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A Once-in-a-Decade Investment Opportunity: 1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Semiconductor Stock to Buy Hand Over Fist Before It Soars Up to 32%, According to a Wall Street Analyst

When it comes to the semiconductor industry, no other company has become as well-known as Nvidia. The company specializes in designing graphics processing units (GPU), a unique piece of hardware architecture that’s used for all sorts of generative AI applications. With that said, even the biggest stars have their supporting cast. While Nvidia gets all ...

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Perma-Pipe Surges 43% in 6 Months: Should You Buy the Stock?

Perma-Pipe International Holdings, Inc. PPIH shares have gained 42.7% in the past six months compared with the industry’s 17.8% growth. The company has outperformed other industry players, including Valmont Industries, Inc. VMI and Tenaris S.A. TS. Shares of VMI and TS have posted increases of 33.7% and 13.1%, respectively, in the same time frame. Perma-Pipe’s ...

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Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: AMZN, NVDA, BA

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Amazon.com Inc (Symbol: AMZN), where a total volume of 326,770 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 32.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying ...

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Are Stock Splits a Buy Signal?

We’ve seen many notable splits in recent years, with companies aiming to increase liquidity within shares and erase barriers to entry for potential investors. Lower share prices are more affordable for a greater portion of investors, although it’s worth noting that the rise of fractional share investing offered by many brokerages has alleviated this issue ...

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Ford Ended 2025 With a Strong Statement for Investors

Key Points Ford Motor Company’s sales have outperformed the industry for 10 consecutive months. It was Ford’s best fourth quarter and annual sales performance since 2019. Ford’s valuable full-size truck sales and hybrids supported market share gains. 10 stocks we like better than Ford Motor Company › The automotive industry is on the verge of ...

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Defense Demand Fuels PKE's Q3 Earnings, Stock Up 5%

Shares of Park Aerospace Corp. PKE have risen 4.8% since the company announced its earnings results for the quarter ended Nov. 30, 2025. Over the past month, the stock has shown stronger momentum, climbing 14.2%, significantly outperforming the S&P 500 index, which recorded a modest 1.2% gain during the same period. In contrast, the S&P ...

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Alibaba Pushes Quick Commerce Hard: Is Margin Pressure Mounting?

Alibaba BABA is promoting quick commerce as a key growth driver, with revenues surging 60% year over year in the second quarter of fiscal 2026, driven by strong order momentum and expansion of Taobao Instant Commerce. This growth is boosting user engagement, increasing monthly active users on the Taobao app and supporting customer management revenues ...

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S&P 500: Bull Market Showing Signs of Broadening

Last year, in the December 7 QT, we wrote: “It no longer makes much sense for us to continue recommending overweighting the and sectors in an portfolio …. The same can be said about overweighting the United States in the All Country World MSCI portfolio.”  It was time to rebalance, in our opinion, because the two sectors ...