Stock Market

Stocks can be many things, but they surely include elements of risk as investors’ seek to build wealth. Camber Energy (NYSE:CEI) stock has been making headlines for its very volatile price action – and it appears to have room for further volatility. Source: Shutterstock The real questions related to the volatility of CEI stock are whether

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) combined two of 2021’s hottest trends — electric vehicle startups and special-purpose acquisition companies. The problem was that by the time the company completed its reverse merger with Churchill Capital Corp. IV in late July, investor interest in both trends was significantly diminished. Still, LCID stock shot up as much as 20%

In the past, Canada-based Sphere 3D (NASDAQ:ANY) was primarily known as a software business. As such, the company didn’t generate much buzz on Wall Street and the daily trading volume of ANY stock was fairly low. Source: Mark Agnor / Shutterstock.com Sphere 3D’s somewhat-outdated investor relations page insists that the company “delivers containerization, virtualization, and data

Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) stock looks like a long-term defensive play to a lot of smart people. Source: spiderman777 / Shutterstock.com Tech whisperer Cathie Wood loaded up on the shares in September. Of 20 analysts following the stock at Tipranks, 17 are telling investors to buy it. This has not helped the shares. Since the start of

DatChat (NASDAQ:DATS) is a private messaging application company with little going for it — aside from the cash it raised at its Aug. 13 initial public offering (IPO). DatChat raised $11.04 million according to its most recent prospectus. Somehow, DATS stock now has a market value of about $220 million, according to Yahoo! Finance. Source:

In a year where many retail investors turned to meme stocks and SPACs, specialty home goods retailer Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) has avoided the risk and irrational valuations seen elsewhere in the market. And WSM stock has performed extremely well in 2021. Source: designs by Jack / Shutterstock.com Shares are up 74.13% in 2021 as of the close

FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL) saw its shares close at a high of $27.96 in early February. Since then, the story has been much less impressive, with the stock in a long slide. At this point, FCEL stock is trading for $6.71, down 76% from its February high. Shares are also down 40% for the year. So,

It seems as though every week there is a new company in the news because of Reddit. Traders on investing forums are always on the prowl for the next GameStop (NYSE:GME). And there have been a few short squeeze plays that have come to my attention thanks to Reddit, but I rarely trade based on

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) used to pay a consistent dividend and also buy back its own shares. However, for the past year and a half, since the end of 2019, it stopped returning capital to its shareholders. It’s now clear that DIS stock has not done very well as a result of this decision.

Globalstar (NYSEAMERICAN:GSAT) has been on a roller coaster ride so far in 2021. GSAT stock, a satellite communications and internet-of-things (IoT) play, zoomed from 34 cents to just over $2.50 per share during February’s “meme stock” mania. Source: NicoElNino / Shutterstock.com Then, in the spring — as this trend cooled — shares dipped back to around

Believe it or not, the hottest hypergrowth industry in the world right now is one that not many folks on Wall Street are chatting about, and that’s the Buy Now, Pay Later market. Source: Shutterstock Buy Now, Pay Later – or BNPL – is a relatively new type of digital fintech product that allows folks

Editor’s note: This column is part of InvestorPlace.com’s Best Stocks for 2021 contest. Louis Navellier’s pick for the contest is Fiverr International (NYSE:FVRR) stock. FVRR stock has been struggling of late, but the core reason is somewhat ironic. It’s because the pandemic is fading. Source: by InvestorPlace The U.S. added just 194,000 jobs in September, while the lowest

Joby Aviation (NASDAQ:JOBY) stock is down 31% since emerging from a SPAC deal with Reinvent Technology Partners on Aug. 11. That makes sense, because Joby is a “pre-revenue” company. Investors have nothing to judge JOBY stock by except plans, sponsors and a prototype. Source: T. Schneider / Shutterstock.com The company intends to deliver an electric

Recently, I gave InvestorPlace readers my opinion on seven natural gas stocks to buy. At that time, I wasn’t paying much attention to penny stocks. If I had, I may have given Tellurian (NASDAQ:TELL) a closer look. The company is a play on liquefied natural gas (LNG), and it’s one of the up-and-coming players in this

Bionano Genomics (NASDAQ:BNGO) has turned into a bear of a meme play. But is there a chance for bullish DNA to be reproduced in BNGO stock? Source: Natali_ Mis/ShutterStock.com Let’s check in with what’s happening off and on the price chart of BNGO stock, then offer a risk-adjusted determination aligned with those findings. At a singular

What do you get when you mix a small-cap stock, Reddit and a sprinkle of hot non-fungible token (NFT) news? An explosion in Vinco Ventures’ (NASDAQ:BBIG) stock price. BBIG stock rallied 420% in August in about 10 days. This happens often in post-pandemic Wall Street. Retail investors have gone hog wild with excitement and in

Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:GREE) recently went public via a reverse merger on Sept. 15. Ever since then, GREE stock has lost more than 50% of its price. It currently trades around $25. Source: Shutterstock The reverse merger gave shareholders 115 shares of GREE stock for every 1,000 shares of Support.com stock they held. On

Buzz around The Metals Company (NASDAQ:TMC) stock will remain high in the coming weeks and months. TMC stock has been volatile since its Sept. 10 SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) merger with Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition.  Source: Manu Galdamez/ShutterStock.com The merger didn’t go exactly as planned, which has undoubtedly injected increased volatility into share prices. For

A very popular term in business is disruption, or causing a radical change through innovation. Hippo Holdings (NYSE:HIPO) is a digital homeowners insurance provider that went public in August. Potential HIPO stock investors wonder if this insurance provider will disrupt the insurance market. Source: TDKvisuals / Shutterstock.com It seems to me that HIPO stock lacks

Recently, Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) fell fast. Closing at $207.31 per share on Sept. 30, the vaccine play opened at around $190 on Oct. 1. After that, NVAX stock quickly went into free fall, dropping as low as $154 per share. Source: Ascannio/Shutterstock.com The reason? Breaking news of Merck’s (NYSE:MRK) antiviral Covid-19 pill. Interim results suggest it