January 26, 2025 | AAPL, BA, Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, Morning Briefing, MSFT, T, Top 50 Stocks, XOM |
This week its earnings, earnings, and earnings. From the tech giants and more. This week, we’ll discover three things. First, are tech company earnings as good as the market clearly expects. I think that with the exception of Apple (AAPL) and Tesla (TSLA) the answer will be Yes. Second, how much of this good news is already priced into the recent rally. These stocks could retreat even on news that’s as good as expected. An advance will, I think, require a surprise or two. And, third, how worried is Wall Street really, given the recent boom in all things AI, about capital spending at the big AI companies and falling profit margins.
July 24, 2019 | BA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Boeing (BA) shares fell today, dropping 3.12% at the close, after the company reported a massive quarterly loss and said that the production schedule (moving the first flight date to early 2020 from earlier guidance for late 2019) for its newest plane, the 777x, could...
April 16, 2019 | BA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
This morning Bank of America (BAC) reported first quarter earnings of 70 cents a share, 4 cents a share above Wall Street projections. Earnings per share were up 13% from the first quarter of 2018 but flat with the fourth quarter of 2018. Revenue fell 0.4% year over...
April 5, 2019 | BA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
By mid-April Boeing (BA) will cut production of its 737 plans to 42 a month from the current 52-a month pace. Before the crash of a 737 Max operated by Lion Air and one operated by Ethiopia Airlines, Boeing had planned to increase production of the 737 by 10% by...
March 14, 2019 | BA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Boeing (BA) shares were down another 1.04% today to close at $373.21. I think the important word to add here is "only." In the options market, the April 18 Put with a strike at $290 that I own in my Volatility Portfolio and that had climbed better than 230% on...
March 12, 2019 | BA, Daily JAM, Short Term, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
I bought Boeing (BA) puts (the April 18, 2019 put with a $290 strike to be precise) back in December as a way to hedge against a big escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and a plunge in the export-heavy Dow Jones Industrial Average. (The Dow is a price-weighted...
December 24, 2018 | BA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
On Friday in my completed revised Special Report How to Protect Your Portfolio Without Selling Your Portfolio I made Put Options on Boeing (BA) my first Protection Pick. What I wrote then was "Even after being punished in the down turn to date, shares of Boeing are...
March 1, 2018 | BA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
I don't think there's any point to waiting around to see how quickly or fiercely China (and the European Union) will retaliate against U.S. exporters after today's announcement that the United States will put a 25% tariff on Chinese (and other imported) steel and a...
January 24, 2018 | BA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Shares of Boeing (BA) have tumbled from $351.01 on January 17 to close at $334.69 today. I'm using the pull back to add shares to my Jubak Picks portfolio tomorrow, January 25. The Boeing story right now is one of multiple tailwinds pushing the stock higher. A weak...
