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Private Credit Turmoil Pushes BDCs Lower – Opportunity or Trap?

Gated funds, collateral fraud, and auto-sector defaults are giving investors in private credit funds and their stock-market equivalents, business development corporations (BDCs), a headache. We have discussed the recent woes of private credit funds (, ), yet we haven’t addressed BDCs. The similarities and differences between private credit funds and BDCs are important. For instance, ...

Notable ETF Inflow Detected – AVEM, BABA, ASX, IBN

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Avantis Emerging Markets Equity ETF (Symbol: AVEM) where we have detected an approximate $248.0 million dollar inflow — that’s a 1.1% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 258,000,000 to 260,800,000). Among the largest ...

Best Momentum Stocks to Buy for May 1st

Here are three stocks with buy rank and strong momentum characteristics for investors to consider today, May 1 Strategic Education, Inc. STRA: This education services company has a Zacks Rank #1 and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 5.8% over the last 60 days. Strategic Education Inc. Price and Consensus Strategic ...

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple Just Reported Earnings. I Think This Was the Best Report of Them All.

Key Points Apple’s earnings per share rose 22% year over year in its fiscal second quarter. The company’s services business accelerated to 16% revenue growth. Apple’s capital expenditures are minuscule compared to these “Magnificent Seven” peers. 10 stocks we like better than Apple › This week, five “Magnificent Seven” members — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Alphabet ...

Notable Friday Option Activity: AMD, ORCL, GS

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Symbol: AMD), where a total of 486,516 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 48.7 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 121.8% of AMD’s average daily trading volume over the past month of ...

Look Under The Hood: SSUS Has 12% Upside

Looking at the underlying holdings of the ETFs in our coverage universe at ETF Channel, we have compared the trading price of each holding against the average analyst 12-month forward target price, and computed the weighted average implied analyst target price for the ETF itself. For the Day Hagan/Ned Davis Research Smart Sector ETF (Symbol: ...