Tag Archives: attractive

A short-term saver? Say thanks to the Federal Reserve. One benefit of the Fed’s interest-rate hikes aimed at wresting control over inflation is that savers looking for a safe investment for a year or less can now get the best yields in ages from Treasury bills, or T-bills. Savings rates have jumped from just about zero to more than 4% in the past 12 months on these short-term securities issued by the federal government. On Jan. 24, a one-year T-bill was yielding 4.7%, up from a rate of 0.57%… Source link

Did markets hit a turning point? The past couple of months brought us a seven-week losing streak in stocks, the longest such streak in over a decade, but the week before the Memorial Day holiday weekend saw strong gains. The S&P 500 wiped out its May losses. Post-holiday trading shows that some of these gains are continuing. If so, then it makes this the ideal time to ‘buy the dip,’ to get in while stocks remain at low cost, with attractive entry points. That’s the view from investment… Source link

Netflix (NFLX) is taking a beating on Wall Street. Shares of the streaming giant have cratered 52% since reaching record highs in November 2021. So far, 2022 has not aided the slump, with shares down a whopping 45% year-to-date. “The concern is the the growth outlook,” Dave Heger, Edward Jones senior equity analyst, told Yahoo Finance Live, citing the company’s disappointing subscriber outlook as a catalyst for the sell-off. In its latest earnings report, Netflix said it expects to add 7… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., lacking the blockbuster deals that have galvanized the billionaire investor’s renown, embraced a “mildly attractive” way to deploy its vast cash pile last year via a record-breaking level of buybacks — and showed little sign of changing course. Most Read from Bloomberg Berkshire bought back a total of $27.1 billion in 2021, the highest annual level since Buffett began more aggressively repurchasing stock in 2018. The buybacks… Source link

Mike Florio and Peter King rundown the vacant head coaching positions in the NFL as of Tuesday morning, and decide which job is the most attractive for interested coaching candidates. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] MIKE FLORIO: Time now for PFT on Yahoo Sports. Peter King, Mike Florio. 18 teams are done for the 2021 season. And a third of those teams are looking for new coaches. Six vacancies already. Who knows what else may happen. But we know that six teams are looking for coaches. The… Source link

Yandex NV (YNDX) stock is higher by 27.36% over the last 12 months, and the average rating from Wall Street analysts is a Strong Buy. InvestorsObserver’s proprietary ranking system, gives YNDX stock a score of 65 out of a possible 100. That rank is chiefly influenced by a short-term technical score of 70. YNDX’s rank also includes a long-term technical score of 69. The fundamental score for YNDX is 56. In addition to the average rating from Wall Street analysts, YNDX stock has a mean… Source link

Being a successful investor this coming earnings season may be as easy as paying attention to companies with the best potential to expand profit margins amidst the current bout of inflation across spectrums such as raw materials and labor, Goldman Sachs reasons.  The smartest investors in the game appear to already be placing that bet. “Investors have started to reward companies with attractive margin profiles. Our valuation model shows that profit margins are the second most important driver… Source link