The seven largest stocks in the S&P 500 are igniting a remarkable rally, delivering a combined 92% return.
Expectations that the Magnificent 7 global technology companies will increase earnings due to the use of artificial intelligence are very significant to U.S. stock investors.
Due to their disproportionate weight in the index, the so-called 'Magnificent Seven' stocks—Apple Inc. (AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), Tesla, Inc. (TSLA), and Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)—have experienced significant rallies that have driven nearly all of the S&P 500's 12% year-over-year gain. The remaining 493 companies, on the other hand, have only grown by 5%, indicating a markedly unbalanced market.
This quarter, the AI-driven stock market boom was starting to weaken until Nvidia Corp.'s spectacular earnings reestablished the market. Early in September, Nvidia's stock price was close to all-time highs as data centre operators stocked up on the company's processors to handle the intensive workloads demanded by AI.
The S&P 500 is up around 12.5% in 2023, which is a notable recovery from the lows of 2022. Although this performance is excellent, recent research by stock market experts highlighted some rally-related concerns.
The Magnificent 7 Total Returns Index has surged by 93% in 2023, thanks to record earnings, and valuations are in line with their five-year averages.
Among the notable companies, Amazon, Tesla, Nvidia, and Alphabet all have price-to-forward-earnings ratios that are below their five-year averages when compared to the performance and values of the Magnificent 7 index. After experiencing a record-breaking stock decline last year, Meta is now back on track. Notably, Nvidia's stock is trading at a level two standard deviations below its typical valuation, as indicated by PEG ratios, while Microsoft is trading one standard deviation below. PEG ratios take long-term earnings growth projections into account.
The US economy is still expanding, and the S&P 500 index, which gauges the performance of US blue-chip stocks and serves as a benchmark for investors worldwide, has increased by more than 14% this year.
Since the 1970s, the S&P 500 index's performance has never been more concentrated. Seven of the largest components have surged higher this year, increasing by between 40% and 180%: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla, and Meta. Overall, the remaining 493 companies are stable. The index is completely dominated by large tech corporations. Almost a quarter of the market capitalization of the entire index is comprised of just five of those seven stocks. Apple alone is valued at $2.9 trillion, which is more than the top 100 UK-listed companies combined.
The chipmaker Nvidia has increased its market capitalization by $640 billion just this year by riding the wave of investor interest in artificial intelligence and ripping up its own revenue guidance for the upcoming quarters in favour of more optimistic predictions. The combined market value of the two largest US banks, JPMorgan and Bank of America, is virtually equal to that amount.
Sameer Samana, senior global market analyst at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute (WFII), said of the Magnificent Seven, "Everybody knows these individuals are going to make money." The only question is: How fast is that earnings growth, and have investors overpaid for it?"
In June, the Wells Fargo Investment Institute lowered the rating of the technology industry, which includes Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia, to "neutral" from "favourable."
Results from Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, are anticipated for the next week, while Apple and Nvidia will publish their results the following month.
Tajinder Dhillon, senior research analyst at LSEG, predicts that the S&P 500 as a whole will experience a 2.3% fall in 2023, compared to a 32.8% profit increase for the megacap businesses.
The steady rise in interest rates and Treasury yields, which has been fueled by a combination of Federal Reserve hawkishness in the face of a robust economy and concerns over the U.S. fiscal picture, complicates the outlook.
More positive is Goldman Sachs. This month, it raised its prediction for the S&P 500's end-of-year level, predicting that it would hit 4,500, a rise of 12.5% from its prior prediction and roughly 3% higher than where it was on Wednesday afternoon. If the bank is correct, this will be one of the index's best years in the past 20 years.
Investors attention will be focused on big tech earnings in the upcoming week as Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta (META), and Microsoft (MSFT) are scheduled to release their earnings reports.
Earnings Date: 24 October, 2023 (Tuesday)
Earnings Date: 24 October, 2023 (Tuesday)
Earnings Date: 25 October, 2023 (Wednesday)
Earnings Date: 26 October, 2023 (Thursday)
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Nvidia's stock is one of the best tech stocks to invest in this year.
Nvidia Corporation (NVDA) is one of the few tech stocks that is still trading near its all-time highs.
Nvidia Corporation maintains a robust balance sheet, positive cash flow creation, and an appealing long-term growth story. Despite macroeconomic challenges, this company's robust balance sheet and excellent profit margins are an obvious plus.
Nvidia has demonstrated an ability to sustain significant secular growth while retaining substantial profit margins during cyclical troughs in recent years.
Nvidia's stock soared about 95% in 2023, with its rising position in AI making it a more appealing purchase. The release of OpenAI's ChatGPT last November sparked an AI arms race in which many businesses rushed to join the market, hoping to gain a piece of the $208 billion pie. Given that the industry is expected to reach approximately 800% to $2 trillion by 2030, it's no wonder that so many tech companies have shifted their focus to AI development. Meanwhile, because of its profitable semiconductor business, Nvidia is in a good position to earn considerably from that expansion.
Nvidia's stock has risen as a result of its powerful CPUs, which have become the standard for building AI software. The firm is ChatGPT's major provider of graphics processing units (GPUs), which used around 20,000 units in 2020. Meanwhile, TrendForce data suggests that figure might soon climb to 30,000 as the platform prepares for commercialization. As a result, Nvidia's income might skyrocket as demand for its GPUs surges.
The capacity of Nvidia to offer GPUs to the whole market makes its stock more appealing. The company's potential is demonstrated by its price/earnings-to-growth ratio of 0.4, indicating that its expected stock growth has not yet been factored into its shares.
According to financial analysts, Nvidia Corp. is one of the companies expected to become the next Apple (AAPL) in terms of tremendous growth in 2023.
Nvidia was named a "top pick" by Evercore analysts in a client note on May 1. Analysts at Rosenblatt Securities also listed Nvidia as one of seven semiconductor firms that might profit from increased technology expenditure on artificial intelligence (AI).
On May 1, IBD selected Nvidia as its Stock of the Day as the chipmaker broke through. Investors may exploit the current Nvidia breakout to initiate a modest trade or increase an existing one. However, the current market trend calls for caution while investing.
The chip stock has been named to the renowned IBD Leaderboard. Nvidia shares reached the 20% profit-taking target from a prior breakthrough in April. As it happens, over the past three months, 46 Wall Street analysts have provided their ratings on Nvidia's stock, with 31 advocating a 'strong buy,' 3 recommending a 'buy," and 12 suggesting a 'hold,' whereas there were no supporters for either 'sell' or 'strong sell,' as per data retrieved by Finbold on May 2.
On November 16, 2022, Nvidia and Microsoft announced a multi-year partnership to create one of the most potent AI supercomputers in the world. This supercomputer will be equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, networking, and the full stack of AI software to enable enterprises to train, deploy, and scale AI, including large, cutting-edge models. With hundreds of NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs, NVIDIA Quantum-2 400Gb/s InfiniBand networking, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite added to its platform, it is the first public cloud to use NVIDIA's cutting-edge AI stack. Read here.
The AI-optimised virtual machine instances on Microsoft Azure are built with NVIDIA's most sophisticated data centre GPUs and are the first public cloud instances to have NVIDIA Quantum-2 400 GB/s InfiniBand networking. Customers may use hundreds of GPUs in a single cluster to train even the largest language models, develop the most sophisticated recommender systems at scale, and allow creative AI at scale.The NVIDIA H100 Transformer Engine will be utilised by Microsoft DeepSpeed to speed transformer-based models used for huge language models, generative AI, and producing computer code, among other things. DeepSpeed's 8-bit floating point accuracy capabilities are used in this technology to substantially expedite AI computations for transformers — at double the throughput of 16-bit operations.
Microsoft and NVIDIA announced a 10-year cooperation on February 21, 2023, to deliver Xbox PC titles to the NVIDIA® GeForce NOWTM cloud gaming service, which has over 25 million subscribers in over 100 countries. Read here.
Gamers will be able to stream Xbox PC titles from GeForce NOW to PCs, macOS, Chromebooks, cellphones, and other devices as part of the arrangement. After Microsoft's acquisition of Activision is complete, it will also allow Activision Blizzard PC titles such as Call of Duty to be broadcast on GeForce NOW.
The collaboration gives players more options and addresses NVIDIA's worries about Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. As a result, NVIDIA is pledging its full support for the acquisition's regulatory clearance.
The fabless chipmaker pioneered graphics processing units, or GPUs, to improve the realism of video games. It is becoming more prevalent in AI processors, which are utilised in supercomputers, data centres, and medicine discovery. Nvidia's GPUs serve as accelerators for other firms' central processing units, or CPUs. Nvidia processors are also employed in Bitcoin mining and self-driving electric automobiles. Nvidia has also made a significant investment in metaverse applications.
Microsoft and AMD recently announced a collaboration to build new AI hardware that might dethrone Nvidia as the market leader. This collaboration intends to develop hardware that will bring powerful artificial intelligence capabilities to personal PCs and data centres, with the objective of offering more efficient and cost-effective AI workload solutions.
The move represents a substantial market change and might pose a big challenge to Nvidia's existing supremacy in the AI hardware field.
According to a Bloomberg report, Microsoft is assisting AMD in the creation of its proprietary AI processors, known as Athena, as the two companies team up to challenge Nvidia's 80% market dominance.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now providing clients with on-demand access to up to 20,000 Nvidia Hopper H100 GPUs for their AI processing needs, allowing them to construct and train large language models (LLMs) and generate generative AI apps. Meanwhile, Microsoft has already deployed thousands of Nvidia GPUs to support ChatGPT, and more may be deployed when generative AI is integrated into other services.
Citigroup estimates that ChatGPT will generate between $3 billion and $12 billion in revenue for Nvidia over a 12-month period. Even at the lower end of Citi's prediction, it would be considerable given the revenue earned by Nvidia's data centre division last fiscal year. However, Microsoft isn't the only company using Nvidia's GPUs for generative AI, so it's not unexpected to see this technology shift the needle for the chipmaker and drive the growth of its data centre business.
(Reuters) - The United States implemented microchip export curbs last year to halt China's development of supercomputers needed to create nuclear weapons and artificial-intelligence systems such as ChatGPT, but the consequences for China's tech industry have been negligible.
Shipments of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. processors, which have become the worldwide technology industry's standard for building chatbots and other AI systems, were prohibited.
However, Nvidia has developed processors for the Chinese market that are slowed down to comply with US regulations. According to industry analysts, the latest one, the Nvidia H800, unveiled in March, would likely take 10% to 30% longer to perform various AI jobs and potentially quadruple some prices when compared to Nvidia's fastest U.S. processors.
Even the slower Nvidia processors are an upgrade for Chinese companies. Tencent Holdings, one of China's leading internet businesses, predicted in April that systems based on Nvidia's H800 would reduce the time required to train its largest AI system by more than half, from 11 days to four days.
According to financial data firm S3 Partners, short sellers in Nvidia Corp. have lost $5.09 billion this year while the stock has risen more than 90%. According to the report, Apple short sellers have lost $4.47 billion so far in 2023, while the stock has increased approximately 30% in that time. Tesla short sellers have lost $3.65 billion this year, while the stock has risen approximately 33%.
For the year to date, short interest in Nvidia has decreased by 7.04 million shares, or 18%. According to the business, short interest is at 1.32% of the float, the lowest level since October 2022.
Nvidia remained the top choice of analysts due to its AI prospects. Nvidia is constantly one to watch as a top chip manufacturer with exposure to high-end markets.
On May 24, 2023, following market close, NVIDIA Corporation is anticipated to release earnings. The report will cover the fiscal quarter that ends in April 2023. According to Zacks Investment Research, the average EPS expectation for the quarter is $0.61 and is based on 12 analysts' predictions. During the same period last year, the reported EPS was $1.18.
How to Invest in a Bear Market
According to the analytics platform GlobalData, the value of the US stock market will fall by $7 trillion by 2022.
It's understandable to be anxious in such market conditions. However, selling assets when their values are at or near rock bottom is almost never a good idea. It is also not the time to go on a buying frenzy in the hopes that prices will rise in the near future.
Short-term uncertainty that is expected to grow over time causes volatile markets. Selling into those markets may imply that you are acting on information that is not in line with your long-term investing objectives, says Colleen Cunniffe of the Vanguard fixed-income group.
When it comes to handling a down market, here's what experts recommend.
Avoid pulling your money out
Invest based on your own needs
Understand the risks of investing in a down market
Take advantage of sound opportunities
Focus on the long-term
Staying invested during stock market downturns may provide better long-term returns than attempting to time market entry and exits.
Despite poor stock market returns for investors this year and continuous recession forecasts, most wealth management teams have consistently advised their clients to stay invested in stocks and weather the storm. Based on historical evidence, they believe that staying involved during stock market downturns can result in higher long-term returns than attempting to time market entry and exits.
This year's stock market has had one of the worst starts in history, The Nasdaq Composite is still in a bear market, down 28.5 percent year to date, and the S&P 500 down more than 20% year to date. Many investors have been left wondering when they would be able to buy the dip. As the second quarter comes to a close on Thursday, investors are still looking for the bottom of a ferocious market sell-off. Concerns about a weakening economy and rapid rate of inflation absorbed much of the first half of 2022, and recession concerns are mounting.
On Wednesday, US equities traded volatile intraday as investors remained concerned about rising indicators of a slowdown in US economic growth. Wednesday's changes followed sharp losses for the main averages the day before. On Tuesday, the Dow fell more than 1.5 percent, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite fell 2% and 3%, respectively. The benchmarks all began the morning with robust gains, but poor consumer confidence data halted those gains and sent markets plunging.
The S&P 500 fell in volatile trade, extending losses from the previous day's 2% drop.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained on Wednesday, after the previous session's unsuccessful attempt at a recovery.
The Dow Jones 30-stock index rose around 0.4 percent. The Nasdaq Composite, which is heavily weighted toward technology, was down around 0.1 percent.
The Dow and S&P 500's biggest gainers were technology firms. Amazon gained 2.2 percent after JPMorgan confirmed its overweight recommendation and Redburn began it at a buy. Meta Platforms, Apple, and Microsoft were all up approximately 2%.
On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester stated that if economic circumstances remain unchanged by July, she will push for a 75 basis point increase in interest rates at the central bank's July meeting. "I haven't seen the type of figures on the inflation side that I need to see to think we can go back to a 50 percent rise," she told CNBC.
Lisa Shalett, chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, feels equities have more room to fall since many corporations have yet to revise their profit predictions following the Federal Reserve's decision to accelerate interest rate rises earlier this month. The Fed essentially raises the cost of borrowing across the economy, by raising the interest rates, which should lead to a decline in earnings.
She also advised investors to use maximum asset class diversity, a classic defensive investing technique, to protect investment portfolios. She advised investors to focus on investment grade bonds and cyclical industries such as small and midcap stocks in biotech, financials, energy, and industrials to outperform the S&P 500 through the end of the year.
10 Dividend Stocks to Buy in 2022
There are several advantages to investing in dividend-paying firms, especially if you want to do so for the long run. Aside from generating constant income, many dividend-paying companies are in conservative industries that can weather economic downturns with less volatility. Dividend-paying corporations frequently have significant amounts of cash and are thus strong companies with excellent long-term success prospects.
The consistency of dividends is a major factor to consider when buying shares. Not every company must produce a dividend, but a consistent, predictable income stream adds good ballast to the return of a portfolio. Dividend is a periodic payment made from a company's earnings and given to a subset of its shareholders.
When attempting to uncover stocks that pay large dividends, investors may employ a metric known as dividend yield. The dividend yield is a percentage-based financial measure that illustrates how much a firm pays out in dividends each year in relation to its stock price. A dividend yield is computed by dividing the yearly dividend per share by the share price.
I've discovered ten great dividend stocks to consider in 2022. The stocks are as follows:
Citigroup (C)
Citigroup is a financial services business based in the United States. It is one of the four major banks in the United States, along with JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, and has a 4% domestic deposit market share. Citigroup pays quarterly dividends and will pay out a total of $2.04 per share in 2021. At the current share price, this equates to a 3.2 percent yield. This is the greatest rate of return among the Big Four US banks. Earnings per share were $10.14 in 2021, resulting in a strong dividend coverage ratio of 5.0. Citigroup will also return $7.6 billion to shareholders through share buybacks in 2021. For the year, the total capital return to shareholders was $11.8 billion. Buybacks should assist in enhancing earnings per share in the future.
Citigroup now trades at roughly 80% of its tangible book value (TBV), or what the business would be worth if it were liquidated. In comparison to its Big Four counterparts, this is a low valuation. If the firm can demonstrate that it is carrying out its transformation goals, its value may grow.
Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (STWD)
Starwood Property Trust is a diversified finance business principally focusing on the real estate and infrastructure industries. The company's investment portfolio comprises commercial mortgage loans, commercial MBS, and other commercial real estate-related debt. It also invests in residential mortgage loans and residential MBS. Commercial first and subordinated mortgages, mezzanine loans, preferred stock, some residential mortgage loans, and other real estate debt investments are all part of the Real Estate Commercial and Residential Lending category. The Real Estate Property division is responsible for acquiring and managing equity interests in stable commercial real estate holdings, such as multi-family complexes, that are held for investment purposes.
Aviva (AV.L)
Aviva is a British financial services firm that offers insurance, savings, and investment products. With a 23 percent share of the UK life and savings market, the firm is the UK's largest insurer. Analysts anticipate Aviva will pay out dividends of 22.2p per share to shareholders in 2021. At the present share price, this corresponds to a yield of somewhat more than 5%. Earnings for 2021 are estimated to be 47.9p, resulting in a dividend coverage ratio of 2.2.
Aviva has taken initiatives in recent years to streamline and improve its company, and this looks to be paying off. In its H1 results, which were released in August 2021, the company reported its highest UK general insurance sales in a decade, record flows in its savings and retirement segment, and a 17 percent increase in adjusted operating profit. The company also stated in its first-quarter results that it plans to return at least £4 billion to shareholders by the end of 2022, beginning with a repurchase of up to £750 million. It's value is still cheap. The stock now has a forward-looking price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of approximately 9.5. This is significantly lower than the FTSE 100 index's median P/E ratio of 16.1.
OneMain Holdings, Inc. (OMF)
OneMain Holdings, Inc. is a consumer finance firm that provides personal loan origination, underwriting, and servicing to non-prime consumers. It operates in the following segments: Consumer & Insurance, and Other. Through its integrated branch network, digital platform, and centralized operations, the Consumer & Insurance business provides service for secured and unsecured personal loans, optional credit and non-credit insurance, and associated products. Other SpringCastle Portfolio activities and non-originating operations are included in the Other section. The firm was created on August 5, 2013, and is based in Evansville, Indiana.
BP (BP.L)
BP is one of the major energy firms in the world. Previously an oil and gas corporation, it is presently converting to a renewable energy enterprise. It intends to become a net-zero firm by 2050. BP has lowered its dividend distribution in recent years in order to increase its renewable energy expenditures, but the stock's yield remains appealing today. Analysts estimate BP will pay total dividends of 21.7 cents per share for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021, which amounts to a yield of roughly 4.1 percent at the current share price and currency rate.
New Residential Investment Corp. (NRZ)
New Residential Investment Corp. is a real estate investment trust that seeks to create long-term value for investors by investing in mortgage-related assets, such as operating companies, that provide good risk-adjusted returns. Origination, Servicing, MSR Related Investments, Residential Securities, Properties, and Loans, Consumer Loans, Mortgage Loans Receivables, and Corporate are its business segments. General and administrative costs, management fees and incentive compensation, corporate cash and related interest income are all included in the Corporate section. The firm was created in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.
Taylor Wimpey (TW.L)
Taylor Wimpey is a major residential property developer in the United Kingdom. The firm, which builds anything from one-bedroom flats to six-bedroom detached houses, built 14,087 homes last year. While Taylor Wimpey suspended dividend payments in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 interruption, the business has restarted payments and appears to be on track to make some cash payouts in the coming years.
Analysts anticipate that the business will pay total dividends of 8.68p per share to shareholders in 2021. At the current share price, this equates to a dividend yield of approximately 5.4 percent.
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY)
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. invests in and finances residential and commercial real estate. It is organized into four investment groups: agency, residential credit, commercial credit, and middle market lending. The agency group invests in mortgage-backed securities issued by government agencies. Residential Credit is a non-agency residential mortgage asset group that includes securitized products and entire loan markets. Commercial mortgages, loans, securities, and other commercial real estate debt and equity investments are all part of the Commercial Real Estate category. The Middle Market Lending division provides funding to middle market enterprises supported by private equity across all capital structures.
Rio Tinto (RIO.L)
Rio Tinto is one of the world's major mining and metals enterprises. It operates in 35 countries and specializes in the manufacturing of iron ore, copper, aluminum, and minerals. Rio has handed out some significant dividends in recent years. Dividends totaled $5.57 per share in 2020 for the company. Analysts predict that the firm will pay out a total of $9.97 in dividends in 2021. At the current share price, this equates to a yield of approximately 13.1 percent. Rio is now benefiting from rising commodity prices. Higher commodity prices have increased revenues, allowing the corporation to pay out a series of special dividends to shareholders.
Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN)
Lumen Technologies is a technology and communications firm that serves people and companies all around the world. It offers an integrated platform that combines network assets, cloud connection, security solutions, and voice and collaboration capabilities to assist organizations in making better use of their data and adopting next-generation technology. In late March, the corporation announced the hiring of Chris Stansbury as chief financial officer (CFO). Stansbury was most recently senior vice president and CFO of Arrow Electronics Inc., where he was in charge of the company's worldwide financial operations.
Tesla intends to split its stock in order to pay a stock dividend to investors.
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla, Inc. the electric vehicle manufacturer will request at its annual shareholders meeting to split its stock so that it may pay a stock dividend to stockholders. For the second time in two years, the corporation is seeking its shareholders' approval to split its stock.
This split would take the form of a dividend, with stockholders receiving more shares. Shareholders would essentially get a special dividend of extra shares for each share they already possess. The majority of dividends are paid in cash to investors. Stock dividends are significantly more similar to stock splits than cash dividends. The electric vehicle manufacturer did not specify how many shares investors would receive. Its previous split in August 2020 awarded stockholders five shares for every share owned.
A stock dividend is a dividend paid to shareholders in the form of extra business shares rather than cash. Dividends have no effect on a company's worth, but they dilute its share price. In other words, if there is a 6-for-1 split, investors will get a stock dividend of five shares for every share of Tesla they own. This would be a one-time occurrence.
The date of this year's shareholders meeting, at which the proposal will be voted on, has yet to be announced. Therefore, the timing of the Tesla split remains unknown. The shareholders' meeting was conducted on October 7 last year.
Stock splits do not have a significant impact on a company's value. However, by lowering the price at which shareholders must pay to purchase a single share, they may actually raise demand and therefore the price. When Tesla announced its first stock split in August 2020, it was a 5 to 1 deal. At this moment, it's unclear what kind of split would be suggested for shareholders. The annual meeting of Tesla is normally held in June.
Tesla's stock rose 12.6 percent on the day that its last five-for-one split went into effect. Since then, the stock has more than doubled in value. However, the split occurred in the midst of Tesla's record run, which saw the stock rise 743 percent in 2020.
“Given how well the stock has performed since the previous split, "given how well the stock has performed since the previous split,” said Dan Ives, a Wedbush Securities tech analyst.
Tesla is still a small company compared to other well-known automakers. However, Tesla's quick development the firm expects yearly sales to soar by 50% or more and the expectation that the company would profit from an industry-wide move away from internal combustion engines and toward electric vehicles have spurred remarkable market value gains. Tesla's stock has risen 1884 percent through Friday's closing since October 2019, when the company went from a string of quarterly losses to an unexpected profit. Tesla is currently worth more than the total market capitalization of the world's top 13 manufacturers.
Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives has approved the fresh split plan. "We regard Tesla's plan to join the likes of Amazon, Google, and Apple in commencing its second stock split in two years as a wise strategic move that will be a positive driver for shares moving ahead," he said.
In theory, a stock split should not cause shares to rise prior to the split because the company's value has not changed. However, there are other hypotheses as to why a stock split could increase its value. For one thing, if the shares were cheaper, more individual investors would be able to purchase and own shares of the stock, broadening the base of ownership.
Another hypothesis is that when a stock divides, such as when Tesla's stock splits, it is more readily added to various indexes such as the S&P 500 or Nasdaq 100, resulting in more shares being acquired by fund managers who model their portfolios on these indexes. Another idea holds that lower share prices enable lower option pricing in the thriving derivatives market, where retail traders and the Wall Street Bets community are active participants.
When stocks split, the markets quickly react, adjusting the stock price so that investors have the same total amount of value despite holding additional shares, each of which is less valuable. However, whether the same holds true for stock dividends is dependent on the market's efficiency. If the market reacts precisely to changes in supply, prices should adjust proportionately, making a stock dividend equivalent to a tiny stock split, with no actual value flowing to investors, unlike a cash dividend. However, if the market reacts differently to a smaller increase in share supply than to a bigger rise in share supply, owners may be better off. It will be interesting to see if these stock dividends genuinely assist investors.
Tesla acknowledged in a tweet earlier Monday that it was seeking authorization from shareholders to split the stock
Netflix's stock plummeted more than 26% after the company announced fourth-quarter 2021 earnings on Jan 20, 2022.
Netflix's stock plummeted more than 26% after the company announced fourth-quarter 2021 earnings on Jan 20, 2022. Earnings per share (EPS) increased by 11.8 percent, exceeding expectations. Analysts predicted that earnings per share would fall 31.2 percent. Netflix's revenue increased 16.0 percent year over year, narrowly matching analyst expectations. The average revenue per subscriber on Netflix was $11.72. Average revenue per user rose year over year in every location where it operates, excluding the effects of currency rates.
It was the weakest quarter of sales growth in the previous four years. Worldwide paid streaming memberships, also known as global paid streaming subscribers, totaled 221.8 million in the third quarter, falling short of experts' estimates. In after-market trade, the company's stock dropped as much as 15%. Over the last year, Netflix's stock has returned 13.1 percent, trailing the S&P 500's 16.4 percent total return.
While the price has subsequently rebounded, the initial decrease appears to be linked to recent management recommendations. In the first quarter, investors can expect lower-than-average subscriber growth.
Investors anticipate a 2.5 million subscriber increase in the first quarter of 2022. Because Netflix typically adds millions more in the first quarter, this was far less than the market anticipated. In the first quarter of the last five years, Netflix has averaged an increase of 8.38 million subscribers. Netflix's estimated audience of 2.5 million is nearly 5.88 million lower than its average.
By combining Netflix's $11.72 average income per user with 5.88 million fewer members, the company will lose $69 million each month in revenue, or $827 million yearly. Netflix's revenue in 2021 was $29.7 billion, thus the gap is merely 2.8 percent. However, because the majority of Netflix's incremental income goes to the bottom line, it becomes more significant. Netflix's net income was $5.1 billion. If you assume that $700 million of the $827 million went to net income, you're looking at a 13.7 percent deficit.
Netflix has a significant degree of leverage in general. Whether it has 100 million or 200 million users, its costs are virtually the same. As a result, the additional subscribers have a greater impact on profitability and cash flow than if the expenses were more variable. The number of subscribers has a significant impact on the stock price.
Netflix's global premium streaming subscriptions increased by 8.9% year over year, the slowest growth rate in at least 14 quarters. The number of worldwide users who have signed up for and paid for a subscription to get streaming services is represented by global paid streaming memberships.
Netflix is also investing in other forms of streaming entertainment, such as video games. Members may access games from within the Netflix mobile app, according to the business, which launched its mobile games on Android and iOS in November. In 2022, it intends to keep extending its gaming portfolio.
Netflix's strategy includes a focus on expanding its streaming subscription business overseas, as it is the company's primary source of income. By the conclusion of FY 2020, Netflix has crossed the 200 million mark in total global paid streaming memberships.