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Kinder Morgan trades at a compelling level for a company that should grow at an accelerated rate in the coming years. U.S. gas demand is on pace to increase by 19% through 2030, rising from 108 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) to 128 Bcf/d. That’s before factoring in the potential uplift from AI data centers, which could add upwards of 10 Bcf/d of incremental demand by 2030.

This potential surge in demand is coming at a time when Kinder Morgan’s pipelines are already seeing increased utilization, from 73% in 2016 to 87% last year. That’s enabling it to sign new contracts at longer terms or higher rates. It has also provided the company with opportunities to expand its systems. It currently has $4.2 billion of natural gas projects in its backlog.

Kinder Morgan sees a rich opportunity for continued expansion. The company “expect[s] to announce additional significant projects over the next several months that will allow us to expand and extend our network to better serve the needs of our customers and benefit our bottom line,” stated co-founder Richard Kinder on the company’s third-quarter earnings conference call. CEO Kim Dang noted on that call that “the opportunity set has continued to increase over the course of this year, and the conversations are becoming more focused and specific.”

The increased utilization of its existing capacity and the building of additional expansion projects should help to grow Kinder Morgan’s earnings and cash flow at a healthy rate in the coming years. It also has a strong financial profile, which could enable it to make additional accretive acquisitions like STX Midstream. These growth drivers should allow the company to continue increasing its high-yielding dividend.

Kinder Morgan isn’t the screaming bargain it had been entering this year. However, the company still trades at a compelling valuation and dividend yield. Meanwhile, it has lots of growth coming down the pipeline. These factors should give the company the fuel to continue producing attractive total returns in the coming years. While more value-conscious investors might want to wait to see if there’s a pullback, Kinder Morgan still looks like a solid buy for the long term, even after its epic rally this year.

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Should You Buy Kinder Morgan Stock After Its Epic 50%+ Rally? was originally published by The Motley Fool

But even if that does happen, it may still only be a matter of time before investors pull the brakes on the data analytics company. Although artificial intelligence (AI) has unlocked new growth opportunities for the business, the stock trades at 145 times next year’s estimated earnings — an obscene valuation for any growth stock.

There’s no metric based on fundamentals that can help justify Palantir’s stock price today, which is why this has also become a highly speculative buy at this point. While its valuation isn’t as outlandish as MicroStrategy’s is, investors who buy Palantir at its current levels may also face the risk of a significant correction in the near future.

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has largely recovered from the massive data outage that occurred back in July and soured investors on this tech stock. For a while, it looked like the stock might be in trouble as fears mounted that it would lose the trust of its customers due to the incident.

The company, however, appears to have put many of those fears to rest with its latest results, which saw its annual recurring revenue top $4 billion for the period ending Oct. 31. During the period, it also hit $1 billion in quarterly revenue, which was an increase of 29% year over year.

The stock isn’t back to its all-time high, at least not yet. But with investors paying 80 times next year’s earnings, it’s clear that speculation is playing a big part in the reason why its share price is as high as it is; many investors see this as a top AI stock to own, which can benefit from continued growth opportunities due to emerging AI-related cybersecurity threats.

And while that may be the case, there are many cybersecurity options out there and competitors to consider. It’s hard to justify such a high multiple for CrowdStrike, and investors who invest in the business shouldn’t overlook that because, at such a steep premium, you’re already paying for a lot of future growth and not leaving much, if any, real margin of safety should the business struggle.

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• Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $359,445!*

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3 Absurdly Expensive Stocks That Investors Should Think Twice About Buying was originally published by The Motley Fool

As its name implies, this specialty financier lends money to drugmakers in return for a royalty stake in their new, or sometimes still experimental products. Its track record is remarkable, with a stake in 15 blockbuster drugs that generate over $1 billion in annual sales.

Royalty Pharma began trading publicly in 2020, and since then it’s raised its dividend four times for a total of 40%. Investors can look forward to more big dividend bumps in the years ahead. Since the start of 2022, it announced transactions worth $10.1 billion, and many of these investments haven’t had time to produce significant royalties yet.

I expect a great deal of earnings growth from Royalty Pharma over the next few years but it’s a stock investors want to hold over a decade. That’s because the vast majority of businesses that develop new drugs don’t have enough capital to execute a successful commercial launch. The company thinks start-up drugmakers will need over $1 trillion in capital over the next 10 years. As the industry’s largest provider of royalty financing, it will get to pick and choose from a larger list of potential borrowers than its peers.

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• Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $359,445!*

• Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $45,374!*

• Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $484,143!*

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2 Exceptional Dividend Stocks Near 52-Week Lows You Could Regret Not Buying on the Dips was originally published by The Motley Fool

These outsized gains in Palantir’s stock have been fueled by its AI and machine learning-driven platforms being irreplaceable at scale. The company’s Gotham platform is used by the U.S. government and immediate allies to oversee and execute missions, as well as gather data. Meanwhile, Foundry is a platform businesses rely on to make sense of their data. This can aid everything from supply chain management to data analytics.

Although Gotham has been Palantir’s profit driver — government contracts often extend four or five years and lead to highly predictable operating cash flow — this segment has a built-in ceiling. In other words, only very select government entities are allowed access to Palantir’s AI platform. In theory, this is going to limit the long-term growth potential of Gotham.

On the other hand, Foundry is just beginning to stretch its proverbial legs, with Palantir’s commercial customer count rocketing higher by 51% to 498 during the third quarter from the prior-year period. Though there’s an exceptionally long growth runway attached to Foundry, it’s not yet proven it can be the moneymaker that Gotham is.

This leads to the other reason Stanley Druckenmiller and his crew at Duquesne may have dumped shares of Palantir Technologies: its valuation. Shares of the company are valued at north of 43 times forecast sales for next year, along with a multiple of 143 times estimated earnings per share (EPS) in 2025. These are levels that are historically consistent with tech stocks that are in a bubble.

But it’s not all about ringing the register at Duquesne Family Office. The fund’s brightest investment minds, led by Druckenmiller, have done some big-time buying this year. While most asset managers are focused on AI stocks and Wall Street’s hottest new trends, Druckenmiller chose to pile into a boring stock that’s delivering a supercharged dividend yield.

Since the end of March, Duquesne’s 13Fs show that Druckenmiller has overseen the purchase of 1,134,635 shares of tobacco stock Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM). I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention that Duquesne has purchased call options in Philip Morris, which suggests there may be a hedge in place, and we’re not seeing the complete picture. As a reminder, options held short aren’t going to be reported in a 13F.

Tobacco stocks have certainly faced their fair share of challenges. In particular, regulatory agencies have clamped on down on their ability to advertise in a number of developed markets. What’s more, people have become aware of the potential long-term health hazards of using tobacco products. For instance, the adult cigarette smoking rate in the U.S. has declined from around 42% in the mid-1960s to just 11.5%, as of 2021.

Despite these challenges, Philip Morris International has outperformed, with its stock reaching multiple all-time highs this year.

One factor working in the favor of tobacco stocks like Philip Morris is its exceptional pricing power. Tobacco contains nicotine, which is an addictive chemical. This addictive quality, coupled with Philip Morris marketing the well-known premium brand Marlboro outside the U.S., affords the company plenty of opportunity to raise its prices to offset any reduction in cigarette shipments to developed markets.

Secondly, Philip Morris enjoys virtually unparalleled geographic revenue diversity among tobacco stocks, with operations in more than 180 countries. If regulators are making life difficult in one or more developed markets, chances are that Philip Morris can rely on growing demand in emerging market regions to pick up the slack.

However, the most exciting of all developments has been the company’s push toward smokeless tobacco products. During the third quarter, smoke-free products (SFP) accounted for 38% of the company’s net sales, with revenue from this segment jumping by 16.8% on an organic basis (i.e., excluding currency movements). Philip Morris’s IQOS heated tobacco system continues to gain global market share, while oral SFP revenue has soared thanks to growth in Zyn nicotine pouches.

Although Philip Morris International is no longer the screaming bargain it was when the year began, it’s still yielding north of 4% and has seen its earnings growth rate reaccelerate thanks to its smokeless products.

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Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller Sold 95% of Duquesne’s Stake in Palantir and Is Piling Into This High-Yield Dividend Stock Instead was originally published by The Motley Fool

Against that backdrop, Wall Street expects Nvidia’s earnings to increase at 38% annually over the next three years. That makes its current valuation of 54.4 times earnings look very reasonable. That begs the question: Why did Israel Englander sell the stock in the third quarter? I can only speculate about his reasoning, but one possibility is that Nvidia shares looked less attractive at the time.

Specifically, in the third quarter, Wall Street’s three-year earnings forecast called for annual growth of 35%, and the stock traded at an average valuation of 60 times earnings. Put differently, analysts anticipated slower earnings growth and the stock traded at a higher earnings multiple. Both figures have since improved, so Englander may be buying Nvidia stock in the current quarter.

AppLovin provides ad tech software that lets mobile app developers market and monetize their applications. The company also provides software tools that serve the same purpose for connected TV (CTV) publishers. Additionally, AppLovin recently debuted an e-commerce marketing product that lets brands reach consumers through mobile advertising.

AppLovin has distinguished itself with Axon, a constellation of predictive machine learning algorithms that target advertising content with high precision. Last year, the company introduced a more sophisticated model called Axon 2.0, and its improved recommendation capabilities have boosted ad spending on the platform.

Consequently, AppLovin reported excellent financial results in the third quarter, beating estimates on the top and bottom lines. Revenue rose 39% to $1.2 billion, and GAAP net income more than quadrupled to reach $1.25 per diluted share. Management attributed the strong quarter to enhancements in its Axon models.

Importantly, AppLovin earlier this year introduced a pilot of its new e-commerce advertising product. CEO Adam Foroughi on the third-quarter earnings call said it was best and fastest-growing product in company history. He expects sales across the core mobile gaming business to grow at 20% to 30% annually, and says the e-commerce advertising product adds upside to that estimate.

Wall Street expects AppLovin’s earnings to increase at 25% annually over the next three years. That makes the current valuation of 102 times earnings look expensive. So, why was Israel Englander buying the stock in the third quarter? My guess here is the exact opposite of what I speculated about Nvidia: AppLovin shares looked more attractive in the third quarter.

Specifically, Wall Street’s three-year earnings forecast called for annual growth of 28%, and the stock traded at an average valuation of 39 time earnings. In other words, analysts expected AppLovin’s earnings to increase faster and the valuation was cheaper. To that end, while I think AppLovin has a bright future, Englander may be selling shares in the fourth quarter.

Ever feel like you missed the boat in buying the most successful stocks? Then you’ll want to hear this.

On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves:

• Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $359,445!*

• Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $45,374!*

• Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $484,143!*

Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon.

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Does Billionaire Israel Englander Know Something Wall Street Missed? He Sells Nvidia Stock and Buys an AI Stock Up 2,260% Since 2022 was originally published by The Motley Fool

Meta, on the other hand, built Llama, the industry’s most popular open-source large language model (LLM) family. It’s using those models to create exciting new AI features for Facebook and Instagram.

Other popular AI stocks the Roundhill ETF holds include Palantir Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices, Oracle, and Amazon.

The Roundhill ETF was established in May 2023, so it doesn’t have much of a track record for investors to analyze. However, its 57% return since then is better than the 47% total return the S&P 500 has booked over the same period. The ETF is also beating the S&P this year, with a gain of almost 29% so far.

The ETF has an expense ratio of 0.75%, which is the proportion of the fund deducted each year to cover management costs. That’s relatively high compared to ETFs managed by Vanguard, for example, which mostly have expense ratios of 0.1% or less. Higher costs are typical for specialized funds like this one, but they can eat away at investors’ returns over the long term.

Naturally, the future performance of this fund will depend entirely on the success of AI. If the technology’s growth lives up to the estimate from Goldman Sachs, then it will be a huge market that the companies in the ETF can grow into. If it fails to live up to expectations, stocks like Nvidia could lose a significant amount of value.

With that said, Morgan Stanley estimates that four companies — Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta — will spend a combined $300 billion on AI infrastructure during 2025. That’s a clear sign of their expectations for AI’s success. The spending will include chips, so it will be a massive tailwind for suppliers like Nvidia and AMD.

Therefore, the stage is set for the Roundhill ETF to perform well over the next year at least. But given its high concentration, investors should only buy the ETF as part of a balanced portfolio that includes other funds and individual stocks with little, or no exposure to the AI revolution already.

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One potentially benign reason to sell more than a quarter of what had been Berkshire Hathaway’s No. 2 holding by market value is tax implications. Buffett opined during Berkshire’s annual shareholder meeting in May that the corporate income tax rate was likely to climb. He used this as a roundabout justification for locking in some gains with Apple. The idea being that taking gains at a favorably low tax rate would, in hindsight, be viewed favorably by Berkshire’s shareholders.

But there may be more to this selling activity than simple profit-taking or tax implications.

For example, the stock market is historically pricey, and Buffett’s persistent selling for two years looks to be a clear effort to build Berkshire Hathaway’s cash position in anticipation of an eventual move lower in equities. The “Buffett Indicator” hit its highest level on record in November, while the S&P 500’s Shiller price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, which is also known as the cyclically adjusted P/E ratio (CAPE ratio), is at its third-highest reading during a continuous bull market, when back-tested 153 years. Value is tough to come by at the moment.

To build on this point, Bank of America stock isn’t the screaming bargain it once was. When Buffett initially invested in BofA preferred stock in August 2011, Bank of America was trading at a paltry 38% of its book value (i.e., a 62% discount to book value). As of the closing bell on Nov. 29, shares were valued at a 34% premium to its listed book value.

The other possible concern for Warren Buffett and his top advisors, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, is the prospect of falling interest rates. Bank of America is the most interest-sensitive of America’s largest banks by total assets. While the steepest rate-hiking cycle in four decades, from March 2022 through July 2023, added billions of dollars in net interest income to BofA’s bottom line, rate cuts would be expected to adversely impact its earnings per share (EPS).

On the other end of the spectrum, billionaire Ole Andreas Halvorsen, who oversees more than $27 billion at Viking Global Investors, can’t stop buying shares of Bank of America.

During the September-ended quarter, Halvorsen and his advisors opened a position in BofA by purchasing 19,959,530 shares. On a cost basis, we’re talking about a roughly $800 million investment, with Bank of America going from not owned, as of June 30, to Viking Global’s 12th-largest holding, as of Sept. 30. To be fair, Halvorsen is a big fan of financial stocks and has recently piled into Visa and U.S. Bancorp, as well.

The primary lure of financial stocks is that they’re cyclical. Even though slowdowns and recessions are an inevitable part of the economic cycle, the nonlinearity of this cycle works in favor of patient investors. Since periods of growth last significantly longer than recessions, bank stocks like BofA are able to prudently grow their loan portfolios over time, often increasing their book value in the process.

Halvorsen and his team are probably also optimistic about the Fed’s approach to the current rate-easing cycle. Though lower interest rates would be expected to adversely impact Bank of America’s interest income, the nation’s central bank seems intent on slow-stepping the rate-cutting process. The more telegraphed the Fed is with its monetary policy actions, the better BofA can position its loan portfolio to optimize interest income collection.

Don’t overlook the role Bank of America’s capital-return program has played in boosting shareholder value, either. When the U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders and BofA passes the Fed’s annual stress test, it’s not uncommon for the company’s board to return in excess of $20 billion via dividends and buybacks to shareholders. Bank of America has reduced its outstanding share count by 27% over the last seven years, which has had a positive impact on the company’s EPS.

Bank of America has done a phenomenal job controlling its expenses, too. Aggressively investing in digital banking is allowing the company to close or consolidate some of its physical branches. Over the trailing-three-year period (ended Sept. 30, 2024), the percentage of loan sales that were digitally enabled jumped from 43% to 54%.

Lastly, there’s a good chance banking regulations will remain somewhat lenient with the incoming Donald Trump administration, which is a positive for BofA.

Though Bank of America stock isn’t historically pricey like the broader market, it’s sporting a valuation — 13 times forward-year earnings — where upside may be modest over the next couple of years.

Ever feel like you missed the boat in buying the most successful stocks? Then you’ll want to hear this.

On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves:

• Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $359,445!*

• Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $45,374!*

• Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $484,143!*

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Investors should put Buffett’s recent capital allocation decisions in context. Namely, Berkshire is worth $1 trillion, so buying stock in small companies would hardly move the needle. Beyond that, Buffett has admitted to avoiding technology stocks because he doesn’t understand the sector. Taken together, those restrictions leave Berkshire with limited investment options.

Buffett highlighted that problem in his latest shareholder letter. “There remain only a handful of companies in this country capable of truly moving the needle at Berkshire, and they have been endlessly picked over by us and by others,” he wrote. Buffett also discussed international stocks in his analysis. “Outside the U.S., there are essentially no candidates that are meaningful options for capital deployment at Berkshire. All in all, we have no possibility of eye-popping performance.”

Here is the big picture: Many stocks are historically expensive, so compelling investment options have become increasingly difficult to find. Berkshire being a net seller of stocks in the last seven quarters is proof of that. But retail investors have more opportunities to deploy capital than a trillion-dollar company like Berkshire.

So, Warren Buffett’s $150 billion warning should not be viewed as a mandate to avoid the market, but rather as a reminder that valuations always (eventually) matter. In that context, the current environment undoubtedly warrants caution. The slightest bump in the economic or political landscape could send the S&P 500 into a correction or bear market. But I think it would be a mistake to avoid the market entirely right now.

I’ll close with this quote from legendary investor Peter Lynch. “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.”

Ever feel like you missed the boat in buying the most successful stocks? Then you’ll want to hear this.

On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves:

• Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $359,445!*

• Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $45,374!*

• Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $484,143!*

Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon.

See 3 “Double Down” stocks »

*Stock Advisor returns as of December 2, 2024

American Express is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. JPMorgan Chase is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Trevor Jennewine has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Berkshire Hathaway, FactSet Research Systems, and JPMorgan Chase. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Warren Buffett Sends a $150 Billion Warning to Stock Investors as the S&P 500 Races Past Record Highs was originally published by The Motley Fool

“We are here to help Thailand build its own AI,” Huang said at an event in Bangkok Wednesday. Nvidia will look to “invest in Thai ecosystem” with its tools, infrastructure and knowhow, he said.

Thailand is “the next frontier” for the world’s data center boom, according to Macquarie Equity Research, which cited the country’s ample power supply and high grid stability as key selling points. But a shortage of skilled workers will prove a challenge, analyst Kaushal Ladha noted in a report last week.

Siam AI signed agreements with units of Thai conglomerates Charoen Pokphand Group and Gulf Energy to develop AI infrastructure and solutions in their data centers.

–With assistance from Adveith Nair.

(Updates with Huang’s comments in 10th paragraph.)

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