Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has been one of the hottest stocks in the market during 2019, rising by more than 36%. That is 16 percentage points higher than the S&P 500 return of 20%. The strong stock returns have been driven by the company’s healthy cloud and software as a service product and are likely one reason why investors have been flocking into the stock.

Boeing Co.’s (BA) stock has fallen by 21% since peaking in early March. The sharp decline has come following two crashes of its 737 MAX jets and the grounding of the fleet around the world. The recent developments have hampered the stock as investors have lost visibility into the future of the company. Institutional and […]

Snap Inc. (SNAP) may be the comeback story of 2019, with the stock up more than 150% thus far. Hedge funds were buying Snap aggressively in the first quarter as the shares were rising off their December lows.  Even since the end of the first quarter, the stock has continued to rise, and it may […]

Institutional investors were buying the shares of Walt Disney Co. (DIS) at a very fast pace in the first quarter, well ahead of the big stock surge. Disney’s stock has increased by over 21% in 2019, easily ahead of the S&P 500’s gain of 13%. Disney’s big gains have followed an Investor Day in April, […]

Square (SQ) Inc. was one hot stock among the investing community in the first quarter, with shares soaring by over 33%. As a result, the equity landed on WhaleWisdom’s heat map at number 1 and was included on the WhaleWisdom WhaleIndex 100. The first quarter come back was likely spurred by the fact that the […]