Morningstar warned, “‘Financials Look Reckless’: Lifting xAI’s Hood in the SpaceX IPO”. Its AI division, xAI, lost $2.47 billion on $818 million in the first quarter of this year. “If you compare…
Douglas A. McIntyre Income investors holding the VictoryShares US Large Cap High Div Volatility Wtd ETF (NYSEARCA:CDL) own a fund built around one premise: large American companies with stable share prices tend to pay reliable…
The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:IVV) and Vanguard’s S&P 500 fund are the two most commonly recommended core holdings in American retirement accounts, and the honest verdict is that picking between…
Wall Street has cheered almost every press release about AI infrastructure, with hyperscalers Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle, plus the Stargate joint venture, committing more than $1 trillion in announced data…
Jeremy Phillips The value-over-growth rotation that strategists had been calling for since the start of the year is finally showing up in fund returns. Through mid-May, large-cap value indexes are running ahead of several…
Income investors holding the VictoryShares US Large Cap High Div Volatility Wtd ETF (NYSEARCA:CDL) own a fund built around one premise: large American companies with stable share prices tend to pay reliable…
The Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:MGK) has 63 holdings, which sounds diversified until you check the weights. Five names carry almost 46% of the fund. The MGK pitch is straightforward exposure…
You buy the iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:IWF) expecting broad growth exposure. The Russell 1000 Growth Index holds 391 names, and IWF tracks all of them. The catch is that roughly…
The Magnificent Seven question facing investors in 2026 is how to own these names. Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (NYSEARCA:MAGS) answers with one ticker holding all seven mega caps at equal weight, rebalanced…
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) is having one of its strangest years in recent memory. The AI franchise is exploding, with CEO Satya Nadella telling investors “Our AI business surpassed an…
Vandita Jadeja The pitch on the Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:VGT) is sector breadth. You pay nine basis points, you get the entire information technology sleeve of the U.S. market, roughly $125 billion in…
Wall Street has spent months questioning Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive AI capital spending, with Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) raising its 2026 capex guidance to $130 to $145 billion after a Q1 in which revenue…
Jeremy Phillips The AI trade has had favorites. NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have carried the narrative, while two enterprise tech giants have quietly compounded earnings and built backlogs that few retail investors are…
Joel South Every bull market since 2016 has been a mega cap story. The S&P 500’s gains over the past decade have been driven by a handful of growth giants whose weight in the…
Retirees chasing the JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) for its near 9.5% distribution yield are buying something more layered than they think. The fund pairs a Nasdaq-100 stock basket with…
