Investors spooked by growing pressure on profit marginsAnalysts concerned losing digital payments market shareWorries offset Q1 forecasts beatDigital payments firm PayPal (PYPL:NASDAQ) is facing nearly $3.5 billion being wiped off its market value when trading reopens in New York later today.The near-5% plunge in the share price of the Palo Alto-based business came after cutting growth guidance fo

Investors are rejecting many highly-rated stocks off the back of Joe Biden's presidential victory and promising coronavirus vaccine news is seemingly putting a rally for more reasonably priced growth equities on the table.High-quality and reasonably valued tech names like PayPal are in the relative doldrums, which presents an opportunity.This is a great time for ordinary investors to jump on one o

Increasing investor anxiety is leading to bigger share individual price moves on a daily and weekly basis and the last week was no exception with a number of large fallers.Engineering group Rolls-Royce (RR.) was forced to release a statement after increasing speculation that the company was planning to raise new funds, leaving the shares down 24% between 14 September and 21 September and hitting a

App store and digital content company Boku (BOKU:AIM) may soon be a profitable business. Stockbroker Peel Hunt forecasts $0.7m of pre-tax profit (approximately £0.49m, the company reports in dollars) for the year to 31 December 2018. That could soar to $8.5m in 2019 if the broker has got its assumptions right.Analysts believe the company's value proposition and supplier relationships with key dig

Fancy doubling your money in a year by investing in an exciting stock? Sounds great, doesn't it? It's harder than you think, but certainly not impossible.Over the past 12 months, robotic process automation specialist Blue Prism (PRSM:AIM) is up by 439%; online musical equipment retailer Gear4Music (GFM:AIM) has increased by 341%; and computer games service group Keywords Studios (KWS:AIM) is tradi

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