BlackBerry (NYSE:BB), a secure communications and IoT software provider, closed Monday at $5.50, up 13.17%. The stock jumped after news of an expanded QNX integration with Nvidia’s IGX Thor for edge AI systems. Investors are watching how these safety‑critical AI and automotive de
BlackBerry (NYSE:BB), a secure communications and IoT software provider, closed Monday at $5.50, up 13.17%. The stock jumped after news of an expanded QNX integration with Nvidia’s IGX Thor for edge AI systems. Investors are watching how these safety‑critical AI and automotive de
Poet Technologies (NASDAQ:POET), designs and develops photonic integrated circuits and optical engines. The stock closed at $8.59, up 18.32%. Shares jumped after management issued a detailed rebuttal to a short-seller report and clarified PFIC-related tax concerns, while investor
Poet Technologies (NASDAQ:POET), designs and develops photonic integrated circuits and optical engines. The stock closed at $8.59, up 18.32%. Shares jumped after management issued a detailed rebuttal to a short-seller report and clarified PFIC-related tax concerns, while investor
VLG/iStock via Getty Images Church & Dwight ( CHD ) is just past a critical year of portfolio cleanup and is trying to reinvent itself with a new evergreen strategy in place, a new five-year algorithm, and so far, the market is responding favorably. The stock is up over 17% YTD, garnering nearly 11 points of alpha versus the Consumer Staples SPDR ETF ( XLP ). There are several questions about the ...
VLG/iStock via Getty Images Church & Dwight ( CHD ) is just past a critical year of portfolio cleanup and is trying to reinvent itself with a new evergreen strategy in place, a new five-year algorithm, and so far, the market is responding favorably. The stock is up over 17% YTD, garnering nearly 11 points of alpha versus the Consumer Staples SPDR ETF ( XLP ). There are several questions about the feasibility of their five-year plan and I largely believe this is going to be a back-end weighted plan. 2026 looks to be negatively disposed to organic growth headwinds once again from private label while margins may be negatively impacted by forthcoming marketing spend which is going towards revitalizing the Arm & Hammer brand. A Difficult 2025, but an Evergreen 2030 The company recently unveiled it's 2026-2030 growth initiatives, in the release last quarter on earnings. They essentially said that a combination of sector plus company growth initiatives has historically yielded a 4% organic sales growth rate per year (OSG%). 2025 saw a particularly large slowdown that the company has blamed on global macro. As a response to their lack of decent price positioning, private label threats, and inability to scale legacy brands without large marketing investments, the company is launching a new "evergreen" strategy with three key tenants to restore them back to 4% annual OSG% through 2030. Expand the Arm & Hammer brand Grow the oral care portfolio under the Therabreath brand Expand internationally via M&A Additionally, the company took several key portfolio actions in late 2025 in order to prime themselves to execute this strategy. One included the acquisition of Touchland for $700 million in August. Touchland is one of the fastest growing sanitizer brands and has a leading market share position. The company also announced in December it was exiting the Vitamin business, selling their two brands Vitafusion and Lil Critters. Behind this they've unveiled the evergreen model which c...
Investors have flocked to artificial intelligence (AI) stocks over the past couple of years. And it's easy to see why. The growth coming from the sector's top players is staggering. But separating a good business from an attractive stock is where investing gets tricky. When comparing three of the biggest AI winners -- Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) , Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) , and Palantir T...
Investors have flocked to artificial intelligence (AI) stocks over the past couple of years. And it's easy to see why. The growth coming from the sector's top players is staggering. But separating a good business from an attractive stock is where investing gets tricky. When comparing three of the biggest AI winners -- Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) , Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) , and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) -- one arguably offers a superior balance of business quality and valuation. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Parametric’s Nisha Patel, QXO CEO Brad Jacobs, Seaport Research Partners’ Richard Safran, PGIM’s Cathy Marcus, Gentrust’s Mimi Duff, BMO’s Mark McCormick, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, Evercore ISI’s Sarah Bianchi, Cleo C...
Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Parametric’s Nisha Patel, QXO CEO Brad Jacobs, Seaport Research Partners’ Richard Safran, PGIM’s Cathy Marcus, Gentrust’s Mimi Duff, BMO’s Mark McCormick, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, Evercore ISI’s Sarah Bianchi, Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst, Constellation Research CEO Ray Wang, D.A. Davidson’s Gil Luria, & Gerber Kawasaki’s Ross Gerber. (Source: Bloomberg)
Gary Yeowell/DigitalVision via Getty Images Whenever I rate a company a "Sell," I'm making the claim that the stock should underperform the market for the foreseeable future. Well, back in early December of last year, I reaffirmed Crane Company ( CR ) as a "Sell." The stock's valuation looked lofty even after factoring in the strong operational and financial performance that the business had exhib...
Gary Yeowell/DigitalVision via Getty Images Whenever I rate a company a "Sell," I'm making the claim that the stock should underperform the market for the foreseeable future. Well, back in early December of last year, I reaffirmed Crane Company ( CR ) as a "Sell." The stock's valuation looked lofty even after factoring in the strong operational and financial performance that the business had exhibited. Even though there was the prospect of additional growth thanks to acquisition activities, I believed that the company would underperform the market moving forward. Since then, I have been wrong. Shares are actually up 5.3% compared to the 1.7% rise that the S&P 500 saw. However, it is worth noting that since I originally rated it a "Sell" back in August of last year, the firm has indeed underperformed the market. Shares are up only 1.3%, which pales in comparison to the 8.2% increase that the S&P 500 enjoyed. The new data provided by management shows that investors should expect continued growth this year. But even with that factored in, the picture of the business looks mixed at best. Yes, it is likely that revenue, profits, and cash flows will rise throughout 2026. But the fact of the matter is that shares are incredibly pricey, and this justifies, in my view, a bearish outlook. This might seem peculiar considering how the company is priced against other similar enterprises. But even though I do put some weight on relative valuation, absolute valuation is more important to me. This is not to say that my opinion on the matter cannot be changed. If new data comes in that justifies an upgrade, I will happily do so. I am not, by any means, married to my investment calls. It is interesting to note that, after the market closes on April 27, management will be announcing financial results for the first quarter of the company's 2026 fiscal year. The positive thing here is that there is the expectation that revenue will rise. Adjusted net profits should also increase. But un...
jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images A Saturday fire that shut down a reformer unit at Chevron's ( CVX ) 125K bbl/day Pasadena, Texas, refinery has been extinguished with no injuries reported, according to Dow Jones' OPIS, citing a company spokesman and regulatory filing. The refinery experienced a leak and fire in a process unit that was quickly extinguished with no injuries reported, t...
jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images A Saturday fire that shut down a reformer unit at Chevron's ( CVX ) 125K bbl/day Pasadena, Texas, refinery has been extinguished with no injuries reported, according to Dow Jones' OPIS, citing a company spokesman and regulatory filing. The refinery experienced a leak and fire in a process unit that was quickly extinguished with no injuries reported, the company said. The filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality identified a reformer at the process unit, which was shut down after the fire, adding that the emissions event lasted for just over one hour. The Pasadena refinery, located ~10 miles southeast of downtown Houston, has an estimated 24K bbl/day of catalytic reforming capacity; it produces gasoline, gasoline components, diesel, fuel gas, and liquefied petroleum gas, and processes sweet, light crude that Chevron ( CVX ) produces from the Permian Basin. More on Chevron Chevron: Current Levels Do Not Fully Capture Earnings Power And Strengthening FCF Chevron: Growth Drivers Are In Sync With Valuation And Technicals Chevron: Prolonged Iran War A Catalyst
Bogdan Nicolaescu/iStock via Getty Images Metalla Royalty Stock Analysis Data by YCharts I've covered the royalty and streaming sector for over a decade now, and the benefits of investing in this sector have largely remained the same. You get ownership of a large portfolio of streams and royalties, without having to deal with the headaches of being an actual miner. Buying a larger company like Fra...
Bogdan Nicolaescu/iStock via Getty Images Metalla Royalty Stock Analysis Data by YCharts I've covered the royalty and streaming sector for over a decade now, and the benefits of investing in this sector have largely remained the same. You get ownership of a large portfolio of streams and royalties, without having to deal with the headaches of being an actual miner. Buying a larger company like Franco Nevada ( FNV ) or Wheaton Precious Metals ( WPM ) allows you to gain exposure to 100+ producing royalty assets, with much lower risk than owning the actual miners themselves. That's a perfectly fine thesis. It just doesn't capture what's happening at the smaller end of the space right now, where there is more growth upside and a lot of M&A potential. Metalla Royalty & Streaming ( MTA ) is one name that caught my attention recently. Shares have more than doubled over the past year. They're also down about 10% from earlier this year. I'm interested in the stock after this pullback. While it's not dirt cheap by any means, you are buying into a small but fast-growing royalty company with 30%+ production growth and much larger growth potential over the next 3-5 years. I think this is a name worth buying here, as I explain below. Metalla is a Small Company With a Deep Pipeline Metalla is a Vancouver-based royalty and streaming company with a market cap just under $1 billion. For its 2025 financial results , royalty revenue doubled to $11.7 million, while adjusted EBITDA rose to $4.7 (more than doubling the prior year's figure). This is a profitable company, too. Operating cash flow came in at $4.4 million, up 271%, due to the company producing 38% more gold equivalent ounces (3,436oz in total). The portfolio is large and growing, with 99 royalty and streaming assets, as of writing. While just 7 of those 99% are producing today, another 29 are in the development phase, and 63 in exploration. So, you're getting a ton of long-term optionality here. While most of those exploratio...
Goldman Sachs: Micron Technology (MU.US) contributes to over half of the upward revision in S&P 500 earnings forecasts, driven by AI and energy-related expectations. Moomoo
Goldman Sachs: Micron Technology (MU.US) contributes to over half of the upward revision in S&P 500 earnings forecasts, driven by AI and energy-related expectations. Moomoo
President claims ‘inadequate’ supply presents security threat and orders expansion of oil, coal and gas production Donald Trump on Monday released a series of memos that doubled down on his support of increased domestic fossil fuel production for purported “defense readiness”. Trump’s memos, which cited the president’s 20 January 2025 executive order declaring a national energy emergency, said US-...
President claims ‘inadequate’ supply presents security threat and orders expansion of oil, coal and gas production Donald Trump on Monday released a series of memos that doubled down on his support of increased domestic fossil fuel production for purported “defense readiness”. Trump’s memos, which cited the president’s 20 January 2025 executive order declaring a national energy emergency, said US-based oil , coal , and natural gas production must expand “to avert an industrial resource or critical technology item shortfall that would severely impair national defense capability”. Continue reading...