higher compared to passive international ETFs. IDVO - Expense Grade (Seeking Alpha) At a strategic level, it selects stocks based on cash flow, ROE, dividend growth, and management quality. Then it writes covered calls on individual stocks (not on the index) with a very wide overwrite range; it has been 15/20% and above 60% in other periods. The selection remains active and discretionary, but today it seems to be choosing a clear overweight in cyclical sectors, with a strong cyclical bias (55%+ among financials, energy, materials, and industrials), with a fairly pronounced concentration in the top 10 (about 30%)...
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images News The Trump administration is defending its military campaign against Iran with sweeping claims about nuclear ambitions and missile threats. But investors parsing geopolitical risk may find the intelligence picture far less clear. Senior officials have argued that Tehran posed escalating dangers to U.S. forces, regional allies and potentially the American homeland. Ye...
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images News The Trump administration is defending its military campaign against Iran with sweeping claims about nuclear ambitions and missile threats. But investors parsing geopolitical risk may find the intelligence picture far less clear. Senior officials have argued that Tehran posed escalating dangers to U.S. forces, regional allies and potentially the American homeland. Yet lawmakers with access to classified briefings, along with outside security analysts, say key elements of that case remain either unproven or overstated, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Mixed signals on mission and intelligence President Trump said Monday that the U.S. was running out of time to “eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime,” adding that operations could continue for another four to five weeks. Administration officials have framed the mission as a preemptive move to dismantle Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities before they mature. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the objectives have been consistent from the outset and that both the mission and intelligence underpinning it remain unchanged. However, critics point to shifting rationales over recent months. Earlier in the year, the White House emphasized negotiations aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. In the lead-up to the strike that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior figures, officials increasingly cited new intelligence suggesting Iran was working toward intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S. Lawmakers briefed on the intelligence say assessments didn’t show Iran was close to fielding such weapons. One lawmaker familiar with the findings indicated that Iran would likely need many years to deploy multiple missiles capable of reaching American soil, the Journal reported. Security experts are similarly divided. Some argue that Iran has technical know-how and faces no insurmountable bar...
Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › Concord Wealth Partners, an investment management firm, has reduced its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 12.3% during the third quarter, according to a recent SEC filing. Despite the reduction, NVIDIA remains Concord Wealth Partners' largest position, accounting for 4.7% of the firm's portfolio. Why it matters NVIDIA is a leading global...
Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › Concord Wealth Partners, an investment management firm, has reduced its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 12.3% during the third quarter, according to a recent SEC filing. Despite the reduction, NVIDIA remains Concord Wealth Partners' largest position, accounting for 4.7% of the firm's portfolio. Why it matters NVIDIA is a leading global technology company known for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip (SoC) technologies. The company's products are widely used in various industries, including gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and automotive. Concord Wealth Partners' decision to maintain NVIDIA as its largest holding suggests the firm's confidence in the company's long-term growth potential. The details According to the SEC filing, Concord Wealth Partners owned 181,056 shares of NVIDIA after selling 25,435 shares during the third quarter. The firm's holdings in NVIDIA were valued at $33,782,000 as of the most recent filing. Concord Wealth Partners reduced its NVIDIA holdings by 12.3% during the 3rd quarter. The players Concord Wealth Partners An investment management firm that has NVIDIA Corporation as its largest position, accounting for 4.7% of its portfolio. NVIDIA Corporation A global technology company that designs and develops graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip (SoC) technologies, serving various industries including gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and automotive. Got photos? Submit your photos here. ›
Retired US Army Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, former Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs and former Assistant Deputy Defense Secretary for the Middle East, provides insight into the ongoing US approach toward Iran's nuclear program and regional threat. He joined Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Retired US Army Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, former Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs and former Assistant Deputy Defense Secretary for the Middle East, provides insight into the ongoing US approach toward Iran's nuclear program and regional threat. He joined Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Looking back, it almost seems like a dream. On Aug. 31, 2020, the U.S. had just surpassed six million COVID-19 cases, people were encouraged to wear masks and practice social distancing, and biopharma giant AstraZeneca had begun late-stage trials of its vaccine candidate. This was also the day that ...
Looking back, it almost seems like a dream. On Aug. 31, 2020, the U.S. had just surpassed six million COVID-19 cases, people were encouraged to wear masks and practice social distancing, and biopharma giant AstraZeneca had begun late-stage trials of its vaccine candidate. This was also the day that ...