What’s behind Palo Alto’s earnings sell-off — and how to proceed
Shares of Palo Alto Networks are down over 4% Wednesday, despite the cybersecurity provider delivering strong quarterly results the prior evening. This next-day move may seem a bit odd, given the company not only exceeded expectations for the reported quarter, but also issued guidance ahead of expectations for the current three-month period. So, what is […]
Palantir is set to surge after a consolidation period. How to trade it while defining risk
Palantir Technologies (a Mango Growth ETF (GARY) holding) has spent the past few months coiling in a rangebound trade between $130 and $160. While high-beta investor “love” has pushed other names ( DELL , SNOW , MU , INTC ) and the broader software landscape is still recovering from the “software apocalypse,” Palantir has quietly […]
How to claim money from ‘Trump accounts’ program
Tech CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan pledged Tuesday to contribute $6.25 billion to so-called Trump accounts, a type of tax-advantaged savings account for children. The commitment will expand access to seed money for eligible children too old to qualify for the $1,000 grants that are set to come from the Department of the Treasury. With the additional funds, […]
AI bull marks the revenge of the Dotcom ‘boxmakers’ like Cisco, Dell. How to trade the stocks from here
(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — I remember being a retail stockbroker in 1999, pitching shares of Mellon Bank to my retail brokerage customers. After the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act under President Bill Clinton, a wave […]
How to position for global tech downturn, according to Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley says a cyclical downturn in global tech is almost certain next year. “Our base case is that a cyclical downturn is a near certainty in 2025,” it said in an Aug. 20 report, adding that it will be caused by a “likely reversal” in the rate of change of revenue growth and tight […]
How to play Edge AI, according to UBS
ChatGPT’s late 2022 debut may have set off the early innings of the artificial intelligence arms race, but UBS says investors should start focusing on this next leg of growth. “We think the introduction of generative AI to edge devices has the potential to stimulate positive mix changes … and could also pull-in replacement cycles […]