Fee-conscious investors and those seeking wider bond diversification face distinct trade-offs in these two ETF strategies. The key differences between Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGIT) and Fidelity Investment Grade Bond ETF (NYSEMKT:FIGB) are cost, yield, portfolio breadth, and historical risk -- VGIT is cheaper and steadier, while FIGB offers a modestly higher payout and broad...
Fee-conscious investors and those seeking wider bond diversification face distinct trade-offs in these two ETF strategies. The key differences between Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:VGIT) and Fidelity Investment Grade Bond ETF (NYSEMKT:FIGB) are cost, yield, portfolio breadth, and historical risk -- VGIT is cheaper and steadier, while FIGB offers a modestly higher payout and broader bond exposure. Expand NASDAQ : VGIT Vanguard Scottsdale Funds - Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF Today's Change ( -0.18 %) $ -0.11 Current Price $ 59.97 Key Data Points Day's Range $ 59.91 - $ 60.04 52wk Range $ 57.79 - $ 60.57 Volume 1.9M Both VGIT and FIGB target investors seeking core U.S. fixed income exposure, but they approach it differently. VGIT focuses solely on intermediate-term U.S. Treasury bonds, while FIGB covers a broader swath of high-grade U.S. bond sectors. This comparison unpacks how each fund stacks up across cost, performance, risk, and portfolio construction. Snapshot (cost & size) Metric VGIT FIGB Issuer Vanguard Fidelity Expense ratio 0.03% 0.36% 1-yr return (as of 2026-02-10) 1.7% 2.8% Dividend yield 3.8% 4.1% AUM $44.6 billion $354.6 million Beta 0.82 1.01 Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year monthly returns. The 1-year return represents total return over the trailing 12 months. VGIT is significantly more affordable, with an expense ratio of just 0.03% compared to FIGB’s 0.36%. FIGB offers a slightly higher dividend yield of 4.1% versus VGIT’s 3.8%, which may appeal to income-focused investors willing to pay higher fees. Performance & risk comparison Metric VGIT FIGB Max drawdown (4 y) (13.4%) (15.6%) Growth of $1,000 over 4 years $1,056 $1,050 What's inside The Fidelity Investment Grade Bond ETF invests across 707 positions in high-grade U.S. bonds, including corporates and government debt. The fund has operated for 4.9 years and is currently concentrated in government bonds, accountin...
CEO Matthew Prince says the network security specialist was built for "the rise of the Agentic Internet." Shares of Cloudflare (NET +6.13%) popped on Wednesday after the connectivity provider issued an upbeat forecast for the year ahead. As of 2:05 p.m. EST, Cloudflare's stock price was up more than 5% after rising as much as 13% earlier in the day. AI-driven gains Cloudflare's revenue surged 34% ...
CEO Matthew Prince says the network security specialist was built for "the rise of the Agentic Internet." Shares of Cloudflare (NET +6.13%) popped on Wednesday after the connectivity provider issued an upbeat forecast for the year ahead. As of 2:05 p.m. EST, Cloudflare's stock price was up more than 5% after rising as much as 13% earlier in the day. AI-driven gains Cloudflare's revenue surged 34% year over year to $614.5 million in the fourth quarter. Growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered applications fueled the gains. "The shift toward AI and agents represents a fundamental replatforming of the Internet that's driving demand across Cloudflare's services," CEO Matthew Prince said in a press release. Cloudflare is particularly well-positioned to profit from the expected boom in agentic AI. "If agents are the new users of the web, Cloudflare is the platform they run on and the network they pass through," Prince said. "This creates a virtuous flywheel: more agents drive more code to Cloudflare Workers, which fuels demand for our performance, security, and networking services." Expand NYSE : NET Cloudflare Today's Change ( 6.13 %) $ 11.04 Current Price $ 191.01 Key Data Points Market Cap $63B Day's Range $ 185.73 - $ 203.62 52wk Range $ 89.42 - $ 260.00 Volume 12M Avg Vol 3.5M Gross Margin 75.19 % All told, Cloudflare's adjusted net income soared 55% to $106.8 million, or $0.28 per share. That was slightly above Wall Street's estimates, which had called for adjusted per-share profits of $0.27. A bullish forecast for 2026 Looking ahead, Cloudflare expects revenue to grow by roughly 29% to $2.79 billion in 2026. Management also projects adjusted earnings per share of $1.12, up from $0.93 in 2025. Prince's confidence in the company's AI-driven future is clear. "We were built for this moment and the rise of the Agentic Internet," he said.
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children toggle caption Hernando County Sheriff's Office A Florida handyman who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been convicted of multiple state charges of child molestation and exposing himself to children, prosecutors told NPR. Andrew Paul Johnson, the pardoned rioter, at...
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children toggle caption Hernando County Sheriff's Office A Florida handyman who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been convicted of multiple state charges of child molestation and exposing himself to children, prosecutors told NPR. Andrew Paul Johnson, the pardoned rioter, attempted to bribe one victim with money he claimed he would receive as part of restitution for Jan. 6 defendants, police reported. The conviction is the latest case of a pardoned Capitol rioter committing new crimes after receiving a pardon. On Tuesday, a jury in Hernando County, Fla., found Andrew Paul Johnson guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition. Johnson was acquitted of one charge of sending sexual material to a child. Sponsor Message William Forgie, the chief assistant state attorney for the fifth judicial circuit in Florida, told NPR in an email that Johnson "faces up to life in prison" when he is sentenced in March. An attorney for Johnson did not respond to a phone message seeking comment. A police report from the Hernando County Sheriff's Office filed as part of Johnson's Florida case describes a pattern of abuse — including both physical sexual abuse and exposing his genitalia to children — that took place "over a many-month span." One of Johnson's victims was 11 years old at the time of the abuse. Johnson also attempted to keep one victim quiet by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for former Jan. 6 defendants and would share the money with the victim in his will, according to the police report. Convicted rioters and their supporters have advocated for financial reparations since Trump returned to office, though it's unclear if the administration will take that step. In 2024, Andrew Paul Johnson pleaded guilty to nonviolent charges...
Key Points Pfizer continues to lag the market due to poor financial results and upcoming challenges. However, the company is entering an important period in its clinical development. 10 stocks we like better than Pfizer › Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) recently experienced yet another setback. The drugmaker has been posting disappointing financial results for several years, and its latest quarterly update sen...
Key Points Pfizer continues to lag the market due to poor financial results and upcoming challenges. However, the company is entering an important period in its clinical development. 10 stocks we like better than Pfizer › Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) recently experienced yet another setback. The drugmaker has been posting disappointing financial results for several years, and its latest quarterly update sent its stock price down about 4%. The market was concerned that revenue moved in the wrong direction in 2025, while growth in adjusted earnings per share (EPS) was modest. And to make matters worse, Pfizer's guidance for 2026 wasn't particularly strong. Amid all that, it might seem weird to suggest that now is a great time to buy the stock. But there are some reasons to think so. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Why there might be ample upside ahead The market tends to reward pharmaceutical stocks aggressively during clinical development, often more than it does once they've made commercial progress with already-approved products. By the time a drugmaker launches a medicine likely to generate well over $1 billion in annual sales, that opportunity is often already figured into the stock price. To be clear, that's not always the case; some medicines perform far better or worse than anticipated. But there does tend to be substantial upside as late-stage clinical-trial wins start rolling in. That brings us to Pfizer, whose shares are down significantly over the past three years. The company will face more challenges over the next three years, notably due to key patent cliffs, including that of its anticoagulant Eliquis. However, it could also see significant pipeline activity over this period. And if that's positive, the stock could soar well before its most promising candidates generate billions of dollars in sales. Pfizer expects progress acr...
We Are/DigitalVision via Getty Images In this article I will attempt to identify the most overvalued and undervalued US tech stocks using a methodology I first introduced in this article in July last year. It is based not only on various measures of earnings but also takes into account the tendency for smaller companies to grow faster (therefore partially justifying higher P/E ratios), as well as ...
We Are/DigitalVision via Getty Images In this article I will attempt to identify the most overvalued and undervalued US tech stocks using a methodology I first introduced in this article in July last year. It is based not only on various measures of earnings but also takes into account the tendency for smaller companies to grow faster (therefore partially justifying higher P/E ratios), as well as the risk of default. The conclusion is clear: Tesla ( TSLA ) is astonishingly overvalued while PayPal ( PYPL ) is a bargain. Valuations Based On Forward P/E Ratios I used Bloomberg analyst estimates of next year's net income, free cash flow, and operating cash flow to arrive at a blended forward P/E ratio for each of the Nasdaq 100 constituents. Tesla, Axon ( AXON ), CrowdStrike Holdings ( CRWD ), Intel ( INTC ), and Palantir Technologies ( PLTR ) command the top spots on this metric, each being at least double the Nasdaq 100 average. On the other end of the scale, PayPal ( PYPL ), Charter Communications ( CHTR ), Micron Technology ( MU ), Adobe ( ADBE ), and Comcast ( CMCSA ) make up the cheapest five stocks in that order. Log Chart. 1 is NDX 100 Average (Bloomberg, Author's calculations) Adjusting For Earnings Size When we adjust the above figures for market size based on the inverse correlation between forward P/E ratios and forward earnings, a few changes occur. At the expensive end, the five most expensive stocks are unchanged, but Palantir moves into the second spot from fifth previously. At the cheap end, Micron and Comcast are replaced by Kraft Heinz ( KHC ) and Cognizant ( CTSH ), which become more undervalued due to their lower level of earnings. Log Chart. 1 is NDX 100 Average (Bloomberg, Author's calculations) Adjusting For Default Risk After factoring in the default risk of each stock based on the inverse correlation between P/E ratios and default risk, some interesting changes occur. On the expensive side, Tesla becomes even more overvalued, as does Intel, whi...
MF3d/iStock via Getty Images Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Technology continues to be a strong area of the overall market, helping to propel the broader indexes even higher. These have become quite concentrated sectors over the last handful of years now, as the mega-cap tech names continue to dominate. They provide most of the overall earnings growth to the equity index...
MF3d/iStock via Getty Images Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Technology continues to be a strong area of the overall market, helping to propel the broader indexes even higher. These have become quite concentrated sectors over the last handful of years now, as the mega-cap tech names continue to dominate. They provide most of the overall earnings growth to the equity indexes, and that has resulted in higher share prices and subsequently market cap gains. For some that may not be aware, being that the broader indexes are market-cap weighted, that translates into larger allocations. Of course, there are risks, as it has become quite notable that valuations have become stretched relative to historical levels. Like anything in investing, there are risks to consider. As long as these names continue to drive earnings growth, though, they can continue to perform strongly. With that said, there is another way to participate in the tech space, and largely the Magnificent 7 names, while also receiving a monthly distribution. This is through closed-end funds, which also present a unique ability to invest in these funds at discounts. This is because share prices are determined by supply and demand, while the net asset value per share is derived from the underlying asset values. Since CEFs don't have a creation/redemption mechanism like ETFs do, this results in the share price sometimes being wildly different from this underlying value. Today, we'll be looking at two tech-focused CEFs that present investors with monthly distributions and are also trading at relatively attractive discounts. With the valuations of the broader market appearing stretched as noted, I perhaps wouldn't be investing too aggressively. However, these are two choices that are still appealing for someone who may look or be in a position to enter more cautiously in a dollar-cost averaging method. 1. BlackRock Science and Technology Trust ( BST ) 1-Year Z-score: 0.92. Discount/Premium...
Mark_KA Ford Motor Co. ( F ) plans to make an affordability push with plans to launch five new models priced under $40,000 in the next four years. During an investor conference on Wednesday, Ford ( F ) Chief Financial Officer Sherry House indicated that the rollout of lower-priced models will start with an electric, four-door pickup truck in 2027 and continue with both gas-fueled and battery-power...
Mark_KA Ford Motor Co. ( F ) plans to make an affordability push with plans to launch five new models priced under $40,000 in the next four years. During an investor conference on Wednesday, Ford ( F ) Chief Financial Officer Sherry House indicated that the rollout of lower-priced models will start with an electric, four-door pickup truck in 2027 and continue with both gas-fueled and battery-powered vehicles. House noted that Ford will build the additional electric models under $40,000 off the same mechanical platform as the pickup coming next year. The automaker is looking at its plant in Stanton, Tennessee, to build the gasoline-powered pickup truck. During Ford's fourth-quarter earnings conference call, CEO Jim Farley highlighted that affordable trucks and SUVs are top priorities. Shares of Ford ( F ) edge 0.2% higher in Wednesday afternoon trading and are up just over 3.5% on a year-to-date basis. More on Ford Ford Motor Company (F) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Ford Motor Company 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Ford Q4 Earnings Preview: Focus On Long-Term And Cycles Ford expects $8B–$10B adjusted EBIT for 2026 as cost reductions and product mix drive outlook Ford Motor grinds through another tough quarter amid its hybrid and EV strategy reset
Freshworks stock is getting hit hard despite strong sales and earnings beats in the fourth quarter. Freshworks (FRSH 15.81%) stock is seeing a big valuation contraction in Wednesday's trading. The company's share price was down 14.8% as of 2 p.m. ET. At the same point in the session, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite were both flat. Freshworks released its fourth-quarter results after the marke...
Freshworks stock is getting hit hard despite strong sales and earnings beats in the fourth quarter. Freshworks (FRSH 15.81%) stock is seeing a big valuation contraction in Wednesday's trading. The company's share price was down 14.8% as of 2 p.m. ET. At the same point in the session, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite were both flat. Freshworks released its fourth-quarter results after the market closed yesterday and reported sales and earnings for the period that beat Wall Street's expectations. On the other hand, investors had been hoping for stronger forward guidance. Q4 sales and earnings beats haven't been enough to support Freshworks stock Freshworks recorded non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share of $0.14 on revenue of $222.7 million in the fourth quarter. Adjusted earnings beat the average Wall Street analyst estimate by $0.03 per share, and sales came in roughly $3.9 million higher than anticipated. Revenue in the quarter was up 14.4% year over year, and per-share earnings were in line with the prior-year period. Expand NASDAQ : FRSH Freshworks Today's Change ( -15.81 %) $ -1.38 Current Price $ 7.35 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.5B Day's Range $ 7.00 - $ 7.89 52wk Range $ 7.00 - $ 18.77 Volume 16M Avg Vol 4.3M Gross Margin 84.24 % Investors aren't happy with Freshworks' outlook for 2026 For the current quarter, Freshworks is targeting revenue between $222 million and $225 million. Hitting the midpoint of that sales range would mean posting year-over-year sales growth of roughly 13.9%. For the full-year period, management is guiding for sales between $952 million and $960 million -- representing annual growth of roughly 14% at the midpoint of the guidance range. Meanwhile, adjusted earnings per share for the year are projected to be between $0.55 and $0.57 -- down from $0.66 per share last year. Freshworks actually raised its full-year sales target from the guidance it issued in September, but adjusted earnings per share look poised for a significant decli...
American Airlines Group Inc. flight attendants said they will hold a protest this week demanding that Chief Executive Officer Robert Isom step down as the carrier grapples with operational and financial underperformance. Members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants will protest on Thursday outside the airline’s headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, following a vote on Monday of no con...
American Airlines Group Inc. flight attendants said they will hold a protest this week demanding that Chief Executive Officer Robert Isom step down as the carrier grapples with operational and financial underperformance. Members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants will protest on Thursday outside the airline’s headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, following a vote on Monday of no confidence in Isom, according to a statement from the union representing 28,000 flight attendants. The protest by the flight attendants adds to the pressure that Isom has faced from employees throughout the company. Last week, the Allied Pilots Association , the union representing about 16,000 pilots, called for a meeting with American’s board of directors to address concerns about leadership and the company’s performance. Isom responded to the pilots on Saturday saying he’s interested in addressing their issues. Read More: American Air CEO Agrees to Meet Pilots Union After Criticism Pilots and flight attendants have blamed leadership for what they described as botched preparations for last month’s winter storm and disappointing financial results, calling those failures part of a broader pattern of weak execution and decision-making. The hurdles also include trying to win back corporate flyers alienated by an unpopular — and since reversed — sales and distribution strategy that sought to push customers away from booking agencies in favor of buying directly through American’s website or app. American’s largest rivals, United Airlines Holdings Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. , have been posting higher margins for several years. While reporting fourth-quarter earnings results last month that missed estimates , Isom said that American is positioned for a significant upside in 2026.
At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 23 most recent 13F filings for the 06/30/2025 reporting period, and noticed that Parker Hannifin Corp (Symbol: PH) was held by 10 of these funds. When hedge fund managers appear to be thinking alike, we find it is a good idea to take a closer look. Before we proceed, it is important to point out that 13F filings do not tell the whole st...
At Holdings Channel, we have reviewed the latest batch of the 23 most recent 13F filings for the 06/30/2025 reporting period, and noticed that Parker Hannifin Corp (Symbol: PH) was held by 10 of these funds. When hedge fund managers appear to be thinking alike, we find it is a good idea to take a closer look. Before we proceed, it is important to point out that 13F filings do not tell the whole story, because these funds are only required to disclose their long positions with the SEC, but are not required to disclose their short positions. A fund making a bearish bet against a stock by shorting calls, for example, might also be long some amount of stock as they trade around their overall bearish position. This long component could show up in a 13F filing and everyone might assume the fund is bullish, but this tells only part of the story because the bearish/short side of the position is not seen. Having given that caveat, we believe that looking at groups of 13F filings can be revealing, especially when comparing one holding period to another. Below, let's take a look at the change in PH positions, for this latest batch of 13F filers: In terms of shares owned, we count 5 of the above funds having increased existing PH positions from 03/31/2025 to 06/30/2025, with 3 having decreased their positions. Looking beyond these particular funds in this one batch of most recent filers, we tallied up the PH share count in the aggregate among all of the funds which held PH at the 06/30/2025 reporting period (out of the 3,455 we looked at in total). We then compared that number to the sum total of PH shares those same funds held back at the 03/31/2025 period, to see how the aggregate share count held by hedge funds has moved for PH. We found that between these two periods, funds reduced their holdings by 63,176 shares in the aggregate, from 8,735,133 down to 8,671,957 for a share count decline of approximately -0.72%. The overall top three funds holding PH on 06/30/2025 were: We...
Key Points The U.S. Department of Energy aims to quadruple the country's nuclear energy capacity by 2050. The government recently repurposed $3.1 billion for small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced reactor demonstrations. NuScale Power is the only company with an SMR design certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 10 stocks we like better than NuScale Power › The United States is looking...
Key Points The U.S. Department of Energy aims to quadruple the country's nuclear energy capacity by 2050. The government recently repurposed $3.1 billion for small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced reactor demonstrations. NuScale Power is the only company with an SMR design certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 10 stocks we like better than NuScale Power › The United States is looking to aggressively expand its nuclear energy capabilities. The Department of Energy has set a target to quadruple nuclear energy capacity by 2050 and hopes to have 10 large reactors under construction by 2030. As part of the most recent funding bill, Congress has provided significant funding for nuclear innovation. This includes $3.1 billion and repurposed funds allocated specifically for small modular reactors (SMRs) and the advanced reactor demonstration program. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » With so much government money being poured into nuclear energy, does that make NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR) a buy? The U.S. government is ramping up nuclear funding With geopolitical risks rising, the United States is looking to fortify its domestic energy industry, and one key part of this is expanding its nuclear energy abilities. Nuclear energy is appealing because it has zero emissions, is highly efficient, and provides reliable base-load power. Last year, the government made $800 million in funding available for Generation III+ light water SMRs. It awarded these funds to first movers, which included the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Holtec. NuScale wasn't selected for these funds; however, it is working with TVA, the first U.S. utility to submit a construction permit application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a modern SMR. TVA received funding specifically to deploy GE Verno...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has named Burkhard Koep as global head of communications investment banking, as transactions involving digital infrastructure continue to drive deal volume. Koep will continue to be based in Switzerland and report to Eric Menell , the bank’s global head of media and communications investment banking, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News. Following Koep’s promotion, G...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has named Burkhard Koep as global head of communications investment banking, as transactions involving digital infrastructure continue to drive deal volume. Koep will continue to be based in Switzerland and report to Eric Menell , the bank’s global head of media and communications investment banking, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News. Following Koep’s promotion, Gian Piero Sammartano will succeed Koep and becomes head of Europe, Middle East and Africa media and communications investment banking and continue to serve as the global co-head of sports investment banking, according to the memo. A representative for JPMorgan confirmed the content of the memo. Koep joined JPMorgan in 2019 and has been leading its digital infrastructure, data centers and related communications industry deals since. Prior to joining the firm, Koep worked at Altice Group and Morgan Stanley .
AI eats the world Okay so I have a business plan for Sam Altman. Here’s what you do. You build an artificial intelligence application for some specific sort of business, coding or tax planning or whatever. You roll it out on a Tuesday morning. You announce it in blandly optimistic terms and do some cool demos. You go on financial television, and when they ask you — as they will — a question like “...
AI eats the world Okay so I have a business plan for Sam Altman. Here’s what you do. You build an artificial intelligence application for some specific sort of business, coding or tax planning or whatever. You roll it out on a Tuesday morning. You announce it in blandly optimistic terms and do some cool demos. You go on financial television, and when they ask you — as they will — a question like “won’t this disrupt the business model of software-as-a-service companies” or “won’t this put financial advisers out of business,” you smirk ruefully and shake your head and say “well there is a lot of disruption coming, and it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-artificial general intelligence world.” And by Tuesday afternoon every software company or wealth management company or whatever sector you’re targeting will have sold off by like 10%. Oh and of course the other thing you do is, on Monday — before you announce the new product — you buy a bunch of put options on all of the software/wealth management/whatever companies’ stocks. And you make like a 1,000% one-day return on your money, probably not in huge size but in useful size. And then you do it again next week. You have, let us hypothesize, built something that is artificial, pretty intelligent and pretty general. You have a quite smart robot. “Robot, disrupt the X industry,” you tell it each week for some new X. And each week you eat some industry’s lunch and turn it into trading profits for yourself. Not investing advice! Actually we have talked about this business model a few times before. I proposed it for OpenAI last year , for instance, and I also wrote about it when DeepSeek came out with a model that briefly crashed all the other AI stocks. And we’ve talked about the idea — “short an incumbent industry, and then disrupt it” — in other contexts; Joe Weisenthal proposed it decades ago . Of course it is not specific to Sam Altman. OpenAI is a big AI lab, and I sort of like the idea of ...
Key Points Astera Labs Q4 report arrived with better-than-expected sales and earnings. The company's forward guidance also looked pretty strong. Investors reacted negatively to the Q4 report due to margin concerns and news that Astera's CFO is stepping into a different role. 10 stocks we like better than Astera Labs › Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) stock is selling off following the company's recent f...
Key Points Astera Labs Q4 report arrived with better-than-expected sales and earnings. The company's forward guidance also looked pretty strong. Investors reacted negatively to the Q4 report due to margin concerns and news that Astera's CFO is stepping into a different role. 10 stocks we like better than Astera Labs › Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) stock is selling off following the company's recent fourth-quarter report. The company's share price was down 19.7% as of 1:40 p.m. ET and had been off as much as 21.2% earlier in trading. Astera Labs published its Q4 results after the market closed yesterday and reported sales and earnings for the period that beat the average Wall Street targets. On the other hand, the company announced that its chief financial officer was resigning and issued forward guidance and commentary that raised concerns about the outlook on margins. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » Astera Labs stock sinks despite big Q4 beats Astera Labs reported non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share of $0.58 on revenue of $270.6 million -- a performance that came in far better than the average analyst estimates. The average Wall Street targets had called for the business to post adjusted earnings of $0.51 per share on sales of $249.55 million. The semiconductor specialist's revenue surged nearly 92% higher year over year, and adjusted earnings per share were up roughly 57% compared to the prior-year period. It was another strong quarter for Astera Labs by most measures, but the stock is getting hit hard in response to a shakeup on the management team and fears that margins could weaken. Margin concerns and CFO change are spurring sell-offs For the current quarter, Astera is guiding for sales between $286 million and $297 million and a gross margin of roughly 74%. Meanwhile, adjust...
Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) stock is selling off following the company's recent fourth-quarter report. The company's share price was down 19.7% as of 1:40 p.m. ET and had been off as much as 21.2% earlier in trading. Astera Labs published its Q4 results after the market closed yesterday and reported sales and earnings for the period that beat the average Wall Street targets. On the other hand, the ...
Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) stock is selling off following the company's recent fourth-quarter report. The company's share price was down 19.7% as of 1:40 p.m. ET and had been off as much as 21.2% earlier in trading. Astera Labs published its Q4 results after the market closed yesterday and reported sales and earnings for the period that beat the average Wall Street targets. On the other hand, the company announced that its chief financial officer was resigning and issued forward guidance and commentary that raised concerns about the outlook on margins. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Image source: Getty Images. Astera Labs stock sinks despite big Q4 beats Astera Labs reported non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share of $0.58 on revenue of $270.6 million -- a performance that came in far better than the average analyst estimates. The average Wall Street targets had called for the business to post adjusted earnings of $0.51 per share on sales of $249.55 million. The semiconductor specialist's revenue surged nearly 92% higher year over year, and adjusted earnings per share were up roughly 57% compared to the prior-year period. It was another strong quarter for Astera Labs by most measures, but the stock is getting hit hard in response to a shakeup on the management team and fears that margins could weaken. Margin concerns and CFO change are spurring sell-offs For the current quarter, Astera is guiding for sales between $286 million and $297 million and a gross margin of roughly 74%. Meanwhile, adjusted earnings per share are projected to come in between $0.53 and $0.54. Guidance actually came in ahead of expectations on most key fronts, but some analysts are concerns that rising sales to Amazon will cause Astera Labs' margins to contract further out. In addition to the margin fears, news that Mike Tate is transitioning from the CFO rol...