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With annual sales exceeding $44 billion, SUPERVALU, Inc. (SVU 14.89 NYSE – yield 4.70%) is one of the nation’s largest food wholesalers and retailers, servicing over 5,000 stores in 48 states. It owns and operates 2,400 retail supermarkets, including Acme Markets, Albertson’s, Bristol Farms, bigg’s, Cub Foods, Farm Fresh, Hombacher’s,...

Game Changers is built on the power of the Hot Zone… those crucial first 3-6 months of a stock’s run… It’s not designed as a trading service. When a stock continues to move higher after the Hot-Zone – Tyler intends to hold onto those shares and ride them...

Navellier’s popular Blue Chip Growth service, established in 1998, has posted gains of 118% in the last 11 years compared to just 41% for the S&P. Blue Chip Growth applies the same market-beating formula used in Emerging Growth to low-risk, large cap stocks. His longest-running publication, Emerging Growth (formerly MPT...

I wrote to you recently about upcoming changes in the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), which classifies stocks into 11 sectors and dozens of industries, and is commonly used in professional portfolio management as a guideline to portfolio diversity.

There’s one thing that common stocks and the price of oil—and virtually all other investments—have in common: their price charts. The study of price charts is called technical analysis.

There is big money to be made from artificial intelligence (AI) investing, but not all that glitters is gold.

The latest issue of Cabot Marijuana Investor is now available, with my current advice on the twelve stocks in the portfolio, as well as one new addition and profit-taking advice on one of our early investments.

As the fastest-growing industry in America, marijuana presents many exciting investment opportunities.

But I do want to caution you, especially if you’re one of my newer readers; for all the potential, there is also substantial short-term risk in all these stocks, as they tend to be lower-priced and more volatile than our typical recommendations. So take care to understand the risks before you act.

My goal is to make you a successful long-term investor in the sector, and the best way to do that is to get off on the right foot.

This week the Fed left interests rates again unchanged and Super Micro Computer (SMCI) became part of the S&P 500 index. An announcement of a two million convertible shares offering by Super Micro led to a pullback in the stock though long term, it’s smart to raise capital after the sharp rise in the share price.

Elsewhere, Washington is fixated on the potential push to force a change in the ownership of TikTok while China, as strongly expected, objects. This is a bit ironic since X, Instagram, Facebook, and Google aren’t available to Chinese citizens.

To say it’s been an interesting, volatile week would be an understatement, with just about everything nosediving early Monday, finding some support Tuesday, suffering a big reversal Wednesday before Thursday’s romp that saw a ton of individual names rally big.

We continue to get positive signals out of Washington, D.C. for cannabis companies.

It’s been a very news-filled week, with a dockworkers strike (and short-term settlement) along with the Middle East attacks (and fears of an upcoming reprisal) and the usual spate of economic reports—but, interestingly, there hasn’t been that much movement. Taking into account pre-market action (before the jobs report), most big-cap indexes are flat-ish on the week, though smaller-cap names are down more than 1%.

There are rarely turnaround opportunities in the cybersecurity sector, but with deep problems brewing on the cybercrime front, it’s an area that’s worth our attention.

The major indexes are all up this week as the headlines continued to hit the wires (Nvidia’s earnings, renewed U.S.-China trade tension), and the big-cap indexes briefly nosed to new recovery highs yesterday morning. But overall, we still see the market as in the midst of a consolidation phase, with most indexes, sectors and stocks catching their breath after the prior run-up.

Shares of A10 Networks (ATEN) are trading higher today after the company beat Q2 expectations on both the top and bottom lines. Revenue grew 15.5% to $69.4 million (beating by $3.3 million) while adjusted EPS grew almost 17% to $0.21, beating by $0.02.

After a very tough week for most indexes and especially growth and chip stocks, this week was very impressive, with many big-cap indexes not only finding support but recouping most or all of last week’s losses. Coming into today, the Nasdaq was up more than 5% on the week while the S&P 500 was up 3.5%, and though the broad market lagged, most other indexes were up 1% to 2% as well.

Chinese stocks were hit this week both on American exchanges and overseas as Chinese regulators ratcheted up the pressure through antitrust and regulatory steps that caught many executives and investors off guard. The Golden Dragon index of Chinese technology stocks fell by 15% in two days before rebounding after regulators tried to reassure markets.

The investment idea that I’m floating in this issue is just that, an idea. But it’s a big idea. Taleo Corporation is a California-based company, founded in 1999, that’s trying to do two huge tasks: First, get companies the talent that they need to succeed; and, second, reduce the cost of an in-house human resources department. Taleo uses talent management software that is designed to recruit, manage and develop different classes of employees, from Professional to Hourly to Contingency (temporary). Among other tasks, Taleo’s online programs guide clients through recruiting on campuses, complying with labor laws, and transitioning a new hire from candidate to employee.

This week Chris and Brad talk about the latest Chinese GDP numbers and whether it’s safe to invest in China, Tesla’s earnings release, and what they’re seeing with Regional banks now that they’re reporting. After that, they break down FAANG stocks, their popular ascent as market shorthand, and whether Microsoft is “sexy” enough to sit at the cool kids’ table.