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14 hours ago
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Boston Beer: A Closer Look at Its Future in a Declining Industry
Explore the exciting world of Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM) with our contributing expert analysts in this Motley Fool Scoreboard episode. Check out the video below to gain valuable insights into market trends and potential investment opportunities! *Stock prices used were the prices of Jun. 11, 2025. The video was published on Jul. 15, 2025. Should you invest $1,000 in Boston Beer right now? Before you buy stock in Boston Beer, consider this: Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Learn More » The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Boston Beer wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $680,559!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $1,005,670!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 1,053% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 180% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join Stock Advisor. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of July 15, 2025 Nicholas Sciple has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Tyler Crowe has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Boston Beer. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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17 hours ago
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Why AngioDynamics Stock Popped, Then Dropped Today
AngioDynamics beat on sales and beat on earnings this morning -- sort of. The company reported a smaller-than-expected adjusted loss, but its GAAP loss was much bigger. AngioDynamics lost money in fiscal 2025 and will probably do that again in 2026. 10 stocks we like better than AngioDynamics › Tuesday started off well for AngioDynamics (NASDAQ: ANGO), maker of such medical devices as the NanoKnife tool for "electrocuting" cancer, as well as multiple devices for treating peripheral vascular disease. In the morning, AngioDynamics reported stronger-than-expected Q4 2025 sales and earnings, with sales of $80.2 million and an adjusted loss of $0.03 per share (instead of the $0.12-per-share forecast). By the end of the day, however, the rally fell completely apart. AngioDynamics ended up closing down almost 10% for the day. So what went wrong? Q4 sales grew 13% year over year, although gross profit margins on those sales declined by 160 basis points, to 52.7%. Adjusted earnings still ended up better than expected, and AngioDynamics cut its loss as calculated according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by more than half, from $0.33 per share a year ago to just $0.15 per share this time around. Still, a loss is a loss. That's part of the reason investors probably weren't 100% thrilled with this report. For the full-year fiscal 2025, moreover, AngioDynamics lost $0.83 per share according to GAAP, and its sales grew only 8.1%. A second reason is guidance. AngioDynamics told investors it expects fiscal 2026 sales to range from $305 million to $310 million, which is ahead of Wall Street forecasts -- so far, so good. Problem is, management then proceeded to warn its losses for the year will range from $0.25 to $0.35 per share, adjusted for one-time items. That's more than the $0.23 per-share loss Wall Street was forecasting -- and AngioDynamics still hasn't told us how much it will really end up losing under GAAP. Until we know that, the stock probably remains a sell. Before you buy stock in AngioDynamics, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and AngioDynamics wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $680,559!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $1,005,670!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 1,053% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 180% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join Stock Advisor. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of July 15, 2025 Rich Smith has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Why AngioDynamics Stock Popped, Then Dropped Today was originally published by The Motley Fool Sign in to access your portfolio
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a day ago
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Taiwan Semi's $100 Billion Plan; Housing Is Hot
In this podcast, Motley Fool contributors Tyler Crowe and Matt Frankel discuss: Taiwan Semiconductor's most recent earnings report. The torrid pace of AI spending. Lower mortgage rates are taking the cork off existing home sales and refinancing. Insulation contractor TopBuild now does roofs. Ferrero will acquire WK Kellogg. Two stocks worth watching this earnings season To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center. When you're ready to invest, check out this top 10 list of stocks to buy. A full transcript is below. Before you buy stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $680,559!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $1,005,670!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 1,053% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 180% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join Stock Advisor. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of July 15, 2025 This podcast was recorded on July 10, 2025. Tyler Crowe: Taiwan Semiconductor's earnings say full steam ahead for AI, and the housing market is getting some of its best news in a while. You're listening to Motley Fool Money. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Tyler Crowe, and joining me today is Motley Fool analyst Matt Frankel. Matt, thanks for being here. Matt Frankel: Thanks for having me. It's always fun to be on with you. Tyler Crowe: We do a lot of conversations. Offline and doing one here is going to be great. On today's show, the snacking industry is actually coming for the breakfast aisle. The housing market saw its first green shoots in a while. There's merger talk in the building supply industry, and Matt and I are going to give some earnings watches for the upcoming quarter. But we're going to start today's show with Taiwan Semiconductors because they just released their second quarter or June earnings earlier today. Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing's revenues rose about 39% in the quarter, and TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said that AI chip demand still, they think is outstripping the current supply that they have, and the company has pledged to spend $100 billion ramping up manufacturing. Now, Matt, I'm probably not alone in being flabbergasted, every time I hear a projection about spending and CapEx related to AI. NVIDIA just passed the four trillion dollar market cap threshold a couple days ago, and it's still hard to wrap my head around. I think the easy question is, will AI spend, continue to grow? I think that's a little too easy. I want to ask you, do you see AI CapEx spending continuing at this rate? Matt Frankel: Well, a 40% year over year growth rate is only sustainable for so long. This is an acceleration. It's worth mentioning. Last year, in 2024, Taiwan Semi reported 30% year over year revenue growth. This is a pretty big acceleration after an already very strong year. I think over the past 30 years, Taiwan Semi's revenue's grown at about 18% annualized rate. It's really picked up in the past couple of years because of all this AI spending. This is a massive business, especially for one that doesn't make any of its own products. It makes products on behalf of other companies. All of their customers, just to mention some on their customer list, Apple is their biggest one. But they also make chips for NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Tesla there are a lot of companies they make chips for on a third party basis, and these are deep pocketed companies that are all committing a lot of money to AI investment. When you ask will this continue if you're asking over the next five years, I could see that growth rate actually being sustained. But if you're asking beyond, at some point, we're going to hit a peak, but I don't think we're there just yet. Tyler Crowe: The interesting thing is a lot of the companies I follow are like in the construction industry related to AI, like all the electrical supply contractors and the builders and things like that. Their backlogs for AI data centers and all that stuff is still growing at really large rates. Their remaining performance obligations, their word for backlogs, have been growing at similar rates, which is also, to me, a leading indicator for a lot of this because you got to build the data center before you can put any chips in it. Beyond the same thing, beyond the five years, it starts to get really murky because we're 40% for five years straight is a lot, but certainly over the next 2-3 year window, it doesn't seem unrealistic to continue to keep doing this. Matt Frankel: One of the really good ways to get ahead of demand is to look at what the data center industry is doing, and I'm glad you brought up building for that reason because so many data centers are being built right now. There's a lot of if you look at, Digital Realty Trust or Equinix's, construction activity, there's a lot going on, and it creates like a forward looking projection, if you will, because, the company will order a new data center, start building it. At some point later, it's going to be filled with chips and things like that. That's a really good forward indicator of how demand is doing. Tyler Crowe: Let's put the rubber of the road here really quick regarding Taiwan Semi. It's a recommendation in the Hidden Gems dividend service and several other molecule services. After seeing these results and the current valuation that we're looking at for Taiwan Semi, do you still see the stock as a buy? Matt Frankel: Given how quickly its revenue is growing, it trades for about 24 times forward earnings, there's not a lot to dislike about this company. That 1.2 trillion dollar valuation sounds high, but it really isn't when you look at how the business is doing. Tyler Crowe: If we're looking at these numbers for 2, 3, 4 years, a company can grow into a 26 times forward earnings valuation or forward earnings valuation pretty quick. It's hard to see it being an awful investment from here at current valuations. Next up, mortgage rates are on the decline, and the housing market is responding quick. FEMALE_1: Ready to launch your business get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run, and grow your business with easy, customizable themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there, integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time from start-ups to scale ups, online, in person, and on the go. Shopify's made for entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your one dollar a month trial at Tyler Crowe: The housing market has been looking for something, anything resembling good news lately. Finally, it got a little bit. The average rate for a 30 year mortgage in the United States has declined five weeks in a row, and it's now down to 6.77%. Now, that certainly isn't the sub 3% mortgages that we saw in the 2021 period, but it is a nice improvement from the greater than 7% mortgage rates we've seen so far this year, and I know I have been like mortgage rate shopping for quite some time. Matt, the housing market appears to be taking advantage of this situation much faster than we've seen other mortgage rate movements lately, and something you've been following is like housing volume is really picking up because of this. Matt Frankel: You mentioned the other mortgage rate moves. This isn't the first time we've seen mortgage rates cool off from the highs, which is why this move is a surprise to a lot of people. Mortgage rates peaked at about 8% when inflation was really high. But even they've come down a little bit, then they go up, then they come down, they go up, and they have oscillated between 7.5% and like six and three quarters in recent times. All the other times it's happened, this is a key difference. All the other times it's happened, there hasn't been a lot of housing inventory. Now that's changed. There's a lot more inventory on the market with this decline. People who want to buy houses are taking advantage, just to name some of the statistics just last week alone, week over week, application volume was up more than 9%. Refinancing is 56% higher than it was a year ago. People who got mortgages in the 8% range are finding it valuable to refinance right now. Purchase applications are up 25% year over year on a seasonally adjusted basis. The numbers really look surprisingly strong, given that, you know, over the past week, the average mortgage rates down two basis points. It's not like it's been a sharp decline in the past week, but now buyers are suddenly coming into the market. Tyler Crowe: Following the housing move for the past couple of years, it's been trying to poke somebody a stick and say, Come on, do something and it's funny to actually see it finally happening. Part of me wonders if it's a little bit mortgage and also our mortgage rates, excuse me, and a little bit of just like the people have been putting it off and using this as that time to start taking the lid off, especially with the buying season here in the spring and summer. Now, you and I and a couple other people, longtime Motley Fool contributors, analysts. We spend way too much time talking about housing, investing in housing, investing in real estate. There's some side channels that get a little unhinged. But with mortgage rates are declining, the probability of a rate cut actually looks to be in sight something that I have been hesitant to say for quite some time. There is pent up demand for homes. Matt, with this backdrop, what stocks in this particular market look interesting to you? Matt Frankel: I've been saying the Home Builders forever, and so have you, but it's really tough to gauge the dynamics of Home Builders when existing homes are becoming more appealing than they had been for a long time. I won't say that. I'm really looking at rocket right now, RKT the largest lender. They're a very profitable company. I think refinancing in particular is a big opportunity. I mentioned refinancings up 56% year over year, and that's because rates fell to 6.77%. Imagine if rates fall to 6% or 5% in the next couple of years, Americans are sitting on $35 trillion in home equity that's the most ever, and a lot of it's just waiting to be tapped. A lot of people want to do big projects, but won't because it's expensive. Tyler Crowe: Actually, the Refi number was the one that really stood out to me, as well. I didn't go to the mortgage originators, like Rocket. I actually went to the home repair and remodel industry because, again, this is everyone stared at their walls in 2020, 2021, did all those projects, and now it's been like three or four years. Everyone's starting to get that itch to do projects again and lower mortgage rates. A refinancing is a good opportunity to that. I've been looking at companies like Home Depot that have underperformed just about the time the interest rates started to climb a few years ago, we had that big pull forward in remodel activity and things like that. Home Depot and a lot of other building supply companies, and one company in particular is TopBuild. It's an insulation distribution and installation contractor specifically for insulation. That company just so happens to be the company we're going to be talking about next. Continuing on our theme of the housing market, home repair, building products, there's a company Top bill. They just mentioned it as a distribution installation contractor. They recently announced it's going to acquire Progressive Roofing. Matt, can you just give a quick breakdown of what this deal looks like? Matt Frankel: Progressive Roofing, as the name implies, they're one of the largest commercial roofing installers in the United States. They make about 70% of their money from what's called reroofing, which is people like me needing a new roof and maintenance and 30% from new construction homes, both of which can get pretty nice tailwinds, if the real estate market keeps going as it's going. The deal is it's $810 million in cash. It looks like a great deal for TopBuild if if the market heads in the right direction. That's about nine times progressives EBITA over the past 12 months. They expect there to be some synergies, like whenever you acquire two businesses that have some overlap, you can usually combine some operations and things like that and get some cost savings. It looks like a strong acquisition. They're going to have to take on debt to do it. TopBuild has about 300 million in cash right now. Another roughly half a billion dollars will need to come up with through debt, but they have a really healthy balance sheet, about 1.4 billion in debt with $11 billion market cap business and highly profitable. I like this deal. I think this is not the last consolidation we're going to see in the industry in 2025. Tyler Crowe: We've seen some more splashy things when it comes to acquisitions here. Brad Jacobs of XPO Logistics and United Rentals and a bunch of other we'll call it the boring economy guy who rolls up companies is getting into building supplies with QXO. It seems to be a hot activity lately as mergers acquisitions roll ups in this industry. TopBuild as I said, installation of insulation the real dirty work. Anybody that's done contracting work knows that insulation stinks as a job to do. But it's been a spectacular investment after it got spun out of Masco Corporation in 2015, several Motley Fool recommendation services. You and I have been following this company in this industry for quite a while. For TopBuild, much of its success has come from rolling up those small distributors and installation contractors across North America. It's been their calling card is going and buying out mom and pops who are maybe coming to the end of their time of wanting to run a business or some small regionals that success story of Bolt-on acquisitions. Now, roofing isn't insulation. Honestly, I'm a little anxious when a company makes an acquisition that is slightly tangential to what they're doing. Am I being a little too apprehensive here, because, I do tend to be a little bit more nervous than you. Matt Frankel: Well, insulation and roofing are related parts of the building process. It's not like they're an insulation company, and they're acquiring a concrete manufacturer or something like that. It's a very related part of the business. But I do get your point. Some of the synergies I mentioned come from the fact that there's a lot of overlap in the processes. You generally don't put in a new roof without checking your insulation at the same time. There is a lot of overlap here. But no, I definitely get your point when companies start to step outside of their wheelhouse a little bit. It'll be worth watching, but it looks like the price is right, so they have some wiggle room to have a learning curve in there, if you will. Tyler Crowe: I'm probably a little too nervous by nature, but I do have to admit, as I've looked at this deal, I think overall, we can talk about the business stuff. But more importantly, for me, I think management has developed enough of a track record that I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt right now or tie goes to the base runner, I guess, if you will. With the refinance market picking up so could activity in the roofing business along with installation. It might be a good time to be making this acquisition. Speaking of M&A, we're going to move on to our next store here, which is going from roofing to the breakfast aisle because that seems to be getting a hot market that also just happens to be getting a little bit sweeter. Earlier today, Ferrero Rocher or Ferrero International, the Italian private company has agreed to acquire WK Kellogg for about an enterprise value of 3.1 billion. WK Kellogg, of course, was the cereal business that was split out of Kellanova I believe it was either last year or a couple of years ago. It was a relatively recent split for the two companies where Kellanova wanted to focus on the snacking industry. WK Kellogg was going to take the cereals. But Ferrero Rocher is very much a candy company, and it's interesting to see them going in this direction. It's about $23 per share for WK Kellogg in cash. About 31% premium Keeling's closing price today. Matt, what did you actually think about this deal? I know it's hard to really put a pin on private companies, especially an Italian one. We don't seem to have a lot of information on private Italian companies here in the US public markets. But we've seen tons of M&A activity and flirting with M&A activity. We saw Mondelez and Hershey talking about getting together early or late last year. Do you have any insights as to why you think there's so much talk and commotion in particular in the package food industry lately? Matt Frankel: Well, in this particular case, there's a couple key takeaways. One is that Ferrero has been building out its US portfolio for some time. They acquired all of Nestle's US candy business a couple of years back, for example. You might have some of their products in your house right now and not know it. It's summertime. A lot of people keep those bomb popsicles in their fridge. That's a Ferrero product. They have a lot of brands that are very well known to Americans. Second, and this goes more to the broad package food industry that you were talking about. The definite trend is to not only diversify your product portfolio, but diversify it in a way toward healthier products. Now, I know a lot of Kellogg cereals, frosted flakes are not health food, but things like Kashi and raisin bran and rice krispies. We've seen a lot of the companies that specialize in sweets, like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, really diversifying to not necessarily health foods, but to more healthy brands that are that consumers seem to want more nowadays than their traditional products. I think it's a diversification maybe anticipate some changing tastes in the market to insulate themselves from being just a sweets company. That's a common trend that we've been seeing throughout the packaged food industry. Tyler Crowe: Seems like it's an industry that has been struggling with debt, with trying to figure out a lot of what they're doing with their maybe some brands that are getting a little stale, trying to do some refreshes at the same time. For a lot of these snacking companies, really high cocoa prices haven't exactly helped them along the way when it comes to trying to make a lot of this work. A lot of dividend stalwarts have been really, I would say struggling to really grow the business, and we've seen it in their valuations of late. Honestly, with the package food company industry, I don't know if I'm that interested in any stocks right now, but it's certainly much more fascinating to watch with a lot of these portfolio reshufflings. Is there anyone in particular that is on your radar? Matt Frankel: I honestly think Pepsi and Coca-Cola are the two standouts in the industry still and have done the best job of adapting to changing tastes over time out of all the package food companies. I'd probably give it to Pepsi because they have a lot more food than beverage. Tyler Crowe: On our way out here, let's take a quick 30 seconds. Second quarter earnings is coming up. What are you watching? Matt Frankel: Well, banks are the obvious answer just because they're reporting first, but they're also a really good proxy for just general consumer health. By looking at things like loan defaults, by looking at, trading volume trends, how volatile things have been there. There's a lot you can tell from bank earnings that have implications on pretty much every other company in the United States. That's really what I'm watching next week. Prologis is another company that reports early that we've talked about that is on my radar. They say they're nearing an inflection point. I want to see if we're there yet. Tyler Crowe: This quarter, I'm actually going to be watching Home Depot for a lot of the reasons that we mentioned when we're talking about mortgage rates. Less for the actual earnings, but I really want to dive into the earnings transcript and see if some of this activity that we just talked about with Refi is translating into increased demand. If management thinks that this is a continuing trend or a little bit of a short term blip that we've been hoping would actually last longer than a couple of quarters here with the mortgage market. Matt, thank you so much for joining me today on Motley Fool Money. As always, people on the program have interest in the stocks they talk about and the Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against, so don't buy or sell stocks based solely on what you hear. All personal finance content follows Motley Fool editorial standards and are not approved by advertisers. Advertisements or sponsored content are provided for informational purposes only. See our Fool advertising disclosure. Please check out our show notes. I'm Tyler Crowe. Thanks for listening. We'll see you tomorrow. Matt Frankel has positions in Advanced Micro Devices, Digital Realty Trust, Prologis, and Shopify and has the following options: short January 2026 $135 calls on Shopify. Tyler Crowe has positions in Prologis. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Digital Realty Trust, Equinix, Hershey, Home Depot, Nvidia, Prologis, Shopify, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Tesla, and TopBuild. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom, Nestlé, WK Kellogg, and XPO and recommends the following options: long January 2026 $90 calls on Prologis. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. 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a day ago
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Nvidia Is Surging to an All-Time High Today -- Is the Stock a Buy Right Now?
Nvidia stock is jumping today following announcements that the Trump administration will allow the company's H20 processor and other hardware to be sold in China. The approval of the export licenses for the company's AI hardware is an unexpected development -- and a big win for CEO Jensen Huang. The news suggests that some of the biggest risk factors surrounding Nvidia stock may be lessening. 10 stocks we like better than Nvidia › Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock is jumping in Tuesday's trading following some big news for the company. The artificial intelligence (AI) leader's share price was up 3.5% as of 10:15 a.m. ET and had been up as much as 5% at the start of the session. Nvidia's valuation is bounding to a new record high today following announcements that the Trump administration will allow the company to ship its H20 processors to China. The company also said that it has designed a separate, less powerful processor that meets all current regulatory requirements for sale in the country. Being able to sell its processors in the Chinese market is a significant win for Nvidia, and CEO Jensen Huang's ability to secure the necessary export license after meeting with President Trump underscores just how influential the tech leader and his company are right now. With today's gains, the company now has a market capitalization of roughly $4.14 trillion and continues to stand as the world's most valuable business. Nvidia has undisputed leadership in the AI processor market, and the company looks poised to continue benefiting from long-term demand tailwinds connected to the rise of artificial intelligence. With the Trump administration giving the go-ahead for the the AI leader's H20 processors and other hardware to be sold into the Chinese market, there are indications that one of the biggest risk factors facing the company may be lessening. Artificial intelligence is central to the geopolitical tensions and competition between the U.S. and China, and Nvidia's advanced processors occupy a central role in the battle for AI supremacy. While geopolitical dynamics between the two countries continue to be a major risk factor for Nvidia, the same is true for most stocks on the market -- albeit to a lesser extent in some cases. With signs that access to Nvidia's processors is being used as a bargaining chip as part of larger trade negotiations between the two countries, conditions for Nvidia stock appear to be improving on multiple fronts. The stock still comes with significant risk, but its leadership in the AI processor market remains undeniable, and some geopolitical and macroeconomic conditions appear to be aligning to support a continued rally. The Motley Fool's expert analyst team, drawing on years of investing experience and deep analysis of thousands of stocks, leverages our proprietary Moneyball AI investing database to uncover top opportunities. They've just revealed their to buy now — did Nvidia make the list? When our Stock Advisor analyst team has a stock recommendation, it can pay to listen. After all, Stock Advisor's total average return is up 1,053% vs. just 180% for the S&P — that is beating the market by 873.17%!* Imagine if you were a Stock Advisor member when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $680,559!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $1,005,670!* The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join Stock Advisor. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of July 15, 2025 Keith Noonan has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Nvidia. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Nvidia Is Surging to an All-Time High Today -- Is the Stock a Buy Right Now? was originally published by The Motley Fool 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
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Is It Too Late to Buy Silver Stocks?
Written by Joey Frenette at The Motley Fool Canada Silver stocks have been on such an amazing run that it may finally be time to trade in your gold bars for a piece of the much-cheaper (and perhaps more undervalued, at least according to the gold-silver ratio) precious metal. Of course, gold and silver have both been robust additions to diversified TFSA (Tax-Free Savings Account) portfolios over the past year or so. And while gold has drawn most of the attention (it's a much 'prettier' metal for sure), I do think that silver's quiet surge is worth getting behind, especially given the potential for industrial demand (it's actually an ingredient in solar panels) to take things up a notch. Although I'm not a fan of chasing hot stocks, I do think that it's a much better idea to pick up commodities on strength rather than weakness. Indeed, silver (and other commodities) can go to sleep in a form of hibernation for many, many years. Now that silver has woken up with a huge breakout that's sent the metal up more than 30% year to date, perhaps it's no longer gold that shines brightest (gold is up around 26% year to date). In any case, I'm a bigger fan of the silver chart amid this recent melt-up to highs not seen in more than a decade. It's tough to predict how many legs the great silver surge of 2025 has. Things can reverse course rather quickly, making the asset rather tricky to trade on seasonal strength. That said, for investors looking to enhance their TFSA portfolio's diversification for the summer, I think silver is a great addition, provided you have realistic expectations about returns going forward. Indeed, silver's incredible first half may very well be met by a bit of a hangover that drags well into the winter and the start of 2026. Either way, dollar-cost averaging (DCA) seems to be my preferred way to build a full position over time. That way, if silver starts to sag (it does dip rather violently), you'll be able to buy more bullion or shares of something like the Sprott Physical Silver Trust (TSX:PSLV) to lower your cost basis. Between bullion and precious metal mining stocks with silver exposure, I'm inclined to go with the former for those looking for less beta. However, for those who want more on the returns front, it's tough to bet against something like First Majestic Silver (TSX:AG), which is experiencing immense production strength. And, of course, there's a dividend, but a 0.22% yield isn't much of a needle-mover for most. In any case, given the dividend growth potential and an impressive full-year guide that's in place, I'd certainly not count AG shares out, especially as it looks to make up for lost time by gaining on the back of the recent surge in silver, which I don't think is yet fully priced into a stock that's still well off its highs. With as much as 15.8 million ounces of silver expected for the year (and a considerable amount of gold expected as well), AG stock may shape up to be a relative bargain compared to physical bullion. The post Is It Too Late to Buy Silver Stocks? appeared first on The Motley Fool Canada. Before you buy stock in First Majestic Silver, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor Canada analyst team just identified what they believe are the Top Stocks for 2025 and Beyond for investors to buy now… and First Majestic Silver wasn't one of them. The Top Stocks that made the cut could potentially produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider MercadoLibre, which we first recommended on January 8, 2014 ... if you invested $1,000 in the 'eBay of Latin America' at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $24,927.94!* Stock Advisor Canada provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month – one from Canada and one from the U.S. The Stock Advisor Canada service has outperformed the return of S&P/TSX Composite Index by 30 percentage points since 2013*. See the Top Stocks * Returns as of 6/23/25 More reading 10 Stocks Every Canadian Should Own in 2025 [PREMIUM PICKS] Market Volatility Toolkit A Commonsense Cash Back Credit Card We Love Fool contributor Joey Frenette has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. 2025
