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News and research before you hear about it on CNBC and others. Claim your 1-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. Shares of Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) are down over 10% in pre-open Friday after the company reported worse-than-expected Q3 results. Chewy reported EPS of ($0.08), $0.04 worse than the analyst...

Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Janney analyst Tyler Batory raised the fair value target on Toll Bros. (NYSE: TOL) to $91.00 while maintaining a Buy rating. The analyst commented, "We have updated our TOL model for FY 4Q21 earnings and FY22 guidance....

News and research before you hear about it on CNBC and others. Claim your 1-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. KeyBanc analyst John Vihn shares insights from the company’s November cloud instance tracker that showed continued cloud demand. Total instances jumped 6% m/m and 29% y/y, driven by...

News and research before you hear about it on CNBC and others. Claim your 1-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. Susquehanna analyst Christopher Rolland raised the price target on Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ: AVGO) to $650.00 (from $640.00) while maintaining a Positive rating ahead of earnings after the close on Thursday, December 9.

News and research before you hear about it on CNBC and others. Claim your 1-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. Needham & Company analyst Ryan MacDonald lowered the price target on Phreesia Inc. (NYSE: PHR) to $65.00 (from $81.00) while maintaining a Buy rating. The analyst commented, "We reiterate...

Get instant alerts when news breaks on your stocks. Claim your 1-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. Morgan Stanley analyst Simeon Gutman raised the price target on Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) to $560.00 (from $510.00) after the company reported a ~14% EPS beat after SG&A leverage of ~90 bps drove ~5.5% incremental EBIT margins despite a tough compare (lapping ~45 bps of EBIT margin expansion).

Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF), a premier consumer financial services company, made an announcement today, according to which its Board of Directors has increased the company's share repurchase authorization by $1.0 billion. This will bring the amount available to $2.2 billion as the company had $1.2 billion remaining under its prior authorization as of September 30, 2021.

Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Wells Fargo analyst Kate Fitzsimons raised the price target on Academy Sports & Outdoors Inc. (NASDAQ: ASO) to $62.00 (from $55.00) while maintaining a Overweight rating following results. The analyst commented, "Momentum into 2022, cheap stock, remain...

Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Stifel analyst Mark Astrachan raised the price target on Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) to $555.00 (from $550.00) while maintaining a Buy rating. The analyst commented, "Costco reported F1Q22 EPS above consensus reflecting strong sales/comp growth and SG&A...

Get instant alerts when news breaks on your stocks. Claim your 1-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. Wolfe Research analyst Hunter Keay reiterated an Outperform rating and $56.00 price target on Southwest (NYSE: LUV) after attending the company's analyst day where management reduced CASMx guidance for 2022, forward. The...

Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day:. 1. Wall Street looks steady ahead of expected Fed pivot. U.S. stocks futures pointed to a steady open ahead of the Federal Reserve's widely expected Wednesday afternoon announcement of a faster tapering of its bond purchases. Tech stocks once again led Wall Street lower Tuesday, with the Nasdaq dropping another 1.1% after a nearly 1.4% decline Monday. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for the second straight session Tuesday after the government said November producer prices year over year rose at the fastest clip on record. November consumer prices, out last week, showed their biggest year-over-year jump in nearly 40 years.

U.S. stock benchmarks on Wednesday afternoon were pivoting modestly higher as the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, as expected, but quickened the pace of wind-down of its bond-buying program, opening the door to interest-rate increases in the first half of 2022. Projections from the Fed point to three rate increases next year, with the current fed-funds rate at a range between 0% and 0.25%. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will host a news conference at 2:30 p.m. ET to discuss the central bank's updated policy. The move to end the stimulus program sooner than officials planned at their meeting last...

The Federal Reserve took a slightly more hawkish tone than anticipated at its latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting, but that was met with more cheers than jeers Wednesday as the major indexes closed up. As was largely expected, the central bank announced that it would quicken its drawdown of...

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The market may keep rising for another year or more. There are always undervalued stocks. When the market crashes, bargains abound. The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, has been on a tear in recent years, up 21.8% in 2017, 31.5% in 2019, 18.4% in 2020, and 27.2% as of this writing in 2021. (There was one down year, 2018, when the index slipped -- but only by 4.4%.) The S&P 500 averages about 10% annual growth over long periods, so these are clearly bullish years.

Shares of Netflix Inc. (NFLX) advanced 1.18% to $605.04 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index (SPX) rising 1.63% to 4,709.85 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rising 1.08% to 35,927.43. The stock's rise snapped a two-day losing streak. Netflix Inc. closed $95.95 below its 52-week high ($700.99), which the company achieved on November 17th.

The Fed plans to tighten next year. Fed decision-makers now anticipate between one and four rate hikes in 2022. With most decision makers thinking we’ll see 3 hikes in 2022 given high inflation and a relatively tight labor market. The bond market takes a similar view according to the...

Even with the stock market near an all-time high, bargains still abound. These turbocharged stocks are incredibly cheap and ripe for the picking. There is no better vehicle for creating wealth than investing in stocks and no better market for it than U.S. exchanges. The relative transparency, regulatory oversight, high liquidity, and the U.S. dollar being the world's currency all make American markets the most sought-after in the world.