Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?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 MercadoLibre (MELI) .MercadoLibre currently has an average brokerage recom ...

To say that AI stocks are popular with investors in 2024 would be an understatement. In mid-December, Bloomberg published an article entitled The Year of Nvidia, AI Stocks and Lofty Valuations. As it highlighted, the Nasdaq 100 had its best year in 2023 in more than a decade. Through the first two weeks of January, the index is up 1.5%. Something tells me that 2024 won’t be much different. Consequentially, the intelligent tech revolution should benefit AI stocks in the next 11.5 months. So, who are the AI a ...

andresr/E+ via Getty Images This article analyzes MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) with a particular focus on questions about valuation. How much should an investor be willing to pay for hyper-growth? It depends to a large degree on how long that growth can be sustained before it begins to fade. A declining growth rate produces a double whammy of slower growth combined with a lower valuation. The current high growth rate of MELI is indisputable, but a new investor's criterion must be on the sustainability of ...

Growth investors focus on stocks that are seeing above-average financial growth, as this feature helps these securities garner the market's attention and deliver solid returns. But finding a great growth stock is not easy at all.That's because, these stocks usually carry above-average risk and volatility. In fact, betting on a stock for which the growth story is actually over or nearing its end could lead to significant loss.However, the task of finding cutting-edge growth stocks is made easy with the help ...

The most recent trading session ended with MercadoLibre (MELI) standing at $1,591.68, reflecting a -0.41% shift from the previouse trading day's closing. The stock's change was less than the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.07%.Shares of the operator of an online marketplace and payments system in Latin America have depreciated by 0.87% over the course of the past month, underperforming the Retail-Wholesale sector's gain of 4.94% and the S&P 500's gain of 3.98%.Analysts and investors alike will be keeping a close ...

Cathie Wood bounced back in 2023 after back-to-back years of disappointment. The CEO and co-founder of Ark Invest is trying to keep her winning streak going as an aggressive growth-stock investor this year. She's been adding to some of her existing positions in 2024, including a few notable purchases on Monday.Wood kicked off the new trading week by adding to her stakes in Nu (NU 0.06%), MercadoLibre (MELI -0.24%), and Toast (TOST -0.24%). Let's see what she might be seeing in these promising growth stocks. ...

While Warren Buffett’s piece of wisdom – to paraphrase, don’t bet against America – has proven sound, investors looking ahead may want to consider emerging markets stocks. As the phrase implies, we’re talking about economies still in their growth phase. That contrasts with the U.S., which stands in more of a maturity cycle.Fundamentally, emerging markets stocks appeal to more risk-tolerant investors due to their potentially greater upside prospects. Nothing is guaranteed, to be clear. However, when you’re d ...

Rmcarvalho/iStock via Getty Images Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets argued that the world has four types of economies: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina. This has never been more accurate than today, when understanding the Argentinian economy will lead us to analyze unique periods, relatively obscure economies, and philosophical premises like the nature of money and the psychological biases of loss aversion. Nevertheless, understanding this context is vital to discovering how to play the Argentini ...

alvarez/E+ via Getty Images We previously covered MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) in September 2023, discussing its solid prospects over the next few years, thanks to its well-diversified vertically-integrated offerings across online retail, logistics, fintech, and advertising. Combined with the management's efforts to aggressively grow market share profitably, we had confidently reiterated the stock as a long-term buy, preferably after a moderate pullback to $1.1K. In this article, we shall discuss why ou ...

toeytoey2530 Investment Thesis We all know the outstanding performance that Amazon has presented in the last decade and the great ecosystem that it has managed to set up, benefiting the user and the company at the same time. However, there is a company that has managed to create something similar in a neglected geographical location, difficult to operate (providing competitive advantages in the form of know-how) and that presents greater growth thanks to its structural characteristics. In this article I wou ...