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OCTOBER 4, 2024

These forums allow prospective customers to use the platform to solve problems, and given the productivity gains, some customers are going to see massive returns. Still, Palantir has only been profitable since Q4 2022, so the growth rate is likely a virtue of early profitability as much as it is a product of its growth.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

The tech giant added roughly $700 billion in market value and bounced back from the 2022 bear market that saw its stock price get sliced in half. Let's look at the major factors that sent Amazon stock higher last year before discussing the company's prospects in 2024. billion in 2022. Image source: Amazon.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

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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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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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Adapting to and leveraging new technologies has been in our DNA from the start, and generative AI is pushing the pace of technology innovation faster than ever. in the fourth quarter was up versus last year by about 320 basis points due primarily to leverage from adjusted fixed operating expenses and marketing expenses.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

As the first mover, AWS quickly became the preferred service provider for companies to leverage cloud computing for expansion. The elephant can still dance Amazon has been one of the most successful growth stocks over the last two decades, growing revenue from just $511,000 in 1995 to $514 billion in 2022. Take e-commerce, for example.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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JANUARY 1, 2024

But some top consumer-oriented companies quietly delivered market-beating gains and still have bright prospects. Cruise lines tend to have high fixed costs and therefore high operating leverage, meaning that Carnival's margins should continue to expand as it gains leverage on fixed costs.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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MAY 21, 2024

Alphabet's growth prospects Lee Samaha (Alphabet): If the search engine leader is to continue outperforming the Nasdaq-100, it will have to demonstrate that it can keep growing earnings. Predictive analytics leverage big data to forecast challenges before they occur. Image source: Getty Images.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

trillion in payments volume in 2022, American Express has been an economic mainstay in the U.S. Second -- and perhaps more importantly -- it makes American Express cards more valuable to prospective cardholders. Processing more $1.5 for years and is the third-largest digital-payments network behind Visa and Mastercard.

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JULY 8, 2023

After a disappointing year for stocks in 2022, the markets have rebounded this year. The best way to ensure you're always a step ahead of Wall Street is to hold shares of quality companies with great prospects for long-term growth. The stock has good prospects to beat the market again.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The company may not replicate last year's growth, but it would still beat the S&P 500 's 15% growth since 2022. The company's stock has climbed 85% over the last year, rallying Wall Street with its growing prospects in the industry. AMD was slightly late to the AI party as Nvidia beat it to the market.

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