Year: 2019

Conagra Brands, Inc. CAG is benefiting from brand-modernizing moves, innovation and strategic buyouts. These endeavors have helped the company stay in investors’ good books despite concerns related to business divestitures and input-cost inflation […]

Uptick in new project opportunities are expected to reverse years of decline in offshore drilling contractor revenues. With the energy sector emerging from the crude slump and debt-driven overhaul, renewed interest in the offshore drilling space is finally raising hopes for the industry’s recovery. […]

Shares of Parker-Hannifin Corporation PH have rallied 39.2% so far this year, outperforming its industry ’s rise of 35.5%. The Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock, which has a market cap of roughly $27 billion, has impressed investors with its recent earnings streak. It surpassed estimates in each of the four trailing quarters, the average positive surprise being 5.29%. […]

A generous flow of funds from the Pentagon kept U.S. defense stocks buoyant over the past five days. Evidently, major indices of the aerospace and defense industry put up a healthy show […]

Shares of clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, Inc . SBPH plummeted 66.8% after it stopped dosing and enrolling patients in its mid-stage studies on lead product candidate, inarigivir. The phase IIb CATALYST studies are evaluating inarigivir soproxil 400mg for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) […]

Shares of industrial REIT Prologis PLD have surged 50.5%, so far this year, outperforming the industry ’s rise of 23.1%. This marks a significant turnaround from the dismal 2018 performance, wherein the stock had lost 9%. […]

This year, the holiday season has been the shortest. Yet the Mastercard SpendingPulse holiday season report showed that retail sales still hit record highs. And it’s mostly because of Americans being confident about their well-being […]

Shares of GameStop Corp. GME have been struggling on the bourses. This Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company has increased 1.1% in the past three months, underperforming the industry ’s growth of 26.5%. […]

The year 2019 has not been a smooth one for Mylan N. V. MYL due to challenging business conditions in North America and pricing pressure […]

Value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment. After all, who wouldn’t want to find stocks that are either flying under the radar and are compelling buys, or offer up tantalizing discounts when compared to fair value? One way to find these companies is by looking at several key metrics and financial ratios, many of which are crucial in the value stock selection process […]

Value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment. After all, who wouldn’t want to find stocks that are either flying under the radar and are compelling buys, or offer up tantalizing discounts when compared to fair value? One way to find these companies is by looking at several key metrics and financial ratios, many of which are crucial in the value stock selection process. […]

The Nasdaq Composite hit 9,000 for the first time ever in its history on Dec 26, 2019. The tech-heavy index is up more than 35% so far this year, driven by the scintillating performance of stocks like Microsoft and Apple along with non-tech stocks like lululemon, Roku and Charter Communications. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 increased 0.51% to close at 3,239.91 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.37% to 28,621.39, both marking record highs. […]

Terreno Realty Corporation TRNO recently sold an industrial property in Annapolis Junction, MD, for $15 million. The company had acquired the property, comprising one industrial R&D building containing around 97,000 square feet on 6.3 acres, for around $13.8 million in November 2014, and the estimated unleveraged internal rate of return generated by the investment was about 7.6%. The company is focused on an acquisition-driven growth strategy […]

Value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment. After all, who wouldn’t want to find stocks that are either flying under the radar and are compelling buys, or offer up tantalizing discounts when compared to fair value? […]

Large to mid-cap tech stocks have helped the Nasdaq ratchet up its December gains further. In fact, the tech-laden index reached a new psychologically significant level on Dec 26, as several tech stocks head to close the year with best gains in years. […]