Although Methode Electronics (currently trading at $10.98 per share) has gained 7.5% over the last six months, it has trailed the S&P 500’s 16.8% return during that period. This may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.
As the Q3 earnings season comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of this quarter’s best and worst performers in the data infrastructure industry, including Teradata (NYSE:TDC) and its peers.
The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who not so much). Let’s take a look at how waste management stocks fared in Q3, starting with Perma-Fix (NASDAQ:PESI).
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Investors took in Amazon earnings, with the all-important jobs report on deck.
In recent months there has been non-stop commentary on the state of Britain’s capital markets. And it is not good.
An action-packed week in the markets is heading for a more subdued finish as traders await U.S. payrolls data, although the lingering threat of a trade war kept investors hesitant about placing major bets. Investors are betting the artificial intelligence advance of home-grown startup DeepSeek will lead to a boom in the sector, while for now mostly shrugging off the trade war saga that kicked off at the start of the week. U.S. President Donald Trump imposed and then suspended tariffs on Mexico and Canada early this week but his duties on Chinese goods went ahead.
The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it spent most of last year: Generating decent, but unspectacular, job growth. When the Labor Department releases January employment numbers Friday, they’re likely to show that companies, government agencies and nonprofits added 170,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of economists by the data firm FactSet. The unemployment rate is expected to remain low at 4.1%.
From fast food to fine dining, restaurants play a vital societal role. It also feels like demand is strong as consumers always seem to be chasing the next hot place or viral fast food creation on social media (the Bloomin' Onion? That's FIVE BIG BOOMS!). No surprise the industry has returned 24.6% over the past six months, beating the S&P 500 by 7.7 percentage points.
By breaking down physical barriers, consumer internet businesses are reshaping how people shop, connect, learn, and play. These themes have enabled rapid growth for the industry, which has posted a 50.4% gain over the past six months compared to 16.9% for the S&P 500.