Author: ErtgminM00n77
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Medi-Cal will soon be open to all, ‘papers or no papers.’ She wants her neighbors to know
As parents hustled to pick up their kids from a school in South Los Angeles, Juana Dominguez greeted one after another with the same question in Spanish: “Do you have Medi-Cal?” “Don’t be afraid to get it,” she urged mothers pushing strollers in the afternoon sun. She paused to chat up street vendors hawking raspados…
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Venomous snake bites kill thousands every year. A California doctor may have a solution
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — John Heenan knows the terror of feeling a sting on his foot, then looking down and seeing two bright red puncture wounds about an inch apart and a massive rattlesnake slithering away into tall grass. It was a summer morning in 2017, and the 74-year-old horticulturist was carrying a box of fruit…
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Granite REIT: Rock Solid Performance At A Reasonable Price (NYSE:GRP.UN)
CHUNYIP WONG Summary Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:GRT.UN:CA / NYSE:GRP.UN) is a Canadian REIT with a portfolio of industrial assets in Canada, the US, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. It was spun out of the real estate portfolio of auto parts manufacturer Magna International in 2004. Since its creation, it has diversified its portfolio…
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Wendy’s Stock Looks Reasonable Value After A So-So Year (NASDAQ:WEN)
Bruce Bennett This has been a frustrating year for The Wendy’s Company (NASDAQ:WEN). Shares of the burger chain franchisor have fallen around 5% in that time including dividends, underperforming peer McDonald’s (MCD) by over 18ppt amid relatively soft comps. With that leaving Wendy’s on a fairly modest multiple of free cash flow and sporting an…
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Meet The New Bond, Same As The Old Bond?
Igor Kutyaev The rally in bonds to close out 2023 reflects the US Federal Reserve’s (“Fed’s”) validation of beginning a rate-cutting cycle in 2024. Bond markets expect more cuts than the Fed is signaling, and this expectation largely reflects a return to pre-COVID dynamics of low inflation, massive central bank support, and suppressed term premia.…
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Riskified: Strong Growth Outlook, Yet Negative Margins Remain A Concern (NYSE:RSKD)
Jay Yuno Synopsis Riskified (NYSE:RSKD) is a company that offers software as a service specializing in fraud and chargeback prevention technology, particularly in the e-commerce sector. RSKD’s historical revenue growth has been robust, growing in the double-digit range. However, bottom-line margins are negative, and losses have expanded. These losses were mainly driven by rising SG&A…
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Instacart: Reasonable Valuation, But It Is At Risk Of Disintermediation (NASDAQ:CART)
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News Maplebear Inc., better known as Instacart (NASDAQ:CART), has continued to see its share price decline since its IPO. Despite the fact that it started its life as a public company at a relatively more reasonable valuation, compared to the peak private valuation of $39 billion that it reached at the height…
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Costco Vs. Walmart: Several Reasons Make For A Clear Winner (NASDAQ:COST)
heywoody/iStock via Getty Images Introduction Pretty close to exactly one year ago, I wrote my first article on Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST), which was very well received. To this day, I think that article called “Costco Wholesale: A Union For Consumers” is one of the best pieces I have written on this platform. COST delivered a…
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4 takeaways from a Chicago Bulls’ 109-95 loss — losing the offensive boards and a high-scoring game from Cleveland’s Max Strus
After weeks of an upward trajectory, the Chicago Bulls stumbled on a low-energy night as they dropped a 109-95 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday. The Cavaliers were missing the majority of their starters due to injury, but the size of their secondary rotation was enough to disrupt the Bulls and snap a three-game…
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Buffalo Bills drill last-minute field goal to stay hot against Los Angeles Chargers
The Buffalo Bills are riding a hot streak at the right time. After impressive wins in Kansas City and then against Dallas, they found themselves in a dogfight on Saturday night against a rather lowly Los Angeles Chargers team. L.A. had some motivation with it being their first game since firing Brandon Staley following their…