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16 minutes ago
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Nitrogen Unveils AI Meeting Center, Delivers Free Upgrades to Advisors Using Investment Research & Proposal Generation Products
AUBURN, Calif., August 20, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nitrogen, the leading developer of integrated risk tolerance, proposal generation, investment research, and planning software for advisors, today announced the availability of its Q3 2025 product release. During the launch event, Nitrogen showcased AI Meeting Center along with significant upgrades to Firm Controls, Risk Center, Planning Center, and Research Center—continuing its mission to equip advisors with the tools they need to deliver personalized advice at scale. "Our mission is to empower the world to invest fearlessly, and that means building technology that removes friction, speeds up workflows, and strengthens client relationships," said Justin Boatman, Chief Product Officer at Nitrogen. "This release is packed with advisor feedback brought to life, from making meetings more efficient with AI Meeting Center to giving firms deeper visibility into their holdings, risk alignment, and portfolio optimization." Highlights from the Q3 2025 Product Launch AI Meeting Center – A purpose-built, compliant meeting assistant that automatically generates curated, categorized, and editable meeting notes without storing transcripts or recordings. Integrated with Zoom, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Redtail (with Wealthbox coming soon), AI Meeting Center is available at no additional cost for Nitrogen Complete users and as an add-on for other plans. This tool helps advisors save time, reduce administrative burden, and maintain compliance during client meetings. Firm Controls – Firm Controls redefines firm-wide oversight by seamlessly integrating advisor-defined households from Risk Center into a unified, turnkey dashboard. Designed to eliminate onboarding friction and minimize data inconsistencies, this evolution turns a historically manual implementation process into a fully automated, intelligent integration. Risk Center – Known for its risk alignment and proposal tools, Risk Center now includes: Asset Class Drill-Downs to identify the holdings driving exposure in each category. Smart Template Matching for file imports, letting AI detect and map formats automatically, no template selection required. Planning Center – The platform's financial planning tool now offers a more flexible interface with collapsible timeline events, making it easier to model client goals and retirement income streams. Research Center – Nitrogen's investment analytics and research hub now offers two major enhancements designed to help advisors evaluate and optimize portfolios more efficiently: Allocation Optimizer calculates the most efficient portfolio allocations to meet a client's target Risk Number. Advisors can set parameters, compare solutions, and implement changes instantly and all within the same workspace. Sandbox to test adjustments directly within the Stats tab without overriding existing data or leaving the page. Advisors can experiment with changes to an existing Portfolio or Model in real time, making Sandbox a popular tool for fine-tuning portfolio attributes before committing to a proposal. These updates come at a time when wealth management firms are under pressure to deliver more personalized advice, prove their value to clients, and navigate increasing regulatory scrutiny. AI Meeting Center addresses the industry-wide challenge of meeting administration, freeing up advisor time for higher-value client interactions. Expanded oversight tools like the Holdings Dashboard respond to firms' need for more transparency and control over portfolio risk. "Technology that's built for advisors, not retrofitted from other industries, can directly impact client trust, growth, and retention," Boatman added. "We believe these capabilities will become table stakes for leading advisory firms in the next few years." The Q3 2025 release is available now. Advisors can learn more, view demos, and explore training resources at ABOUT NITROGEN Nitrogen has been revolutionizing how financial advisors and wealth management firms engage with their clients since the launch of Riskalyze in 2011. Today, Nitrogen offers an integrated client engagement software platform featuring risk tolerance, proposal generation, investment research, and financial planning tools designed to help firms and financial advisors deliver personalized advice. The company invented the Risk Number®, built on top of a Nobel Prize-winning academic framework, and is the champion of the Fearless Investing Movement — tens of thousands of financial advisors committed to our mission of empowering the world to invest fearlessly. To learn more, visit View source version on Contacts MEDIA CONTACTAllie Zendrian | 516-581-7202 | allie@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Forbes
20 minutes ago
- Forbes
Newell Brands Passes Through 5% Yield Mark
In trading on Wednesday, shares of Newell Brands were yielding above the 5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.28), with the stock changing hands as low as $5.55 on the day. Dividends are particularly important for investors to consider, because historically speaking dividends have provided a considerable share of the stock market's total return. To illustrate, suppose for example you purchased shares of the iShares Russell 3000 ETF (IWV) back on 5/31/2000 — you would have paid $78.27 per share. Fast forward to 5/31/2012 and each share was worth $77.79 on that date, a loss of $0.48 or 0.6% decrease over twelve years. But now consider that you collected a whopping $10.77 per share in dividends over the same period, increasing your return to 13.15%. Even with dividends reinvested, that only amounts to an average annual total return of about 1.0%; so by comparison collecting a yield above 5% would appear considerably attractive if that yield is sustainable. Newell Brands is a member of the Russell 3000, giving it special status as one of the largest 3000 companies on the U.S. stock markets. 10 Stocks Where Yields Got More Juicy » In general, dividend amounts are not always predictable and tend to follow the ups and downs of profitability at each company. In the case of Newell Brands, looking at the history chart for NWL below can help in judging whether the most recent dividend is likely to continue, and in turn whether it is a reasonable expectation to expect a 5% annual Report: Top 8%+ Dividends (paid monthly)
Forbes
an hour ago
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Palantir Stock Down 20%. May Fall 74% More As AI's Payoff Stays Low
Palantir stock has recently shed 20% since peaking at $190 a share earlier this month, according to Google Finance. Does this make Palantir a bargain? Despite a strong second quarter financial report featuring expectations-beating growth and a bullish outlook, there are many reasons to expect the stock to decline further: To overcome these challenges, Palantir must grow faster by persuading more companies to adopt its platform. That could be difficult because the company's culture is rooted in the defense and intelligence sectors, noted Erika Barker. Enterprises may prefer to buy from more culturally-aligned rivals such as Microsoft and Databricks which offer simpler, more accessible platforms, Medium reported. Palantir is bullish about the future. 'We're planning to grow our revenue … while decreasing our number of people,' Palantir CEO Alex Karp told CNBC. 'This is a crazy, efficient revolution. The goal is to get 10x revenue and have 3,600 people. We have now 4,100.' I have contacted Palantir to request comment and will update this post if I receive a response. Palantir's Second Quarter Performance And Prospects Palantir stock peaked days after the company reported second quarter results – which exceeded investor expectations and featured an increase in the company's forecast for the current quarter, according to CNBC. Palantir's revenue and profit were up sharply in the second quarter. Revenue jumped 48% to $1 billion – $60 million more than the LSEG consensus. Meanwhile, the company's net income soared 144% to $327 million – yielding an impressive net margin of 32.6%, CNBC reported. Palantir's guidance for the third quarter was ahead of estimates. The Denver-based software analytics company estimated revenue in a range – the midpoint of which is $1.085 billion – $102 million more than the analysts consensus, according to CNBC. Demand for Palantir's services appears strong. The total value of the company's contracts grew 140% to $2.27 billion and in July, the U.S. Army signed a $10 billion software and data contract with Palantir, wrote CNBC. Artificial intelligence has helped propel this growth. 'It has been a steep and upward climb — an ascent that is a reflection of the remarkable confluence of the arrival of language models, the chips necessary to power them, and our software infrastructure,' Karp wrote in a letter to shareholders. Short Seller Report Concluding Palantir Stock Is Overvalued Analyst opinion is divided on Palantir's prospects. But short-seller Citron Research is extremely bearish – seeing Palantir's shares as 74% overvalued. Wedbush is a Palantir bull. "Palantir remains one of our top tech names to own in 2025 and this deal represents another opportunity for PLTR to capitalize on while continuing to generate unprecedented traction for its entire portfolio across the federal and commercial landscapes," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote in an August 4 note to investors featured by CNBC. RBC considered the stock very pricey before the Q2 earnings release. 'We cannot rationalize why Palantir is the most expensive name in our software coverage,' RBC Capital Markets analyst Rishi Jaluria wrote in a note to clients. 'Absent a substantial beat-and-raise quarter elevating the near-term growth trajectory, valuation seems unsustainable.' On August 18, Citron Research – which recently initiated a short position – declared Palantir's stock worth $40.12 a share. In the report, short seller Andrew Left of Citron Research shared his belief that the stock --which sports a price-to-revenue multiple of about 114, according to GuruFocus – has become 'detached from fundamentals,' reported Investopedia. Citron's report arrived at this conclusion by comparing Palantir to OpenAI. Based on Bloomberg consensus projections, if Palantir was trading at 17 – the same price-to-revenue multiple as the ChatGPT maker – Palantir stock would trade closer to $40, noted Investopedia. However, "even that price would leave Palantir among the most expensive software as a service names names in history," Left said. Palantir Insider Stock Sales Palantir's insider stock sales could also be contributing to investor nervousness. Karp has sold over $2 billion worth of stock in 2024-2025, representing 21% of his total holdings, noted Yahoo!Finance. This contrasts with other tech CEOs such as Elon Musk, who bought Tesla stock during its rise. Karp's selling continues under 10b5-1 plans, with Karp authorized to sell as many as 9.975 million additional shares, reported Yahoo!Finance. Investor Nervousness About AI Bubble Last September, generative AI was looking to me like a big dud. While people were using ChatGPT to help them draft emails and reports, there was no killer app – akin to what the iTunes store did for the iPod or the electronic spreadsheet did for personal computers, I wrote in the Boston Globe. This week, MIT reinforced this point with hard numbers. "Despite $30B-$40B in enterprise investment into generative AI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return," according to a study – based on 150 interviews with professionals, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments – from MIT's NANDA Institute featured by SeekingAlpha. The main problem appears to be integrating AI into the enterprise. "Just 5% of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value, while the vast majority remain stuck with no measurable profit and loss impact," noted the MIT NANDA Institute report. Do enterprises failure to earn a return on their investment in generative AI bode poorly for Palantir's future? It is possible companies will stop investing so much in AI if they don't get better at integrating AI into their operations. But I think the key is for companies to find ways to use AI to create new growth curves – something Palantir has succeeded in doing, I wrote in a Forbes post in February. Ironically, Palantir's ability to grow into its high valuation depends on being able to sell more services to enterprises. Companies may find rivals like Databricks and Snowflake to be a better fit – which could be profitable for Citron Research.
