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During times of turbulence and uncertainty in the markets, many investors turn to dividend-yielding stocks. These are often companies that have high free cash flows and reward shareholders with a high dividend payout. Benzinga readers can review the latest analyst takes on their favorite stocks by...

SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ:SNDK) began life as a public company as an afterthought — a storage spinoff few investors wanted. Sixteen months later it is one of the market’s most explosive momentum trades and the analysts covering it keep raising the bar. The stock is up over 5,000% since it split...

Just one trading day after BTIG flagged that history was stacked against Nasdaq bulls, the index made good on that prediction — breaking below its Friday intraday low before Tuesday’s session was even half over. The Nasdaq Composite sliced through the 25,648.47 intraday floor set during...

Amid a two-day pullback in the tech sector, Aptus Capital Advisors is urging investors to capitalize on market weakness by aggressively buying premier mega-cap tech stocks. The Mega-Cap Tech Play David Wagner, head of equities portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors, emphasized that the recent...

A selloff in high-flying chipmakers split Wall Street on Thursday, with Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO)‘s disappointing AI-revenue forecast testing the artificial-intelligence trade that has carried equities to records. The Nasdaq 100 slipped while the Dow Jones rallied more than 800 points on...

Enterprise software stocks began the year with a brutal selloff, suffering their worst quarter since the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008. The sector — as tracked by the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (CBOE: IGV) — was down almost 25%, and ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW) had slumped 32%. The...

If you thought semiconductors like Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) and Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) were the only game in town for the AI rally, think again. A new wave of outperformance is hitting the AI cloud layer, and it just produced one of the most violent single-day moves the software sector...

Meta (NASDAQ:META) delivered a Q1 result that most managers would frame and hang on the wall. Revenue surged 33% year-over-year, passing $56 billion. Gross margins held at nearly 82%, while average revenue per user climbed 28.2% to hit $15.82. Everything pointed to the continuation of the...

Four of the most heavily traded AI semiconductor stocks just hit “extreme exhaustion” readings on a composite technical model that has historically preceded sharp reversals. Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) and...

Shares of Bloom Energy Corp. (NYSE:BE) have massively outperformed the traditional mega-caps, making it this analyst’s top pick, as grid constraints turn power generation into the AI economy’s most critical bottleneck. Solving AI’s Greatest Bottleneck While the market has fixated...

The 2020s might enter the history books as an era where the market skipped the stairs and kept taking the elevator either way. The recent surge since the beginning of Q2 is the best example. According to BullTheory, U.S. equities added nearly $10 trillion in market capitalization in just 39 trading...

CNBC host Jim Cramer may have called the turn before the tape confirmed it.  "Be careful; smell the reversal day," he posted Tuesday morning, and by midday the AI trade was flashing red across semiconductors, server names, software and tech-heavy ETFs. Be careful; smell the reversal day pic....

A sharp selloff hit U.S. semiconductor stocks and high-flying memory names on Tuesday, with shares of SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ:SNDK) and Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) plunging double digits. The slump came after a top South Korean official floated a proposal to redistribute the AI profits of...

Despite growing fears of an overheated tech sector, tech analyst Daniel Newman argues that the artificial intelligence (AI) market rally is barely underway, citing undervalued stocks like Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) as evidence that everyday investors haven’t missed the boat. The AI...

Every generation of investors finds a stock that is easy to buy and hard to sell. Decades ago, portfolio managers said that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Nowadays, no stock is as close to that position as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE:TSM). According to Copley Fund...