It was only just four months ago that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) joined the two-trillion-dollar club. The stock has gained 45% over the past year, despite a sickening 23% drop in August…
Companies announce stock splits all the time, and so far this year a number of high profile companies have divvied up their shares into smaller slices. Walmart (NYSE:WMT | WMT Price Prediction) split its…
Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG | GOOG Price Prediction)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Visa (NYSE:V) reported quarterly earnings and absolutely hit it out of the park. Their stocks, though, went in different directions. Alphabet jumped 1.7% to $171…
It is never a good idea for investors to chase yield. Soaring dividend yields often signal a stock that has fallen hard as its business stutters and stalls. It can be an indication of…
They seemed to come in a rapid-fire wave, tech companies announcing they were splitting their stock. But even though it is the third-most valuable stock on the market and its stock trades north of…
If 2023 was the Year of Artificial Intelligence, will 2024 be remembered as the Year of the Stock Split? Although they are not at record levels, stock splits are rebounding tremendously. According to a…
Elon Musk believes in the future of Mars. He wants to colonize the Red Planet and build a thriving, self-sustaining city there. By making the human race interplanetary, “One day, Mars will save Earth,”…
Look at the performance of most market-beating exchange-traded funds (ETF) these days and you see they probably have one thing in common. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) is likely a significant holding in…
Warren Buffett has been called one of the greatest investors of our time. Since becoming CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A | BRK-A Price Prediction)(NYSE:BRK-B) in 1964, the Oracle of Omaha has returned an astounding…
The tech sector rightly gets a lot of attention. It really sprang to the fore over the past two years as artificial intelligence grabbed headlines, sending chipmaker stocks like Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price…
It is difficult enough financing the cost of a college education without having to trip over complex rules and regulations. That’s the situation one Reddit user finds himself in on the r/personalfinance subreddit. With…
Utility stocks have been under pressure for the past few years as high interest rates depressed these capital intensive businesses. Yet the sector has rebounded over the past year as optimism over demand from…
Although numerous European countries have elected women to be the leader of their respective countries, the U.S. has never done so. Vice president Kamala Harris is running to break that glass ceiling. With polls…
There are few investing strategies as successful as buying dividend stocks. When looked at over decades, income-generating equities have surpassed all other classes of stock. Data from Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research shows…
There is a reason the Schwab US Dividend ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) is a top-of-list purchase for investors. It provides one of the easiest ways to buy the biggest dividend growth stocks in the U.S. possessing…
Western Union (NYSE:WU | WU Price Prediction) did little to impress the market with its third quarter earnings report. The underperformance led WU stock to drop more than 3% for the day and knocking…
Health insurer UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH | UNH Price Prediction) just reported third-quarter earnings results that handily beat analyst expectations on the top and bottom lines, but its outlook for the rest of the year…
The cost of college is no joke. The annual cost of a college education at a public institution has grown from $394 in 1970 to $9,750 today. It is substantially more expensive at a…
Although dividend stock investing is one of the best ways investors can significantly better their portfolio returns over time, dividend growth stocks are even better. Numerous studies have shown dividend stocks have outperformed non-paying…
The past few years were not kind to high-yield income-seeking investors. The Federal Reserve’s “higher for longer” monetary policies that kept interest rates at historically elevated levels depressed high-yield stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).…
