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We first recommended Amazon.com in the July 2008 issue of Stock Pickers Digest (now Power Growth Investor) at $82.52. While we have occasionally moved our recommendation from a Buy to a Hold and back again over that time, the stock has nonetheless been an outstanding performer for our readers: Amazon is now up a whopping 3,992.5%.

In 2008, Amazon was predominantly seen as a leading bookseller on the Internet, as well as a leading video and music seller....
As we’ve often pointed out, IPOs tend to come to market when it’s a good time for the company or its insiders to sell. That may not be, and often isn’t, a good time for you to buy.

One common problem is that the IPO sales process drums up a temporary wave of buying that can push up the stock’s price....
AMAZON.COM INC. $3,231.80 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.amazon.com; Shares o/s: 504.3 million; Market cap: $1.6 trillion; No divds.) now has over 200 million members in its Prime membership program worldwide....

On November 1, 2015, the old Hewlett-Packard Co. split into two firms—Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. For every share they held in the old HP, shareholders received one share in each of the new companies.


Both firms continue to benefit from the split: HP is now up 59% since the separation, while HP Enterprise has gained 40%....
A: C3.ai Inc., $86.44, symbol AI on New York (Shares outstanding: 97.4 million; Market cap: $8.4 billion; www.c3.ai) makes software for corporations to speed up their deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

On December 9, 2020, the company’s shares began trading at $42 on New York, following its IPO....
We’ve singled out one stock from each of our three portfolios—Conservative, Aggressive and Income—as your top choices for new buying in 2021.


All three of these picks have held up well during the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re poised to move even higher as the rollout of new vaccines lets more parts of the economy re-open....
Long-time readers know that we keep you informed of important news about the stocks we cover. That means highlighting developments that promise to brighten their outlook. Here are two that stand out as buys this month:


ELI LILLY & CO. $201.26 is a buy. The stock (New York symbol LLY; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average) (www.lilly.com; Shares outstanding: 956.5 million; Market cap: $192.5 billion; Dividend yield: 1.7%) soared to new highs recently after it announced the latest Phase II results for its Alzheimer’s drug donanemab....


For 2021, we’ve chosen IBM as your #1 Spinoff Buy.

The company’s shares have lagged other big tech stocks in the past year. That’s mainly due to concerns that IBM’s older, slower-growing legacy businesses were holding back its faster-growing cloud computing operations....
A lot can change in 20 years.

As long-time readers may recall, we launched our Wall Street Stock Forecaster around 20 years ago. It got a good reception from our clients and investors (and it’s still going strong today). However, I recall one cancellation email that we received in late 2002, about a year after 9/11....
A: Citrix Systems, $130.99, symbol CTXS on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 123.1 million; Market cap: $16.2 billion; www.citrix.com), develops and sells products and services to corporations to let their employees remotely access all the software, apps and data they rely on to do their jobs.

Instead of installing individual pieces of software on their employees’ computers, corporate clients use Citrix’s remote servers to give their employees secure access to all their software and apps....