Tag: Stocks

Who’s the biggest winner in the stock market this century? Amazon maybe? Or perhaps Apple? Up 2,300 percent and 5,300 since January 2000, respectively, they’re both good guesses.

It turns out, though, that they’re not even close to the actual No. 1 stock in that period — Monster Beverage. That’s right, the energy-drink company with the black and neon green label has dominated all other stocks in the S&P 500 index, returning almost 60,000 percent over the period.

But now it’s running into serious headwinds — the stock dropped about 18 percent in the past few weeks — as new competitors enter

Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) engages in the mining of mineral properties in the United States, Indonesia, Peru, and Chile. The company primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, and other metals, as well as oil and gas.

In January I talked about how the Smart Money was betting on FCX to the upside.

Well, the Smart Money thinks earnings, although bad will be better than expected. But more importantly, the Smart Money is expecting some type of resolution / agreement between the US and China on tariffs because I noticed some unusual options activity in the March $13 strike call options.

Price actually hit

In 2018, shares of Tilray, went from $17 per share in July to just over $300 in August, an increase of more than 600%.  With a market cap at that reached over $10 billion, but with only sales of $28 million short sellers saw an opportunity.

Short interest on the stock spiked to about 3.5 million shares, approximately a third of the company’s overall float.  Many short sellers got burned on the way up, but the lucky few made a killing on the way down.

Because Tilray isn’t producing much cannabis now and its peak annual output is nothing to write home

One of the major themes going into the 2020 presidential, at least by the Democrats will be the “Medicare for All” proposals. For example, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is calling for government-run health care as a way of covering more people.  He’s even signaling out companies like UnitedHealth.

And last week, Sanders specifically called out UnitedHealth, saying in an April 12 tweet “your greed is going to end.”

UnitedHealth is one of the largest health-insurance providers services roughly 50 million people with revenue of $226.2 billion last year. It also operates physician practices, sells consulting and data services, and administers drug

Marathon Oil Corporation operates as an energy company in the United States, Equatorial Guinea, the United Kingdom, and Libya. The company engages in the exploration, production, and marketing of crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids, and natural gas.

Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) is among the leaders in the Eagle Ford Shale. The company pumped 107,000 BOE per day from the region during the fourth quarter of 2018. Marathon’s focus in recent years has been on improving its drilling efficiency. That was on full display last year as its oil output in the Eagle Ford rose 7% even though it bought