[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Something mildly interesting for investors to digest: in 2025, the UK’s FTSE 100 index is up 18.8%, excluding dividends. Meanwhile, its American cousin, the S&P 500 index, has recorded a 17% gain. Furthermore, the Footsie offers a dividend yield nearing 3.3% a year, further widening the performance gap between these two. Then again, this trend is a fairly recent phenomenon. Over five years, the S&P 500 has surged by 110.5%, versus a more modest gain of 74.1% for the FTSE 100 (both excluding cash dividends). And since the global financial crisis of 2007/09, the US…
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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I’d love to say that Aston Martin (LSE:AML) shares look poised to beat the market, but the data simply doesn’t tell us that. The stock’s down 84% over five years and 39% over one year. But this isn’t a sign of value. It’s just a reflection on the market’s perception of this elite British car maker. Now, I’m a huge fan of the brand. And I’d love to see the company reach some form of sustainability. It could happen, of course. However, the market’s been waiting for years to see this iconic company turn its…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images. Shareholders in Lloyds Banking Group (LSE: LLOY) have had a good run since 2020/21’s Covid-19 crisis. The Lloyds share price has soared over five years, as higher interest rates have turbo-charged British banks’ profits. Lloyds leaps As I write, Lloyds shares trade at 87.36p, valuing the Black Horse bank at £51.7bn. This places it fourteenth among the FTSE 100‘s largest companies by market value. However, the shares are roughly where they were in mid-2015, over 10 years ago. This Footsie stock is up 19.8% over six months and has leapt 60% in 2025. Furthermore, it…
[ad_1] The FTSE 100‘s awash with great investment opportunities. But they’re not always such brillian opportunities for the same reasons in each case. Auto Trader (LSE:AUTO) doesn’t always come up on my radar because it isn’t clearly undervalued. In fact, none of the valuation metrics scream undervalued to me. It trades at 23 times forward earnings but is ‘only’ expected to deliver 12.5% and 10% earnings growth in 2025 and 2026. This gives us a price-to-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 2.2. Those of you familiar with this ratio — calculated by dividing the forward price-to-earnings ratio (23) by the average expected…
[ad_1] Image source: Sam Robson, The Motley Fool UK When thinking of volatile electric vehicle share prices, Tesla may immediately spring to mind. But NIO (NYSE: NIO) fits the mould too. So far in 2025, NIO stock has soared 61%. Still, that leaves it 89% below its peak back in 2021. So, given the recent strong positive momentum combined with the low price compared to 2021, could it make sense for me to buy some NIO stock now for my portfolio? Thinking about shares in the right way! While the shares currently costs less than a tenth of the price…
[ad_1] Image source: Rolls-Royce plc It has been a phenomenal few years for shareholders in Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR). Back in 2022, Rolls-Royce shares were still selling for pennies apiece. The share price is now north of £11. Undoubtedly, Rolls-Royce has been one of the most compelling FTSE 100 investment stories of recent years. But what might the coming years hold? Slowing momentum? Rolls-Royce shares have been on a fairly consistent upwards march over the past few years. But there have been a couple of bumps. One was a sharp reversal this spring, when concerns about the potential impacts of US…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images The FTSE 100 contains some elite global businesses and Experian (LSE:EXPN) might just be the best of them. The catch for investors is that the share price usually reflects this. But earlier this month, the stock fell almost 6% on news of a potential threat to its business model. It didn’t last long though, so have I missed my buying opportunity? What happened? As a credit bureau, Experian collects and stores huge amounts of data about potential borrowers. When lenders want to assess risk, they ask the company for a credit score. It generates this…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Some say the Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) share price defies rational explanation. And some say the same applies to charismatic CEO Elon Musk himself. What if the two were to part? A share price slump could be on the cards. Ahead of the company’s annual meeting on 6 November, Tesla chair Robyn Denholm warned shareholders Musk could leave if they don’t approve his bumper potential payday. It would grant Musk stock options tied to challenging targets — including a market cap of $8.5trn. Denholm suggests Musk, who many consider essential to Tesla’s hopes, needs to be…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been on a tear. Apple stock recently hit a new all-time high, after growing 147% over the past five years. But, now selling for 41 times earnings, the share certainly does not look cheap to me. Could it be headed for a fall? Or might there be more value here that means I ought to add the tech giant back into my portfolio ahead of this week’s upcoming quarterly results? Proven business, long runway As a business, there is a lot to like about Apple. It operates in markets that are…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images What FTSE 100 stocks might benefit from the gold boom? The gold price is undoubtedly on the up. The price has risen around 50% in the last year. Trillions of dollars in value has been added. There are many who look at macroeconomic conditions and believe that gold will continue rising over the coming years and decades. The UK and specifically the FTSE 100 contains many stocks that might benefit from this trend, too. Here is the lowdown on what might happen, along with what might the best stocks to benefit. Optimism? The primary reason…