Investors have piled into growth stocks that may benefit from a strengthening economy, favoring companies in game-changing technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. Today's $200 billion AI market may top $1 trillion, while quantum computing should soar from about $1 billion to more than $5 billion by the end of the decade, according to Markets and Markets data. One of the stocks benefiting from this momentum is a leader in two growth markets -- e-commerce and cloud computing -- and this player also is set to win in the areas of AI and quantum computing as it offers platforms to its cloud customers.
In those kinds of cases, investors may need to have confidence that the business can get back to profitability or growing its operations, whatever is needed to turn the stock's fortunes around. Three stocks that are trading near multi-year lows today are Hershey (NYSE: HSY), PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP), and Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA). Candy company Hershey is trading near its 52-week low.
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Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) stock rose more than 9% on Jan. 17 after online news site SemiAccurate reported that a mystery buyer expressed interest in buying the company. Intel's woes have taken the stock down to multiyear lows, and some indications point to the overdone pessimism that arguably makes it an acquisition target. Instead, the valuation issues revolve around the stock's book value, specifically its price-to-book ratio.
One data point that investors won't want to overlook is the total returns produced by dividend-paying stocks compared to non-payers. Over the last 50 years, dividend stocks have outperformed non-payers by more than 2-to-1 (9.2% average annual total return versus 4.3%, according to data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds). Given that difference, investors should focus on owning companies that can grow their dividends.
After a remarkable 2024 in which SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) stock surged in price by a stunning 836%, the new year has got off to a disastrous start as the voice artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider has already lost more than 17% of its value as of this writing and was down as much as 36% earlier in the month. What's somewhat puzzling about the drop is that there has been no company-specific news that could have caused this sharp pullback in SoundHound stock. Let's find out if SoundHound stock is indeed worth buying following a terrible start to 2025.
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies saw revenue soar last year as data centers built out infrastructure and customers launched AI projects -- and as a result, investors piled into shares of players involved in this high-growth technology. Considering that a single Blackwell GPU costs between $30,000 to $40,000, and Nvidia customers generally purchase systems incorporating many GPUs, this new infrastructure buildout represents a considerable opportunity for Nvidia.