Papa John’s International, founded in 1984 and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, operates approximately 5 200 pizza restaurants globally. The company went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1993 under the ticker symbol PZZA and reached its all-time high of $90.49 in December 2016. Unfortunately, no trend lasts forever and PZZA stock was a big disappointment…
Swiss Stock Market: Is the Bull Run Over?
It has been over nine years since most stock market indices around the world declared the end of the Great Recession in March 2009. That was when the DJIA and the S&P 500 in the U.S. and the German DAX started recovering from their respective crashes. It was March 2009 when the Swiss stock market…
Elliott Wave Strengthens DAX 30 Bullish Outlook
It has been over four months since we last wrote about the German DAX 30. The blue chip index was trading around 12 700 following a sharp selloff from as high as 13 602. However, despite the fact that this plunge looked quite scary, the Elliott Wave Principle suggested that “it looks more like another…
JNJ Stock Preparing for a Bullish Breakout
JNJ stock did not start the year in the best way possible. The share price fell from an all-time high of $148.32 on January 17th to as low as $118.62 on May 29th, erasing 20% of the company’s market capitalization. Such declines come to remind us that even the best of blue chip stocks do…
Nifty 50 Still On Track for a New High Near 12 000
In mid-April the Indian benchmark stock market index Nifty 50 was trading near 10 550 after a recovery from a two-month plunge between 11 172 and 9952. Despite the recent pullback, the daily price chart suggested the uptrend was still in progress and the bulls should eventually be able to reach a new all-time high…
FTSE MIB: What Happened to Italy’s Stock Market?
It was a bad month for Italian investors. The country’s benchmark index – FTSE MIB or Milano Indice di Borsa – crashed from its May 7th high of 24 544 to as low as 21 122 yesterday on fears that the fourth largest economy in the European Union is on the brink of a full-blown…
Oracle Stock Investors in for a Bumpy Ride
Oracle Corporation was among the symbols of the Dot-com bubble. The company reached an all-time high of $46.47 a share in September 2000. Less than two years later, in June 2002, the stock was down by over 84% and was barely holding above $7. But unlike many other dot-com darlings, Oracle survived the crash and…
Foot Locker Resurrected by Elliott Wave
Less than two months ago, on April 1st, we published an article about Foot Locker. While the stock was hovering around $45.50, its hourly price chart revealed an Elliott Wave pattern, which encouraged us to believe the worst was over for this sporting goods retailer. Take a look at it below to refresh your memory.…
American Express Stock in Reversal Territory
American Express stock fell to as low as $50.27 in February 2016 after the company’s net income fell by 12% in 2015. But as it usually happens with great companies, AXP was quick to rebound and less than two and a half years later the stock is trading near all-time highs above $100 per share.…
CAC 40 Reaches Highest Level Since 2007
The French CAC 40 benchmark index climbed to 5629 yesterday. The last time it traded above 5600 was in late-December 2007 and while the price is still far from its 6192 all-time high, the current rally is no less significant, especially if we consider that just three months ago the bears dragged the CAC 40…
BAC Stock Headed to $40 a Share
After two consecutive years of spectacular gains, which nearly tripled Bank of America’s market cap, the too-big-to-fail financial institution is having a slower, but still strong start of 2018. BAC stock is up 5.22% year to date, easily outperforming the S&P 500. Besides, analysts’ estimates for the company’s future earnings are constantly improving. As of…
Buckle Stock Gains 40% in Two Months
Two months ago, on March 15th, we published an Elliott Wave analysis of The Buckle stock (NYSE:BKE), saying that “the stage is set for a surge.” At the time of writing, the stock was barely holding above the $18 mark after a decline of nearly 30%. But instead of joining the bears, we thought that…
Alibaba Stock Attacks $220 but Runs on Fumes
Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group made its NYSE debut at $92.70 a share in September 2014. The initial bullish enthusiasm lifted Alibaba stock rice to $120 two months later, but once it settled down BABA entered a bear market, which erased over 50% of the company’s market value by September 2015. On January 31st 2018, Alibaba…
Expedia Stock Investors Cannot Feel Safe Yet
Expedia stock reached its all-time high of $161 in late-July 2017, but has been a big disappointment ever since. The stock fell to as low as $98.52 in February 2018, and after a recovery to $118 so far, it is still down by 29.5% from its record high. Now, Expedia Group Inc. is a profitable,…
Yum Brands Stock Looking at a 20% Correction
In just over two years, Yum! Brands stock (NYSE:YUM) nearly doubled from as low as $46.44 in February 2016 to $87.45 earlier this month, bringing the total market capitalization of the fast-food restaurant chain to over $29 billion. Does this mean now is the time to jump on the bandwagon in anticipation of even better…
