Hot Stocks

Hot stocks are not about hype. They emerge when powerful themes, policy shifts, and capital flows converge. InvestorPlace analysts track fast-moving market narratives, especially in technology, AI, and infrastructure, to identify stocks drawing outsized attention and explain what is really driving those moves.

Amazon on Fire — Will it Stay Hot or Not?

By Louis Navellier, Editor, Growth Investor
Amazon completed their latest quarter with a bang, as sales of Kindle book readers soared. But Amazon has a history of up and down earnings, so be cautious.

Amazon Kills the Shorts

By Tom Taulli, InvestorPlace Contributor
Q1 earnings slid, but beat the estimates -- launching the stock again. Behind the results: Strong sales of the Kindle Fire tablet.

Netflix: The Toughest Lesson I Ever Learned

By Serge Berger, InvestorPlace Contributor
Netflix's crazy run from 2010 to 2011 is well-documented -- but less well-known is one trader's cautionary tale about letting a momentum stock run the show.

Mixed-Up Markets Finish Up — Thursday’s IP Market Recap

By Marc Bastow, InvestorPlace Assistant Editor
Stock markets shook off disappointing jobs news and a number of big-name earnings disappointments to make slight gains Thursday.

Profiting in A New Era of Payment Services

By Hilary Kramer, Editor, GameChangers
Mobile payment processing is a multi-billion dollar business, and these companies are all involved. Picking up the best players is a solid strategy

Gold, Silver Higher on Fed Stance, Eurozone Weakness

By Andrew Burger, InvestorPlace Contributor
The metals are gaining on Thursday, thanks to broadly supportive forces, from the U.S. Fed, the eurozone and corporate earnings.

AstraZeneca CEO Resigns, Shares Drop

By Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
CEO David Brennan departs after the company reported lower earnings and sales for the last quarter and a diminished outlook for the year.

Exxon Mobil: Q1 Profits Fall, Q2 Dividend Rises

By Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
ExxonMobil’s first-quarter earnings fell 11%, missing analysts’ forecasts, while revenue rose and oil and natural gas production slid.

Demand Media’s Accounting Problem

By Jonathan Berr, InvestorPlace Contributor
There may be less than meets the eye on its balance sheet, and it makes the CEO's outsize pay even more suspect.

Indices Get By on ABCs — Wednesday’s IP Market Recap

By Marc Bastow, InvestorPlace Assistant Editor
Apple's earnings momentum turned into big gains Wednesday, Boeing surged and Coca-Cola gained on news of a stock split, all helping markets.

Gold, Silver Fall Back Ahead of Fed Meet

By Andrew Burger, InvestorPlace Contributor
The U.K.'s slide and falling U.S. durable-goods orders added to the uncertainty.

Coca-Cola Board Recommends Stock Split

By Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
Coca-Cola's board recommended a 2-for-1 stock split, the 11th in its history, to be voted on by shareholders on July 10.

Apple Gets Its Mojo Back

By Jeff Reeves
Apple barked back at doubting investors with a blowout earnings report and a 9% stock pop in Wednesday trading.

AT&T Customers Hanging Up Too Soon

By InvestorPlace Staff
AT&T earnings came in strong for Q1, but behind the numbers lies a disturbing trend: monthly billings are going down on smartphone usage.

Wal-Mart’s Mexican Bribe Scandal: Laughable

By Jim Woods, Editor-in-Chief, Successful Investing, Intelligence Report, Bullseye Stock Trader
Paying to play in other countries? Welcome to the real world. And if you think that's going to change anytime soon, then the joke is on you.

2 Chip Winners and 1 Also-Ran

By Brad Moon, InvestorPlace Contributor
Texas Instruments and ARM Holdings fared better in their latest quarterly reports than did Europe's STMicroelectronics. Here's why.

Research in Motion Stock Update

By Charles Sizemore, Chief Investment Strategist, The Freeport Society
RIMM has its detractors, but their is still value in the stock, particularly given their patents and the possible upside of the Mobile Fusion platform.

Apple Outshines Middling Markets — Tuesday’s IP Market Recap

By Marc Bastow, InvestorPlace Assistant Editor
Apple brightened a middling Tuesday for the markets with a second-quarter earnings report that blew out analyst estimates.

Let Short Interest Be Your (General) Guide

By Daniel Putnam, InvestorPlace Contributor
The conventional wisdom holds that heavily shorted stocks have better-than-average upside, but do the results of the past year bear that out?
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