Focus on stocks with 'strong demand drivers,' not the wider market

47% of S&P 500 (^GSPC) companies have reported their results so far with nearly four in five beating Wall Street expectations, according to FactSet. Against this backdrop, Advisors Capital Management Partner and Portfolio Manager JoAnne Feeney joins Wealth! to discuss how investors should navigate the market.

Feeney notes that earnings results from Big Tech names like Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Meta (META) have enabled the markets to sustain their upward momentum despite a Federal Reserve rate cut not yet materializing. Many of these companies are "on track to grow" on the back of the ongoing artificial intelligence boom, she adds.

Feeney acknowledges that "there's a lot of mixed information coming out of the markets," emphasizing the importance of investing in individual stocks instead of taking a broad approach. Although the Fed hasn't cut rates, she describes it as a "good news story" because the economy remains strong, and earnings continue to grow.

"What you have to do is not look at the market as a whole, but look at individual companies with strong demand drivers that are in the right place in the market for how the world is changing," Feeney tells Yahoo Finance.

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Editor's note: This article was written by Angel Smith