LKQ Corporation is an auto parts provider, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Chicago, IL. Investors who bought LKQ stock at the IPO price in 2003 and held until 2018 would have multiplied their money by almost 25. On the other hand, those who bought in January 2018 are still under water as the stock…
Qualys Stock to Fall Another 40% as Bears Persist
Qualys Inc., founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, CA, provides cloud security and compliance solutions. Given the fast-growing sector the company operates in, it is no surprise that its stock has also been quite hot. At least until recently. Qualys went public at $12 a share in September 2012. Despite a couple of…
DJTA: Putting 50 Years of Data in Elliott Wave Context
Just six months ago, it felt as if the world was coming to an end. People in Europe and the USA were stockpiling necessities in preparation to isolate themselves for an unknown time period. The coronavirus panic had dragged stock market averages down 35-40% in just a month. It was the fastest plunge into a…
Electronic Arts Can Lose 50% in Elliott Wave Correction
Electronic Arts hasn’t been able to reach a new all-time high since July 2018, when it climbed to $151.26. However, the stock came close to that last month after the coronavirus panic in March was quickly forgotten. Currently near $127 a share, Electronic Arts holds a rather high valuation at 29 times its expected fiscal…
Buffett’s DaVita Stock Looks Like a Bull Trap
Formerly known as DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., DaVita Inc. provides kidney dialysis services for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure or end stage renal disease. It was founded in 1994 and went public a year later. As of this writing DaVita’s market cap is close to $10.7 billion. The interesting part is that it is…
London Stock Exchange Stock Needs a Breather
Stock exchanges are the places where the shares of publicly traded companies change hands. But sometimes we forget that the exchanges themselves are operated by a company, as well. Usually, those companies are also public with their stocks trading on the exchange, too. That is exactly the case with the London Stock Exchange Group plc.…
Yum! Stock to Form a Base Near $75 a Share
The coronavirus selloff hit the restaurant industry hard. With stores closing to prevent the virus from spreading, the stocks of McDonald’s, Starbucks, Dunkin and the like all came crashing down. Yum! Brands wasn’t spared either. YUM stock has been losing ground since the summer of 2019, but it was the COVID-19 crisis that really scared…
Intel ‘s Troubles Fit in its Elliott Wave Correction
2020 is shaping up as a year to forget for Intel shareholders. The stock is down over 20% year-to-date. First, the coronavirus selloff caused a 35% plunge down to less than $44 a share. And just when it seemed INTC was recovering, the company announced it will delay its 7nm products until late 2022 or…
Expedia Stock can Surge as Travel Returns
The coronavirus pandemic hit no other sector harder than travel. Lockdowns took a heavy toll on airlines, hotels and even rental car services as people postponed vacations and business trips were cancelled. Even asset-light companies like Booking and Expedia saw their stock prices plunging. Expedia, which was down 25% from its all-time high even before…
Plus500 Confirms Uptrend, but Correction is Likely
Based in Haifa, Israel, Plus500 (LSE:PLUS) operates a leading CFD trading platform. The company is part of the FTSE 250 index and conducts most of its business in Europe and Australia. The new ESMA regulations which came in effect in August 2018 severely impacted the CFD trading industry. As a result, Plus500 stock fell from…
Moody’s, a Buffett Darling, Trading in Late Fifth Wave
Moody’s Corp. has been a long-time holding in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. It is also the seventh biggest position in it as of the end of March 2020. The company has a strong competitive advantage, it is highly profitable and growing. No wonder Warren Buffett likes it so much. The stock did decline sharply in…
Dollar General Stock Bulls are Looking for Trouble
As a general merchandise discount retailer, Dollar General was among the handful of businesses that actually benefited from the pandemic. People piled on necessities preparing for what looked like the end of the world for a while. As a result, sales at Dollar General surged in the midst of the crisis. While its stock price…
Veeva Systems Stock Trades in Bubble Territory
It is true that the Fed’s recently re-adopted zero rate policy and stimulus are distorting financial markets. Interest rates are like gravity to financial assets. The lower the rate, the higher asset prices go and vice versa. As a result, stocks in general tend to ignore the economic reality right now. Among the companies trading…
PNC Financial Completes Bullish Elliott Wave Cycle
Economic crises have always been especially tough on financial companies. Usually, when the general market is falling, financial stocks are crashing even harder. PNC Financial for example, lost 81.6% in the 2008-9 recession, while the S&P 500 fell by “just” 58%. PNC Financial stock suffered more than the general market during the recent coronavirus selloff,…
DAX 30 Surged 50%+ in Three Months. Here is Why
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