Day: November 19, 2017

When it comes to the fastest-growing industries in the world, legal marijuana ranks pretty high up the list (pun fully intended). In North America, cannabis research firm ArcView found that legal sales grew by 34% to $6.9 billion in 2016 and expects the North American market to reach nearly $22 billion in sales by 2021. That type of consistent, rapid... Read More

One of this month’s biggest winners is  Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) , soaring 16% last week and 89% for all of November. The stock’s been on fire since the company posted game-changing third-quarter results  in its first financial report as a public company. Some reports earlier in the week credited the rally to a short squeeze , which is a possibility... Read More

Last Tuesday, off-price giant TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) reported a rare sales miss for the third quarter . Management blamed unfavorable weather and the impact of several hurricanes — as well as some fashion missteps — for the uncharacteristically poor performance. However, these problems didn’t extend to TJX’s smaller rival, Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST) . On Thursday afternoon, Ross Stores... Read More

Conscious capitalism starts with the basic premise that a business can do good for its workers, the environment, and its shareholders, all at the same time. John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods Market, wrote a book on the subject named Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business . In it, he describes businesses that have become extraordinary successes while... Read More

Last month, Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY) announced the availability of a new microcontroller unit (MCU) in its Traveo series for the auto industry. The chip has a 3D graphics engine built in, enabling 3D instrument clusters and head-up displays (HUD). This is just the latest example of how important the auto industry has become to chipmakers. Tech-centric autos on the... Read More

Social Security spousal benefits are a way for you to get benefits based on your spouse’s earnings if he or she has higher lifetime earnings than you do. While the basic concept is straightforward, this benefit has some quirks when it comes to who qualifies, how much they’ll receive, and more. If there’s a chance you or your spouse might... Read More

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) reported robust fiscal third-quarter 2018 results on Nov. 9. The graphics-chip specialist’s revenue grew 32%, GAAP earnings per share (EPS) soared 60%, and EPS adjusted for one-time factors jumped 41%. Revenue and earnings both comfortably beat Wall Street’s expectations. A string of strong quarterly results have propelled NVIDIA stock to a return of 98.6% in 2017, through... Read More

One way to better understand a company’s strategy is to look at management’s incentives embedded in the company’s compensation agreement with its CEO. Typically, companies pay a base salary to the CEO but give bonuses and stock awards on top of that for accomplishing certain financial targets, and some companies even reward CEOs if the stock delivers a certain minimum... Read More

Anyone who has been holding onto shares of Loxo Oncology Inc. (NASDAQ: LOXO) , Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) , or Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPPI) will have plenty to say when it’s their turn to share at the dinner table this Thanksgiving. Surprisingly positive trial results for experimental cancer therapies helped shares of all three of these biotechs soar in... Read More

By Yuval Taylor : The other night I asked my son, a high school student who knows next to nothing about economics or the stock market, “Which is more likely to grow faster, a small company or a large company?” He answered, “A small company.” Then I asked him, “Which will rise in price faster, a company whose price is... Read More