Best Financial Stocks To Watch For 2019

tags:ADX,ZUMZ,EVM,

Little Rock, AR, based Investment company Ifrah Financial Services, Inc. buys eBay Inc, iShares U.S. Consumer Goods, iShares MSCI Austria Capped Investable Market Inde, iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund, Masimo Corp, iShares MSCI EAFE Growth, American Outdoor Brands Corp, Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc, Synopsys Inc, Healthsouth Corp, sells Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, Avnet Inc, Chevron Corp, SPDR Select Sector Fund - Energy Select Sector, iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking during the 3-months ended 2017-03-31, according to the most recent filings of the investment company, Ifrah Financial Services, Inc.. As of 2017-03-31, Ifrah Financial Services, Inc. owns 182 stocks with a total value of $241 million. These are the details of the buys and sells.

New Purchases: EBAY, IYK, EWO, EWJ, MASI, AOBC, SNPS, HLS, LRCX, BAH, Added Positions: EFG, SWM, VGK, T, VZ, IDU, HOMB, SCHB, SCHF, FISV, Reduced Positions: IJS, IJK, CSL, INTC, IYT, VPL, SHY, BA, VBR, VBK, Sold Out: HPE, AVT, CVX, IGN, XLE, MENT, EIG, ENH, TGT, OME,

For the details of Ifrah Financial Services, Inc.'s stock buys and sells, go to http://www.gurufocus.com/StockBuy.php?GuruName=Ifrah+Financial+Services%2C+Inc.

Best Financial Stocks To Watch For 2019: Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc.(ADX)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Max Byerly]

  AdEx (CURRENCY:ADX) traded up 9.2% against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 18:00 PM Eastern on April 24th. In the last seven days, AdEx has traded up 47.7% against the dollar. One AdEx token can now be purchased for about $1.12 or 0.00011782 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges including IDEX, Huobi, EtherDelta (ForkDelta) and Liqui. AdEx has a total market cap of $81.99 million and approximately $13.84 million worth of AdEx was traded on exchanges in the last day.

• [By Shane Hupp]

  AdEx (CURRENCY:ADX) traded 2.3% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 1-day period ending at 15:00 PM E.T. on May 12th. One AdEx token can now be purchased for $0.77 or 0.00009068 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges including IDEX, EtherDelta (ForkDelta), Binance and Gatecoin. During the last seven days, AdEx has traded 25.9% lower against the U.S. dollar. AdEx has a total market cap of $56.24 million and $2.87 million worth of AdEx was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Best Financial Stocks To Watch For 2019: Zumiez Inc.(ZUMZ)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Garrett Baldwin]
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) chief economist Jan Hatzius has a message for the markets. Hatzius said in a research note on Monday that U.S. GDP has likely peaked. "The current pace is probably as good as it gets because we expect the impulse from financial conditions to gradually turn more negative," Hatzius said. The European Union slapped America with roughly $3.3 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods. The tariffs, which are in retaliation to the Trump administration's recent steel and aluminum tariffs on the EU, will go into effect in July. They specifically target products like cigarettes, whiskey, denim, and orange juice. Stocks to Watch Today: AVGO, AGN, GOOGL, TSLA Broadcom Ltd.�(Nasdaq: AVGO) leads a busy day of earnings reports. Wall Street anticipates the firm will report earnings per share of $4.77 on top of $5.00 billion in revenue. Uncertainty still remains on whether the company will be able to purchase industry rival Qualcomm Inc.�(Nasdaq: QCOM) in a deal that would be the largest technology merger in the history of the markets. Shares of Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL) are under pressure due to more regulatory scrutiny by the European Union. Shares were off slightly this morning as investors digested a report from The Financial Times indicating the EU will hit the firm with a antitrust fine. Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) stock popped nearly 10% Wednesday, crushing short sellers of the stock. Investors betting against the stock lost a collective $1 billion on paper yesterday, according to S3 Partners. This week, founder Elon Musk won a battle to maintain his roles as both CEO and chair. He also provided a boost of optimism to TSLA stock over production expectations for the Model 3 vehicle. Allergan Inc. (NYSE: AGN) shares are up 2.4% thanks to its latest activist investor. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn purchased a small stake in the drug maker at a time when other activist investors are pushing for strategic changes by the company.
• [By Shane Hupp]

  Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) CEO Richard Miles Brooks sold 3,957 shares of Zumiez stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $27.00, for a total transaction of $106,839.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 3,709,067 shares in the company, valued at approximately $100,144,809. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website.

• [By Motley Fool Staff]

  Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) Q1 2018 Earnings Conference CallJun. 7, 2018 5:00 p.m. ET

  Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks:

  Operator

• [By Max Byerly]

  Shares of Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) reached a new 52-week high and low during trading on Tuesday . The company traded as low as $27.00 and last traded at $26.72, with a volume of 30728 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $25.10.

Best Financial Stocks To Watch For 2019: Eaton Vance California Municipal Bond Fund(EVM)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ethan Ryder]

  Eaton Vance California Municipal Bond Fd (NYSEAMERICAN:EVM) declared a monthly dividend on Monday, June 4th, Wall Street Journal reports. Shareholders of record on Friday, June 22nd will be paid a dividend of 0.0395 per share by the investment management company on Friday, June 29th. This represents a $0.47 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.58%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 21st.

Shares of RIL, GAIL & Gujarat Gas gain 2-4% as 9th round of City Gas Distribution Scheme gets un

Reliance Industries�(RIL), Aegis Logistics, GAIL and Gujarat Gas rallied 2-4 percent intraday on Tuesday as the bidding for the ninth round of City Gas Distribution Scheme closes later today.

Oil marketing companies (OMCs) has put their bids aggressively under 9th round of City Gas Distribution (CGD) Scheme and 10 new companies have also shown interest in city gas distribution, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting unnamed sources.

Sources further said bids by OMCs will be evaluated between July 12-18.

Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) expects to award CGD contracts well before October schedule and expects atleast one bid in all 86 geographical areas. 60 geographical areas will have multiple bids, sources added.

related news D-Street Buzz: BSE Energy outshines with RIL up 2.8%; Ujjas Energy spikes 20%, leads smallcap rally PVR stock up 1% on JV with Al-Futtaim for business in West Asia & North Africa L&T Infotech gains 3%; board to consider Q1 results on July 23

Meanwhile, India Gas Solutions Pvt Ltd, the 50:50 JV of UK's BP plc and Reliance Industries, is making its maiden foray in city gas distribution as it put in bid for 15 cities, reports PTI quoting sources.

Indraprastha Gas (IGL), which retails CNG in the national capital region, is also putting in bids for 13 cities, they said. Essel Infraprojects has put in a total of seven bids.

Bidding for the biggest city gas distribution licensing round, offering 86 permits for selling CNG and piped cooking gas in 174 districts in 22 states and union territories, closes this evening.

As many as 86 geographical areas (GAs), made by clubbing adjacent districts, are on offer in the 9th city gas distribution (CGD) bidding round. The GAs cover 24 percent of the country's area and 29 percent of its population.

The round is likely to attract investments of Rs 70,000 crore, according to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB).

The government is targeting to raise the share of natural gas in primary energy basket to 15 percent from 6 percent at present, within a few years.

The bid round is also aimed at meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's target of giving piped cooking gas connection to 1 crore households, roughly triple the current size, by 2020.

The CGD licences on offer are for Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh; Ahmednagar in Maharashtra; Ludhiana and Jalandhar in Punjab; Barmer, Alwar and Kota in Rajasthan; Coimbatore and Salem in Tamil Nadu; Allahabad, Faizabad, Amethi and Rai Bareli in Uttar Pradesh; Dehradun in Uttarakhand and Burdwan in West Bengal.

At 14:42 hours IST, the stock price Aegis Logistics was trading up 3.62 percent at Rs 236.25, GAIL India up 3.82 percent at Rs 360.50, Gujarat Gas up 1.29 percent at Rs 753 and Reliance Industries rallied 2.65 percent at Rs 1,022 on the BSE.

However, oil marketing companies' share prices are under pressure as sources said piped natural gas (PNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG) distribution in cities may affect OMCs' LPG & retail fuel business.

At 14:42 hours IST, the stock price of Bharat Petroleum Corporation was down 0.29 percent at Rs 375.25, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation down 0.99 percent at Rs 269.60 and Indian Oil Corporation down 0.67 percent at Rs 156.35.

Mahanagar Gas was also trading down 1.62 percent at Rs 819.05 and Indraprastha Gas down 0.83 percent at Rs 263.45.

Disclosure: Reliance Industries Ltd. is the sole beneficiary of Independent Media Trust which controls Network18 Media & Investments Ltd.

(With inputs from PTI) First Published on Jul 10, 2018 03:18 pm