Year: 2019

Hess Corporation HES witnessed an outstanding 2019 during which the company made several world-class crude discoveries. Though the industry declined 15.3% in the past year, hurt by extreme volatility in oil prices, this leading shale oil and gas producer soared 63.3%. The upstream energy player also surpassed the S&P 500 Index’s 27.2% rally, supported by renewed investors’ faith owing to the progress in the U.S.-China tariff war front and three interest cuts by the Federal Reserve. […]

American Financial Group AFG is poised for growth given favorable operating profitability, effective capital management and solid performance of limited partnerships. The stock carries a VGM Score of B. […]

Axsome Therapeutics, Inc . AXSM announced that its novel, oral, multi-mechanistic investigational candidate, AXS-07, met the two regulatory co-primary endpoints in a late-stage study. The phase III MOMENTUM study was a randomized, double-blind, placebo- and active-controlled trial, which enrolled only patients with a history of inadequate response to prior acute migraine treatments, assessed using the Migraine Treatment Optimization Questionnaire (mTOQ-4). […]

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? […]

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. CMG has had a blockbuster 2019. This is evident from the shares of the company, which have soared 93.6% in the past year, compared with the industry and the S&P 500’s rally of 20.1% and 27.2%, respectively. […]

It has been more than a year and half since the Trump government chose to impose tariffs on the import of a wide array of products. The initiative — taken to promote manufacturing in the country and to curb export expenditure — gradually evolved into a full-blown trade war with foreign trade partners, especially China. Both countries as well as the global economy are presently grappling with the impacts of the trade war […]

Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. ZAYO recently augmented the network connectivity between Montreal, Quebec to Albany, New York with the expansion of its fiber network infrastructure in the region. The move will enable the company to provide high-quality connectivity to support the seamless transition of enterprise and mobile carrier customers to 5G technology. […]

One of the main reasons for a terrific Wall Street turnaround from the 2018 mayhem is continued flow of positive news on the trade conflict between the United States and China. Trade-related issues were mainly behind the stock market rout in the fourth quarter of 2018. […]

Thanks to soaring shale output, the United States has been the world's largest natural gas producer since 2009. Higher recovery rates from major unconventional fields have helped unleash record volumes regularly. […]