Will Ashworth

245 stocks hit 52-week highs on Tuesday, and 48 were financial stocks. Meanwhile, 61 hit 52-week lows, including four financials. Three of them are worth considering for your portfolio. Here’s why.

Google the words “passive income” with the title in an online search, and you’ll get about 437,000 results. Do the same for anywhere in an article, and it jumps to about 20 million.

Procore Technologies (PCOR) had the 10th highest Vol/OI ratio for call options in Wednesday trading. Including put options, its ratio was 15th highest out of 1254 unusually active options.

We've come to the end of another work week. There are just 22 trading days left in 2024.

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Amazon ( NASDAQ:AMZN ) stock is on fire heading into the second half of November. On Nov. 13, it hit an all-time high of $215.09, up 43% in 2024. I’m sure there are more gains on the way.

Yesterday's 52-week highs and lows were relatively subdued at 91 and 63, respectively.

Around 100 stock split announcements were made from its universe of 11,000 global equities in Q2 2024. That’s the highest number of stock splits since Q2 2023. In the first half of 2024, there were 168 stock split announcements, the highest level over the past decade.

The S&P 500 dividend yield of 1.18% is the lowest since February 2001, according to a Nov. 12 article in Barron’s. Technology and financial stocks now account for 46% of the index.

E.L.F. Beauty’s options volume on Wednesday was 7x the 30-day average. The affordable makeup and skincare company’s unusual options activity stood out as one investor questioned its revenues.