Al Root

Al Root

Associate Editor

LATEST ARTICLES

SpaceX and Tesla Shares Are Trading Like Twins. What It Means for the Stocks.

SpaceX and Tesla Shares Are Trading Like Twins. What It Means for the Stocks.

SpaceX stock and Tesla shares are doing something surprising: They are rising and falling together.

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Why Dow Stock Is on an Epic Losing Streak

Why Dow Stock Is on an Epic Losing Streak

Shares of chemical maker Dow are on pace for an 11th consecutive decline.

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Honeywell Aerospace Starts Trading, Completing 3-Way Breakup

Honeywell Aerospace Starts Trading, Completing 3-Way Breakup

Honeywell investors holding the stock into the corporate breakup now have two Honeywell stocks in their portfolio.

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Tesla Stock Falls as Auto Industry Wrestles With Copper Prices

Tesla Stock Falls as Auto Industry Wrestles With Copper Prices

The shares rose 8.5% in the previous session.

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AeroVironment Stock Jumps 21% After Strong Earnings Report

AeroVironment Stock Jumps 21% After Strong Earnings Report

AeroVironment reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings per share of $1.84 from sales of $642 million. Wall Street was looking for earnings per share of $1.46 from sales of $556 million.

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SpaceX Stock Is Joining the Russell 1000 Today

SpaceX Stock Is Joining the Russell 1000 Today

The shares should be getting a boost Monday as it’s set to begin trading in a major stock index for the first time, after joining the Russell 1000 after the close Friday.

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Rocket Lab Takes a Page From SpaceX’s Playbook With Its Transformative Iridium Buy

Rocket Lab Takes a Page From SpaceX’s Playbook With Its Transformative Iridium Buy

Rocket Lab stock advances after the company announces a deal to buy Iridium Communications.

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Tesla Stock Rises as Musk's EV Maker Deepens Ties With SpaceX

Tesla Stock Rises as Musk's EV Maker Deepens Ties With SpaceX

Elon Musk has been active on X recently. There are some tidbits for investors in his posts.

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How Buying SpaceX Shares Sent This Stock Soaring Then Tumbling Back to Earth

How Buying SpaceX Shares Sent This Stock Soaring Then Tumbling Back to Earth

A battery technology company has found an interesting way to create stock market value: Buy SpaceX stock.

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Martin Marietta Made a Huge Buy. What the Deal Is Missing.

Martin Marietta Made a Huge Buy. What the Deal Is Missing.

Martin Marietta stock fell after the company announced a $13.5 billion deal to buy Lhoist North America, a supplier of limestone and steelmaking components.

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Why Applied Aerospace Stock Is a Buy After the SpaceX Supplier’s Lackluster IPO

Why Applied Aerospace Stock Is a Buy After the SpaceX Supplier’s Lackluster IPO

Wall Street has launched coverage of Applied Aerospace & Defense with mostly Buy ratings.

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Drones Are Upending Warfare. What Investors Need to Know.

Drones Are Upending Warfare. What Investors Need to Know.

The Iran war proves that America’s ability to spend heavily on elaborate weapon systems no longer cuts it.

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SpaceX’s $2.5 Trillion Value Is Built on AI Data Centers. Their Cost Is Otherworldly.

SpaceX’s $2.5 Trillion Value Is Built on AI Data Centers. Their Cost Is Otherworldly.

Data centers in orbit mean no water or electric bills. But they also cost three times as much as data centers on Earth—$170 billion for one.

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GE Aerospace Trades Like an AI Company. Credit Larry Culp’s Continuous Improvements.

GE Aerospace Trades Like an AI Company. Credit Larry Culp’s Continuous Improvements.

H. Lawrence Culp Jr. has run GE Aerospace since splitting up General Electric. His influence extends throughout the industry.

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MP Materials’ Litinsky Had a Mine and a Vision: to Secure a Rare Earths Supply in the U.S.

MP Materials’ Litinsky Had a Mine and a Vision: to Secure a Rare Earths Supply in the U.S.

The government became James Litinsky’s partner in MP last year, in a deal that sent the stock soaring.

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SpaceX Sinks Despite 2 Big Price Targets

SpaceX Sinks Despite 2 Big Price Targets

The overall market is probably a secondary factor in the shares' trading.

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SpaceX Faces a Reckoning When Stock Lockups End

SpaceX Faces a Reckoning When Stock Lockups End

The aftermath of SpaceX’s public offering saw the shows soar, in part because of demand outstripping supply. But that could soon end as a staggered release of lockups makes more shares available.

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General Motors Is a Cash-Compounding Machine. Buy the Stock.

General Motors Is a Cash-Compounding Machine. Buy the Stock.

Share repurchases have boosted the stock. There are other reasons to buy.

Long Read

Your Tesla Drives Better Than You Do—and That’s Good News for the Stock

Your Tesla Drives Better Than You Do—and That’s Good News for the Stock

BofA analyst Alexander Perry recently analyzed safety data for Waymo and Tesla. Serious incidents are very rare.

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