Archives June 2025

Stocks soared in May, lifted by easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, a strong end to first-quarter earnings season, and evidence the economy remains on solid footing. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both notched their best months since November 2023, rising 6.2% and 9.6%, respectively.

Trade policy is likely to remain Wall Street’s primary focus in June. With President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs expected to go back into effect on July 9, investors will be hoping the White House strikes more trade deals in the coming weeks. Wall Street will also be watching Congress, where Republicans are hammering out the details of Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill.’

Below, we look at a few stocks to keep an eye on this month.

Apple

Tariffs have been the primary focus of Apple (AAPL) investors in recent months, but their attention is likely to shift to artificial intelligence when the company hosts its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 9.

Last year’s WWDC saw the unveiling of Apple Intelligence, the company’s proprietary artificial intelligence offering. Executives touted Apple Intelligence’s personalization and privacy features, and showed off a few AI applications like image and emoji generators.

At this year’s WWDC, Apple is reportedly planning to release a software development kit that enables third parties to build features using the large language models underpinning Apple Intelligence. Apple has disappointed Wall Street and some users with its slow AI roll-out. Opening up Apple Intelligence to outside parties could satisfy the critics by accelerating the development of AI apps for the iPhone and other AI-enabled devices. 

Apple shares, weighed down by President Trump’s tariff threats, have lost about 20% of their value so far this year. 

Tesla

Now that CEO Elon Musk has left Washington, he’ll be spending much more time delivering on his promise to transform Tesla (TSLA) from an electric vehicle manufacturer to a leading artificial intelligence company. 

Tesla is reportedly aiming to launch its new robotaxi service on June 12 in Austin, Texas, about eight months after Musk first unveiled prototypes of the company’s completely autonomous “Cybercab” and “Robovan.” The rollout is arguably the most high-profile test yet of Tesla’s full self-driving software. The public and Wall Street’s perception of its success will likely affect how quickly Tesla expands the robotaxi service beyond its home turf of Austin.

The stakes are high for Tesla. Sales plummeted in the first quarter as consumers across the globe revolted against Musk’s controversial work with the Department of Government Efficiency. Shares shed more than 50% of their value between hitting a record high in mid-December and reporting disappointing first-quarter earnings in April. 

Musk’s decision to step away from government—first intimated during Tesla’s most recent earnings call—has resuscitated Tesla’s ailing stock. Shares are down about 14% since the start of the year but are up 60% from their lows in early April. 

Nike

Nike (NKE) is scheduled to report results for the quarter ending May 30 after the closing bell on Thursday, June 26, and investors will be bracing for signs tariff mayhem is weighing on earnings. 

Nike’s fiscal fourth-quarter report will be one of the first from a major U.S. consumer goods company to encompass the brief implementation of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and the weeks when duties on Chinese goods started at 145%. 

Executives said on Nike’s last earnings call they expected tariffs on China and Mexico to cause profit margins to compress by 4 to 5 percentage points in the quarter. However, that forecast was in March, before tariff rates went through the roof, and Nike hasn’t updated its guidance since.

Granted, Nike has a relatively diversified supply chain. Bank of America analysts estimate it manufactures just 18% of its footwear and 16% of its apparel in China. Still, its results may give investors an idea of how April and May’s tariff mayhem will show up in the next round of corporate earnings. 

Nike shares have lost about 20% of their value since the start of the year. 

UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group (UNH) was the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 in May, shedding about a quarter of its value. The company enters June with former CEO Stephen Helmsley, who led the company from 2006 to 2017, back in the driver’s seat to navigate a tangle of controversies.

Shares tumbled nearly 20% in a day mid-month when the healthcare giant withdrew its full-year earnings guidance, citing elevated care activity and costs, and announced its CEO was stepping down “for personal reasons.” The stock slumped by double-digits again just days later following reports the Justice Department was investigating UnitedHealth for Medicare fraud. No sooner had shares recovered from that sell-off than the stock tanked again after a report the company paid nursing homes secret bonuses to reduce hospital transfers.

Despite the investigations and difficult business environment, May’s slump has left the stock at a historically low valuation. Of the 16 UnitedHealth analysts tracked by Visible Alpha, 13 rate the stock a buy. Wall Street’s average price target of about $415 represents nearly 40% upside from the stock’s close at the end of May. 

UnitedHealth shares have lost 40% of their value since the start of the year. 

Solar Stocks

Solar stocks tumbled in May after the House of Representatives approved tax and spending legislation that, if enacted, would effectively kill Biden-era tax credits meant to promote residential and industrial solar projects. The bill takes a “sledgehammer” to the clean energy provisions of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, according to Jefferies analysts, who called it a “worse than feared” scenario for the solar industry. 

Shares of Enphase Energy (ENPH) and SunRun (RUN) tumbled 20% and 37%, respectively, the day after the House’s vote, while First Solar (FSLR) stock slid 4%. 

The bill now goes to the Senate, where lawmakers could propose revisions that would need to be reconciled with the House’s version to reach the president’s desk. Republicans on Capitol Hill have given themselves a July 4 deadline, meaning any reprieve for solar companies is likely to come in the next month.

Shares of Enphase Energy are down about 40% since the start of the year, while SunRun and First Solar have shed 19% and 10%, respectively. 

Let me outline a familiar scenario for you.

It’s been a long day at work. Your meeting ran long and your boss was a jerk. Traffic was brutal and now you’re finally home.

Tired and hungry, you open the refrigerator, trying to drum up something for dinner.

You stand there with the door open and stare blankly.

Maybe you can cobble something together … maybe there’s some leftover chicken … a few vegetables (if they haven’t gone bad). Make some rice?

But sometimes, it feels like too much. So, you do what millions of Americans do every night: you pick up your phone and order fast food.

You know this isn’t the healthy choice, but you’re hungry and this is the most convenient option. With DoorDash, Uber Eats and other services, it’s the easiest, fastest route to dinner.

We know so much now about nutrition and how important it is for a long and healthy life… and yet, we often won’t make nutritious choices.

More than 40% of American adults are now classified as obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The cause of that isn’t ignorance of what’s healthy.

In fact, some of the rules are easy: eat more real food, avoid processed food, don’t drink soda. But because it takes a daily discipline, we have a hard time doing what we know is right.

Investing can be like that too.

Today I’m going to try to make it a little easier.

Investing Isn’t Difficult

The basic principles of good investing are widely accepted and not a secret: buy low and sell high.

Sounds easy.

The hard part is the execution.

The truth is that the average American puts nearly zero effort into their personal finances.

In 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released survey data on how Americans spend their time. After “sleeping,” and “working,” “watching TV” came in as the most time-intensive activity for survey respondents.

That clocked in at 2.67 hours per day.

And how much time, on average, was allocated to personal financial management?

0.08 hours per days…or less than five minutes.

In other words, the average person spends more time enjoying their coffee each morning than they do preparing for their financial future.

I’m as guilty as anyone.

We’ve all failed the same way. We want to get rich on stocks to we try to capitalize on an investing fad. We hear about a hot stock and go chase the crowd.

What does the company do? What are its earnings and sales?

Doesn’t matter. Can we get in now and catch the uptrend?

That’s investing junk food. It may appeal right now, but it’s probably not good for you.

It’s easy to understand why people do this. The world moves a lot faster now, and volatility feels much greater than in past years.

Profits From a Diet of Healthy Stocks

In Accelerated Profits, investing legend Louis Navellier only trades the elite 1% of all stocks on the market today.

This isn’t “fast food.” He uses strict fundamental principles and highly selective quantitative analysis.

But here is the “easy” part: he zeroes in on the top stocks just about to hit their stride. These are great stocks, and Louis’ system says they’re on the launch pad and about to take off.

Some stocks are domestic; others will come from overseas. But they will all have one thing in common: the ability to hand investors double- or triple-digit profits in a matter of weeks and months.

And the service only focuses on stocks. There’s also no minimum investment required, so you only invest whatever you feel comfortable with.

It’s as easy as that.

A great example of how this strategy pays off comes from a pick Louis made earlier this year.

A Superior Stock on the Upswing Today

Back in March, Louis recommended Robinhood (HOOD) to his Accelerated Profits subscribers. You probably know the name… it became a media darling during the Covid pandemic when everyone was in lockdown and chasing stock profits.

Here is what Louis wrote about Robinhood and the opportunity today.

Today’s Robinhood is a registered broker-dealer enabling users to trade stocks, ETFs, ADRs, options, gold and even cryptocurrencies.

The latter is particularly interesting – and a big opportunity for the company.

You may know that the Trump administration is determined to make the U.S. the cryptocurrency trading leader. The SEC was openly hostile to cryptocurrencies under the Biden administration. But under Trump, the SEC is no longer regulating crypto tokens, and it is suddenly more proactive in establishing a positive regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies.

Robinhood’s platform allows its users to trade crypto – all of the popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin –at the lowest cost on average in the U.S.

Given the popularity and easily accessible platform to all investors and traders, Robinhood boasts stunning forecasted earnings and revenue growth. In the fourth quarter, revenue soared 115% year-over-year to $1.01 billion and earnings surged 3,266.7% year-over-year to $1.01 per share. Analysts expected earnings of $0.52 per share, so Robinhood posted a 94.2% earnings surprise.

In the wake of its big earnings beat, analysts have doubled first-quarter earnings estimates in the past three months. First-quarter earnings are now forecast to increase 83.3% year-over-year to $0.44 per share, while revenue is expected to jump 48.4% year-over-year to $916.77 million. As you know, positive analyst revisions typically precede future earnings surprises.

Here is HOOD’s performance since that recommendation.

Trading around $64 as I write, the stock is still below Louis’ “buy below” price.

And Louis believes there are plenty of healthy stocks about to experience a similar growth trajectory.

He’s tracking a $10 trillion tidal wave that’s about to hit three specific sectors of the market.

He believes that if you position yourself correctly today, you’ll have the chance to see massive payouts in the months ahead.

He described what he’s seeing in a special, free presentation last week – the Liberation Day 2.0 Summit. Click here to watch the replay right away.

Louis revealed the name and ticker of his top way to play this trend for FREE during the presentation. You won’t want to miss it.

Maybe we can’t always eat healthy when we should. Sometimes, it’s just too difficult.

But we can invest in healthy stocks – those with superior fundamentals and institutional buying pressure – that can keep our financial lives healthy.

We can commit a little of that TV time to a proven system like Louis uses in Accelerated Profits to make our financial lives healthier.

Even if our diet isn’t.

Enjoy your weekend,

Luis Hernandez

Editor in Chief, InvestorPlace