Articles for author: The whipping post

Is Tesla Stock a Bad News Buy?

Key Points Tesla’s top line was down 12% last quarter, and its growth rate has been declining in recent years. Rising competition and macroeconomic conditions are weighing on its near-term growth prospects. The stock trades at a high premium, but management remains bullish on its future. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of ...

Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: CVNA, AAPL, PHLT

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Carvana Co (Symbol: CVNA), where a total volume of 126,936 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 12.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying ...

Why Amazon Stock Is Plummeting Today

Key Points Amazon’s shares slipped after Q2 earnings revealed slower-than-hoped-for AWS growth that lagged growth seen by its rivals. New tariffs imposed by President Trump complicate its operations. 10 stocks we like better than Amazon › Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are falling on Friday, down 8.3% as of 3:28 p.m. ET. The move comes ...

July 2025 Review and Outlook

Executive summary: Large caps make new highs Major digital asset legislation signed during “Crypto Week” Earnings season kicks off with a strong start U.S. Dollar rallies on increasing trade deals FOMC holds rates steady July continued the strong run for stocks seeing the S&P 500 up for the third month in a row, and the ...

Apple Stock: Big Earnings, Small Move—Time to Buy?

Apple Inc (NASDAQ:) delivered a blowout earnings report after the market closed on July 31. That’s not showing up in the company’s stock price. The stock is up over 3% after the results dropped. However, the stock was trading just a little over 1% before the earnings call. By every metric that matters to Apple ...

Here's How Trump's Tariffs Could Affect Alibaba Stock

Key Points Alibaba’s e-commerce business is relatively (although not completely) tariff-resistant. Tariffs aren’t a big issue for Alibaba Cloud, but other U.S. trade policies could be. Alibaba’s greatest threat arguably comes from the Chinese government rather than from the U.S. government. 10 stocks we like better than Alibaba Group › New York Times columnist Thomas ...

Notable Thursday Option Activity: META, MSFT, INOD

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Meta Platforms Inc (Symbol: META), where a total of 1.1 million contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 111.6 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 1013.8% of META’s average daily trading volume over the past month of ...

Notable Thursday Option Activity: TSLA, NFLX, SIRI

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Tesla Inc (Symbol: TSLA), where a total volume of 1.8 million contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 175.8 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 ...

NPK Q2 Earnings Down Y/Y As Tariffs Weigh, Sales up 42%

Shares of National Presto Industries, Inc. NPK have declined 7.1% since the company reported its second quarter earnings for the period ended June 29, 2025. Over the same time frame, the S&P 500 index remained nearly flat with a 0.1% gain. For the full month, National Presto stock has slipped 3.1%, in contrast to a ...