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Harley-Davidson recently announced that Chief Digital and Operations Officer Jagdish Krishnan and Chief Commercial Officer Luke Mansfield will step down effective December 31, 2025, while Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Root will retain his finance role and assume the title of Chief Commercial Officer, maintaining oversight of global commercial operations. This consolidation of financial and commercial leadership under Jonathan Root signals a meaningful shift in how Harley-Davidson aligns...

Progress Software recently expanded its AI footprint by listing its no-code Agentic RAG platform on AWS Marketplace, giving AWS customers a simpler way to deploy generative AI on their own data. At the same time, the effective integration of ShareFile has lifted annual recurring revenue, overall revenue, and expense savings, underscoring the company’s push toward higher-margin, SaaS-based recurring income. We’ll now examine how the AWS Marketplace rollout of its no-code Agentic RAG platform...

Dassault Systèmes (ENXTPA:DSY) just tightened its partnership with Mistral AI, embedding Mistral’s latest generative AI tools into the OUTSCALE sovereign cloud to serve heavily regulated European industries and public sector clients. See our latest analysis for Dassault Systèmes. The news lands against a tricky backdrop, with the share price sitting at €23.51 and a steep year to date share price return of around negative 29 percent. The one year total shareholder return has also fallen more...

Ecopro Co., Ltd. ( KOSDAQ:086520 ) shares have continued their recent momentum with a 35% gain in the last month alone...

In December 2025, Canadian Solar Inc. announced it will resume direct oversight of its U.S. operations by launching CS PowerTech, a majority-owned joint venture focused on North American manufacturing and sales of solar modules, cells, and advanced energy storage systems. The move to reshoring, including about US$50 million in related-party asset acquisitions and new American joint ventures, aims to deepen Canadian Solar’s North American footprint and build a more resilient, transparent...

Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) just tapped supply chain veteran Agustin Lopez Diaz as its new Chief Global Supply Chain Officer, a move aimed at tightening operations and reinforcing its ongoing production shift away from China. See our latest analysis for Stanley Black & Decker. The appointment lands as Stanley Black & Decker’s shares trade around $72.47, with a solid recent upswing in 1 month share price return offset by weaker year to date share price performance, and a mixed multi year...

Wondering if Pure Storage at around $70 a share is still a smart buy or if the real upside is already priced in? Let us unpack what the market is paying for and whether that lines up with the company’s long term story. The stock has been volatile lately, with a sharp pullback of about 20.5% over the last week and 21.8% over the past month. It is still up 12.7% year to date and 10.4% over the last year, and has surged 136.3% over three years and 226.1% over five. Recent headlines have focused...

Key Insights The considerable ownership by public companies in Lotte Energy Materials indicates that they collectively...

The most you can lose on any stock (assuming you don't use leverage) is 100% of your money. But on a lighter note, a...

Web Travel Group Limited ( ASX:WEB ) shares have had a really impressive month, gaining 25% after a shaky period...

When close to half the companies in Australia have price-to-earnings ratios (or "P/E's") above 22x, you may consider...

In November 2025, INPEX Corporation reported acquiring 6,072,000 treasury shares under a Board-approved plan to repurchase up to 60.00 million shares by January 31, 2026, with Hiroshi Fujii set to step down as Representative Director and Senior Executive Vice President and become Director and Corporate Advisor from January 1, 2026. This combination of a sizeable, time-bound buyback program and leadership transition underscores how INPEX is actively reshaping capital allocation and governance...

Key Insights Significant insider control over Sigma Healthcare implies vested interests in company growth 52% of the...

Barclays just took Pentair (PNR) down a notch, shifting its rating to Equal Weight and indicating that the easy margin gains might be behind it. This puts more pressure on future revenue growth. See our latest analysis for Pentair. That cooler tone from Barclays seems to have taken some of the heat out of Pentair’s recent momentum, with a roughly flat year to date share price return but a striking three year total shareholder return of about 135 percent showing the longer term story is still...

ASGN (ASGN) just rolled out a big two part update: it is rebranding as Everforth to pull six brands under one umbrella and launching a $1 billion share buyback program. See our latest analysis for ASGN. Those moves come after a tough stretch, with the share price down sharply year to date and the 1 year total shareholder return near minus 50 percent. The rebrand and buyback look like a clear bid to reset sentiment and rebuild momentum. If you are weighing where else to put fresh capital in...

SMC Corporation recently completed a portion of its previously announced share repurchase program, buying 7,700 shares as part of an authorization to repurchase up to 750,000 shares, with the stated aim of enhancing shareholder value and optimizing its capital structure. This measured progress on the larger buyback plan offers investors a clearer view of how management is actively reshaping the company’s balance sheet over time. We’ll now examine how SMC’s incremental share repurchase...

United Bankshares recently authorized a new stock repurchase program covering up to 5 million shares, about 3.6% of its common stock, and announced its 52nd consecutive annual dividend increase, with the higher fourth-quarter payout scheduled for early January 2026. The company’s continued focus on returning capital through buybacks and steadily rising dividends, while analysts highlight organic growth over mergers, underscores a disciplined capital allocation approach that can shape...

Paragon Care Limited ( ASX:PGC ) shareholders that were waiting for something to happen have been dealt a blow with a...

JFE Holdings (TSE:5411) is back in focus after scheduling a special call to discuss its integrated steel plant joint venture with JSW Steel in India, a move that points to strategic expansion. See our latest analysis for JFE Holdings. The buzz around the India joint venture seems to be feeding into sentiment, with a 1 month share price return of 9.4 percent and a 1 year total shareholder return of 19.8 percent suggesting momentum is building rather than fading. If this kind of strategic...

Metro (TSX:MRU) just rolled out a new share buyback plan, authorizing repurchases of up to 10 million shares, roughly 5% of its float. This move signals management’s confidence and capital discipline. See our latest analysis for Metro. The new buyback comes after a steady climb, with the share price up about 10.7% year to date and a three year total shareholder return of roughly 34%, suggesting momentum is still quietly building rather than fading. If Metro’s disciplined capital returns have...

Recently, Johnson Rice shifted its view on APA Corporation from “Hold” to “Accumulate,” citing a more favorable outlook on the company’s performance and prospects. This ratings change, alongside APA’s continued production stability and steady reduction of net debt toward a US$3.00 billion target, has sharpened investor focus on its cash generation profile. We’ll now assess how Johnson Rice’s more constructive stance on APA fits with the existing investment narrative around cost discipline...

In November 2025, NN STEEL Corporation approved a joint venture with Nippon Steel to own and lease new low-CO2 electric arc furnace facilities at NN STEEL’s Funamachi Plant, supplying steel slabs and hot-rolled products between the partners. This joint venture advances both companies’ decarbonization and resource-recycling ambitions by expanding electric arc furnace capacity and aligning production with growing demand for lower-emission steel. Next, we’ll explore how this low-CO2 electric...

NGK Insulators recently approved an ¥8.96 billion investment in its U.S. subsidiary FM Industries to lift semiconductor manufacturing equipment component capacity by about 20%, with expanded production targeted from January 2027. By scaling FM Industries’ Arizona facilities to support rising semiconductor demand linked to AI applications, NGK is deepening its exposure to higher-value technology supply chains. Next, we’ll examine how this sizeable semiconductor capacity expansion shapes NGK...

As the Australian market navigates a cautious landscape, with telecoms leading amidst broader sector declines and rate pause expectations from the RBA, investors are keenly observing how these dynamics might influence dividend stocks. In such an environment, selecting robust dividend stocks involves looking for companies with strong fundamentals and consistent payout histories to potentially weather economic fluctuations.