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In a year where many retail investors turned to meme stocks and SPACs, specialty home goods retailer Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM) has avoided the risk and irrational valuations seen elsewhere in the market. And WSM stock has performed extremely well in 2021. Source: designs by Jack / Shutterstock.com Shares are up 74.13% in 2021 as of the close

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) used to pay a consistent dividend and also buy back its own shares. However, for the past year and a half, since the end of 2019, it stopped returning capital to its shareholders. It’s now clear that DIS stock has not done very well as a result of this decision.

Globalstar (NYSEAMERICAN:GSAT) has been on a roller coaster ride so far in 2021. GSAT stock, a satellite communications and internet-of-things (IoT) play, zoomed from 34 cents to just over $2.50 per share during February’s “meme stock” mania. Source: NicoElNino / Shutterstock.com Then, in the spring — as this trend cooled — shares dipped back to around

Joby Aviation (NASDAQ:JOBY) stock is down 31% since emerging from a SPAC deal with Reinvent Technology Partners on Aug. 11. That makes sense, because Joby is a “pre-revenue” company. Investors have nothing to judge JOBY stock by except plans, sponsors and a prototype. Source: T. Schneider / Shutterstock.com The company intends to deliver an electric

Believe it or not, the hottest hypergrowth industry in the world right now is one that not many folks on Wall Street are chatting about, and that’s the Buy Now, Pay Later market. Source: Shutterstock Buy Now, Pay Later – or BNPL – is a relatively new type of digital fintech product that allows folks

Editor’s note: This column is part of InvestorPlace.com’s Best Stocks for 2021 contest. Louis Navellier’s pick for the contest is Fiverr International (NYSE:FVRR) stock. FVRR stock has been struggling of late, but the core reason is somewhat ironic. It’s because the pandemic is fading. Source: by InvestorPlace The U.S. added just 194,000 jobs in September, while the lowest

Some of the things that have happened in the last two years were incredible. The events that the pandemic brought had huge impact on Wall Street. We locked down the globe. Every crowd business on the planet completely shuttered its doors and for several months. This should have killed AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) stock, but instead

Bionano Genomics (NASDAQ:BNGO) has turned into a bear of a meme play. But is there a chance for bullish DNA to be reproduced in BNGO stock? Source: Natali_ Mis/ShutterStock.com Let’s check in with what’s happening off and on the price chart of BNGO stock, then offer a risk-adjusted determination aligned with those findings. At a singular

Recently, I gave InvestorPlace readers my opinion on seven natural gas stocks to buy. At that time, I wasn’t paying much attention to penny stocks. If I had, I may have given Tellurian (NASDAQ:TELL) a closer look. The company is a play on liquefied natural gas (LNG), and it’s one of the up-and-coming players in this

What do you get when you mix a small-cap stock, Reddit and a sprinkle of hot non-fungible token (NFT) news? An explosion in Vinco Ventures’ (NASDAQ:BBIG) stock price. BBIG stock rallied 420% in August in about 10 days. This happens often in post-pandemic Wall Street. Retail investors have gone hog wild with excitement and in

Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:GREE) recently went public via a reverse merger on Sept. 15. Ever since then, GREE stock has lost more than 50% of its price. It currently trades around $25. Source: Shutterstock The reverse merger gave shareholders 115 shares of GREE stock for every 1,000 shares of Support.com stock they held. On

A very popular term in business is disruption, or causing a radical change through innovation. Hippo Holdings (NYSE:HIPO) is a digital homeowners insurance provider that went public in August. Potential HIPO stock investors wonder if this insurance provider will disrupt the insurance market. Source: TDKvisuals / Shutterstock.com It seems to me that HIPO stock lacks

Buzz around The Metals Company (NASDAQ:TMC) stock will remain high in the coming weeks and months. TMC stock has been volatile since its Sept. 10 SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) merger with Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition.  Source: Manu Galdamez/ShutterStock.com The merger didn’t go exactly as planned, which has undoubtedly injected increased volatility into share prices. For

Recently, Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) fell fast. Closing at $207.31 per share on Sept. 30, the vaccine play opened at around $190 on Oct. 1. After that, NVAX stock quickly went into free fall, dropping as low as $154 per share. Source: Ascannio/Shutterstock.com The reason? Breaking news of Merck’s (NYSE:MRK) antiviral Covid-19 pill. Interim results suggest it

Sphere 3D (NASDAQ:ANY), a Canadian company, signed a deal with privately-held Gryphon Digital Mining on June 3 in an all-stock reverse merger transaction. The deal will transform Sphere 3D into a Bitcoin (CCC:BTC-USD) mining operation when it closes sometime in the fourth quarter. As it stands now, with ANY stock up significantly, my assessment is

Have you been keeping an eye on the developments in the genetic editing space? We have. Source: Shutterstock And recently, CRISPR gene editing pioneer Feng Zhang achieved a breakthrough in CRISPR therapy cell-delivery. Instead of using the “default” Cas9 enzyme, Zhang used a sub-family of the Cas13 enzyme. One that’s just tiny enough to fit

After rising over $100 briefly this year, Cassava Sciences (NASDAQ:SAVA) stock is struggling to rebound. A long document written by the lawyer of a short-seller sent SAVA stock lower. The document challenged the accuracy of some of Cassava’s clinical results Source: Atthapon Raksthaput / Shutterstock.com Cassava has two major clinical studies underway. The top-line data

Shares in Greenidge Generation (NASDAQ:GREE) popped by 6.81% on Wednesday. That’s good news for investors, after GREE stock spent most of the past three weeks in a skid. In fact, GREE made it into Wednesday’s list of biggest pre-market stock movers. Before it began to lose steam, GREE stock gained as much as 17%. What was

It seems to me that Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) has been lumped in with all the other stocks that benefited greatly from Covid-19. This includes Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ:ZM) and Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ:PTON). Down more than 24% year-to-date through Sep. 29, it’s easy to see that PINS stock is struggling to find its way. Source: Nopparat Khokthong

As September came to a close, the benchmark S&P 500 index was just a few ticks shy of returning 15% since the start of the year. That’s a very solid performance considering the prior year’s remarkable upside response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, investors should be concerned about the specter of