30 10, 2023

Interactive Brokers Declines 15% After Reaching All-Time High on September 11. Is Now the Time to Step In?

By |2023-11-08T15:38:35+00:00October 30th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , , |

By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR), founded in 2007 and headquartered in Greenwich, CT, is a highly automated global broker that offers low-cost, seamless access to multiple assets, including stocks, options, futures, forex, commodities, bonds, crypto, mutual funds, and ETFs. It serves over two million clients, including individuals, institutions, introducing brokers, [...]

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25 10, 2023

Visa Beats Earnings, Raises Dividend – Should You Buy, Sell, or Hold This Stock?

By |2023-12-07T19:49:23+00:00October 25th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , |

Visa (V) reported 4th quarter earnings today that initially sent shares 2% lower. They have since rebounded and now sit about 1.5% higher than yesterday’s closing price.  This was a strange reaction to what was a fairly positive news cycle for the credit card company after beating earnings and raising dividends. The credit card [...]

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25 09, 2023

Apollo Global Management, Inc. Hits All-time High on September 20: Can It Keep Going Like the Energizer Bunny?

By |2023-09-25T14:57:04+00:00September 25th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO) stock price has doubled to $90.81 since its low of $45.62 on October 13, 2022, with an average trading volume. However, since hitting a recent low of $78.39 on August 18th, it has surged to $93.18, marking a 19% increase in just 22 trading [...]

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11 09, 2023

Arch Capital Group Ltd. Backs Off 9% from its July 27 All-Time High: Can It Rally and Exceed that High?

By |2023-09-11T14:50:43+00:00September 11th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , , , |

By Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL) is a Nasdaq-listed firm that was incorporated in Delaware in 1995 but is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda, with 5,800 employees. There are 373 million shares outstanding. Revenues totaled $1.8 billion, and ACGL’s market cap is $29.04 billion. The company and its multiple subsidiaries offer [...]

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26 07, 2023

Is Wells Fargo a Buy After Raising Dividends & Announcing $30B Stock Repurchase Program?

By |2023-08-02T19:10:00+00:00July 26th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

On Tuesday after the market closed, Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) released a statement that its board of directors approved an increase to the quarterly common stock dividend - much to the delight of investors. The company was already paying a quarterly dividend of $0.30, but the company has raised that up to $0.35 [...]

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26 07, 2023

Is Wells Fargo a Buy After Raising Dividends & Announcing $30B Stock Repurchase Program?

By |2023-07-26T13:48:23+00:00July 26th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

On Tuesday after the market closed, Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) released a statement that its board of directors approved an increase to the quarterly common stock dividend - much to the delight of investors. The company was already paying a quarterly dividend of $0.30, but the company has raised that up to $0.35 [...]

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24 07, 2023

Blackstone Reaches $1 Trillion in Assets Under Management (AUM) – Time to Jump Aboard?

By |2023-08-02T19:10:02+00:00July 24th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

by Leslie N. Masonson, MBA Blackstone Inc., a NYSE-listed firm (BX), founded in 1985 by Stephen A. Schwarzman and Peter G. Peterson, went public in 2007. It is headquartered at 345 Park Avenue in New York City, with a workforce of nearly 4,700 and revenues of $7.3 billion, and a market-cap of $132 billion. [...]

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16 03, 2023

VectorVest Issued a Charles Schwab Warning in January: Here’s What You Need to Know as it Drops Lower

By |2023-08-02T19:10:46+00:00March 16th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Retirement, Stock Market News, Swing Trading|Tags: , , , |

While the financial services industry as a whole is struggling right now - no thanks to the SVB run - there is a single company that is struggling more than others: Charles Schwab (SCHW). The stock has dropped another 12% in the past week and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. CFO [...]

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14 03, 2023

First Republic Bank Begins Road to Recovery With 50% Gain Tuesday: What Investors Need to Know Now

By |2023-08-02T19:10:51+00:00March 14th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

After a brutal last few trading sessions for First Republic Bank, it appears the road to recovery may be underway - as the stock is up 50% so far Tuesday. This came after the company witnessed share prices tank down to under $20 a share Monday for the first time in more than 5 [...]

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8 03, 2023

Chubb Limited Rated a Buy by Barron’s: Does VectorVest Concur?

By |2023-08-02T19:10:59+00:00March 8th, 2023|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Stock Market News|Tags: , , , |

Chubb Limited (CB:NYSE) is the global leader, and largest publicly traded provider of property and casualty insurance in the world, as well as provider of reinsurance, health, accident, and life insurance with operations in 54 countries and territories. The company headquarters is based in Zurich, Switzerland and there are 34,000 employees with annual revenues [...]

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