The stock market took a hit on Tuesday, although losses for major market averages were limited to less than 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC), and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) all came under pressure, with worries about retail sales and the state of the consumer economy weighing on market sentiment.
Index
Percentage Change (Decline)
Point Change
Dow
(0.79%)
(282)
S&P 500
(0.71%)
(32)
Nasdaq Composite
(0.93%)
(138)
Data source: Yahoo! Finance.
Warren Buffett still gets a lot of attention, even in his 90s, and the leader of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B) has plenty of people watching his investment moves. Late Monday, the insurance giant released its latest holdings, and a couple of stocks saw big moves as a result. Below, we’ll look more closely at why Kroger (NYSE:KR) saw nice gains while General Motors (NYSE:GM) dropped.
Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2023: DXP Enterprises Inc.(DXPE)
DXP Enterprises, Inc. engages in distributing maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) products, equipment, and services to industrial customers in the United States. Its Service Centers segment provides MRO products, equipment and services, including technical design expertise and logistics capabilities to industrial customers with the ability to provide same day delivery. This segment?s product categories comprise rotating equipment, bearing, power transmission, hose, fluid power, metal working, industrial supply, and safety products; and services consist of field safety supervision, in-house and field repair, and maintenance services. The company?s Supply Chain Services segment manages the supply-chain of its customers from various industries. This segment designs supply chain inventory management programs, including SmartAgreement, a procurement solution for MRO categories; SmartBuy, an on-site or centralized MRO procurement solution; SmartSource, an on-site procurem ent and storeroom management solutions; SmartStore, an e-catalog solution; SmartVend, an industrial dispensing solution; and SmartServ, an integrated service pump solution. Its Innovative Pumping Solutions segment fabricates and assembles custom-made engineered pump packages consisting of diesel and electric driven firewater, pipeline booster, potable water packages, pigging pump packages, LACT charge units, chemical injection pump packages wash down units, seawater lift pumps, jockey pumps, condensate pump packages, cooling water skids, and seawater/produced water injection packages. DXP Enterprises, Inc. distributes its products and services through service centers and distribution centers to customers in the oil and gas, food and beverage, petrochemical, transportation, mining, construction, chemical, municipal, agriculture, pulp and paper, and other general industrial industries. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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DXP Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ:DXPE)Q4 2018 Earnings Conference CallMarch 07, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET
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- [By Max Byerly]
DXP Enterprises (NASDAQ:DXPE) was downgraded by research analysts at BidaskClub from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note issued on Thursday.
- [By Shane Hupp]
American Century Companies Inc. decreased its holdings in DXP Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ:DXPE) by 40.0% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 159,977 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after selling 106,808 shares during the quarter. American Century Companies Inc.’s holdings in DXP Enterprises were worth $6,111,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2023: Xcel Brands, Inc(XELB)
Xcel Brands, Inc. (“Xcel,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) is a brand development and media company engaged in the design, production, licensing, marketing, and direct to consumer sales of branded apparel, footwear, accessories, jewelry, home goods, and other consumer products, and the acquisition of dynamic consumer lifestyle brands. Presently, our brand portfolio consists of the Isaac Mizrahi, Judith Ripka, H Halston, C Wonder, and Highline Collective brands. We also manage and design the Liz Claiborne New York brand (“LCNY Brand”) through July 31, 2016. Going forward, our focus shall be on our wholly owned brands.
Our objective is to build a diversified portfolio of lifestyle consumer brands through organic growth and the strategic acquisition of new brands. To achieve growth under our brands, we are focused on two primary licensing and design activities:
· licensing our brands for distribution through direct-response television (i.e. Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Ethan Ryder]
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Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) and XCel Brands (NASDAQ:XELB) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2023: Corsair Gaming, Inc.(CRSR)
Corsair Gaming, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, markets, and distributes gaming and streaming peripherals, components and systems in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers gamer and creator peripherals, including gaming keyboards, mice, headsets, and controllers, as well as capture cards, stream decks, USB microphones, studio accessories, and EpocCam software. It also provides gaming components and systems comprising power supply units, cooling solutions, computer cases, and DRAM modules, as well as prebuilt and custom-built gaming PCs, and others; and PC gaming software comprising iCUE for gamers and Elgato's streaming suite for content creators. In addition, the company offers coaching and training, and other services. It sells its products through a network of distributors and retailers, including online retailers, as well as directly to consumers through its websites. Corsair Gaming, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Corsair Gaming, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Corsair Group (Cayman), LP.
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- [By Thomas Niel]
Many of these names may have pulled back considerably since the last “meme stock wave” ended in June. But whether they’ve performed poorly or strongly as of late, each one has factors in its respective corner that could help it surge in a big way in the near-term.
Meme Stocks to Buy: Corsair Gaming (CRSR)
Corsair Gaming may have peaked in price well before “meme stocks” became a thing. And it may suffer valid concerns that pandemic tailwinds that turbo-charged sales growth for this gaming peripherals purveyor are fading. Nevertheless, that hasn’t hurt its appeal among Reddit traders.
- [By Stavros Georgiadis]
Corsair Gaming (NASDAQ:CRSR) designs, markets and distributes gaming and streaming peripherals, components, and systems in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. The company’s recent second-quarter 2021 results were strong, but CRSR stock still declined.
Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2023: Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation(TRX)
The Company was originally incorporated under the corporate name “424547 Alberta Ltd.” in the Province of Alberta on July 5, 1990, under the Business Corporations Act (Alberta). The name was changed to “Tan Range Exploration Corporation” on August 13, 1991. The name of the Company was again changed to “Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation” on February 28, 2006. The Company is also registered in the Province of British Columbia as an extra-provincial company under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia).
The principal executive office of the Company is located at Suite 404 – 1688 152nd Street, South Surrey, BC V4A 4N2, Canada, and its telephone number is (604) 536-7873. Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Ethan Ryder]
TRON (CURRENCY:TRX) traded down 0.8% against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 21:00 PM E.T. on February 26th. One TRON coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.0242 or 0.00000630 BTC on major exchanges including Kucoin, Kryptono, Fatbtc and Hotbit. During the last seven days, TRON has traded 3.1% lower against the dollar. TRON has a total market capitalization of $1.61 billion and $151.03 million worth of TRON was traded on exchanges in the last day.
- [By Joseph Griffin]
TRON (CURRENCY:TRX) traded up 2.2% against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 21:00 PM E.T. on August 23rd. One TRON coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0205 or 0.00000315 BTC on exchanges including Huobi, Koinex, OpenLedger DEX and Bithumb. TRON has a market capitalization of $1.35 billion and $80.96 million worth of TRON was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. In the last seven days, TRON has traded up 2.3% against the US dollar.
Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Own For 2023: Infinera Corporation(INFN)
Infinera Corporation provides optical networking equipment, software, and services to communications service providers, Internet content providers, cable operators, and subsea network operators worldwide. Its products include digital transport node (DTN) platform that utilizes photonic integrated circuit technology to enable digital processing and management of data with the capability to generate wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) wavelengths and to add, drop, switch, manage, protect, and restore network traffic digitally; line systems that provide the management communications channel between network nodes and allow customers to manage capacity on network; and ATN platform that is used to extend the digital optical network architecture benefits of the DTN platform, and used as standalone WDM access systems. The company also provides IQ Network Operating System, an embedded software operating system that enables customers to simplify and speed up the tasks they perfor m to deliver, differentiate, and manage services; and a set of standards-based network and element management tools and operations support system integration interfaces to manage DTN and ATN platforms. In addition, it offers various product support services, including hardware and software technical support, installation and deployment, spares management, first line maintenance, on-site technical support, product technical training, and extended product warranties. The company?s customers include competitive carriers, multiple system operators, incumbent carriers, research and education/government organizations, and resellers. Infinera Corporation markets and sells its products and related support services primarily through its direct sales force, as well as through distribution or support partners. The company, formerly known as Zepton Networks, was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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- [By Timothy Green]
Shares of Infinera Corp. (NASDAQ:INFN) jumped on Monday, after the optical networking company was upgraded by an analyst for the second time in less than a month. Infinera reported solid fourth-quarter results in February, which led to the first upgrade. The stock was up about 9.7% at market close.
- [By Dan Caplinger]
Monday was an extremely strong day for the stock market, as major indexes finished well above where they started the session. Favorable economic data on retail sales renewed confidence that the U.S. economy continues to do well despite headwinds elsewhere around the world, and investors were pleased to see the U.S. and China discuss their respective currencies as part of their broader trade talks. Some benchmarks rose as much as 2%, but certain individual stocks saw even larger gains. NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), XPO Logistics (NYSE:XPO), and Infinera (NASDAQ:INFN) were among the top performers. Here’s why they did so well.
