October 30, 2024 | Daily JAM, LAC, Long Term, Millennial, Stock Alerts |
Yesterday, Lithium Americas (LCA) announced that it had closed a $2.26 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. The funding is earmarked for the construction of processing facilities at the Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt County, Nevada. Thacker Pass is currently North America’s largest known lithium resource. The stock jumped almost 5% yesterday on the news. It fell 8.87% today to $4.11 a share. Lithium Americas is a member of my Millennial Portfolio.
October 27, 2024 | Daily JAM, Top 50 Stocks, TSM |
Last night I added a third potential Harris election victory winner to my Special Report “10 trump and 10 Harris winners. Here’s what I wrote about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) in that post.
October 22, 2024 | Daily JAM, NVDA, TSM |
One indicator that I’m carefully monitoring is the guidance in third quarter earnings conference calls about the fourth quarter. I’m checking to see if the cuts to guidance and that Wall Street disappointment might set in a quarter early. If that looks like the case then I’d think about selling now instead of in January 2025.
October 22, 2024 | Daily JAM, SBUX |
Starbucks (SBUX) today pulled revenue and earnings guidance for 2025 after fiscal forth quarter sales fell. It is the third consecutive quarterly sales decline.
October 21, 2024 | Daily JAM, Top 50 Stocks, WST |
Here’s what I wrote today when I added this stock to my Special Report.
October 20, 2024 | AAL, Daily JAM, Jubak Picks |
Today I added American Airlines Group as Pick #4 in my Special Report 10 New Stock Ideas for an Old Rally. Here’s what I wrote.
October 20, 2024 | AAPL, Daily JAM, GOOG, Jubak Picks, MSFT, NVDA, Top 50 Stocks |
Amazon’s (AMZN) earnings report on Thursday, October 24, will start the Big Tech Earnings Parade off with a bang. Wall Street analysts are expecting the company to report earnings of $1.14 a share for the third quarter. That would be up from 85 cents a share in the third quarter of 2023. That would be a 34% jump in year over year earnings. Which would certainly be a great lead in to earnings from Alphabet (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta Platforms (META) the following week.
October 17, 2024 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks, TSM |
Shares of global chipmaking powerhouse rose 9.79% today to hit a record high after the chipmaker topped quarterly estimates and raised its target for 2024 revenue growth. The company—-the main chip manufacturer for Nvidia (NVDA) and Apple (AAPL)–expects sales to climb roughly 30% in U.S. dollar terms this year, up from previous projections for an increase in the mid-20% range. Taiwan’s largest company had raised its outlook for 2024 revenue just a few months ago in July.
October 15, 2024 | ASML, Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, NVDA, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks |
I think the only important investing question for Nvidia (NVDA) is whether you want to buy it on the dip for along-term score or whether you want to sell when the stock bounces to a record high and then re-buy on the next dip? In my portfolios I’ve got both a one-term position in my 50 Stocks Portfolio, up 182% since December 7, 2023, and a more trading oriented position in my 12-18 month Jubak Picks Portfolio, where the position is up 22% since September 6 even with today’s loss. The stock was up 16% in the last month as of the October 14 close
October 10, 2024 | Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, VMC |
Here’s what I wrote today when I added Vulcan Materials to my Special Report “10 new stock ideas for a old rally.”
October 6, 2024 | ALB, Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, LAC, Long Term, Volatility |
Shares of lithium market leader Albemarle (ALB) rose 8.25% on Friday to close at $102.O9 on speculation in Australia that mining giant Rio Tinto (RIO) will pursue a major lithium deal with Albemarle cited as a possible target. Shares of Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Lithium Americas (LAC) and Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) also jumped, +10%, +7.1% and +3.1%, respectively. The speculation makes sense to me.
October 2, 2024 | BYDDF, Daily JAM, Volatility |
Tesla (TSLA) delivered 462,890 vehicles in the three months to 30 September. That was up 6.4% from the preceding quarter. But the delivery total missed Wall Street expectations for it to deliver 469,828 vehicles. That left the company facing the daunting task of delivering a record 516,344 vehicles in the fourth quarter in order to match its 2023 delivery figure of 1.81 million vehicles. A shortfall would result in Tesla recording its first ever annual drop in deliveries.