stockphoto52 / Getty Images/iStockphoto Although the housing market is often spoken of in aggregate, the cost of living, variations, pricing and market performance can be very localized. For example, according to data from Zillow, the anticipated one-year growth rate for home prices in the U.S. is 1.7%, with a median price of $395,220 expected by […]
Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) was one of the best opportunistic investments I’ve ever made. I bought the stock in mid-2020 when the COVID-19 lockdowns were still going on. At the time, there was tremendous economic uncertainty, and as the most consumer-focused of the big banks, Wells Fargo became especially volatile. Plus, at this point, the […]
Warren Buffett was a net seller of stocks over the last 12 months. However, he still initiated several new positions and added to existing holdings. The legendary investor undoubtedly liked some of his picks better than others in retrospect. I certainly do. I’ve ranked every stock Buffett bought over the last 12 months. Before we […]
After more than two decades of renting, Alicia Williams bought her first home this December in St. Louis. A city native, Williams hadn’t considered homeownership until she played around with a mortgage calculator and realized her monthly payments could approximate what she was paying in rent. “Why am I here paying somebody’s property taxes when […]
David Tepper appears to be firmly on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon. All of his top-10 holdings have close AI connections. The billionaire investor doesn’t seem to be as bullish about some of those AI stocks as he once was, though. In the first quarter, Tepper sold shares of Amazon, Google parent Alphabet, Microsoft, Facebook […]
Cathie Wood makes it easy to keep tabs on her aggressive growth stock habits. The co-founder, CEO, and investment manager of the Ark Invest family of exchange-traded funds publishes her transactions at the end of every trading day. She became a widely followed player with monster returns in 2020. She followed back-to-back years of disappointing […]
Stan Druckenmiller made a lot of money investing in Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), but he’s finally taken some of his profits off the table. The former hedge fund manager and George Soros lieutenant first invested in Nvidia for his portfolio at his Duquesne Family Office in late 2022. He added a significant amount to his position […]
The S&P 500 just reached a new all-time high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke the 40,000 level for the first time ever. However, in this video, Fool.com contributors Matt Frankel, CFP®, and Tyler Crowe talk about two stocks they recently bought that could be excellent long-term opportunities. *Stock prices used were the morning […]
Billionaire hedge fund pioneer Paul Tudor Jones of Tudor Investment reduced his stake in chip giant Nvidia in the first quarter, undoubtedly making a tidy profit on the sale. He then funneled that money into a new investment in embattled fintech company PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL). Jones wasn’t the only investor making this move, as Philippe […]
Sentiments about stocks can change sharply, especially over a five-year period. This is true of both the artificial intelligence (AI) industry and AI-driven stocks. As the technology has advanced, many AI stocks have fallen out of favor while others have moved to the forefront. Looking forward five years, nobody knows for sure which AI stocks […]
Investors could do worse than investing in the so-called “Magnificent Seven” stocks. The collective gained 111%, on average, in 2023, thrashing the 24% gains of the S&P 500. The group has continued its winning ways, rising 22% on average so far this year, nearly double the 11% increase of the S&P 500 (as of this […]
In this video, I will go over the activities of six super investors in the first quarter — what stocks they bought and which they sold. You will find famous investors, such as Mohnish Pabrai, Chuck Akre, Howard Marks, Terry Smith, Michael Burry, and Pat Dorsey. *Stock prices used were from the trading day of […]