On the bright side, the benchmark S&P 500 has enjoyed a historic bounce-back rally from its March 2020 low.
Although valuation alone is rarely ever the catalyst for a steep correction or a crash, it is ominous that following the previous four instances where the S&P 500’s Shiller P/E crossed above 30, the index subsequently shed at least 20% of its value.
Following each and every one of these eight bear-market bottoms, there were either one or two drops of at least 10% within 36 months.
While it’s perfectly normal for inflation to be present in a growing economy, high levels of inflation threaten to reduce the purchasing power of consumers and businesses.
While we’d expect margin debt outstanding to rise over time, it’s not common for margin debt to climb 60% or more in a single year, as it did earlier this year.
But if you’re investing in great businesses for many years and allowing your investment thesis to play out over time, crashes and corrections are nothing more than opportunities to buy stocks at a discount.
Companies on the leading edge of innovation tend to deflate more than the overall market during crashes, but can offer life-altering return potential for patient investors.
Since robots and hackers don’t take a day off from trying to harvest data, third-party providers like CrowdStrike will be increasingly leaned on to protect this information.
Because it was built in the cloud, it’s far nimbler than on-premises security solutions and, frankly, a better long-term value based on the level of protection it can provide.
In 4.5 years, CrowdStrike’s subscribing customer count has catapulted from 450 to north of 13,000, with the number of customers purchasing four or more cloud-module subscriptions growing from less than 10% to 66%, as of the most recent quarter.
multi-state operator brings a level of innovation to the table in the pot industry that we’ve not yet seen.
Before diving into why Planet 13 is a perfect cutting-edge stock to buy during a crash, I believe it’s important to address the elephant in the room: The lack of U.S.
The key is that Planet 13 is focused just as much on the experience as it is on making a sale.
The Planet 13 SuperStore just west of the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada is larger than the average Walmart and features a café, events center, and consumer-facing processing center.
Although Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have garnered most of the accolades for their development of coronavirus disease 2019 .
The biggest issue for Novavax had been delays in filing for emergency use authorization in key markets, as well as a report that purity standards for its vaccine weren’t hitting the mark.
The company’s drug-development platform absolutely has the potential to deliver a vaccine that can cater to two serious illnesses at once.