First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund (NYSEARCA: FDL) is up 12.3% year-to-date, moving from about $44 to nearly $50. That is a strong start to 2026 for a fund built around steady dividend…
Late last year, we made the case for MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI | MELI Price Prediction) to reach $3,000 per share in 2026. The stock was trading near $2,015 back then. However, despite a 9.7%…
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD | CRWD Price Prediction) has quietly built the financial profile of a blue-chip company, and investors are beginning to ask whether it belongs in the most famous index in the world.…
Nike (NYSE: NKE | NKE Price Prediction) has fallen 32.7% year-to-date, making it one of the most punished blue-chip names of 2026. For contrarian investors who follow the Dogs of the Dow strategy, that…
McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD | MCD Price Prediction) currently trades near $304, while the average analyst price target is up at $344.79, a gap of roughly 13% from current levels. McDonald’s operates the world’s largest…
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS | GS Price Prediction) reported Q1 2026 EPS of $17.55 versus a FactSet estimate of $16.47, with revenue of $17.23 billion, up 14%, against a $16.99 billion estimate. Net earnings…
Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN | BEN Price Prediction) delivered its latest quarterly dividend payment on April 10, 2026, putting $0.33 per share into the hands of shareholders who were on record as of March…
Dick’s Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS | DKS Price Prediction) and Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) both paid shareholders on April 10, 2026. The question for retirement-focused investors is straightforward: which one just paid you…
Short interest in Pinterest has surged 123.5%, with 15.4% of the float now sold short ahead of earnings. Multiple securities fraud class action lawsuits allege Pinterest misled investors about ad revenue strength and tariff-related…
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT | CAT Price Prediction) is the world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, with growing exposure to data center power generation through its large reciprocating engines. The company posted record full-year…
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) just made a quiet move that could reshape how Americans access weight-loss drugs. On April 9, 2026, it announced that its pharmacy unit will stock new GLP-1…
Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW | ITW Price Prediction) delivered its latest quarterly dividend of $1.61 per share on April 9, 2026, continuing a streak that few industrial companies can match. With 63 consecutive…
VICI Properties (NYSE: VICI | VICI Price Prediction) just delivered its latest quarterly dividend payment to shareholders, and the scorecard behind that check tells a story worth understanding. The $0.45 per share payment landed…
The family of companies spun out from General Electric represents one of the most consequential industrial breakups in modern history. What was once a single conglomerate now trades as three distinct public companies, each…
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU | MU Price Prediction) was not an obvious long-term compounder in April 2016. Trading at $10.45 per share, it was a deeply cyclical memory chipmaker. What happened next was a…
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC | INTC Price Prediction) stock has risen 225.2% over the past year, climbing from less than $18 to a 52-week high of $59.17. If you watched that move from the sidelines,…
Gap (NYSE: GAP | GAP Price Prediction) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) stocks have both pulled back from recent highs, but only one deserves a retirement investor’s capital right now. Here is the direct…
Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC | MPC Price Prediction) and Valero Energy (NYSE: VLO) have both staged remarkable recoveries. Marathon is up 95.7% over the past year, and Valero has surged 127.8% over the same…
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI | SMCI Price Prediction) and The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) have both been hit hard. The question for value investors and those focused on retirement is which stock is…
Ford (NYSE: F) closed 2025 with a $10.70 billion impairment charge tied to Model e asset write-downs and EV program cancellations, crystallizing one of the most expensive pivots in automotive history. The company emerging…
