Articles for author: The whipping post

The Silver Lining in Ford's Messy Q2 Earnings

Key Points The U.S. automaker was set up for a strong sales quarter due to promotions. Tariffs negatively impacted second-quarter results to the tune of $800 million. However, management believes it’s about to have another “Model T moment.” 10 stocks we like better than Ford Motor Company › It turns out the tariff development might ...

The Smartest Growth Stocks to Buy With $1,000 Right Now

Key Points Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ recent sell-off was overdone. Nvidia’s growth story and dominance in the AI chip market are simply too good to ignore. Alibaba provides a great way to invest in AI on the cheap. 10 stocks we like better than Alibaba Group › What does it take to qualify as a growth stock? ...

Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: NFLX, TSLA, GOOGL

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Netflix Inc (Symbol: NFLX), where a total of 134,017 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 13.4 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 338.3% of NFLX’s average daily trading volume over the past month of 4.0 million ...

Is Apple Stock a Buy After Appeasing President Trump?

Aiming to shift manufacturing back to the United States, President Trump had previously made Apple AAPL his main target of companies that would face steep penalties if they continued to ramp up production outside of domestic soil. This threat includes a 100% tariff on imported semiconductor chips, which would have dramatically increased the cost to produce ...

Enovix Establishes R&D Center of Excellence in India to Accelerate AI-2™ Platform Development

FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Enovix Corporation (Nasdaq: ENVX) (“Company” or “Enovix”), a global high-performance battery company, today announced that it has created an R&D Center of Excellence in Hyderabad, India to accelerate the development of its Artificial Intelligence ClassTM second-generation battery platform AI-2TM into 2025.  The new Enovix 18,000-square-foot R&D facility in Hyderabad’s ...

Alphabet Rises 11% in a Month: Buy, Sell or Hold the GOOGL Stock?

Alphabet GOOGL shares have appreciated 11.3% in the past month, outperforming the broader Zacks Computer & Technology sector’s appreciation of 3.8%. The outperformance can be attributed to Alphabet’s strong second-quarter 2025 results that revealed the benefits of AI infusion across its Search business and a surge in Google Cloud revenues. In the second quarter of ...

Notable Thursday Option Activity: NVDA, SKYT, SNOW

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in NVIDIA Corp (Symbol: NVDA), where a total volume of 2.4 million contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 244.5 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 ...