XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) trades for about $2.15 today. Yet a trio of developments, including corporate treasury adoption, new regulated onramps and payment rails, and the potential approval of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) could shift the token’s supply-demand balance enough to put $5 within reach by 2027. Each of these catalysts are real, but they are not…
C3.ai (NYSE: AI) was founded in 2009, long before the artificial intelligence (AI) boom captivated Wall Street. Not every business has the financial resources or technical expertise to develop AI from scratch, so many of them are turning to C3.ai, which supplies a portfolio of ready-made applications. C3.ai went public in 2020 during a frenzy…
Smart investors are drawn to stock splits, not only because they make a company’s share price cheaper, but also because they tend to precede market-beating returns. Stocks that split have historically outperformed the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) by 13 percentage points during the year after the stock-split announcement. Over the last three years, Meta Platforms…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) first became the world’s biggest company based on market cap in September 1998. It stayed No. 1 for less than 18 months before being dethroned. But the software giant has clawed its way back to the top in 2025. I don’t think Microsoft’s reign will last very long this time, either. What’s…
Warren Buffett hasn’t been investing much lately. The multibillionaire has been a net seller of stocks for 10 consecutive quarters. He’s built a massive cash stockpile of nearly $348 billion for Berkshire Hathaway. This huge cash position prompted a question from a shareholder at Berkshire’s annual shareholder meeting in May. Buffett was asked if he…
The artificial intelligence (AI) market has grown like a weed over the past decade. That rapid expansion — which was fueled by more sophisticated cloud computing services, large language models, and generative AI applications — lit a blazing fire under some high-growth tech stocks. The most obvious winners are Nvidia, the world’s top producer of…
SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN), a developer of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered audio recognition tools, saw its stock close at a record high of $24.23 on Dec. 26, 2024. But since then, its stock has declined nearly 60%. Let’s see why this hot stock fizzled out — and if its pullback represents a buying opportunity for long-term…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the driving force behind the stock market’s gains since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Few companies have benefited more from the advancements and excitement around generative AI than Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR). Palantir’s financial results have been fantastic as it expands its customer base and use cases within…
Investors are always looking for smart money managers to get ideas from. One investor I like to follow is David Tepper, the billionaire founder of Appaloosa Management. And, fortunately, I can get information on Appaloosa’s trades following the end of each calendar quarter, when institutional investment firms managing over $100 million in stocks are required…
