TipRanks BlackRock Pulls the Trigger on These 2 Dividend Stocks — Including One With 14% Dividend Yield As we reach the tail end of the 2Q23 earnings season, it’s time to take stock of the current market landscape and gauge the resilience of equities. To start with, the pace of inflation is falling – but remains above the 2% target. Against a background of inflationary pressures and recessionary fears, the second quarter earnings were stagnant – but while the bar was low, most firms cleared...

For the fourth time in less than four years, cosmetics maker Coty (NYSE:COTY) has named a new chief executive. Chairman Peter Harf, who served as the beauty brand's CEO between 1993 and 2001, is back in the position and hopefully ready to steer the struggling company into a turnaround. Harf will succeed Pierre Laubies, replacing Pierre Denis who was supposed to take over the CEO role later this year. Laubies has grappled with an unprecedented clampdown on consumerism thanks to...

In early April, I cautioned investors that subprime auto loan companies like Credit Acceptance (NASDAQ:CACC), Santander Consumer USA Holdings (NYSE:SC), and Ally Financial (NYSE:ALLY) were facing a potential nightmare. In much the same way that the subprime mortgage market began to collapse in 2007 -- resulting in a shock wave that kicked off a recession -- auto loan borrowers with less-than-great credit scores were increasingly falling behind on more and more loans. The economic impact of...

While the market has recovered impressively from its late-March low, it's not too late to step into stocks if you missed out. Investors should take such a step very carefully, of course, as the sheer speed and distance of the advance has left some names vulnerable to profit taking. At the other end of the spectrum, though, some of the market's most compelling names remain priced below their typical valuations. To that end, here's a rundown of three great value stocks that aren't likely to...

Nikola (NASDAQ:NKLA) founder and CEO Trevor Milton appears to have borrowed a couple of pages from Elon Musk's playbook. That is, make bold claims about your electric vehicle company's potential, even if that endzone is years down the road and fraught with challenges. In just the few days since his company began publicly trading, Milton has compared his Nikola to e-commerce monolith Amazon, warned Ford he's looking to outsell its popular F-150 pickups, and then didn't balk when asked about an...