For Wall Street and individual investors, this has become one of the most challenging years on record. The S&P 500, which can be seen as an indicator of the state of the market, had its poorest first-half performance in 52 years. The Nasdaq Composite, which helped the stock market to record highs, has lost almost a third of its value. As a result, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are both officially in a bear market.
Some investors always flee the market when there is a downward move because of how quickly and unpredictable they are. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that stock market reversals and bear markets are the best times to seize opportunities. Having read the words “bear market” many times lately, this feels like an appropriate theme for today’s list. I hope it’s as helpful to you as can be.
After thorough research, I found three favorites. I was accounting for fundamentals, earnings, resilience, and long-term returns. Experts agree that we should invest in these timely tickers:
Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD)
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) is a holding company that manufactures and trades natural gas and petrochemicals. EPD’s NGL Pipelines segment is in charge of a natural gas processing plant. EPD has a Crude Oil Pipelines sector that owns a crude oil pipeline system. Natural gas is stored and transported through EPD’s Natural Gas Pipelines section. Propylene fractionation, butane isomerization complex, and octane improvement are available under EPD’s Petrochemical & Refined Products Services division. Dan L. Duncan created BPD in April 1998, and the firm is located in Houston, TX.
EPD is a midstream energy company that relies on volume- or fixed-fee-based long-term contracts with drillers. Investors should know that this guarantees highly predictable cash flow for EPD. While it would also beat on the EPS side, EPD has a four-quarter long streak of crushing Wall Street’s Revenue projections. So that you can see, with the most recent quarter moving backward: EPD exceeded sales forecasts by 34.29%, 24.27%, 17.62%, and 27.35%, respectively. EPD currently has an impressive dividend yield of 7.97%, with a quarterly payout of 48 cents per share. The consensus median price target for EPD is 32.00, with a high estimate of 35.00 and a low of 27.90, according to the analysts offering annual price forecasts. It shows a 34.23% increase from the last price, and the buy rated EPD has many experts in its corner.
Mastercard Inc (MA)
Mastercard, Inc (MA) is a vastly well-recognized technology firm. MA is involved in the payments sector, which connects customers with financial institutions, governments, merchants, and businesses. MA provides financial solutions for creating and managing debit, credit, commercial, prepaid, and payment programs. MA was started in November 1966 and is based in Purchase, New York.
An interesting and potentially useful piece of information is that because MA does not offer loans, it is not expected to conserve its capital for losses. As a result, MA recovers from economic downturns sooner and arguably more efficiently than other financial stocks. MA has positive leaning year-over-year growth numbers: Revenue +21.4%; Net Income +10.12%; EPS +12.5%; Operating Income +32.23%. MA’s current quarter, until reporting earnings again in November, shows sales of $5.7 billion and an EPS of $2.58 per share. MA’s dividend yield is 0.68%, with a quarterly payout of 49 cents per share. Analysts offering yearly price projections give MA a consensus price target of 417.00, with a high estimate of 472.00 and a low of 375.00. The price forecast indicates a 45.29% rise from current pricing, and MA comes with a buy rating popular on the stock exchange.
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc (CRWD)
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc (CRWD) offers cybersecurity solutions and services to prevent digital intrusions. CRWD provides cloud-delivered protection for endpoints, cloud workloads, identity protection, log management, IT operations management, managed security services, and threat hunting. CRWD services customers globally. George P. Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston created CRWD on November 7, 2011, and it is headquartered in Austin, TX.
The organic expansion of CRWD is remarkable. The proportion of customers who bought four or more of CRWD’s cloud subscriptions increased from less than 10% to more than 70% over five years. CRWD shows solid year-over-year growth numbers in a few places: Revenue +58.74%%; Net Profit Margin +45.73%; EPS +99.09%. Something phenomenal has happened in that CRWD has exceeded EPS projections for four consecutive quarters – by considerable margins of 31.87%, 33.21%, 47.93%, and 72.71% (moving backward), respectively. Analysts who offer 12-month price predictions give CRWD an estimated price target of 234.50, with a high of 280.00 and a low of 193.00. This is a 41.51% increase from the stock’s latest price. There is so much to like about CRWD that its buy rating is uncontested, making it an attractive stock in which to invest.
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