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The Basic Materials group has plenty of great stocks, but investors should always be looking for companies that are outperforming their peers. Is Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) one of those stocks right now? A quick glance at the company's year-to-date performance in comparison to the rest of the Basic Materials sector should help us answer this question.Agnico Eagle Mines is a member of our Basic Materials group, which includes 240 different companies and currently sits at #6 in the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks ...

Whether you're a growth, value, income, or momentum-focused investor, building a successful investment portfolio takes skill, research, and a little bit of luck.But how do you find the right combination of stocks? Funding your retirement, your kids' college tuition, or your short- and long-term savings goals certainly requires significant returns.Enter the Zacks Rank.What is the Zacks Rank?A unique, proprietary stock-rating model, the Zacks Rank uses earnings estimate revisions, or changes to a company's ea ...

The U.S. economy has been showing remarkable resilience despite interest rates being at a 23-year high. Wall Street rebounded in early May after a sharp decline in April job additions, a significant slowdown in U.S. GDP growth for the first quarter of 2024, last month’s contraction in manufacturing and services PMI, and a less hawkish statement by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell after the May FOMC meeting. The rally gained further momentum after the Department of Labor reported a 0.3% month-over-month increase i ...

Momentum investing revolves around the idea of following a stock's recent trend in either direction. In the 'long' context, investors will be essentially be "buying high, but hoping to sell even higher." With this methodology, taking advantage of trends in a stock's price is key; once a stock establishes a course, it is more than likely to continue moving that way. The goal is that once a stock heads down a fixed path, it will lead to timely and profitable trades.Even though momentum is a popular stock char ...

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The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price. Do they really matter, though?Before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage, let's see what these Wall Street heavyweights think about Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) .Agnico currently has an average brokera ...

Here are three stocks with buy ranks and strong growth characteristics for investors to consider today May 17th:M-tron Industries, Inc. (MPTI) : This company which designs, manufactures and markets highly-engineered, high reliability frequency and spectrum control products and solutions, carries a Zacks Rank #1(Strong Buy), and has witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 4.1% over the last 60 days.M-tron Industries has a PEG ratio of 0.64 compared with 1.49 for the in ...

Vitoria Holdings LLCGold is one of the top-performing assets in 2024, boasting a ~16% return YTD. Gold miners have also performed decently, with the gold miner ETF (GDX) rising similarly. As detailed recently regarding Newmont (NEM) and the large miner ETF GDX, I prefer gold ETFs such as (GLD) to miners. Although miners will likely rise with gold, their production costs are rising too quickly compared to gold, and many are not seeing equal profit growth. My neutral outlook on miners primarily focuses on ...

Oat_Phawat AEM stock has outperformed Recently, gold miner stocks have attracted the attention of many investors thanks to the robust rally in gold prices. The theory behind owning gold miner stock is that investors will benefit from the increase in the price of gold while mitigating many downsides of owning gold (such as lack of active cash flow, lack of dividends, relatively high fees, etc.) However, a quick reality check would show that's not the case. The next chart compares the historical returns of go ...