The company that began as Google’s driverless car project has reached a deal to collaborate with ride-hailing app Lyft on tests of self-driving vehicles.
The deal intensifies the bitter rivalry betweenWaymo,a division of Google parent Alphabet, and ride-hailing market leader Uber.
It also gives Lyft a powerful new ally in the self-driving car race against its more well-funded adversary Uber. And it places Waymo a step closer to becoming a business with real-world customers.
Monday’s news landed at the same time that a judge’s ruling in the case Waymo v. Uber was unsealed, revealing that the court did not grant a potentially damaginginjunction against Uber that would have compelled it to stop using any sensor technology that could have been created with Waymo trade secrets.
Hot Stocks To Own For 2018: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.(GMCR)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Jonas Elmerraji]
As badly as short sellers want to hate on Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), betting against the multiyear rally in this $12.7 billion beverage stock has been about as wise as eating from a box with a skull and crossbones on it. And as a bull market continues to lift all ships, Green Mountain’s ship is going to keep floating above the others.
Green Mountain owns Keurig, the brand of beverage brewers that use self-contained K-Cups to make coffee, teas, and other drinks. While Keurig’s “fad” status has certainly helped tip the deck against GMCR, the fact remains that the firm has done most of the hard work in getting Keurig machines accepted by consumers. With brewers essentially ubiquitous at this point, the firm is able to make money on its cash cow: the K-Cups.
Keurig’s individual-serving cups have big margins and a big installed base. With huge convenience and the relatively large sunk cost that consumers have put into their Keurig machines, it’s a sticky business with big switching costs. Consumers who buy a Keurig are much less likely to spend the money on a competing brand of proprietary coffee pods.
I’ve said before that GMCR is far from cheap right now. But its momentum trajectory is showing few signs of fizzling out, especially as direct competitors such as Starbucks (SBUX) continue to sell K-Cups of their own. Don’t bet against GMCR in September – buy this Rocket Stock instead.
- [By Canadian Value]
So Im going to stick my next out and share my views on four battleground stocks that are among my favorite shorts: World Acceptance (WRLD), Green Mountain (GMCR), Herbalife (HLF), and InterOil (IOC). And next week at the Value Investing Congress I will present another short, my largest.
- [By David Sterman]
But for short sellers in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Nasdaq: GMCR), there's another outcome: They've been badly burned as shares have surged, but they insist they've been right all along, and it's only a matter of time before the stock crashes and burns.
Hot Stocks To Own For 2018: iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund(SOXX)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Peter Graham]
A long term performance chart shows Marvell Technology Group under performingpeersSTMicroelectronics NV (NYSE: STM) and ETF benchmarks SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA: XSD) and iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector (NASDAQ: SOXX)will all taking offlast year:
- [By Peter Graham]
A long term performance chart shows Marvell Technology Group along with peersSTMicroelectronics NV (NYSE: STM) and ETF benchmarks SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA: XSD) and iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector (NASDAQ: SOXX)all taking offlast year albeit MRVL has underperformed ETF benchmarks:
- [By Peter Graham]
A long term performance chart shows Marvell Technology Group peaking in early 2015 while peerSTMicroelectronics NV (NYSE: STM) hasnt performed much better and ETF benchmarks SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA: XSD) and iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector (NASDAQ: SOXX) have performed better:
- [By Peter Graham]
A long term performance chart shows Marvell Technology Group giving investors and traders a bit of a roller-coaster ride while peerSTMicroelectronics NV (NYSE: STM) and ETF benchmarks SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA: XSD) and iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector (NASDAQ: SOXX) really took off last year:
Hot Stocks To Own For 2018: Quanta Services, Inc.(PWR)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Ben Levisohn]
Clinton 15 stock basket (DBUSCLNT): UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), McKesson (MCK), Aecom (ACM), Quanta Services (PWR), ExxonMobil (XOM), Alcoa (AA), NextEra Energy (NEE), Cree (CREE), First Solar (FSLR), Facebook (FB), Netflix (NFLX), Prudential Financial (PRU), Citigroup (C), Union Pacific (UNP).
- [By Chad Tracy]
TransCanada is not the only company that stands to profit from the possible Keystone XL approval. Refiners such as Valero and LyondellBasell Industries (NYSE: LYB), as well as construction companies Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) and Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR) all stand to gain if Keystone XL gets the green light.
Hot Stocks To Own For 2018: Zillow Group, Inc.(ZG)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Steve Symington]
Shares of Zillow Group Inc. (NASDAQ:Z)(NASDAQ:ZG)climbed 13.8% in the month of April,according to data provided byS&P Global Market Intelligence, ahead of the online real estate specialist’s impending first-quarter 2017 report.
- [By Steve Symington]
The stock market was mostly flat today ahead of a key House vote on the passage of the Republicans’ healthcare bill, which was delayed until Friday after GOP lawmakers failed to gather the necessary support. TheDow Jones Industrial Averagelost just 5 points, or 0.02%, while other broader market indexes saw similar small declines. But several individual stocks saw much more severe drops, including Zillow Group (NASDAQ:Z) (NASDAQ:ZG), Proofpoint (NASDAQ:PFPT), and Accenture (NYSE:ACN). Read on to see what drove these unusual moves.
