Alphabet Inc. (Class C) remains in the spotlight after a strong first quarter and ongoing AI investments, while the non-voting GOOG share fluctuates around recent highs on Nasdaq. Alphabet Inc. (Class C) stays firmly in the spotlight after the Google parent reported strong quarterly results and continued to push aggressively into artificial intelligence, while the non-voting GOOG shares recently t...
Alphabet Inc. (Class C) remains in the spotlight after a strong first quarter and ongoing AI investments, while the non-voting GOOG share fluctuates around recent highs on Nasdaq. Alphabet Inc. (Class C) stays firmly in the spotlight after the Google parent reported strong quarterly results and continued to push aggressively into artificial intelligence, while the non-voting GOOG shares recently traded near record levels on Nasdaq, according to Ad-hoc-news.de as of 05/24/2026 and market data summarized by Trading 212 as of 05/24/2026. As of: 05/25/2026 By the editorial team – specialized in equity coverage. At a glance Name: Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. Sector/industry: Communication services / online search, digital advertising, cloud services Communication services / online search, digital advertising, cloud services Headquarters/country: Mountain View, United States Mountain View, United States Core markets: Global online search, digital advertising, cloud computing, consumer internet services Global online search, digital advertising, cloud computing, consumer internet services Key revenue drivers: Google Search & Other, YouTube ads, Google Network ads, Google Cloud Google Search & Other, YouTube ads, Google Network ads, Google Cloud Home exchange/listing venue: Nasdaq (GOOG, non-voting Class C shares) Nasdaq (GOOG, non-voting Class C shares) Trading currency: US dollar (USD) Alphabet Inc. (Class C): core business model Alphabet Inc. is the holding company behind Google and a broad portfolio of internet and technology businesses, with the economic rights of the group split across multiple share classes including the non-voting Class C stock trading under the ticker GOOG on Nasdaq. The group generates the majority of its revenue from online advertising linked to Google Search, YouTube and display formats across partner websites, as outlined in Alphabet’s most recent quarterly report published in April 2026, according to Alphabet investor relations as of 04/25/2026...
AMJ Financial Wealth Management lowered its position in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 24.8% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 13,847 shares of the social networking company's stock after selling 4,572 shares during the quarter. Meta Platforms comprises 2.2% of AMJ Financial Wealth Management's investment portfo...
AMJ Financial Wealth Management lowered its position in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 24.8% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 13,847 shares of the social networking company's stock after selling 4,572 shares during the quarter. Meta Platforms comprises 2.2% of AMJ Financial Wealth Management's investment portfolio, making the stock its 20th largest holding. AMJ Financial Wealth Management's holdings in Meta Platforms were worth $9,140,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Several other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in META. Westchester Capital Management Inc. purchased a new stake in Meta Platforms in the 3rd quarter worth about $26,000. Strategic Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Meta Platforms in the 4th quarter worth about $29,000. Key Capital Management INC purchased a new stake in Meta Platforms in the 4th quarter worth about $48,000. Fairway Wealth LLC increased its holdings in Meta Platforms by 36.8% in the 4th quarter. Fairway Wealth LLC now owns 78 shares of the social networking company's stock worth $51,000 after acquiring an additional 21 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Merrithew & Thorsten Inc purchased a new stake in Meta Platforms in the 4th quarter worth about $52,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 79.91% of the company's stock. Get Meta Platforms alerts: Sign Up Meta Platforms News Summary Here are the key news stories impacting Meta Platforms this week: Positive Sentiment: Meta launched a standalone “Forum” app for Facebook Groups, signaling a new product push that could deepen user engagement and add pressure to competitors like Reddit. Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum Meta launched a standalone “Forum” app for Facebook Groups, signaling a new product push that could deepen user engagement and add pressure to competitors like Reddit. Positive Sentiment: Meta is...
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Growth stocks are the best way to find potential 100-baggers for your portfolio over the long term. It takes a sustained tailwind of double-digit sales growth to turn a small investment into a big winner, and few companies, such as Netflix and Amazon, can deliver these results over multiple decades. Right now, most growth stocks are priced for perfection. Not these disruptors, though. Here are thr...
Growth stocks are the best way to find potential 100-baggers for your portfolio over the long term. It takes a sustained tailwind of double-digit sales growth to turn a small investment into a big winner, and few companies, such as Netflix and Amazon, can deliver these results over multiple decades. Right now, most growth stocks are priced for perfection. Not these disruptors, though. Here are three growth stocks to buy today and hold for the next 20 years due to their revenue growth potential. The remittance disruptor making waves Remittances -- or sending money across borders -- is a sector undergoing digital disruption in a way similar to retail payments over the last few decades. Out are the cash pickup points; in are mobile money transfers across borders via two mobile phones. Remitly Global (RELY +0.05%) is the leading remittance disruptor, capturing market share quarter after quarter. Last quarter, send volume grew 37% year over year to $22.1 billion, driving revenue growth of 25%. The company has a solid lead in acquiring customers in the United States who want to send money abroad and is now expanding internationally into places like the Middle East. What's more, it is adding new services, such as a digital wallet and business transactions, which are expanding its addressable market. Business remittances are a vast market, with Remitly accounting for only a tiny sliver of today's market. With less than $100 billion in volume sent through its network over the last 12 months, and the revenue potential from product expansion, Remitly has an opportunity to grow at a double-digit rate for many years into the future, making it a perfect stock for a set-it-and-forget-it portfolio over the next 20 years. Expand NASDAQ : RELY Remitly Global Today's Change ( 0.05 %) $ 0.01 Current Price $ 21.58 Key Data Points Market Cap $4.5B Day's Range $ 21.48 - $ 21.76 52wk Range $ 12.08 - $ 24.92 Volume 2.2M Avg Vol 4.2M Gross Margin 59.20 % An e-commerce and technology copycat ...
Australian homes are among the most expensive in the developed world. Buyers, desperate to get onto the property ladder, have taken on more debt than ever before, and uninhabitable properties, some covered in mold and asbestos, are snapped up for millions. Australia’s housing crisis has been years in the making. Nationwide home prices are higher than ever , rents are at record levels, and homeless...
Australian homes are among the most expensive in the developed world. Buyers, desperate to get onto the property ladder, have taken on more debt than ever before, and uninhabitable properties, some covered in mold and asbestos, are snapped up for millions. Australia’s housing crisis has been years in the making. Nationwide home prices are higher than ever , rents are at record levels, and homelessness is rising, making housing a hot-button issue for many Australians. In an effort to address growing intergenerational inequality and what it describes as “distortions” in the property market, the government in May announced a series of tax changes aimed at property investors. It says these measures would curb speculative demand, improve housing affordability and make it easier for younger Australians to buy homes. What’s happening in Australia’s property market In Sydney, the average home costs almost 14 times the annual disposable income, making it the world’s second-most expensive city to buy property after Hong Kong, according to 2024 data from Demographia. The latest figures from property consultancy Cotality, formerly Corelogic, show that the median property price in Sydney was near a record high of A$1.3 million ($920,000) in April. The Reserve Bank of Australia has already hiked interest rates three times in the first five months of 2026, unwinding all of the cuts from the previous year, with further increases expected. Economists say higher borrowing costs, together with the proposed tax changes, may finally help remove some of the frothiness in the housing market. Nevertheless, Saturday morning auctions continue to be somewhat of a spectator sport, with large crowds often in attendance to get a gauge of the property market. Dilapidated properties on small plots of land tend to attract the most frenzied bidding, with builders paying a premium for the opportunity to redevelop a well-positioned site. One such property, an abandoned duplex construction site in Sydn...
The European Central Bank must avoid an excessively restrictive approach that could further burden economic activity and investment, according to Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras . “In the event of a significant but temporary excess of the inflation target, the response should be balanced,” Bank of Greece’s head said Monday, speaking to lawmakers during the process of his reappointment ....
The European Central Bank must avoid an excessively restrictive approach that could further burden economic activity and investment, according to Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras . “In the event of a significant but temporary excess of the inflation target, the response should be balanced,” Bank of Greece’s head said Monday, speaking to lawmakers during the process of his reappointment . European policymakers already discussed the possibility of lifting interest rates at their last meeting. For Stournaras what’s needed is a “careful adjustment of monetary policy toward a more restrictive direction that will be able to limit the intensity of the secondary effects without, however, disproportionately affecting economic activity.” Monday’s comments come after the Greek central bank chief told Bloomberg last week that preserving the ECB’s credibility is a strong argument in favor of a hike on June 11. Economists and investors predict a quarter-point move at that time, and several Governing Council members have suggested that such an outcome may be inevitable in the absence of a lasting peace deal between the US and Iran. ECB Hike May Be Inevitable to Keep Credibility, Stournaras Says ECB Likely to Revise Its Inflation Outlook in June, Lagarde Says ECB Faces Pressure to Hike as Iran War Feeds Prices, Kocher Says
ozgurdonmaz/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Almost a year ago, I wrote an article covering Apple ( AAPL ). My thesis was that the company fails to meet several known metrics of quality as described in my Five Factor Model , and that the company's AI and device headwinds were not signs of strength at almost 35x earnings. Apple: Steady EPS Compounder, But The Past Will Not Repeat Clearly, I was d...
ozgurdonmaz/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Almost a year ago, I wrote an article covering Apple ( AAPL ). My thesis was that the company fails to meet several known metrics of quality as described in my Five Factor Model , and that the company's AI and device headwinds were not signs of strength at almost 35x earnings. Apple: Steady EPS Compounder, But The Past Will Not Repeat Clearly, I was dead wrong in terms of how the price action has turned out. But, earnings have materialized how I expected, with very low teens EPS growth, compared to 33.8% from the Mag 5 (Amazon ( AMZN ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), Alphabet ( GOOGL ), Meta Platforms ( META ), Nvidia ( NVDA )) in the forward year of 2025 since that article. much of the appreciation has been due to a valuation change, starting at a somewhat ridiculous 34.5x blended adjusted earnings, towards the current blended valuation of nearly 37x earnings. I've revisited my thesis and found three key reasons Apple's prospects 18 months later are no better, and actually worse, than they were since my initial article compared to alternatives, and in particular, I'll make the case that Apple will no longer remain within the Mag 7 by the end of 2030. 1. Apple's AI Strategy Continues into the Wilderness, With One Caveat 18 months ago investors were hearing about Apple's initial partnership with Open AI . This created excitement, or relief, for shareholders and generated ample discussion online and within the financial media. Most importantly, the partnership was largely seen as an admission of weakness , as well as a genius move by Apple. Given Apple has prided itself as a branded consumer products company instead of a technology-first company, with a work culture and ethos that has long reflected this , the company had no chops in AI like Google did leading up to the initial launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. Google's purchase of DeepMind in 2014 allowed for the development of Google Gemini (then called Bard), launched within nine w...
thexfilephoto/iStock via Getty Images All the year-to-date action across the Energy sector has been in the major integrateds, beginning with notable gains in Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) and Chevron ( CVX ) back in January. Alpha was then seen among domestic drillers, as WTI crude soared from under $70 per barrel to above $100. Oil service stocks have also performed well amid geopolitical conflicts, first ...
thexfilephoto/iStock via Getty Images All the year-to-date action across the Energy sector has been in the major integrateds, beginning with notable gains in Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) and Chevron ( CVX ) back in January. Alpha was then seen among domestic drillers, as WTI crude soared from under $70 per barrel to above $100. Oil service stocks have also performed well amid geopolitical conflicts, first in Venezuela in January and then the war in Iran that began in late February. All the while, often steady midstream pipeline partnerships have tallied solid gains. MPLX ( MPLX ) has returned 10% so far in 2026, slightly outperforming the S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ). I upgraded the Energy sector stock in December , and units have returned 5.7% since then. Today, I reiterate a buy rating. I’ll offer color on the Q1, units’ valuation, and the technical situation heading into mid-year. MPLX: 10% YTD Total Return stockcharts.com In May, MPLX r eported a soft set of quarterly results. Q1 GAAP earnings per unit of $0.90 missed the consensus forecast of $1.05, while revenue of $3.0 billion, down 3% from the same quarter a year ago, was a small $50 million miss. The firm noted mid-single-digit growth initiatives through expansion in the Permian, while guidance included Q1 net income attributable to MPLX of $912 million. Shares declined 2.6% in the session that followed, making it four negative reactions in the last five, despite a generally healthy overall performance chart. Looking ahead to the August Q1 report, the options market prices in a small 3.0% earnings-related unit price swing based on the at-the-money straddle expiring soonest after the release. Implied volatility on units of the now $57 billion Oil & Gas Midstream-industry partnership is low at 19.8.%, the yield is high at 7.63% (forward), and short interest is very muted at 0.7%. Looking back on the quarter that was, MPLX tallied record adjusted EBITDA of $1.7 billion, with overall decent operational performance and key growth...