When Fear Spikes, These 5 Quiet, Overlooked Stocks Keep Delivering
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) hit 31.77 as of March 9, 2026, up 83.0% from a month ago and sitting in the 98th percentile of readings over the past year. Meanwhile, the S&P 500…
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The Defense Stock You’ve Never Heard Of: Why MP Materials Is a Buy
MP Materials (NYSE: MP) sits at the center of one of the most consequential supply chain shifts in modern American industrial policy. With shares at $58.23, up 138.65% over the past year, the market…
Is Coinbase Stock Finally a Buy?
With Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN | COIN Price Prediction) trading at $197.20 (which is down 12.8% year-to-date and well off its 52-week high of $444.64), this is a structurally stronger company selling at a…
Had You Invested $1,000 in Coca-Cola or PepsiCo 10 Years Ago, Here’s What You’d Have Today
On the surface, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP | PEP Price Prediction) might appear to offer more diversification. It sells beverages and snacks, with iconic brands like Frito-Lay, Doritos, Gatorade, and Quaker sitting alongside its cola…
Gap’s Dividend Scorecard: Does the Post-Earnings Selloff Change the Income Case?
Gap (NYSE: GAP | GAP Price Prediction) has raised its quarterly dividend by roughly 6% and authorized a fresh $1 billion share repurchase program on the same day its stock fell nearly 9.5% after…
Had You Invested $1,000 in Costco or Walmart 10 Years Ago, Here’s What You’d Have Today
Retail giants Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST | COST Price Prediction) and Walmart (NASDAQ: WMT) have taken very different paths over the past decade. Costco doubled down on its membership-driven warehouse model, turning Kirkland Signature…
These 3 Stocks Just Bounced From Lows — What Wall Street Thinks Comes Next
Wall Street’s read on three of 2026’s most volatile names—Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA | MRNA Price Prediction), Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), and Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD)—tells three very different stories. All three have bounced off recent…
Had You Invested $1,000 in Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin a Decade Ago, Here’s What You’d Have Now
On March 2, 2026, as news broke of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites during Operation Epic Fury, defense stocks moved opposite to nearly everything else. Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC…
Does This Red Flag Put Kroger’s Chances of Becoming a Dividend Aristocrat at Risk?
Kroger (NYSE: KR | KR Price Prediction) has reported Q4 and full-year fiscal 2025 results, and the headline payout ratio demands attention. Based on GAAP net income, Kroger’s dividend exceeds what it earned. That’s…
Western Digital vs Seagate After the Sell-Off: One Storage Rival Is a Clear Winner
Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC | WDC Price Prediction) and Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) both got hit in the March 3, 2026, sell-off as Iran conflict fears rattled semiconductor markets and rippled into U.S. storage…
Disney Bull vs Bear: What Big Changes at the Entertainment Giant Really Mean for Investors
Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS | DIS Price Prediction) is at an inflection point. With Bob Iger stepping aside and parks chief Josh D’Amaro set to take the helm, combined with a $9.25 billion credit…
With Iran Sending Gold Over $5,000, the Best Gold Stocks and ETFs to Buy Now
Gold reached an all-time high near $5,400 following reports of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear and missile sites, threatening oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. WTI crude surged to more than $76…
Everyone Hates Ford Right Now. Does That Make It a No-Brainer Buy?
Ford’s (NYSE: F | F Price Prediction) news cycle is about as bad as it gets right now. EV sales are down 71% in February, total sales down 5.5%, nearly 5 million vehicles under…
Micron Stock Price Prediction: Where Will MU Be in 1 Year?
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU | MU Price Prediction) traded at $400.77 Thursday morning, bouncing 5.55% off the prior close after an 8.46% one-month pullback tied to geopolitical-driven semiconductor selling. The 12-month run has been…
Is Brown-Forman’s Dividend Safe After Tariffs Battered Earnings?
Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF-B | BF-B Price Prediction) has been making whiskey and paying rising dividends for generations. The Louisville-based spirits company, best known for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, just filed its Q3 FY2026 results.…
We Asked a Year Ago If You Should Buy Buffett’s Favorite Oil Stock. Here’s What Happened.
A year ago, the question was whether Warren Buffett’s conviction in Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY | OXY Price Prediction) was reason enough to buy the stock. The answer, in hindsight, is yes, though the…
JPMorgan’s Top Short Ideas, 5 Weeks Later: Were They Right?
Five weeks after JPMorgan included Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT | FTNT Price Prediction), Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY), and Transocean (NYSE: RIG) among its top short ideas on January 23, 2026, the scorecard is mixed. One…
Why Cisco Is Nothing Like Its Dot-Com Self — And Could Hit $90 by 2027
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO | CSCO Price Prediction) has been pulled into an uncomfortable comparison lately. Investor Michael Burry drew parallels between Nvidia’s supply commitments and Cisco’s behavior before the dot-com bust, casting a…
SoFi CEO Just Bought $1 Million of His Own Stock — And Analysts Think It Could Hit $26
SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI | SOFI Price Prediction) has had a rough start to 2026. Shares are down 28.9% year-to-date, pulling back from a 52-week high of $32.73 to around $18.61. But when a…
Rivian’s R2 Reveal Is the Moment of Truth for the EV Maker’s Survival
On March 12, 2026, Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN | RIVN Price Prediction) holds its full R2 product reveal, and few single events in the company’s history carry more weight. The R1T and R1S built Rivian’s…