Stocks To Buy

The stock market’s recent decline has been felt most heavily in technology stocks. That’s the typical case of selloffs in general, as tech stocks tend to outperform the market on the way up. Investors who buy industry-leading tech names during a market correction can typically improve their returns as the market inevitably rebounds. While it may be too soon to say if the current bottom is in, we’re likely closer to the bottom than not. That makes it the perfect time to ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) made its biggest acquisition offer yet, with the proposal to buy Activision Blizzard (ATVI) at $95 per share. Judging by how the share prices of both companies have moved, the market isn’t quite satisfied that such a merger will go through. However, a few other names in the video game space have had a selloff on the news. Whether a deal pans out between the two companies or not, these other firms will likely recover in time and continue ...
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The Nasdaq has started off the year with an un-seasonal decline, and one that’s leaving the index looking at a full-blown correction of 10 percent off the most recent highs. While the length and depth of any pullback is unknown, markets do tend to rebound in time—and tech-heavy stocks tend to be the fastest to start to move higher. Investors who embrace a “buy the dip” mentality towards key tech names can best take advantage of any inevitable market selloff. One such ...
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While competition is great for consumers, it’s terrible for businesses. That’s why industries with a large number of competitors tend to have lower profit margins, and those with few competitors can perform well, offering shareholders fat profit margins for years. With some market turbulence at the start of the year, any positive news for an oligopoly company may get overlooked, which in turn could mean a bigger rally when stocks move higher again. Case in point? Visa (V). Shares took a hit ...
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An inflationary environment, where prices continue to increase at higher-than-desired levels, can cause a lot of changes in consumer and investor behavior. However, some investments can fare well. One such type of company is one that won’t lose customers even if it can continue to deliver its product or service at a higher price. Companies that charge monthly are also in a great spot of being able to change prices more quickly compared to some companies that may go years without ...
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There are a number of promising future technologies likely to play out over the next decade. While investor interest in those ideas will ebb and flow, companies that can deliver the tech trends of today and the future are likely to benefit. The long-term winners in tech are often hardware and software infrastructure plays that help develop any number of new technologies, whether or not those technologies play out. One of the top ways to play all tech trends is by playing ...
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Markets are fearful of inflation right now, as well as constraints from supply chain issues. That’s driving up the prices of commodities, some of which already had to deal with an imbalance between supply and demand. For investors, buying one of the worst-performing names in a sector undergoing a bull market with strong fundamentals can lead to better returns than buying a safer and more blue-chip name in the space. For the oil market, Occidental Petroleum (OXY) might be just such a ...
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This decade promises to unleash a number of technologies that just existed on the drawing board until now. While much as been made about electric vehicles this past decade as they’ve gone into mainstream production, the real innovation is with automation. The rise of self-driving vehicles can free up a morning or evening commute, allow someone to work on other tasks or relax while being driven around. On the commercial level, the technology is even more promising. That’s because self-driving truck technology ...
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