Image source: Getty Images It’s been a volatile year in stock markets around the world. From tariff scares through to monetary policy shifts, investors have been left trying to dodge market corrections and carefully navigate which stocks to buy and which to avoid. But if an investor had decided to park £10k in a tracker fund of either the FTSE 100 or the US stock market, which one would have paid off better? A tight result So far this year, the FTSE 100 is up 17.3%. By comparison, the S&P 500 is up 16.2%. Even though some might be surprised,…
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Image source: Getty Images Strix Group (LSE:KETL) is a penny share trading for just over 34p. Yet incredibly, it was changing hands for nearly 400p a little over four years ago. So the stock’s down 91%! Despite this painful value destruction, one broker reckons the selling’s gone too far. On 28 November, German bank Berenberg gave the penny stock a 75p price target. While that was lower than its previous 85p target, it’s still roughly 117% higher than the current level. Indeed, were it to come to fruition, buying Strix stock today could turn £5,000 into almost £11,000 over the…
Image source: Getty Images Premium content from Motley Fool Share Advisor UK Our monthly Fire Best Buys Now are designed to highlight our team’s three favourite, most timely Buys from our growing list of growth-focused Fire recommendations, to help Fools build out their portfolios. “Best Buys Now” Pick #1: Nike (NYSE:NKE) Nike is the world’s leading sports shoe and apparel business – though it’s currently facing some near-term challenges. The company, which has faced stiff competition in recent years from smaller competitors, is focused on releasing innovative new products at a faster rate and moving further towards sports and away from…
Image source: Getty Images Would £10,000 invested in Aston Martin (LSE: AML) shares at its IPO have been a good investment? In a word: no. Any money invested in the name behind James Bond’s most famous cars would have been, to put it frankly, a disaster. The stock was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2018 at a share price of £19. The initial valuation of £4.33bn placed it within spitting distance of the FTSE 100. The excitement of the return of one of Britain’s most beloved car brands to a public listing made it one of the biggest…
Image source: Getty Images Airtel Africa‘s (LSE: AAF) the second-best performing stock on the FTSE 100 this year, second only to gold miner Fresnillo. Since last Christmas, it’s up over 200%, meaning a £10,000 investment would have skyrocketed to over £30,100 today. With regular returns like that, an investor could retire early! But aside from a few rare outliers like Rolls-Royce, that kind of growth doesn’t happen often. And it seldom happens consistently for several years in a row. Which has me asking myself: should I buy more Airtel Africa shares, or take profit before an ‘inevitable’ correction? Created on…
The previously buoyant BAE Systems (LSE: BA) share price has tumbled 21% from its 3 October 12-month high of £20.71. I think this has been driven by optimism for an imminent peace deal in Ukraine. However, I believe that despite any such deal, key factors are converging that will drive the stock higher. So, what are these and how high can it go? NATO’s spending spree Investing in defence stocks is not about benefitting from global insecurity in some way – quite the opposite, in fact. If anything, it is part of the process of underwriting peace through deterrence. An…
Image source: Getty Images The Lloyds Banking Group (LSE: LLOY) share price reached 96.94p on 28 November. That’s just 3.06p short of the 100p level investors have been eyeing up for months. I think breaking the pound barrier is probably inevitable — sooner or later. But it’s not that important in itself, even if it could be a stepping stone to better things. We escaped threats of a windfall bank tax in the Autumn Budget. Chancellor Rachel Reeves reportedly considered it, but was reluctant to damage competitiveness and potentially harm our economic recovery. I think it was the right decision…
Image source: Getty Images Prudential’s (LSE: PRU) share price is close to its 13 November 12-month traded high of £11.09. This, though, does not mean no value is left in the stock. There could be lots, or none, but assessing which has little to do with a share’s price. This is just whatever the market will pay at any given moment. Value reflects the true worth of the underlying business’s fundamentals. So, how do these look in Prudential’s case, and what does it mean for the stock’s true value? Core business outlook The Q3 performance update released on 30 October…
This story was originally published by ProPublica, where former Streetsblog reporter Jesse Coburn now works.On its face, the rule proposed in July by the country’s pipeline-safety regulator seemed innocuous. The regulator, a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation called the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, was proposing what looked like minor, bureaucratic changes to its process for issuing regulatory waivers. Between the lines, agency watchers saw a much more consequential effort — one that would curtail the power of agency experts to impose conditions aimed at preventing catastrophic pipeline failures.The rule was signed by Ben Kochman, whom the…
Image source: Getty Images We’re now in the last month of the year. It’s natural to have one eye on 2026, especially when it comes to deciding where the stock market could head. When it comes to stocks for passive income, I think next year could be very important for yields, as I expect the Bank of England base rate to fall. So I turned to my old friend ChatGPT to see if it had any wise words on what to consider. A financial heavyweight The AI bot pointed me towards Legal & General (LSE:LGEN), which it said was a…