The author is the financial editor at Finixio, the publisher of buyshares.co.uk, stockapps.com, learnbonds.com and insidebitcoins.com. Gary was the cryptocurrency analyst at the UK's second-largest investment platform, interactive investor, from 2017 to August 2020. Gary is the winner of the Best Cryptocurrency Writer 2018 ADVFN International Awards
It is time for investors to take the prospect of higher inflation seriously and with that in mind we select US drug company Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) as one of our stock picks this week. Inflation is something investors haven’t had to worry about for a while and might be forgiven for thinking the current chatter […]
Luxury car maker Daimler reported an explosion in sales and earnings for the first quarter as demand picks up strongly for its cars and vans. Earnings per share leapt 4,355%, from €0.09 in Q1 2020 to €4.01 and the company expects sales margins to increase for the first time since it sold off Chrysler back […]
Sitting in the basic materials sector, Swiss-based Ferrexpo, as its name suggests, is in the iron ore business. It makes iron pellets for the metallurgical industry – the pellets are consumed by blast furnaces. With resources stocks continuing to outperform on hopes of the recovery in industrial production spreading out from China to the rest […]
Computer-vision chip designer Ambarella (AMBA) may be a niche player in the chip sector, with a market cap of $3.6 billion, but it imminently threatens to become a much more significant player. Growth companies promising jam tomorrow are a tiresome facet of stock research, but in the case of Ambarella there is evidence of future […]
Croda International (CRDA), the UK chemicals company, sounds like a dusty industrial stock – not very exciting but a steady earner and payer of dividends. Well Croda certainly pays a dividend, although with a lowly yield of 1.7% and its earnings are consistent and predictable, and have been on an upward growth curve for the […]
Fevertree (FEVR), the spirits and drinks mixer company that was once a darling of the London stock market, could be the perfect reopening stock. That might strike some as odd given that Fevertree was also touted as something of a stay-at-home stock too. However, one of the side effects of us all being at home […]
Audioboom (BOOM) is an underappreciated stock trading on the LSE’s Alternative Investment Market since 2014, and is one of the largest podcast platforms in the industry. That lack of appreciation is perhaps for understandable reasons, because the company has never made a profit. But the outlook is such that the perennial disappointments on that front […]
Trip.com, China’s largest online travel agency, produced results roughly in line with analyst estimates at the beginning of March, but investors should look past the predictable 2020 losses to the solid growth prospects for this recovery stock. The Covid pandemic has of course been intensely damaging to the businesses of travel companies, so the EPS […]
US mailing and shipping solutions company Stamps.com (SMTP) reported stellar earnings in mid February but the shares nevertheless fell a whopping 19%. Adjusted fourth-quarter earnings per share came in at $4.13, almost double analyst forecasts of $2.62. Indeed, whichever valuation metric you choose to measure the firm on, it is among the best performers in […]
