November 30, 2020 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
Shares of what was once Kensington Capital Acquisition (KCAC) and is now QuantumScape (QS) are up 203.3.7% since I bought Kensington back on October 13, 2020 in my Volatility Portfolio. But Quantumscape isn’t planning to have its solid state lithium ion battery in production until 2024. And most investors don’t understand the wave of dilution that’s about to hit the now public shares of QuantumScape. So I’ll be taking my profits tomorrow.
November 3, 2020 | Daily JAM, NJDCY, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks |
Can't say Nidec (NJDCY) isn't ambitious when it comes to expanding its share of the market for motors for electric vehicles in Europe, which has become along with China one of the world's top markets for electric vehicles. The Japanese company, based in Kyoto, will...
October 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, DHR, Jubak Picks, Stock Alerts |
Shares of Danaher (DHR) were up just 3.28% today. I say "just" because the company delivered a blow out earnings report today. Danaher reported adjusted earnings of $1.72 per share on $5.88 billion in sales for its third quarter. Analysts had expected earnings of...
October 20, 2020 | Daily JAM, NFLX, Stock Alerts |
Netflix (NFLX) shares fell 5.42% in after-hours trading (after closing 1% lower in the regular session) after the company reported additions to paid subscribers the missed estimates and lower guidance for the rest of 2020. Revenue for the company's third quarter was...
October 20, 2020 | Daily JAM, ERIC, Jubak Picks, Stock Alerts |
For  the second quarter Ericsson (ERIC) reported a 43% positive earnings surprise. Could the company surprise again tomorrow? Analysts are looking for the company to report third quarter earnings on October 21 of 16 cents a share. That would be a huge improvement of...
October 20, 2020 | Daily JAM, PE, Stock Alerts |
A day after  ConocoPhilips (COP) announced it would buy big Permian Basin oil shale play Concho Resources (CXO) for $9.7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported that Pioneer Natural Resources, by some measures the biggest oil shale operator in the Permian Basin, is...
October 16, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, PFE, Stock Alerts |
In a public letter Pfizer (PFE) CEO Albert Bourla wrote that the company hopes to have initial data from its Phase 3 clinical trail of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of October and that it will wait until the third week in November to file an emergency use...
October 15, 2020 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks, TSM |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) reported earnings of 90 cents per American depositary receipt today on sales of  $12.14 billion for the company's September quarter. Net income climbed 36% year over year. Analysts had expected the company to earn 81 cents an...
October 14, 2020 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Volatility, VXRT |
Shares of Vaxart (VXRT) closed down 10.04% today, October 14, giving back all of its 8.8% gain from Tuesday. The shares finished the October 14 session at $6.90. Yesterday, the company, which is working on a coronavirus vaccine in pill form, reported that hamsters who...
October 2, 2020 | Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks, TWLO |
Twilio (TWLO), which makes cloud-based software, climbed 13% today after analysts raised price-target after Thursday's investors day event. (For example Morgan Stanley raised its price garget for Twilio to $270 from $240. I would note the stock closed at $290 today,...
September 23, 2020 | Daily JAM, ILMN, Jubak Picks, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks |
With the Standard & Poor's 500 falling 2.37% at the close and the NASDAQ 100 down 3.16% for the day, shares of Illumina (ILMN) climbed 1.67%. Yesterday and today the selling of Illumina looks to have exhausted itself. The stock traded at $400.74 as recently as...
September 15, 2020 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Volatility, VXRT |
Yesterday shares of Vaxart (VXRT) were up 46.79%. Today they're down 16.13% as of noon in New York. And, of course the shares are down 55.38% since I bought them on July 22, 2020 at $14.79. Why so much, such extraordinary volatility? Some is because this is the kind...
