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JUNE 17, 2024
Sorry, you can’t. The decision to fund a company is a combination of a lot of human factors—an assessment of one group of humans by another group of humans, fraught with apples-to-oranges comparisons. Yet, everyone’s got an opinion about how a company measures up, especially the founder. ( If you want mine, I’m doing a little consulting now. ) So, how do you know what truth is?
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JUNE 21, 2024
Electric vehicle (EV) stocks cratered this week after Fisker filed for bankruptcy. The troubled automaker never got off the ground after a promising vehicle was plagued by poor software. While a failure doesn't say much about the other operators in the industry, it doesn't bode well for the market's willingness to fund EV losses long-term. According to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence , EV makers Faraday Future Intelligent Electric (NASDAQ: FFIE) fell as much as 26.9% and VinFast
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Private Equity Insights
JUNE 18, 2024
Partners Group, one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry, has surpassed its target of USD 15.0bn in client commitments for its fifth direct private equity program. The Program comprises commitments to Partners Group’s fifth direct private equity fund, Partners Group Direct Equity V[2], and to the bespoke client solutions and open-ended funds that allocate to the same direct private equity strategy.
A Wealth of Common Sense
JUNE 16, 2024
Roger Federer delivered an excellent commencement address at Dartmouth’s graduation recently. This part floored me: In tennis, perfection is impossible… In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches… Now, I have a question for all of you… what percentage of the POINTS do you think I won in those matches?
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 20, 2024
When I wrote this post about trying to measure the fundability of your startup, I kicked it off with, “You can’t” and proceeded to share all the ways that getting your company funded feels a bit like a craps shoot, while still trying find a method somewhere within the madness. On the other hand, I feel things are a lot more predictable on the fund side—and that getting limited partners for your fund or syndicate is a lot more grounded in something that resembles logic.
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JUNE 21, 2024
The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth at an altitude of 250 miles. That doesn't sound like much. You can drive 250 miles in a cheap sedan in about four hours or take an hour-long flight (if that). It's taken Boeing (NYSE: BA) five years to reach the ISS, however. And when they finally arrived, they found SpaceX already got there four years ago.
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A Wealth of Common Sense
JUNE 18, 2024
The stock market looks a lot like the wealth profile in this country — the rich keep getting richer. That richness can be expressed in a couple of different ways. First up is market cap. The biggest stocks are a lot bigger than the others: Corporations in the S&P 500 aren’t evenly distributed. In fact, the top 25 companies in the S&P 500 are as big as the rest of the index combined.1 The biggest sto.
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JUNE 21, 2024
Social Security is simple, right? You work. You retire. You collect your benefits. Simple -- until it's not. The reality is that plenty of things about the popular federal program are more complicated. Here are three lesser-known Social Security rules you should be aware of. Image source: Getty Images. 1. Social Security's "do-over" Some people might think that once they begin collecting Social Security retirement benefits before their full retirement age (FRA) , it's an irrevocable decision.
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JUNE 21, 2024
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has become a stock to watch in recent months. The company's hyperfocus on artificial intelligence (AI) and chip manufacturing has potentially spelled out a bright future for it. However, with its negative $12 billion in free cash flow -- along with quarterly revenue and operating income that have plunged 35% and 112%, respectively, since 2021 -- it could take many years for Intel to regain a leading position in tech.
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JUNE 21, 2024
Image source: Getty Images Starting a business is exciting, and a higher percentage of business owners say they're very satisfied with their work compared to people in traditional jobs. But being responsible for your business's success means you have to make all the decisions -- and some of them will inevitably be the wrong call. So, how can small business owners reduce some of their regrets?
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JUNE 21, 2024
Investing is all about putting money to work now that you hope will be worth more later. It's OK to dream big -- say, of a fivefold increase in six years -- but you have to pick the right stocks. What stocks can turn $1,000 today into $5,000 come 2030? Two names I like are Carnival (NYSE: CCL) and Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU). Let's take a closer look. 1. Carnival You might think that the world's largest cruise line operator is an odd bet to be a five-bagger by 2030, but there are a few factors that coul
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JUNE 21, 2024
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has soared 181% so far in 2024, and its current market capitalization of $3.3 trillion now accounts for 7% of the entire value of the S&P 500. As a result, Nvidia alone is responsible for one-third of the 15.7% gain in the index this year. Simply put, investors with no exposure to the largest U.S. technology stocks -- especially those developing artificial intelligence (AI) -- have missed out on significant returns in 2024.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) stock was surging Thursday morning to continue a strong push higher for the supplier of data center servers. Shareholders can thank Elon Musk for today's move. After jumping more than 10%, shares were still trading higher by 7.7% as of 11:30 a.m. ET. Supermicro, as the company is commonly called, provides server and storage system components for the massive data center buildout to quickly expand artificial intelligence (AI) computing capacity.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Don't let the S&P 500 's soaring valuation and record levels convince you that all or even most stocks are expensive right now -- that's far from the case. There are some stocks trading at significantly reduced valuations which could make them enticing buys, especially if you're planning to hold on for the long haul. Three stocks which you can buy on sale today and that have promising growth prospects include Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) , Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) , and Shopify (NYSE: SHOP).
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JUNE 20, 2024
Shares of Docusign (NASDAQ: DOCU) are down about 17% from their recent peak in May 2024 and about 84% from their all-time high in late 2021. You wouldn't know it by looking at the company's stock chart, but sales have been rising since the stock price's bottom fell out. Could Docusign be a smart stock to buy at these beaten-down prices? To find out, it's important to compare the reasons it could outperform over the long run vs. some of its challenges.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a catalyst for any big tech company, and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is no exception. There have been rumors about what Apple will do with respect to AI and whether it will have its own chatbot. Last week, it unveiled its strategy for AI. And while it wasn't necessarily a groundbreaking one, it was enough to send shares of Apple soaring to new heights.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Cathie Wood is not shy about making bold predictions especially when it comes to the top holding of her flagship Ark Innovation ETF. Wood has a history of setting lofty targets for her favorite stock, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) , which has had a difficult time recently, down 54% from its high in 2021 and about 25% lower on the year. This poor performance, meanwhile, has come while the S&P 500 has been hitting new all-time highs.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Are you hoping to become a self-made millionaire? It's certainly possible even if you're not a professional artist or athlete. The key for most ordinary people is just investing what you can when you can, picking the right stocks, and then leaving them alone long enough to let them do the heavy lifting. Here's a rundown of three magnificent stocks that have not only helped bunches of investors become millionaires, but will likely continue doing the same into the distant future. 1.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Over the long run, Wall Street has been nothing short of a wealth-building machine. Although the stock market has its ups and downs, equities have handily outperformed other asset classes over the last century, including Treasury bonds, housing, oil, and gold. But not all stocks are created equal. While artificial intelligence (AI) stocks and the "Magnificent Seven" have been given most of the credit for pushing the major indexes to new highs in 2024, dividend stocks have been Wall Street's fuel
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JUNE 20, 2024
IT consulting giant Accenture (NYSE: ACN) surged 7% through noon ET on Thursday despite missing its fiscal third-quarter 2024 earnings by a whisker. Heading into earnings, analysts forecast Accenture would earn $3.15 per share (adjusted for one-time items) on just over $16.5 billion in sales. The company actually earned only $3.13 per share, and its sales came in short at $16.5 billion.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Much of the market rally this year has been driven by excitement regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and the growing number of potential applications for the technology. Conservative estimates place the market value of generative AI in the neighborhood of $1 trillion, while others are much higher. Companies at the leading edge of technology -- those providing the semiconductors and servers necessary to integrate AI -- have seen demand for their products soar, helping fuel the rally.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Image source: Getty Images There's no denying that starting a business is risky; half of all businesses fail after just five years. And while there are ways to help offset the risk of launching a business, like taking the time to do market research beforehand, it's also true that some businesses are inherently less risky than others. If you want to launch your own business but lean toward being risk-averse, here are a few suggestions for you. 1.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been the heart and soul of the U.S. stock market for nearly a decade, with the artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush propelling the graphics processing unit (GPU) specialist to a staggering 27,500% gain over this period. However, Nvidia's meteoric rise has recently fueled skepticism from bears, drawing parallels to the dot-com bubble of 1995 to 2000.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Warren Buffett knows a thing or two about investing. You can do far worse than leaning on his portfolio of publicly traded investments to find the next potential addition or two for your portfolio. There are dozens of candidates. Let's go over two of the names that I like right now. Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) and Sirius XM (NASDAQ: SIRI) are among the current holdings of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock portfolio.
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JUNE 20, 2024
If you're shopping around for some new additions to your stock portfolio, borrowing a pick or two from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway isn't a bad idea. He's not called the Oracle of Omaha for nothin', after all. On the other hand, just because Berkshire's holding a particular stock right now doesn't necessarily mean Buffett would choose to buy it at this time.
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JUNE 21, 2024
The artificial intelligence steam train that is Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) finally overtook Apple and Microsoft to become the most valuable company on the planet by market capitalization. This comes on the heels of the company's 10-for-1 stock split earlier this month. Investors saw the number of their shares multiplied by 10, while the share price became a tenth of where it was before.
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JUNE 20, 2024
With all eyes on the Federal Reserve and earnings season, it's possible investors missed what was, arguably, the most-important data release of the quarter five weeks ago. On May 15, institutions with at least $100 million in assets under management filed Form 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A 13F provides a snapshot to investors of what Wall Street's smartest and most-successful investors have been buying and selling.
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JUNE 20, 2024
When most of us think of winning in the stock market, we envision stocks in our portfolios gaining. And that's definitely a huge part of investment success. But over time, another element could greatly add to your gains: dividend payments. Dividend-paying stocks offer a source of recurrent income, boosting your portfolio regardless of the economic or stock-market environment.
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JUNE 21, 2024
Nearly everything is going right these days for Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY). Sales and profits have been soaring. So has the share price, jumping more than 50% year to date after a 59% gain in 2023. Lilly now ranks as the biggest healthcare company in the world. The drugmaker has more room to grow, with its obesity drug Zepbound and a U.S. approval for Alzheimer's disease drug donanemab likely on the way.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Image source: Getty Images Costco's gift cards are still one of its most underrated savings perks. Any day of the week, you can enjoy discounts ranging from 10% and 30% by purchasing gift cards online or in the warehouse. Despite having some limitations (more on that below), this is an easy way to save money at places where you're already shopping. With that in mind, here are five of the best gift cards available at Costco now.
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JUNE 20, 2024
The question of how much money you'll need to retire with is a tricky one, as it's different for each of us, depending on factors such as our expected longevity, our household expenses and general cost of living, and whether we have income sources lined up besides Social Security benefits. Many people shoot for $1 million, and that's a reasonable sum for plenty of us.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Stocks that split tend to beat the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) , according to research from Bank of America. Since 1980, the average company has seen its share price increase 25.4% during the 12 months following a stock split announcement, while the S&P 500 has returned an average of 11.9% during the same period. Nvidia is the most recent company to follow that pattern.
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JUNE 20, 2024
Building a portfolio worth $1 million or more may sound like an impossible goal that's reserved only for the wealthiest workers. However, while not everyone will be able to reach millionaire status, the strategy for getting there is simpler than you might think. There are two key factors to reaching $1 million in savings: Invest in the stock market, and get started as soon as possible.
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JUNE 19, 2024
Investing in AT&T (NYSE: T) over the past two decades has delivered mixed results for long-term investors. Let's break down what a $10,000 investment in AT&T would look like today, starting in June 2004. 20-year results AT&T's stock price has not shown significant appreciation over the past 20 years. Your hypothetical $10,000 investment would be worth $9,752 today.
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