$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$The Motley FoolHere's Why NVIDIA Stock Popped TodaySoftware could be a powerful new growth driver for the semiconductor titan.Joe Tenebruso(TMFGuardian)Jun 17, 2021 at 5:41PMAuthor BioWhat happened Shares of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) rose 4.8% on Thursday, following an intriguing new analyst report. So what After speaking with NVIDIA's chief financial officer, Colette Kress, Jefferies analyst Mark Lipacis repeated his buy rating on the chipmaker's stock and boosted his price forecast from $740 to a Wall Street high of $854.Lipacis believes investors are underestimating NVIDIA's opportunity to license its new data center software. Yet that could change, Lipacis posits, once the company begins to report its software sales as a separate li

The Motley FoolLatest Stock Picks3 Pot Stocks to Avoid Like the Plague in JuneNot all cannabis stocks will have investors seeing green. Sean Williams(TMFUltraLong)Jun 4, 2021 at 6:06AMForget about renewable energy. "Going green" with marijuana stocks may very well be one of the best investments you can make this decade.According to New Frontier Data, the U.S. pot industry should deliver average annual growth of 21% between 2019 and 2025, ultimately leading to sales of more than $41 billion by mid-decade. Meanwhile, cannabis-focused analytics company BDSA foresees Canadian weed sales rocketing from $2.6 billion in 2020 to an estimated $6.4 billion by 2026. The old adage as an investor is to follow the money, and it's most definitely going to pot stocks.Unfortunately, not all cannabis stocks