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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, $...

Oaktree's co-chairman Howard Marks penned a blog post last week that caught investors' attention. In the letter, the billionaire investor had some harsh things to say about the FAANG stocks — an acronym which groups together some of the most notable technology and internet companies,...

Reminding investors that nothing, at least not in financial markets, moves up in a straight line, the fabled FAANG quintet has recently encountered selling pressure. FAANG membership consists of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Netflix Inc. (...

Paul Meeks ran the biggest technology fund during the peak of the dot-com bubble and certainly learned a thing or two along the way. He's the chief investment officer at Sloy, Dahl & Holst now, and he's issued a warning to tech investors: the relative outperformance of technology stocks...

One of 2016's hottest stock trades was buying the "FANG" group, an acronym coined by CNBC's Jim Cramer that includes Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Google/Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL). In 2017, Apple Inc...

The "FANG" acronym was coined by CNBC's Jim Cramer to group together four of the hottest tech names: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Google (parent company, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)). For years, Apple Inc...