Investor's Edge with Gary Kaltbaum - The big stuff [05.01.2025]

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

https://garykaltbaum.com/THE TOP 5 By Gary Kaltbaum May 1, 2025Crappy finish to a strong day.META and MSFT big names a big help but some distribution. META can’t get above the 50 day.Whatever they s...aid helped AI names come out of the doldrums. Some had dropped over 50% peak to trough.Did we say market has gone coast to coast stretched one way to the other and oversold to massively overbought?AAPL and AMZN no help after the close.

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Starting point is 00:00:26 That's Tommyjohn.com, code comfort. Tommy John. Comfort perfected. Investor's Edge with Gary Coltbaum. Straight talk about you and your money. Now from the BizTalk Studios, here is Gary Cultbaum. And welcome once again to Investors Edge. I'm Gary Coltbaum, your host. A thanks of being with us today.
Starting point is 00:00:47 Glad you here, ladies and gentlemen. Happy that you are listening. It would be May 1. It's Thursday, 2025, emanating from New York City, So if you hear sirens, that means I got news for you. I have an apartment in New York City. At any time of the night, the sirens blare, and you're up. Part of the process, ladies and gentlemen.
Starting point is 00:01:15 Hope you're having a good day. I want to thank Delta for getting me up to New York safely last night. They have become such a great airline in the last so-and-so amount of years. That's all I can tell you. Really, really good. Okay. Lots to cover. I was thinking today,
Starting point is 00:01:37 you know, we've rallied up, and I was just thinking today, what would you want answered today? What are the things that are sticking out that you would want answered? And I realize I know what those things are and how I know your emails. And what's interesting is it's usually the same big names in the markets.
Starting point is 00:02:09 And of course, we had a couple of doozies overnight in Microsoft and Facebook or meta. I still don't know why these companies change their names. After the close is Amazon and Apple, we got Tesla. Their numbers were terrible. We got Google, and their numbers were pretty decent, but the stock has done nothing since. What else? Which a broadcom there a little bit later on, Nvidia reported way back. So we'll get into that.
Starting point is 00:02:45 But first, if you do not get this radio show in your city, we'll post it at garyk.com. We'll also post it on our Twitter feed, which is now X. And if you don't follow us on X, you should. And if you'd like to email us, just be nice. I was on the big money show today on Fox Business. It's one-hour show, five of us discussing different things. And one of the things that was brought up, as always, is the president and the tariffs. And this and that, and I said my usual, I am against tariffs.
Starting point is 00:03:25 I'm not a tariff guy. And it's interesting how the markets agree. Whenever they put on big tariffs, the market got slaughtered. Once they pulled them off or said something to the effect of pause, which were on now, markets had rallied. And, you know, we've tried to communicate with the administration on them. But we know we would fall on deaf ears because, hey, listen, the president, is hard-nosed. And by the way, that's not a put-down. He believes in what he believes. He has
Starting point is 00:04:02 his own convictions, more power to that. But we are in hopes they get away from that. And he recognizes that the market's going down are not a good thing. So we got some emails on that today. I got one email from a person saying, well, you're harsh on radio, but you weren't very harsh on TV. I'm not so sure what that means, except to say, we said we were against the tariffs and we're not tariff people. What else do you want us to say? Anyway, to each his own. You know where we stand with no agenda, ulterior motive, or bias. So let's start off at the market today, and I'm going to give you the weird. There have been days recently
Starting point is 00:04:56 where the market ramped into the close. I will tell you today, the market dropped over 200 points in the last six or seven minutes. 200 Dow points in the last six or seven minutes. I don't know if it's a big deal or not, but when you're up 300 at 350 and you finish up 83, a little sell down at the close.
Starting point is 00:05:33 The NASDAQ had a strong 264 point move to the upside today. NASDAQ 100, 215. But I will say the, and again, not a big deal. The NASDAQ was up about almost 500 today. So a little distribution there, but I wouldn't call it a big deal. And I wouldn't call it a big deal because you've had a pretty good move up
Starting point is 00:05:58 since that higher low. And you know what we mean by a higher low, right? We had the crash low. We rallied up. We pulled back and never went back to the crash low. And that was last Tuesday. And we've rallied up. Yesterday we had a horrible open, reversed.
Starting point is 00:06:14 So I wouldn't call it a big deal. What I would say is I wouldn't be surprised if we threw a little pullback here. And frankly, when mine pullbacks here, it sets things up better to go higher. And we'll await Amazon and Apple. We got Amazon.
Starting point is 00:06:36 It's down $8 in the aftermarket, but only down $2.50 on the day because it was up nicely. And we were waiting Apple, and that'll come out in a little bit. But what I do want to talk about is Microsoft and Facebook or meta. let's start with meta
Starting point is 00:06:50 good numbers but a little deceleration in sales I did not like the action in the stock today not bearish bearish but I'm definitely not bullish on the stock
Starting point is 00:07:05 just let you know why do we say that well because they opened it up today at 593 and closed at 572 simple as that they distributed the stock distribution means selling by institutions.
Starting point is 00:07:22 On top of that, I'm not going to use the word failed, but it got sold off in and around that 50-day moving average. So for me, right now, right now, meta is an absolute non-starter for me. Would not be a buyer of it? Let me take that back. I'm not going to be a buyer of it. as always we let you decide Microsoft
Starting point is 00:07:52 good old dependable Microsoft which pretty much have been growing in the teens for quite a while and you had a little acceleration they did 10 10 10 10 and we just did an 18
Starting point is 00:08:09 sales 15 16 12 13 so dependable the stock like everything else was smoked 448 down to 350 and recent passed on that
Starting point is 00:08:25 higher low went from 360 closed yesterday let's call it 396 finished up $30 today very good move
Starting point is 00:08:40 though at what point today was only up 41 so not that bad it's a win. But we do want to let you know. Microsoft has now gapped into what we call massive overhead
Starting point is 00:08:58 resistance. And if you go look, forget what we have to say, just go look. And you will see between 430 and 468 the high, lots of resistance there. So
Starting point is 00:09:14 opinion. probably going to do a little dipsy doodle in here, backing and filling, filling and backing. And I have to tell you, I've made money in the stock in the past. I love the company. And what we're going to hopefully look for is what we call a secondary buy point. And what that simply means, it gaps up and sits around and hangs out and then turns up and moves above the gap point. That's what we're going to be looking for. Does it mean it's going to happen?
Starting point is 00:09:52 No. It's things we just look for. And of course, if Microsoft keeps going up, it is a, I think, number two on the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P 500 in influence and in size. So we're going to be watching that closely. but something else happened with Microsoft you needed to know. And meta, things they said. They talked about cap X, capital expenditures, how much they're going to be spending on things going forward.
Starting point is 00:10:38 And they put out some pretty darn good numbers going forward. Does that mean they're going to spend it? No, but they still stated it. We'll buy into it. And what happened? Do you remember we've been telling you that all the artificial intelligence stocks have been the bare market? Well, those artificial intelligence stocks had been bouncing up with the rest of the market. Up next, what did they do today?
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Starting point is 00:14:24 publish it. It's time to switch on the integrator units and get the brain cells working. You're listening to. Hey, this promises to be fun. Investors Edge. The last vast, the end of quality programming with Gary Coltbaum it doesn't get better than this and welcome once again to Investors Edge so we've had a pretty big bare market in artificial intelligence stocks and as you know all the analysts are out saying don't worry everything's okay everything's fine keep buying and of course some of them dropped 50 percent some artificial intelligence stocks dropped over 50 percent since January. Yet they kept telling you, just by, don't worry. Everything's fine.
Starting point is 00:15:26 While we're telling you, why don't you wait till they show some bottoming? And what that simply means is they stop going down and they start turning up and they start putting some stair steps to the upside and we start identifying that on the up days volumes heavy on the down days volumes lighter indicating institutions or maybe getting involved again but no they kept saying just by and a bunch from dropped 50 some odd percent i'll just give you one instant vr t vertive the stock went from 155 You ready for this one? The 67.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Well, it's been rallying up because the market's been rallying up. It's back to 93. Still down from 155 and they're still telling you to buy it. It's a data center company. We're just letting you know that a lot of these names broke back above that big declining 50-day moving average. in the last day or so and especially today. Does that mean they don't just turn right back down?
Starting point is 00:17:03 No, does that mean they keep going? Don't know. We just let you know that technically, in order for things to get better, things have to get better. Duh, and part of that has to be getting back above the 50-day moving average and sticking.
Starting point is 00:17:23 simple as that and sticking so the first step may have occurred there is no rule that it doesn't just turn right back down tomorrow
Starting point is 00:17:39 but from the mouth and mouths of meta and Microsoft was the talk of CAPX and talking up of artificial intelligence.
Starting point is 00:18:01 So just let you know better. We'll stay on top of it. Just let you know turning up. Other areas doing the same? The energy stocks. You know those energy companies. Symbols, C-E-G, one of them.
Starting point is 00:18:23 up 70 today, just turning up, still way down from the highs, a GEV, which is stronger than the rest, NRG reports, I believe, after the close today, and VST. Now, we are not telling you to buy them, sell them, short them, or cover them. We'll let you know what they are doing. simple as that. Update on the aftermarket, Amazon hit 180, down about, dang, it was down about 10. Now it's only down about three and a half in the after market.
Starting point is 00:19:09 So the NASDAQ 100, which started to head lower, down a little bit in the after market, but no big deal. Still waiting on Apple. I am seeing some other movers in the aftermarket that are in import Duolingo simple DUOL up 26 bucks to 426 Twilio closed at 98 106 in the aftermarket Reddit that thing got bombed up 20 bucks in the aftermath $19 in the aftermarket to 138 on their numbers but then XYZ they changed their name twice
Starting point is 00:19:49 They're called block. Used to be square. Closed at 58, I got it at 49. How about Symbol Team, a software company. Closed at 229 out. 194. That ain't no hill for a climber. Airbnb reports?
Starting point is 00:20:10 Down $4 to $120, but that stock's been trashed. A lot of trashing as of recent. And what do we do now? letting you know how we work in case you did not know. Two hours earlier, two hours later, we're going through earnings reports from the night before, seeing where they're opening in the morning, seeing the new earnings reports in the morning, going through them, and basically again, where are things opening in relation to where the stocks are. What were the earnings, what were the sales, whether they good, not so good?
Starting point is 00:20:56 Is there sympathy moves? As we said, there was sympathy moves in the AI stocks because of what Microsoft and Meta said. And then after the close, same thing. So we're already writing down names right now because we're in the midst of earning season. It's a pain in the butt, but I must tell you. It's where you find greatness from and where you find crap. from. It's as simplistic as that from the earning season. And we used to listen to conference calls, not as often why. You ever hear a CEO say anything bad about their company in a conference call?
Starting point is 00:21:42 It's always light at the end of the tunnel, even if things are bad. It's always everything good. Yeah, we had to lower our numbers, but. And we used to have CEOs on the show. show. But the same thing. We would have loved one to come on and say, well, you know, things suck. That doesn't happen. So that's the goal around earning season. That's why we said, so Microsoft, we're looking for a real good setup going forward. And maybe it will, maybe it won't. don't know, but we love big liquid names. We made a lot of money in the past on big liquid names. So stay tuned.
Starting point is 00:22:40 We'll let you know. Pay attention. It's been quite the last four or five weeks. And I think in case I haven't said it to you, April pretty much goes down as the craziest month I have ever been in. Seriously. Up next. Why was it the craziest month? And much more. This is the one only investors, Ed. Guys, it's no use putting it off. The best time for an underwear refresh is now. Tommy John underwear is designed for a perfect fit that stays put all day. Their zero-chafe
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Starting point is 00:25:14 Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. You're listening to. America is talking. Investors Edge. He's got to be pleased with that. The crowd is just on his feet here. He's a Cinderella boy. With Gary Colbomb.
Starting point is 00:25:36 It comes highly recommended. You're going to feel better if you talk to him. By the way, hey, welcome once again to Investors Edge. You know, when I can see things in real time, it is amazing to me the influence that just a few names have on the market. I just watched Amazon go from 190 to 180 in the aftermarket and watch the NASDAQ 100, the QQQ, dump. but then Amazon bounces a little bit. It's 185 right now. Guess what the NASDAQ 100 does?
Starting point is 00:26:39 It's amazing. And I must tell you, part of this recent, it wasn't a bloodbath, but drop in the market was headed by eight or nine stocks. You have to remember these eight or nine stocks. eight or nine stocks, 30 some odd percent of the S&P, which is much worse than 50 some odd
Starting point is 00:27:06 percent of the NASDAQ 100. Just remember, those are 100 stocks. So you can have eight or nine stocks that are 55 percent of NASDAQ 100, 91 or 92 stocks, 45 percent. But then you get the S&P 500. Eight stocks, 30 some odd percent, 4992 stocks. catching my drift. I gather the world better, had better, never see all of them going to bare markets. And the good news is Netflix bullish, Microsoft with a big gap, meta, though
Starting point is 00:28:02 not that great, but had a big gap today. And video, well, still weak. Let's just say none of them are getting trashed right now. We'll keep watch. You have to remember what tore the house down in the year 2000 was that concentration and they all got clunked and kept getting clonked. So we'll certainly be paying attention to them. And just so you know, as I've been saying, it's not about their numbers. It's about the concentration. Incentration. Incentration. Institutions have so much of these stocks. Tons. Absolute tons.
Starting point is 00:28:53 That when things go awry, oh, they're selling. Oh, they're selling. So we're going to stay on top of that because, man, oh, ma'am, we have studied 99, 2000, 2001, 2002. We're not saying we're in any way shape
Starting point is 00:29:20 perform in that. But we have studied history. It's in the study of history and bull and bear markets that keeps us, at least we believe, in better stead than most. And recently, all these stocks were in the findable downtrend. And by the way, still are, except for Microsoft and Netflix. So stay tuned. Hear the sirens. New York City. We will stay on top of it. Just be smart.
Starting point is 00:30:18 Stay careful. Markets aren't easy. Gold, we had stated we thought a top was near. We even told you that Barron's front cover was gold rush. It's still breaking. The GLD, which represents gold, was down $6 in change today. It has now gone from 317 to 297,
Starting point is 00:30:43 which, by the way, is no big deal. We still think gold is in an overall bull market with a near turn downtrend. That's all as of now. We'll keep you up to date on that. Save for the gold miners. I want to get back to the artificial intelligence thing. When it was going down,
Starting point is 00:31:13 our emails would be very skeptical of us. And we try to explain. We're just telling you what the stocks are doing. We do not know what the outcome is going to be on artificial intelligence. No idea. And I got news for you. The people that are spending all those bucks, I'm pretty sure they're not sure. I'm pretty sure they're not sure what their return on investment's going to be.
Starting point is 00:31:43 but the emails were getting were obviously from people that were in those stocks and all we were saying was the stocks are in a bearish trend well I'm now letting you all know they may have not 100%
Starting point is 00:31:59 turn the corner now some of the things Microsoft and meta said on the earnings call they had already said before but this time since the market's better they caught.
Starting point is 00:32:16 And we'll see where they go. And this goes for the energy stocks, data centers, even some of the construction stocks. You know, the ones that say they're going to build the data centers, symbol fix, for example, or EME, and then there's some software names too. I'm still quite dubious of all the numbers being thrown about. but that's a guess on my part.
Starting point is 00:32:52 I've never trusted big numbers. I feel like a lot of these companies are trying to curry favor with the new administration. When I add up some of the numbers, they just don't seem to make any sense whatsoever. But it's a guess. And we'll just keep paying attention. We'll see how it plays out. we're all for it I must tell you we've done a decent dive on AI
Starting point is 00:33:24 I haven't even used it I'm told I have to use chat GPT I will just haven't as a yet I'm being told that Google slash alphabet is in trouble because of it we'll see don't know
Starting point is 00:33:47 your guess is good as mine on the other end of import we'll stay away from the bad reactions Qualcomm today down $12 guess what we stay away
Starting point is 00:34:07 anything that gaps down lowers guidance to that effect see ya why because we want to invest in greatness not bad
Starting point is 00:34:26 I got a bunch of things on Eli Lilly today in case you don't know was down 105 bucks today Eli Lilly down $105 today how can that be
Starting point is 00:34:45 aren't they selling a ton of the obesity stuff all I can tell you they issued below Estimate guidance. And you're usually going to get sold down. Eli Lilly, to me, at this juncture, just like United Health, I just stay away. Why?
Starting point is 00:35:25 Eli Lilly went from 935 to 67 to 900 and today down 104 bucks to under 800 in seven weeks. No thank you. United Health went from let's see 630 to 438 to 600 down to 400 by the way New Yearly Low
Starting point is 00:35:53 I typically stay away from wildness and when companies get a reputation of that see ya up next Apple this is the one only investor's edge guys it's no use putting it off the best time for an underwear refresh
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Starting point is 00:38:54 He's one of those great men that is always there when you need him in a pinch. And we always thank him for that. Great family too. Okay. Apple, down $4 in the aftermarket, about $4.5. 40 and of course all this can change you do know what happens they do conference calls and everything's great everything's good all I can tell you Apple came in with earnings and I will tell you single digits earnings year over year single digits year over year in
Starting point is 00:39:32 sales also and the stock's been weak and if nothing changes as I speak we'll open up a little bit to the downside tomorrow. So we had two buffo reactions in Microsoft and meta, the two M's, the two A's as of this second, both down. I got Amazon down about six in the aftermarket and Apple, down three and change. What we do. But believe it or not,
Starting point is 00:40:07 every dollar with these stocks matter big time. The good news is, Then up, there's no big blowups. What we didn't want to see is like a 7% drop and things like that. Apple's been in a pretty good downtrend, rallied off the crash lows, still below the 50-day moving average. Amazon, same thing. Same thing on Amazon. Back in D.C.
Starting point is 00:40:42 A few things of note. Mike Waltz went from NSA and now he's going to be an ambassador. Mike Waltz was the District 6, just north of where I live in Florida. He was in the house and the president moved him. He was the gentleman that, I guess that whole
Starting point is 00:41:02 signal thing in the app, I don't know why they move him from one place to the next beats the heck out of me. That moved happened today. Doubt it moves any needles. I think he's a good guy.
Starting point is 00:41:17 I think he works hard and looks like they said mistakes were made and hopefully they don't make those mistakes going forward. And I do believe he came out and said it's on me. To me, that's a man's man. Just like I'm not going to say who, but somebody went on TV the other day and talked about his losses. and I emailed him and I said, you know, you're a man's man.
Starting point is 00:41:50 Thank you. I really appreciate it. Because most people that go on tube never talk about their losses, especially the perma bulls that have been crushed this year before the rally off the crash lows. Things that I'm hearing. This talk, we're in this place. pause now, you know, the pause that saved the markets, you know, the pause that stopped the crash from continuing down, that pause, just kind of sort of hearing.
Starting point is 00:42:32 Kind of sort of that that's not coming back. It's going to stay paused. And for obvious reasons. I gather the president doesn't want his poll numbers to worsen. I'm sure you've seen his poll numbers. We're not hiding that. You shouldn't hide it either. They're bad. They're darn bad. I believe it's the worst at this time in a very long while, if not the worst. And it's all because of not just the tariffs, but the movement, the continuing change. even today what's the guy's name Hassett came out
Starting point is 00:43:24 oh we're going to have an announcement later today on tariffs stop they obviously aren't listening to me just stop enough please
Starting point is 00:43:37 so I'm pretty sure that's going to go by the wayside that's good news we're also seeing more exemptions especially on the auto front Oh boy that needs to get done. We're also hearing that the U.S. has reached out to China.
Starting point is 00:44:01 You know, we were playing like the big dog and we're with the big strength. And we're going to wait for China. No, we're hearing now that we reached out to them. And I must tell you, fine. We don't have to look bigger or stronger than them or vice versa. Let's just get it done. And I can promise you if something gets done and whatever trade deals that get done, terrific, whatever they may be. Terrific. If we can just get past that and then make the tax cuts permanent, get rid of some of these onerous regulations, keep working on the size and scope and the reach of government to do better for the private sector.
Starting point is 00:44:52 I think the potential is unlimited. And we tell you why. The people this country are hardworking, all want to do better for themselves and their family. The medical advancements and the technological breakthroughs have been magnificent. Very tough to stop that. And I still remember the words of John Templeton, and I'm paraphrasing to the effect of, if you believe in the progress of the United States as well as, human civilization you got to bet on markets longer term and he said that by the way like 30
Starting point is 00:45:38 years ago and boy was he right darn good right so we are in hopes our little mantra of keep taxes low less regulations get close to balance budgets and just get the heck out of the way they listen would be nice hey that all said we'll see what tomorrow brings Apple and Amazon down. Tomorrow's another day. You have a great evening. Drive carefully. And when you get home to like we do,
Starting point is 00:46:13 quite simple. Make sure you hug your family. Make sure you hug your children. They will feel better. You'll feel better. I promise stay well, be well. Serenity now. Have a good night, everybody.
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