The past year has been a real nightmare for Boeing investors. The stock reached an all-time high of $446 a share on March 1st, 2019. And just when it looked like the sky is the only limit, things took a sharp turn for the worse. Two of the company’s 737 MAX planes crashed within five…
Chipotle Bulls Reach the Promised Land. Now What?
In late-March 2019 we published an analysis, stating that Chipotle bulls were aiming at $900 a share. The stock was hovering around $700 at the time, but the momentum it was gaining made us confident it can rise some more. The Elliott Wave chart our confidence stemmed from is given below. Following a perfect 5-3…
Buying Rational Stock Now is Irrational
Rational AG is a German kitchen appliances and processors manufacturer, founded in 1976. With over 750,000 appliances on the market, the company is one of the leaders in the industry. Not surprisingly then, its stock price has been rising for quite a while now. 17 years ago, in March 2003, Rational stock fell to 25.32…
Salesforce Bulls To Head for the Exits Soon
Salesforce .com stock fell to $2.25 in August 2004. What followed is nothing short of spectacular. Shares closed at $182.31 on Friday, up 8000% or 34% compounded annually. In other words, CRM multiplied investors’ money by 81 in less than 16 years. However, even traditional valuation measures indicate the stock is getting ahead of itself.…
Humana Completes a Pattern it Started 20 Years Ago
It’s been eight months since we last wrote about Humana. The stock was hovering around $260 in May 2019, following a plunge from as high as $356. And while there were plenty of things to worry about, a combination of Elliott Wave and Fibonacci analysis made us optimistic about Humana’s prospects. Instead of joining the…
JNJ Stock Pattern Suggests Uptrend is Almost Over
Despite its top quality, Johnson & Johnson didn’t fully participate in the post-2009 bull market. JNJ stock is up 224% since the bottom of the Financial Crisis, while the Dow Jones added 354% in the same period. However, JNJ stock climbed to a new all-time high last week in a breakout that makes the bulls…
Steel Dynamics Completes Bearish Wave Setup
Steel Dynamics stock climbed 40% throughout the second half of 2019. The share price rose from $25 to almost $36, but that’s after a decline from $52.10 in May 2018. In other words, despite the recent recovery STLD is still down 36.7% in the past 19 months. Can the steel manufacturer stock’s revival continue or…
Spirit AeroSystems Not an Elliott Wave Bargain Yet
In the ten years between November 2008 and January 2018, Spirit AeroSystems stock surged 1373%. The rally from $7.14 to $105.20 made anyone who happened to catch even a part of it quite happy. The following two years, on the other hand, not so much. Spirit AeroSystems is down by a third in the last…
Shopify Investors Probably Believe in Unicorns, Too
Shopify is a cloud-based commerce platform founded in 2004 and headquartered in Canada. Its market cap is approaching $50 billion, even though the company is not yet profitable. We know from history that profits determine a business’ success in the long-term. In the short run, however, investors’ emotions is what makes a stock rise or…
EssilorLuxottica To Lose a Third in Elliott Wave Drop
EssilorLuxottica came into existence in October 2018 after the French Essilor acquired the Italian Luxottica in a $24 billion deal. The merger resulted in the world’s largest eyewear company with a market cap of roughly 60 billion euro. Listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange, EssilorLuxottica is part of the French CAC 40 and the…
Linamar ‘s 2020 is Shaping up to be a Great Year
Founded in 1966, Linamar Corp. is the second-largest automobile parts manufacturer in Canada. The stock is listed in Toronto and had an exceptionally strong run between 2009 and 2015. In a little over six years, the share price rose from as low as C$2 to as high as C$89.42. That’s 88.4% compounded annually. Unfortunately for…
Time for BMW Stock Bulls to Hit the Brakes Again?
It’s been almost five years since BMW stock hit an all-time high of 123.75 euro a share. Five years for investors to wonder why they didn’t sell earlier. As of this writing, the stock trades near 75.40, down 39% from the March 2015 record. On the bright side, the stock trades near 75.40, up 29.9%…
2020 to Bring Long-Awaited Relief to Freeport Investors
It’s been a rough couple of years for U.S.-based copper miner Freeport-McMoran. The stock reached $20.25 a share in the first month of 2018. Now, in the last month of 2019, FCX is hovering around $12.10. Despite the significant recovery from as low as $8.43 in October, the stock is still down 40% since January…
Clorox Stock Can Lose 25% if a Recession Hits in 2020
As a consumer products manufacturer Clorox is one of the so-called “defensive” companies, whose sales are generally not dependent on the state of the economy. However, this doesn’t mean Clorox stock cannot fall during a general market decline or a recession. For instance, it lost 57% in the 1999-2000 rout and over 34% during the…
Ubiquiti Can Dive in a 50% Elliott Wave Correction
Headquartered in New York, Ubiquiti Inc. is a communication equipment manufacturer with a market cap of ~$13 billion. The stock is up 85% since its late-August low and is now trading in the vicinity of $200 a share. Understandably, such sharp and fast rallies easily attract people’s attention. Extrapolation of the past into the future…
