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Although shares are up more than 200% from their late 2022 low, they're also still down 55% from their 2021 peak. If most prospective clients are already online, they won't be signing up to use Shopify's services again. Investors corrected the mistake in 2022, but arguably overcorrected it. Bottom line?

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JULY 7, 2023

in 2022, the index is now up by nearly 15% in the first half of 2023. The index has also gained more 20% from its recent low in late 2022, which some investors take a sign that a new bull market is in the making. The S&P 500 index has had a fabulous run in 2023. After falling 19.4% ChatGPT, for example, is powered by an LLM.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

billion in fiscal 2022 (ended June 30) and increased to $1.87 million in fiscal 2022 to $173.5 million in fiscal 2022 to $173.5 million in fiscal 2022 but has reversed this in fiscal 2024 to a positive cash flow of $184 million. Net sales stayed flat from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024 at close to $7.1 million to $158.6

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APRIL 23, 2024

Quarter EPS estimate Actual Surprise Q4 2022 ($0.87) ($0.85) 2% Q1 2023 ($0.60) ($0.55) 8% Q2 2023 ($0.34) ($0.31) 9% Q3 2023 $0.75 $0.86 Analysts have been jacking up Carnival's fiscal 2025 prospects with every passing quarter. It reduced its leverage by another $1.8 The prospects are strong for cruise line stocks.

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MARCH 25, 2024

on April 6, 2022. BigBear.ai's prospects sounded promising, but it broadly missed its rosy pre-merger targets. Its gross margin shriveled to 26% last year while adjusted EBITDA margin turned negative in 2022 and 2023. 2022 amid that slowdown and was succeeded by Mandy Long, a former IBM executive. wasn’t one of them.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Its operating loss in Q1 2022 was a whopping $1.5 Ford Shares of Ford (NYSE: F) are 44% off their all-time high from early 2022. This is largely due to macro headwinds that rattled the industry throughout 2022. However, there are reasons for investors to be optimistic about this top auto stock 's prospects.

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MAY 12, 2024

Agree Realty continues to grow despite a challenging backdrop Since peaking at around $73 per share in June 2022, Agree Realty stock has fallen 20%. Since the start of 2022, the REIT's total return (including the effect of reinvesting dividends) was -7.6%, below the S&P 500 's 13.6% return over the same period.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

billion rose 16% compared with the same period in 2022. Palantir shareholders might also remember in 2021 when CEO Alex Karp forecasted a 30% revenue growth rate in the 2022-2024 time frame. Given Palantir's recent and prospective growth, investors have many reasons to believe its growth could continue in 2024 and likely even beyond.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has a data-centered business that has been leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to provide better, more efficient and effective solutions for its customers. But even given all those reasons for investors to be bullish on the stock's long-term prospects, shares of Palantir have been falling recently.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

billion in fiscal 2022 (ended July 31) to $2.2 billion in fiscal 2022 (ended Jan. million in fiscal 2022 to $885.1 Voice control will leverage Apple Intelligence for a hands-free use of CRM via spoken commands. With more organizations shifting their operations to the cloud, Zscaler's services are more in demand than ever.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

It recently added more fuel to its growth engine by making a $2 billion acquisition that will supply it with incremental cash flow while enhancing its growth prospects. Another move to enhance its already strong growth prospects That acquisition is Williams' third this year. times leverage ratio , down significantly from 4.8

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Why Kyndryl's stock fell in the first place First and foremost, many investors saw Kyndryl as an albatross for IBM -- a low-margin dead weight with limited growth prospects, best shrugged off and forgotten. Moreover, I'm talking about nearly the exact start of the global-inflation panic , which weighed on the entire technology sector in 2022.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Its business recovered in 2022 and 2023 as the pandemic diminished and people started traveling again, but its stock has still lost about a quarter of its value over the past three years. billion in fiscal 2022 and just $26 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2023. That leverage gives Carnival a high debt-to-equity ratio of 4.6.

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JULY 22, 2024

Clearly, the jury is still out on this company's prospects. That's up more than 7% from 2022's tally despite the challenging economy, and en route to a projected $150.6 households that were home to at least one pet in 2021 slumped to only 66% in 2022 (2023's data isn't yet available). billion this year.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

billion in 2022. From 2013 to 2022, AMD's operating income increased from $89 million to $1.3 AMD PE Ratio (Forward 1y) data by YCharts Selling at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 32, AMD's stock is fairly valued for a company with such excellent prospects. AMD's revenue jumped from $5.3 billion in 2013 to $23.6

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

SentinelOne After tumbling in 2022, shares of SentinelOne are up around 80% in the last six months. As the business continues to grow, SentinelOne will be able to leverage its costs and report a healthy profit like its larger rivals -- a key catalyst to watch. The stock's valuation is an absolute bargain against that growth.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Proponents argue that this feature positions SHIB for long-term success, allowing users to mint non-fungible tokens (NFTs), establish decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) , and leverage the meme coin in various decentralized finance (DeFi) use cases. As of the latest count, a staggering 589 trillion SHIB tokens are in circulation.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Thanks to ChatGPT, many tech stocks have made a comeback from the 2022 bear market, and some of these companies hold the potential to leverage the benefits of AI into productivity gains and, by extension, stock price gains. Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have performed exceptionally well in 2023.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the S&P 500 has risen over 20% from its October 2022 bear market trough and surpassed its prior peak from January 2022, it is now firmly within a bull market phase. Moreover, SentinelOne is also leveraging AI to assess, quantify, and manage risk associated with all executives and management teams of its clients.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

There's little question that in 2022, broader economic factors were the principal drivers of the market downturn. That simple reality was on full display for Alphabet in 2022. Should they buy now in anticipation of additional gains or avoid the stock because of its recent run-up? Let's see what the evidence suggests.

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AUGUST 12, 2023

Such a gain over a short time frame can lead prospective investors to believe they have missed out. Moreover, it has leveraged its site to create other opportunities. billion in revenue , a 19% increase from the same period in 2022. However, it has also derived revenue from unexpected sources.

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JULY 5, 2024

billion at the end of 2022. Investors should be encouraged by the company's long-term growth prospects. It appears as though the company is finally starting to leverage its fixed costs, whether that's sales and marketing or other corporate overhead. As of March 31, the business had $21.6 JPMorgan is the largest bank in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 24, 2024

The company also continued to rebound from a tough year in 2022, posting a profit of $718 million during the period (versus a loss of $159 million a year earlier). It opens up many more doors for Palantir because its AI platform (AIP) will have many applications and provide more ways for businesses to leverage the technology.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Let's examine that path to growth for some insights into Adobe's prospects for reaching this goal. But the enhancement that really supercharged investor interest is a partnership with Nvidia , which can leverage the power of that company's GPUs in the creative process. In the first nine months of fiscal 2023 (ended Sept. billion.

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JULY 27, 2023

That means sustained growth prospects for makers of industrial and auto semiconductors. First, Microchip has recently completed a de-leveraging cycle that began all the way back in 2018 after the large acquisition of Microsemi. of free cash flow last quarter to 100% of free cash flow by March 2025.

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MAY 14, 2024

However, growth prospects haven't improved as the country returns to normal. Sirius XM is also starting to pay down its long-term debt since that bearish leverage peaked in 2022. It's telling that revenue declined in 2023, and not 2020 or 2021. The depressed shares are currently yielding a record 3.4%.

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MARCH 24, 2024

The company has opted for an effective go-to-market strategy, centered around its Bootcamp approach, to enable existing and prospective customers to quickly grasp AIP's capabilities. This, in turn, has accelerated the sales cycle and helped successfully convert engagements into lucrative partnerships. elections and European football.

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MARCH 23, 2024

Its revenue soared 81% in fiscal 2021 (which ended in January 2021) and rose 47% in fiscal 2022. The company might still leverage its dominance of the growing RPA market to pump out double-digit growth through the end of the decade. UiPath's growth supported that bullish thesis. Image source: Getty Images.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022 reinvigorated interest in AI and highlighted just how far the technology had come. Amazon Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are up 65% since last February, in part due to its significant financial growth and exciting prospects in AI. The company posted its fourth-quarter results last week.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

While the price of hydrogen produced by environmentally friendly methods soared all the way through 2022 -- hampered by (among other things) supply chain disruptions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic -- this supply chain dust is finally settling. It's another volatile prospect, to be sure. SoFi Technologies Current price: $7.65

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JANUARY 16, 2024

After surging in 2021 and 2022, energy stocks cooled off last year. Diamondback Energy seeks to create a more dependable dividend Lee Samaha (Diamondback Energy): The revenue, earnings, cash flow, and, ultimately, dividend prospects for oil and natural gas exploration and production companies are led by energy prices.

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JUNE 28, 2024

As I've expressed in previous articles , given Amazon's diverse set of businesses and its ability to leverage AI across its ecosystem, I think the company is going to dominate for years to come. Namely, the metric surged to excessive levels and then disappeared during 2022 and part of 2023. AMZN Price to Free Cash Flow data by YCharts.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

OpenAI launched its current version of ChatGPT in late 2022 and along with it came heightened investor interest in anything related to artificial intelligence (AI). Its long-term prospects with the new technology still look considerably more promising.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Nevertheless, there's a reason Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still Berkshire's single-biggest holding despite Buffett's recent sale of nearly half of the fund's position in the company: Its long-term growth prospects remain attractive. When oil prices are inflated like they were in 2022, the company's bottom line explodes.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

of more than 10,800 ratings of stocks in the S&P 500 were "buy" ratings, as of March 31, 2022. It closed out the September-ended quarter with 88% of its loans being fully automated, which is a 13-percentage-point improvement from the comparable period in 2022. According to data from FactSet Research Systems , 57.3% Another 37.1%

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The investing conditions that characterized 2022 were among the most challenging in recent memory, but the economic landscape has shifted. After plummeting more than 35% in 2022, the Nasdaq Composite came roaring back in 2023, up 43%. Yet history says the rally could continue into 2024. As a result, earnings per share of $4.39

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As a result, the company's stock is up 242% since last March, almost entirely based on excitement over its AI prospects. Amazon Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) delivered impressive growth in 2023 after facing declines from an economic downturn in 2022. But all eyes have been on Amazon's AI efforts over the last year.

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