Palo Alto Networks gets modest earnings forecast bump for 2020
Analysts have raised their earnings estimate for cyber-security software company Palo Alto Networks (PANW) by 4.5% to 6.5% (depending on the data source you use) over the last 60 days. For 2020 Wall Street is now looking for $4.79 a share for 2020. That would still be...
For Friday, I’m adding more Puts on Brazil ETF and new Puts on Mexico ETF in my Volatility Portfolio
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Starbucks $3 billion loss and big shift in post-coronavirus business model
Today, June 10, Starbucks (SBUX) CEO Kevin Johnson wrote in an open letter to customers and investors that the company expects to lose more than $3 billion in revenue in its fiscal third quarter, which ends on June 28, due to the coronavirus pandemic. (The company...
An important message on risk from the options market–don’t trust the rally in crushed stocks
Prices on options market are saying that there's an awful lot of risk in some of the stocks that have soared the most in the rally of the last few weeks. Buyer beware! at this point. On Friday, when stocks soared on the May jobs report surprise, I went fishing in the...
The credit crunch is still with us, at least at Wells Fargo
On June 2 Wells Fargo (WFC) has announced that it will stop providing loans to a majority of its independent auto dealer customers. Wells Fargo, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, has already cut back on cash-out home mortgage refinancing loans over $250,000 and...
Bonus Special Report: 5 More Stocks for after the Coronavirus–third pick chip maker NXP Semiconductor
Just about everybody agrees that the world after the coronavirus pandemic and recession will look very different. And from what I've read every stock market guru worth his or her smart phone agrees that buying the stocks of companies that are "attuned" to that...
Meituan Dianping shares up 17% today on earnings report
As of 1 p.m. New York time today Meituan Dianping (MPNGF) shares were up 17.52% after the company reported better than forecast sales of 16.8 billion yuan ($2.4 billion) for the quarter that ended on Mach 31. The company reported a lower than projected loss of 1.58...
Selling Twilio out of Volatility Portfolio today
I still love Twilio (TWLO) for the long term. It's positioning in the forefront of providing aps and a developer platform for linking multi-device input and replies into a single network makes this a stock that I want in my portfolio for the next five years (a...
Buying Put Options on theme park operator Six Flags
Think of Six Flags (SIX) as Disney (DIS) without the movie studio, streaming service, and cable and TV assets. In other words, the company is just theme parks. 25 of them with 22 in the United States. Right now the company says that the parks are closed through...
Disney misses Wall Street projections on earnings; signals worse to come
How did Wall Street analysts get Disney (DIS) earnings today so wrong? Analysts had been projecting earnings of 86 cents a share. The company reported earnings of just 60 cents for the company's second quarter. The bigger-than-Disney takeaway here is "Wonder if it...
Brazil may have 1 million coronavirus cases, but no one knows
Brazil's government says the country has 80,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. Public health experts say the number could be as high as 1 million. But Brazil is doing almost no testing-- “12 times fewer people than Iran, and 32 times fewer than the United States,”...Jim’s Stock Alerts
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