Don’t Judge Pfizer by Its Vaccine Efforts

Don’t Judge Pfizer by Its Vaccine Efforts

A lot of stocks are rising because of efforts to find a cure or vaccine against COVID-19. Pfizer's (NYSE:PFE) PFE stock should not be one of them.Source: Manuel Esteban / Shutterstock.com That's not to dismiss its efforts. Pfizer might win the race to get a vaccine out by fall. It's a finalist in the competition to get something out by the end of the year. The company has also outsourced some drug production to focus on the vaccine.But Pfizer is a huge company. Revenues in 2019 were $51.75 billion, and nearly $16.3 billion of that was net income. There's a lot more to look at besides the vaccine, and a lot more to worry about.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Pfizer's ProblemsPfizer is a no-growth company valued for its 38 cents per share dividend, which currently yields 4.2%. With 5.5 billion shares outstanding, it costs $8.36 billion...

Should You Buy Halliburton Company (HAL)?

We at Insider Monkey have gone over 821 13F filings that hedge funds and prominent investors are required to file by the SEC The 13F filings show the funds' and investors' portfolio positions as of March 31st, near the height of the coronavirus market crash. In this article, we look at what those funds think […]...

Trump Says Even Buffett Makes Mistakes With His Airline Exit

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump chided Warren Buffett’s recent move to exit his bets on the airline industry.“He’s been right his whole life, but sometimes even somebody like Warren Buffett -- I have a lot of respect for him -- they make mistakes,” Trump said Friday in a news conference at the White House. “They should have kept airline stocks, because the airline stocks went through the roof today and others did too.”Buffett abandoned his investments in four major U.S. airlines in recent months as the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation, curbing travel across the globe. He started piling into the industry in 2016, which went against his previous swearing off of airlines after a tumultuous USAir bet. At the annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in May, he said the “world changed” for the airline industry.All four companies that Berkshire previously held soared this week after American Airlines Group...