Investors either love Cathie Wood or hate her. The founder of the Ark Invest family of exchange-traded funds can either be phenomenally successful or a dismal failure. While Wood formed her investment company in…
The comments made by Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell about the need to cut interest rates shows how precarious the economy is. Inflation is rising again, there were 818,000 fewer jobs created over the…
Hedge fund operator Bill Ackman likes to make big bets. His Pershing Square Capital Management fund has $10.4 billion in assets under management and it is concentrated in just nine positions. These are no…
Dividends are an investor’s best friend. While it is a well-known fact the S&P 500 has returned on average 10.5% annually since its inception in 1957, less known is that dividends account for 85%…
Two of the last frontiers for exploration are space and the oceans. It seems remarkable that space is far more advanced than the latter, but the crushing depths of the ocean present far greater…
There has been a noticeable shift in the stock market over the last two months. Investors are moving away from former high-flying large- and mega-cap stocks into discounted small-cap names that the bull market…
Following the rapid rise in interest rates brought on by the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented rate hikes two years ago, utility stocks languished. Borrowing costs accelerated because utilities are capital-intensive businesses that rely heavily upon…
Investing in technology stocks offers investors some of the best opportunities for realizing long-term wealth creation. Tech stocks, after all, tend to be the driving force behind some of the stock market’s most powerful…
Warren Buffett loves stocks that pay him dividends though he steadfastly refuses to allow Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A | BRK-A Price Prediction)(NYSE:BRK-B) to reward its shareholders. Buffett contends he knows better than those investing alongside…
When a badly beaten down stock suddenly springs to life, many investors wonder whether the long hoped-for turnaround has finally arrived. They’ve licked their wounds and bided their time, but now that the stock…
Investors hang on Warren Buffett’s every move because he is the greatest investor of our time. Possibly of all-time. Since becoming CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A | BRK-A Price Prediction)(NYSE:BRK-B) in 1964, the Oracle…
The value of a stock split is exactly zero. The non-event gives you 12 slices of a pizza instead of six. A company splitting its $200 per share stock 4-to-1 gives you three extra…
Capitalizing on the popularity of weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, Hims & Hers Health (NYSE:HIMS) has exploited a loophole in Food & Drug Administration regulations to bring to market similar drugs without having…
Dumpster diving can be a lucrative pastime. One man’s trash is another’s treasure. That holds true in investing, too, but the risks are also the same: you might find a nugget of gold, but…
There are few better ways to make money on Wall Street than buying dividend stocks. Decade after decade, income-generating stocks have outperformed those that do not share their success with investors. For the 50-year…
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) has become the face of the artificial intelligence revolution. Its H100 graphics processing unit (GPU) is the de facto standard for data centers seeking the power of AI-enhanced…
Remember when a stock becoming valued at $1 trillion was a big thing? The first company to do so was Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) back in 2018. Now there are a half…
Stock spinoffs are a popular corporate strategy for unlocking shareholder value, but one that rarely pays off for investors. Harvard Business Review found half of all spinoffs failed to create any new value for…
It used to be said, “As goes General Motors, so goes the nation.” It is pretty much the same thing with the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The venerable index has long been considered a…
Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO | AVGO Price Prediction) has long been a top smartphone chip supplier but it is rapidly transforming into a premier artificial intelligence chipmaker. While Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is currently the face of the…
