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These Three Stocks Are the Key This Week
It’s not flashy technology, it’s not red-hot real estate or healthcare, but regular old everyday utilities – water and power – is where we’ll find the best stocks right now.
Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Boxlight Corporation(BOXL)
Boxlight Corporation develops, sells, and services interactive classroom technology products and solutions for the K-12 education market worldwide. The company provides interactive and non-interactive projectors, interactive flat panel displays, interactive touch projectors, touchboards, and MimioTeach that could turn any whiteboard interactive; and accessory document cameras, teacher pads for remote control, and assessment systems under the Mimio and Clevertouch brands. It also offers MimioStudio Interactive Instructional software that enables the creation, editing, and presentation of interactive instructional lessons and activities; MimioMobile, a software accessory for MimioStudio; Oktopus Instructional and Whiteboarding software that enables the creation, editing, and presentation of interactive instructional lessons and activities; Notes+, a software accessory for use with Oktopus software; and GameZones and MimioInteract, which are multi-student interactive gaming software. In addition, the company provides MimioClarity, a classroom audio solution; Mimio MyBot system that bridges the gap between learning about robotics in the classroom and the application of robotics; Robo3D printers; MyStemKits, which offers standards-driven lesson plans for grades K-12 math and science teachers; MimioView document camera; MimioVote, a student assessment system; and MimioPad, a wireless pen tablet, as well as peripherals and accessories, such as amplified speaker systems, mobile carts, installation accessories, and wall-mount accessories for interactive and standard projectors, and LED flat panels. Further, it offers classroom training, professional development, and educator certification services. The company was formerly known as Logical Choice Corporation. Boxlight Corporation was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Muslim Farooque]
EMAN stock and its peers have an exciting opportunity ahead of them. However, the company needs to strike a long-term licensing agreement to attract large-scale customers that will stick around.
Boxlight Corporation (BOXL)
Source: Pavel Kapysh / Shutterstock.comBoxlight Corporation produces and sells interactive classroom solutions, primarily targeting the K-12 market. It develops various education technology products, including interactive projectors, touch boards and assessment systems.
- [By Logan Wallace]
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- [By Ethan Ryder]
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Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc.(AMRK)
A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., incorporated on December 19, 2013, is a precious metal trading company. The Company is a wholesaler of gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion and related products, including bars, wafers, grain and coins. It distributes gold and silver coins and bars from sovereign and private mints; provides financing for the purchase of bullion and numismatics; offers secure storage for bullion, and offers complementary products, such as consignment, customized finance and liquidity programs, such as repurchase (Repo) accounts, and trade quotes in a variety of foreign currencies. It operates through various business units for accounting purposes, including Industrial, Coin and Bar, Trading, Finance, Collateral Finance Corporation (CFC), Transcontinental Depository Services (TDS) and Logistics. It is a distributor of gold and silver coins for all of the sovereign mints and various private mints. The sovereign mints include the United States Mint, the Australian (Perth) Mint, the Austrian Mint, the Royal Canadian Mint, the China Mint, Banco de Mexico, the South African Mint (Rand Refinery) and the Royal Mint (the United Kingdom).
The Company’s industrial unit sells gold, silver, platinum and palladium to industrial and commercial users. Customers include coin fabricators, such as mints, industrial manufacturers and fabricators, including electronics, component parts companies, and refiners. Its metals are either investment or industrial grade and are generally in bars, wafers, plates or grains. The Company’s coin and bar unit deals in over 200 different products, including gold and silver coins from around the world and gold, silver, platinum and palladium bars and ingots in a variety of weights, shapes and sizes. It markets a limited number of such products under brand name A-Mark rounds and bars. Its customers are primarily coin and bullion dealers, although it also deals directly with banks and other financial institutions, commodity brokerage house, manufacturers, investors, investment advisors, and collectors.
The Company’s trading and finance units engage in commodity hedging and borrowing and lending transactions in support of its industrial and coin and bar units. Its traders employ a combination of transactions to hedge transactional exposure, and forward contracts to hedge inventory exposure. Its finance unit engages in precious metals borrowing and lending transactions and other customized financial transactions with its customers and other counterparties. The Company’s collateral finance corporation subsidiary is a finance lender that makes and acquires commercial loans secured by numismatic and semi-numismatic coins and bullion. CFC’s customers include coin and precious metal dealers, investors and collectors. CFC takes physical delivery of the coins or bullion collateralizing the loans.
The Company’s transcontinental depository services subsidiary provides storage solutions for precious metals and numismatic coins for financial institutions, dealers, investors and collectors around the world. TDS contracts on behalf of its clients with independent storage facilities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Singapore and Hong Kong, for either fully segregated or allocated storage. It assists its clients in developing appropriate storage options for their particular requirements, and it manages the operational aspects of the storage with the third-party facilities on its client’s behalf. The Company’s Logistics subsidiary provides its customers an array of complementary services, including packaging, shipping, handling, receiving, processing, and inventorying of precious metals and custom coins on a secure basis.
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Companies Reporting After The Bell
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is projected to post quarterly earnings at $1.22 per share on revenue of $5.72 billion.
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) is estimated to post quarterly earnings at $1.04 per share on revenue of $5.68 billion.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is projected to post quarterly earnings at $1.68 per share on revenue of $14.05 billion.
Papa John's International, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA) is expected to post quarterly earnings at $0.62 per share on revenue of $441.73 million.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (NASDAQ: JAZZ) is projected to post quarterly earnings at $2.77 per share on revenue of $434.87 million.
Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE: SLF) is estimated to post quarterly earnings at $0.89 per share on revenue of $6.38 billion.
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. (NYSE: LTM) is expected to post quarterly earnings at $0.16 per share on revenue of $2.70 billion.
Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ: LBTYA) is projected to post quarterly earnings at $0.02 per share on revenue of $4.05 billion.
TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP) is expected to post quarterly earnings at $0.16 per share on revenue of $362.11 million.
The Wendy's Company (NASDAQ: WEN) is projected to post quarterly earnings at $0.1 per share on revenue of $379.98 million.
A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRK) is expected to post quarterly earnings at $0.06 per share on revenue of $1.69 billion.
Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ: MNST) is estimated to post quarterly earnings at $0.4 per share on revenue of $849.38 million.
Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) is expected to post quarterly earnings at $0.4 per share on revenue of $670.10 million.
ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCSC) is projected to post quarterly earnings at $0.7 per share on revenue of $875.91 million.
KAR Auction Services, Inc. (NYSE: KAR) is expected to post quarterly earnings at $0.76 per share on revenue of $923.13
Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Snap Inc. (SNAP)
Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, Inc., is a camera company. The Company is engaged in advertising business. The Company’s customers can create Snaps using Sponsored Creative Tools, such as Sponsored Lenses and Sponsored Geofilters, or view them by watching their friends’ Snaps that contain the advertising creative. The Company’s product, Snapchat, is a camera application that is created to enable people communicate through short videos and images, that are called as Snaps. The Company’s Snap advertisements are vertical full screen video advertisements in the Snap format. The Company offers a range of third party and in-house solutions to measure advertising effectiveness. The Company works with partners to verify that an advertisement was in fact delivered to a given user. The Company works with third parties to measure the reach and frequency of a campaign, and the demographics of the users that viewed the campaign. Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Thomas Yeung]
Since July, daily volatility of the video game retailer has declined by around half. On a per-day basis, GME stock now moves only as much as tech firms like Etsy (NASDAQ:ETSY) and Snap (NYSE:SNAP), lulling short sellers into a sense of false security. Short interest now sits at 51.1 million shares, a 63% increase from this time last year. The put-call also ratio remains bearish; 1.52 puts now exist for every January 2023 call outstanding.
- [By Money Morning News Team]
But similarly to Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP), Pinterest is a target for Facebook. And Facebook will do just about anything to smother the competition. Just look at the addition of Instagram stories when Snap became popular.