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Barron’s Picks And Pans: AbbVie, Crocs, RealReal, Roku And More

This weekend's Barron's cover story takes a look at whether the hot IPO market is a bubble. Other featured articles review Dividend Aristocrats on a roll and offer the results from a survey of tech CIOs. ... Read More...

  • This weekend’s Barron’s cover story takes a look at whether the hot IPO market is a bubble.
  • Other featured articles review Dividend Aristocrats on a roll and offer the results from a survey of tech CIOs.
  • Also, the prospects for a pharmaceutical merger, a best-in-class cruise line operator, a momentum stock that stumbled and an unlikely comeback candidate.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="This weekend's Barron's cover story, "Today’s IPO Market Is Not the Next Dot-Com Bubble" by Eric J. Savitz asks whether RealReal Inc (NASDAQ: REAL) is the next Pets.com. See what may come for Lyft&nbsp;Inc (NYSE: LYFT) and others.” data-reactid=”22″>This weekend’s Barron’s cover story, “Today’s IPO Market Is Not the Next Dot-Com Bubble” by Eric J. Savitz asks whether RealReal Inc (NASDAQ: REAL) is the next Pets.com. See what may come for Lyft Inc (NYSE: LYFT) and others.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Josh Nathan-Kazis's "AbbVie Buying Allergan Isn’t the Right Remedy for the Stock" points out that AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV) is acquiring a company with problems like its own, an expensive life raft for the 45% premium it is paying over the Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN) stock price.” data-reactid=”23″>Josh Nathan-Kazis’s “AbbVie Buying Allergan Isn’t the Right Remedy for the Stock” points out that AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV) is acquiring a company with problems like its own, an expensive life raft for the 45% premium it is paying over the Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN) stock price.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="In "Carnival Stock Is Headed for Smoother Sailing," Andrew Bary says&nbsp;Carnival Corp (NYSE: CCL) now looks like a bargain, after hitting the rocks on reduced 2019 financial guidance. Plus, it has the best balance sheet in the cruise-line operator industry.” data-reactid=”24″>In “Carnival Stock Is Headed for Smoother Sailing,” Andrew Bary says Carnival Corp (NYSE: CCL) now looks like a bargain, after hitting the rocks on reduced 2019 financial guidance. Plus, it has the best balance sheet in the cruise-line operator industry.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) led the way in a recent survey of chief information officers, according to "Who’s Winning Over the Big Tech Spenders—and Who May Be Left Behind" by Tae Kim.” data-reactid=”25″>Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) led the way in a recent survey of chief information officers, according to “Who’s Winning Over the Big Tech Spenders—and Who May Be Left Behind” by Tae Kim.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="In Lawrence C. Strauss's "6 Dividend Stocks That Beat the S&amp;P 500," see why the so-called Dividend Aristocrats have fared so well this year and are set up to outperform if rates fall. Discover how Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE: KMB), Procter &amp; Gamble Co (NYSE: PG) and others have fared.” data-reactid=”26″>In Lawrence C. Strauss’s “6 Dividend Stocks That Beat the S&P 500,” see why the so-called Dividend Aristocrats have fared so well this year and are set up to outperform if rates fall. Discover how Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE: KMB), Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE: PG) and others have fared.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="See Also: Bulls &amp; Bears Of The Week: AT&amp;T, Carnival, McDonald’s, Microsoft And More” data-reactid=”27″>See Also: Bulls & Bears Of The Week: AT&T, Carnival, McDonald’s, Microsoft And More

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content=""Move Over, FAANGs. Here Come the WPPCKs." by Nicholas Jasinski makes the case that when economic conditions get hairy, then boring, dividend-paying consumer-staples stocks like PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) and Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) become a lot more appealing.” data-reactid=”28″>”Move Over, FAANGs. Here Come the WPPCKs.” by Nicholas Jasinski makes the case that when economic conditions get hairy, then boring, dividend-paying consumer-staples stocks like PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) and Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) become a lot more appealing.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="In "Roku's Rapidly Rising Stock Takes a Timeout," David Marino-Nachison examines what it means that previously hot shares of streaming-video company Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU) dropped so sharply this past week. Find out whether Amazon is to blame.” data-reactid=”29″>In “Roku’s Rapidly Rising Stock Takes a Timeout,” David Marino-Nachison examines what it means that previously hot shares of streaming-video company Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU) dropped so sharply this past week. Find out whether Amazon is to blame.

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Even when initial public offerings sizzle, that doesn't mean they will stay that way forever. So says Al Root's "Can Crocs Make a Comeback?." Does former darling polymer-shoe maker Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) signal that there can be second acts?” data-reactid=”30″>Even when initial public offerings sizzle, that doesn’t mean they will stay that way forever. So says Al Root’s “Can Crocs Make a Comeback?.” Does former darling polymer-shoe maker Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) signal that there can be second acts?

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Photo courtesy of Roku.” data-reactid=”31″>Photo courtesy of Roku.

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