Shares of PayPal Holdings Inc rose 1.5% in out-of-hours trading on Wednesday after the digital payments company showed strong growth in its business stemming from increased use of digital payments during the COVID-19 crisis. Read: PayPal Exceeds Earnings Expectations as COVID-19 Drives Ecommerce Growth Strong “The world has moved into …
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If you really want to call yourself a counter investor, it’s time to take a closer look at what hasn’t worked so far this year: value stocks and dividend stocks. Value stocks have underperformed growth stocks (especially Tesla Inc. TSLA, -4.09% and the most popular tech names) amid the economic …
Read More »Raytheon crushed the profits. Here’s why the stock is down anyway.
Text size Defense sales stood out in the quarter. Mario Tama / Getty Images Defense and aerospace giant Raytheon Technologies crushed Wall Street’s profit expectations, but the stock fell anyway on Tuesday morning. The commercial aerospace sector is not improving fast enough for investors. Raytheon (ticker: RTX) earned 40 cents …
Read More »Goldman Sachs has a new explosion forecast for gold
A weaker day for stocks is brewing on Tuesday, as optimism about the US stimulus progress. The asset that stole the show on Monday, of course, was GCQ20 gold, -0.34%, which rose to $ 1,931 an ounce, the highest settlement in history. That prompted the crowd to expect $ 2,000 …
Read More »Albertsons shares are falling because strong earnings were not enough
Text size Digital candles increased 276% in the quarter, while sales in the same store rose 26.5%. Matthew Staver / Bloomberg News Albertsons Cos. He released an optimistic first-quarter fiscal report on Monday, but his shares were falling because investors may have been waiting for more from the supermarket operator, …
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