Realty Income: 2 Reasons That Stop Me Short Of Buying This High Yield REIT — Positive
O Seeking Alpha — February 13, 2025Lower rates can spur deal activity, growing the investment portfolio and hence leasable square feet, AFFOs, and dividends. Net new store growth in Realty Income's key clients can help boost rental incomes. Realty Income's stock is trading at a discount vs peers and also seems undervalued due to falling P/B multiples despite improving fundamentals as seen in rising book values.

Syra Health Continues to Secure Healthcare Training Contracts — Neutral
SYRA PRNewsWire — February 13, 2025CARMEL, Ind. , Feb. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Syra Health Corp. (Nasdaq: SYRA), a healthcare technology company powering better health by providing meaningful solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a six-month, $135,000 contract with a Midwest-based university to develop prevention-focused virtual training modules in behavioral health.

The technicals are strong for McDonald's stock as the chart, moving averages, and indicators all showed bullish signals overall. Most recent earnings do not show a clear recovery in growth, as revenue growth turned marginally negative and EPS growth is flat at zero. The P/S ratio shows a significant disconnect with revenue growth but the P/E ratio shows fairer valuation, leading me to believe that MCD is moderately overvalued currently.

Patterson-UTI: High Torque To Increased Natural Gas Activity — Positive
PTEN Seeking Alpha — February 13, 2025US drilling and completion activity looks to be stable in the near term. In the medium term, additional natural gas focused activity in the Haynesville shale represents a powerful driver for improved margins. LNG exports are expected to ramp by year-end 2025, which should be a catalyst to warrant renewed natural gas related activity.

Grab the 5 Highest-Yielding Monthly Dividend Stocks for Huge Passive Income — Positive
AGNC APLE ARR EFC EPR 24/7 Wall Street — February 13, 2025Investors love dividend stocks, especially the ultra-high-yield variety, because they offer a significant income stream and have massive total return potential.

Will Falling Bond Yields Send These 2 Small Caps Soaring? — Negative
PLUG RIOT MarketBeat — February 13, 2025The recent trade tariff announcements rolled out by President Trump have created some volatility in the broader stock markets globally. Where capital flows during these times is often the best piece of information that retail investors can follow to get their portfolios to land on the right side of history.

Zebra Technologies' 2025 forecast hit by tariffs uncertainty; shares drop — Negative
ZBRA Reuters — February 13, 2025Barcode scanner-maker Zebra Technologies forecast full-year 2025 revenue growth below Wall Street estimates on Thursday due to the effects of U.S. trade restrictions, sending the company's shares sliding 9% in premarket trading.

Coinbase (COIN 3.00%), one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, went public via a direct listing in April 2021. Its stock opened at $381, jumped as high as $429.54 during intraday trading, and ended its first day at $328.28.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Present Live Audio Webcast of Fiscal 2025 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call — Neutral
HPE Business Wire — February 13, 2025HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will conduct a live audio webcast of a conference call with analysts to review financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2025, which ended January 31, 2025. The call is scheduled for Thursday, March 6, at 4:00 p.m. CT (5:00 p.m. ET), and the webcast will be available at www.hpe.com/investor/2025Q1Webcast. A replay of the webcast will be available at the same website shortly after the call and will remain available for appr.

1 Unstoppable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock to Buy Right Now — Positive
AMZN The Motley Fool — February 13, 2025In 2023, Bank of America analyst Michael Hartnett coined the term "Magnificent Seven" to describe a group of powerhouse tech stocks, inspired by the classic 1960s Western film. These companies, among the market's most valuable, are leading the way in artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, online gaming, and advanced hardware and software.

Does Billionaire Bill Ackman's New Position in Uber Carry a Hidden Opportunity? — Neutral
UBER The Motley Fool — February 13, 2025Bill Ackman is one of the most closely followed investment personalities on Wall Street. As CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman has been at the center of some creatively structured investments in recent history.

SAP CEO on New Partnership With Databricks on 'business AI' — Positive
SAP CNBC Television — February 13, 2025SAP CEO Christian Klein speaks exclusively with Worldwide Exchange anchor Frank Holland about the new partnership announces on Thursday between the European tech giant and the data analytics startup. SAP will provide access to data from its market leading ERP software and allow Databricks to imbed its lakehouse architecture, a move the companies call 'landmark'.

Realty Income: Valuation Is The Market's 'Gift Of The Decade' — Positive
O Seeking Alpha — February 13, 2025Realty Income's negative sentiment is attributed to recency bias. The REIT's performance should be measured by AFFO per share growth, which has increased by 28.5% over the past five years. Realty Income offers attractive risk-adjusted returns due to low beta and solid returns.

As a former mutual fund analyst, there are some asset management brands I remember. Tweedy, Browne is one of them.

Wendy's beats on same-store sales for the first time in seven quarters, but guidance is weak — Neutral
WEN Market Watch — February 13, 2025Fast-food chain Wendy's posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and ended six quarters of same-restaurant sales shortfalls, offsetting soft guidance for 2025.

METTAWA, Ill., Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) today declared a quarterly dividend on its common stock of $0.43 per share.

GE HealthCare forecasts upbeat 2025 profit on steady medical device demand — Positive
GEHC Reuters — February 13, 2025GE HealthCare Technologies on Thursday forecast annual profit above Wall Street estimates, counting on strong demand for its medical devices in markets such as the U.S. to offset weakness in China.

5 Actively Managed ETFs That Outperformed Warren Buffett Last Year — Positive
ARKF CRPT FBCG UMI 24/7 Wall Street — February 13, 2025Warren Buffett has outperformed the S&P 500 for many years, and he continues to deliver impressive gains for investors.

Shell should take responsibility for oil spills, Nigerian community leader says before UK trial — Negative
SHEL Reuters — February 13, 2025Shell should take responsibility for environmental damage in Nigeria caused by oil spills, a community leader said on Thursday as a pivotal hearing in lawsuits brought against the British oil major began at London's High Court.

Apple's app tracking privacy framework could fall foul of German antitrust rules — Negative
AAPL TechCrunch — February 13, 2025Germany's antitrust watchdog has been investigating Apple's app privacy framework since 2022. On Thursday, releasing preliminary findings from this probe, the Bundeskartellamt (FCO) said it suspects the iPhone maker may not be treating third-party app developers as equally as the law requires.
