FAANG

For most of the last two years, the market was driven higher by strength in big tech, specifically the FAANG stocks: Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL). Those five stocks increased...

Facbeook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is no stranger to negative headlines about user growth, combating fake news and now the latest controversy involving Cambridge Analytica. Cramer: Investors Losing Patience  Investors are looking at the latest round of headlines and becoming "sick" of the...

Few would call the biotech sector as exciting as the "FAANG" group. But throughout 2017, investors who completely ignored biotech stocks missed out on strong gains. The Nasdaq Biotechnology index outperformed the S&P 500 index throughout the year. The Analyst Bank of America...

The building materials sector is often overlooked by investors, but doing so would be a mistake with a stock like Trex Company Inc (NYSE: TREX) gaining nearly 80 percent over the past year and outperforming all five members of the "FAANG" group. The Analyst B. Riley FBR's Alex...

If history repeats itself, owning the "FAANG" group into 2018 is a smart idea. The Expert Daniel Ives, head of technology research at GBH Insights. The Strategy The average return of each "FAANG" stock if bought on the final trading day in December and sold in the final...

Only a small handful of companies can boast having large amount of brand loyalty from customers. The FANG group, an acronym CNBC's Jim Cramer coined to group together Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (...

Five of the hottest growth stocks of the bull market, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), have shown no signs of slowing down so far in 2017. However, short sellers seem...

Investors are familiar with the "FAANG" stocks but focusing on this group alone implies missed opportunity in equally compelling technology companies, Kim Forrest, portfolio manager and senior equity analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group, explained during a recent CNBC "Trading Nation...

The stock market has seven "gremlins" which are currently counteracting the positives in the market, CNBC's Jim Cramer explained during his daily "Mad Money" show Thursday. These ongoing headwinds could, in fact, prevent the stock market from moving higher and could even push the market lower. Here...

When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) says it's sitting on $261.5 billion in cash, it isn't technically accurate as some of the holdings are in investible securities -- and not just parked in a savings account at a local bank. In fact, Apple owns $52.6 billion worth of U.S. Treasury securities, $...