Pullback, shmullback. Sure, Nvidia‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) share price has retreated somewhat in recent days. But that doesn’t negate the fact that the chip stock has soared 154.9% year to date. Nvidia remains a huge winner for investors. It’s not the biggest winner in the S&P 500, though. Meet the one S&P 500 stock that’s outperforming […]
RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. — It was a Pride Weekend in Wisconsin, a natural time for the state’s pathbreaking, openly gay senator to rally her Democratic base, but on Sunday, Tammy Baldwin was far away from the parades and gatherings in Madison and Milwaukee — at a dairy farm in Republican Richland County. “I’ll show up […]
The “Magnificent Seven” companies caught the market by storm in 2023 for their market-crushing gains. But the group has showed signs of cooling off. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are the only three Magnificent Seven stocks that are outperforming the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) over the last three […]
After a number of large acquisitions from chip design giant Intel in 2015 and another by AMD in 2022, I’ve written about how small chip design house Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) is the last FPGA pure-play company left standing. FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) are a type of logic chip. They have the ability to be […]
outperform – investment – comparison – graph The S&P 500 index, as measured by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), has underperformed traditional defensive sectors—utilities and consumer staples—over the past month. SPY’s one-month return is –0.3% while the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLU) and the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLP) gained […]
We’re only one quarter into 2024 and already the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 are up over 9% year to date. But Vanguard’s largest growth-focused exchange-traded fund (ETF) is up even more. Here’s why the Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSEMKT: VUG) continues to outperform the major indexes while achieving diversification, why the ETF could continue to […]
Recent business updates from MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) are shining a big spotlight on the attractive values of these industry leaders. Shares of the fast-growing e-commerce operator in Latin America are up 10% year to date, while Disney stock has jumped 21%. Both stocks are outperforming the S&P 500‘s return of […]