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Most of the time when a company sells an asset to another company, the market rewards the perceived “winner” of the deal and punishes the loser. On rare occasion, the market will see a transaction as a win-win for both parties involved.
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Visa Inc.(V)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By WWW.MONEYSHOW.COM]
Slower growth with an elevated P/E ratio held back Visa (V) last year. But with growth returning to Visa’s normal levels, we feel it is time to highlight its shares once again.
- [By Asit Sharma]
In the past year, PayPal has executed a strategy of forming alliances with potential rivals in the payments space. In a prominent example, last year the company announced a tie-up in the U.S. with card issuer Visa (NYSE:V). Earlier this month, the two parties revealed that they’ve extended the arrangement to the Asia Pacific region. The deal expansion means that banks in the region that issue Visa cards can allow their cardholders to check out online wherever PayPal is accepted. Brick-and-mortar retailers honoring the Visa symbol will now also be able to accept PayPal as payment.
- [By WWW.KIPLINGER.COM]
At the top of the list is global payments leader Visa Inc (V).
Visa sits at the intersection of two of the most powerful trends in the economy today: the rise of the cashless society and the rise of the emerging market consumer. With every passing day, more people around the world are swiping their credit and debit cards in more places. And as the owner of the largest global payments network, Visa sits at the middle of this, like a toll booth operator.
- [By Brian Feroldi, Dan Caplinger, Travis Hoium, and Matthew DiLallo]
While we Fools are generally bargain hunters, we recognize that some companies are so fantastic that it can make sense to buy them while they’re on the upswing. With that in mind, we asked a team of Fools to each highlight a stock trading near its 52-week that is still worth buying today. Read on to see why they selected Visa (NYSE:V), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP), Paycom Software (NYSE:PAYC), and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).
- [By The Ticker Tape]
Overall, first-quarter earnings have been pretty positive and many CEOs struck an optimistic tone discussing outlooks for the remainder of 2017. Two industrial bellwethers, General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON), just beat Wall Street analyst expectations on Friday and credit card companies American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) and Visa Inc (NYSE: V) also reported strong results—some are taking that as a sign that consumer confidence could be translating into consumer buying. Next up in Q1, Eli Lilly and Co (NYSE: LLY), Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), and Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) report before market open on April 25.
- [By WWW.THESTREET.COM]
Not all financial sector stocks are screaming buys right now. In fact, Visa Inc. (V) is a prominent one that’s showing the opposite type of technical trajectory this week. Visa sold off hard on Monday, declining more than 4% in a move that analysts pinned on investors eschewing card payment companies because of excessive ex-U.S. revenue exposure and the increased attractiveness of actual card issuers, like banks, in a rising rate environment.
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Bank of the Ozarks(OZRK)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Bank Of The Ozarks Inc (NASDAQ: OZRK) reported better-than-expected earnings for its second quarter on Monday.
Bank of the Ozarks disclosed net income of $54.5 million for the second quarter compared to $44.8 million representing an increase of 21.7 percent. On a per share basis, earnings grew 17.6 percent to $0.60 from $0.51 in the year-ago quarter. This was higher by a penny from the Street analysts' expectations.
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: The Charles Schwab Corporation(SCHW)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Tyler Crowe, Tim Brugger, and Jordan Wathen]
With that in mind, we asked three of our contributors to highlight a company they will be following closely in the first quarter and why. Here’s what makes Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE), Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW), and U.S. Silica Holdings (NYSE:SLCA) worth following when the next earnings report comes out.
- [By Dan Caplinger]
Back in 2009, Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) fired the first shot in the battle of the brokerage companies when it introduced commission-free ETFs to investors. The move ignited a movement among brokers to come up with ETF partnerships, some offering their own funds, while others made deals with existing ETF providers to offer their funds at no commission.
- [By Lee Jackson]
Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE: SCHW) had a famous investor selling stock this past week. Chairman Charles Schwab continues to sell stock at an orderly pace. This week the iconic discount brokerage executive sold 600,000 shares at prices between $32.50 and $33.75. The total for the trade came to a whopping $20 million.As we have noted in the past, Schwab is past 80 years old and clearly much of his selling over the years has been for estate planning purposes. The shares traded Friday at $35.25, so a fair amount left on the table.
- [By Todd Shriber, ETF Professor]
Vanguard's latest fee cuts answer two such moves this year, including one this month, by rival BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) and one fee reduction announcement by Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE: SCHW).
- [By Lee Jackson]
Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE: SCHW) also had a famous investor selling stock this past week. The chairman of the company, Charles Schwab, continues to sell stock at an orderly pace. This week the iconic discount brokerage executive and the CEO of the company combined to sell a block of 400,000 shares at prices between $35.43 and $35.46. The total for the trades came to a whopping $14 million.As we have noted in the past, Mr. Schwab is past 80 years old, and clearly much of his selling over the years has been for estate planning purposes. The shares endedFriday at $37.48 so a fair amount left on the table.
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.(OHI)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By WWW.MONEYSHOW.COM]
Or, consider Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI). The Maryland-based company invests heavily in hospital properties and health care facilities, with a special emphasis on nursing facilities.
- [By Paul Ausick]
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc. (NYSE: OHI) dropped about 2.6% Monday to post a new 52-week low of $26.43 after closing at $27.14 on Friday. The 52-week high is $35.14. Volume was around 5.3 million, more than double the daily average of around 2.3 million. The healthcare REIT had now specific news.
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Fortive Corporation (FTV)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Jon C. Ogg]
Fortive Corp. (NYSE: FTV) was started as Sector Perform at RBC Capital Markets.
Herman Miller Inc. (NASDAQ: MLHR) was raised to Market Perform from Underperform at Raymond James.
- [By Ben Levisohn]
Last year at this time, we said we can only hope for a bit more growth, and at least bottoming for many of those stubborn energy/commodity/industrial end markets, less FX headwind, pricing support and cost reduction plus smart capital deployment, be it M&A, Capex, and/or buybacks/dividends that might actually lead to stock outperformance. In fact, we did get a bit more growth and many of the stubborn end markets appear to have bottomed, while most of those other items also did play out. The stocks under our coverage outperformed the S&P (which was up >10% itself) by more than 14% on average, led byIngersoll-Rand (+37%),Rockwell Automation (+31%),Eaton (+30%) and Fortive (FTV) (+26%) with Allegion (ALLE) (-2%) andGeneral Electric (+2%) the worst performing.
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Vascular Biogenics Ltd.(VBLT)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Shares of Vascular Biogenics Ltd (NASDAQ: VBLT) were down 20 percent to $7.22. VBL Therapeutics reported pricing of 2.5 million share common stock offering for $18.75 million.
- [By Lisa Levin]
Shares of Vascular Biogenics Ltd (NASDAQ: VBLT) were down 17 percent to $7.43. VBL Therapeutics reported pricing of 2.5 million share common stock offering for $18.75 million.
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: TherapeuticsMD, Inc.(TXMD)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By WWW.THESTREET.COM]
On the show’s “Lightning Round” segment, Jim Cramer was bullish on Penn National Gaming (PENN) , KeyCorp (KEY) and TherapeuticsMD (TXMD) .
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Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: (MALRF)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]
The other producing lithium miners, and soon to be producers. I have discussed these previously in detail here, here and here. Needless to say, the top 3 producers are non-pure plays (SQM (NYSE:SQM), Albemarle (NYSE:ALB), and FMC Corp. (NYSE:FMC)). The top pure play currently producing miners are Orocobre (ASX:ORE) (OTCPK:OROCF), Tianqi Lithium (SHE:002466), Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium, Galaxy Resources, Mineral Resources [ASX:MIN] (OTC:MALRF), and Neometals [ASX:NMT] (OTC:RRSSF). The near-term producers include Altura Mining [ASX:AJM] (OTCPK:ALTAF), Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) (OTC:PILBF), Kidman Resources (ASX:KDR), Critical Elements, Nemaska Lithium (OTCQX:NMKEF) [TSX:NMX], Lithium Americas (OTCQX:LACDF) [TSX:LAC], Lithium X (OTCQX:LIXXF) (TSXV:LIX), Neo Lithium, and Bacanora Minerals (OTC:BCRMF) [TSXV:BCN], Advantage Lithium (OTCQB:AVLIF) [AAL], European Metals (OTCPK:MNTCF, ASX:EMH, AIM:EMH) and Pure Energy (OTCQB:PEMIF) [PE].
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: Coach, Inc.(COH)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Ben Levisohn]
…formal language on deal prospects articulates process is proceeding in a timely manner with no definitive timetable and no assurance that process will result in a transaction. We still expect a deal to happen, but do lower our probability from 80% to 70% given the likelihood that potential buyer(s) and KATE have not agreed on a clearing price in earlier rounds of negotiation. We believe a bidder such as Coach (COH) does not want to overpay, is disciplined about managing ROIC, and returns and synergies split may be more rational at an offer price in the range of $22-25. We continue to believe KATE has a long global growth runway ahead with opportunities for store growth abroad, further expansion into non-handbag categories, and supply + digital synergy potential…We rate KATE Market Perform and lower our price target to $21 (was $27). Our updated valuation is based on ~10x our FY18E adj. EBITDA or $284mm.
- [By Lisa Levin]
Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Thursday’s regular session.
- [By Ben Levisohn]
Kate Spade (KATE) caught a bounce on Wednesday when the Wall Street Journalreported that it was actively seeking a buyer. Since then, we’ve learned that the fashion accessories retailer looks set to auction itself off to the highest bidder, with the process potentially beginning next month, with bidders potentially including Coach (COH) and Michael Kors (KORS). In a note today, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analystPamela Quintiliano and team contend that Kate Spade could fetch as much as $23 a share:
Top 10 Casino Stocks To Own Right Now: InnerWorkings, Inc.(INWK)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Tom Gentile]
Now as you can see – and as I mentioned earlier – there’s one that outperforms the others: InnerWorkings Inc. (Nasdaq: INWK):
INWK is a top marketing firm that services a wide range of Fortune 500 media companies as well as retail, financial, hospitality, automotive, healthcare, and others. It met earnings expectations for the first quarter and fell just short of revenue expectations. Despite that, it’s been steadily climbing:
