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The post Are Stablecoins Making XRP Unnecessary? appeared first on 24/7 Wall St..XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) was built to be the money that moves between banks, so nobody has to park cash abroad before a payment starts. However, most of Ripple’s institutional deals now settle in its RLUSD stablecoin, and the coin is only used to pay the network fee of 0.00001 XRP per transaction. The XRP price hovers near $1.02 today, down 46% this year, and every major partnership Ripple has announced in 2026 has be

The post Cisco Drops 7% on Gross Margin Fears: Five Firms Raise Cisco Price Target Anyway appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Shares of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) are down 7% to $115 Thursday morning after the company’s fiscal Q4 2026 results delivered a beat and raise. The reaction has flipped almost entirely to gross margin compression tied to AI hardware mix, and the move partly unwinds a 63% year to date (YTD) run heading into the print. Cisco stock closed at $123.88 Wednesday. Non-GAAP

The post Big Beat, Big Backlog, Big Caveats: Inside Super Micro’s 33% Upside Potential appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) posted a 77.55% EPS beat on $11.12 billion in Q4 revenue, guided fiscal 2027 sales to $65 billion to $72 billion, and disclosed record backlog entering fiscal 2027. Shares closed essentially flat. That gap between fundamentals and price is where our model finds opportunity. Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for Super Micro is $42.21, implyi

The post CoreWeave’s Spike Hasn’t Erased 3-Month Losses: Why Trusted Wall Street Pro Expects 65% Post-Spike Gains appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) is trading at $107.73, well below the $178 price target Cantor Fitzgerald just reiterated on the AI cloud specialist. That gap works out to roughly 65% of implied upside from current levels. CoreWeave rents NVIDIA GPU capacity to AI labs, hyperscalers, and enterprises building large models. Since its March 2025 Nasd

The post Meta’s $145B Bet Has Wall Street Terrified—Here’s Why Bargain Hunters Are Buying Hand Over Fist appeared first on 24/7 Wall St..The hyperscalers are spending an immense sum on the AI data center buildout. And it looks like the path of least resistance is higher when it comes to CapEx. Indeed, we’ve heard so much about the AI infrastructure boom, but it’s still in its early days. It’s more of a multi-year effort, and while CapEx won’t just keep moving higher forev

The post The 4% Rule Gives You $40,000 a Year on $1 Million. Inflation, Taxes, and Healthcare Will Eat Most of It appeared first on 24/7 Wall St..One million dollars sounds like enough. It is a clean, memorable number, and for decades it has served as the shorthand goal for retirement readiness. The problem is that the way most people think about what $1 million actually buys them in retirement is quietly wrong, and the gap between the number on a statement and the real spending power it generat

The post He Expects to Retire With Less Than $250,000, Nowhere Near the $1.2 Million Target. His Social Security Timing Matters More Than Ever. appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. A recent Schroders survey put a number on what workplace retirement-plan participants think a comfortable retirement takes: approximately $1.2 million. Only 30% believe they will reach $1 million. More than half expect to retire with less than $500,000, including 24% who expect less than $250,000. He is one of them. At 61

The post Intel’s Best Growth in 15 Years: 25% Revenue Surge and Our New Price Target appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) posted 25.42% year-over-year revenue growth in Q2 2026, its strongest top-line result in more than 15 years, powered by a 59% surge in Data Center and AI revenue. With shares at $97.71 after a sharp pullback from June highs, the setup for the next 12 months is constructive but not spectacular. Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for Intel is $107.66, implyin

The post Jim Cramer Says Skip Poet and Buy These 2 Proven Photonics Stocks for AI Data Centers in August appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Jim Cramer has a clear message for investors chasing photonics exposure: skip speculative small caps and own companies already delivering results. During a recent Mad Money Lightning Round, Cramer passed on Poet Technologies without an opinion, directing investors instead to his preferred names in the space: Lumentum Holdings (NASDAQ:LITE) and Coherent (NYSE:C

The post 12 Things Not To Do If You Won The $1.04 Billion Lottery appeared first on 24/7 Wall St..The eighth-largest Powerball jackpot in history was won Wednesday night by a single ticket in Illinois. Final ticket sales pushed the final jackpot to $1.04 billion, making it the largest Powerball prize won this year. At 24/7 Wall St., we have evaluated lottery winners’ behavior across the board, and the pattern is striking. Far too many of them walk away with life-changing money only to lose

The post U.S. Budget Deficits Just Surged to $432.3 billion in July While Trump Weighs Brand-New Tax Cuts appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Could America’s rising deficit create problems for top-level government policy? Here are the facts: the U.S. Treasury’s Monthly Treasury Statement for July landed with a jolt, showing a monthly shortfall of $432.3 billion, the largest single-month deficit since March 2021. Receipts totaled $334 billion against outlays of $766 billion. That gap arr

The post Household Debt Just Fell for the First Time in 6 Years — Here’s Why That’s Bad News appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Every quarter, American households collectively add to or chip away at what they owe, and for six years running, that balance has only grown. Mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, student debt — together they form one enormous ledger that expanded from roughly $14.15 trillion at the end of 2019 to $18.77 trillion today, a $4.63 trillion climb.  So w

The post Hold Intel And Strictly Follow These Binary Catalysts appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. At $100.95, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is a Hold, with the next leg of the trade riding on binary catalysts that will either validate this year’s dramatic re-rating or expose it as premature. After a 362.86% one-year rally, the setup is unusually asymmetric. Intel is the world’s largest x86 CPU designer and one of only three companies attempting leading-edge logic manufacturing at scale. The turn

The post Inside Latigo Biotherapeutics’ IPO: A Non-Opioid Pain Bet Goes Public appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Latigo Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:LTGO) arrived on public markets with the kind of reception biotech bankers dream about. The Thousand Oaks, California, clinical-stage developer priced its IPO at $18 per share and opened at $21, raising nearly $350 million after an oversubscribed book. Shares recently changed hands at $19.38. That is up 6.2% from the $18.25 close on August 7 and 4.6

The post Great Company, Full Price: What Arm’s Numbers Say About the Next 1 Year appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) just delivered its third consecutive year of more than 20% revenue growth, with CEO Rene Haas emphasizing Arm as the compute platform for the AI era. Shares are up 146.03% year to date, then slipped hard. Can Arm reach $450 over the next 12 months from today’s $268.93? Here’s what the numbers show. What’s Holding Arm Back Right Now S

The post Live Nasdaq Composite: Stocks Tilt Higher Even as Cisco Falls on Profit Taking After Earnings appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Live Updates Institutions Are Pouring Capital Into AI Infrastructure. This Offering Is Open to Everyone. By BluSky's count, institutions and private capital have committed more than $1 trillion to AI data centers, an asset class individual investors rarely get direct access to. Regulation A changes that math: it lets companies raise from the general pu

The post Vertiv’s AI‑Driven Surge Has Analysts Calling for Even More Upside appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Shares of fast-rising liquid cooling star Vertiv (NASDAQ:VRT) have been sharply rallying in recent weeks shortly after it seemed like the AI data center trade as we knew it was due for a vicious implosion. As it turned out, it was just another run-of-the-mill correction and one that led to a swift V-shaped bounce. Unless you levered up and the margin calls rang the phone off the hook, the

The post Dell Rises 4% and HP 6% Premarket. Cisco Sinks 7%. What’s Causing the Biggest Premarket Moves? appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Hardware stocks are splitting Thursday morning. Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) is indicated up 4% premarket and HP (NYSE:HPQ) is up 6%, while Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) is down 7%. Two separate catalysts are driving the divergence: a blowout quarter out of Lenovo overnight and Cisco’s own fiscal fourth quarter results after Wednesday’s close.

The post 54 Straight Years: Why PepsiCo Remains a Dividend Investor’s Anchor appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) has become one of the most reliable income machines on the market, with a compelling setup heading into the back half of 2026. With shares trading at $138.08 and the payout streak now stretching to 54 consecutive years, the stock offers a rare combination of income durability and mean-reversion upside from a compressed multiple. Our 24/7 Wall St. price target f

The post Wave Life Sciences: A $1 Billion RNA-Medicine Bargain Ripe for Pharma Takeover appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Wave Life Sciences (NASDAQ:WVE) trades at $5.24, a step above its 52-week low of $5.01 and far beneath the 52-week high of $21.73. Its market cap is near $1.0 billion. Shares are down 69.2% year to date, 38.0% over one year, and 16.3% over five years. This clinical-stage, pre-commercial RNA-medicines company is burning cash: it holds $490.6 million in cash, providing runway in