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Share prices don't tell you much about the value of a company. That's just the price you get when dividing the total market cap of a company by the number of shares it has issued. Changing the

Vroom (NASDAQ: VRM) stock was looking like a lemon after its first earnings report as a publicly traded company.

The online used car dealer was well-received in its June IPO -- shares doubled out of

To suggest that COVID-19 has upended the world as we know it would be an understatement. And dividends have been one of the notable places where things have changed, as companies cut their

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced a 4-for-1 stock split when it reported fiscal third-quarter results last month, the first such corporate action since the last split (7-for-1) occurred back in June

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is delivering two-thirds of its own packages, and with e-commerce sales so strong due to the coronavirus pandemic, it could hit 80% as early as next year, CNBC reported

Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) had ambitious growth plans when it launched its bidding war for Anadarko Petroleum last year. When it finally sealed that deal, the company expected to grow its

Health savings accounts (HSAs) are a great way to get valuable tax breaks in exchange for setting aside money for future healthcare expenses. Unfortunately, they're only available to those who have

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Zealand Pharma A/S (NASDAQ: ZEAL)Q2 2020 Earnings CallAug 13, 2020, 10:00 a.m. ET

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The first quarter of fiscal 2020 was predictably awful for Dillard's (NYSE: DDS). The COVID-19 pandemic crushed retail traffic and eventually forced its stores to close temporarily. Most investors

This year has certainly been one for the record books, with investors experiencing both a record stock market plunge and a record recovery, all in the span of several months. The screaming stock

Last year, marijuana investors still would have likely considered cannabis companies Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) and Canopy Growth (NYSE: CGC) to be the industry leaders in the Canadian pot market

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Farfetch Limited (NYSE: FTCH)Q2 2020 Earnings CallAug 13, 2020, 4:30 p.m. ET

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The standard investor playbook says that if you think we are heading toward a recession or a crash, you should sell financials, consumer discretionary stocks, and cyclicals and buy defensive stocks

Investors have been hearing rumblings about Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) working on a services bundle for over two years now, and the package may finally be ready to launch within a couple months. Bundling

For a long time, the retirement system in America was built around a simple concept: Those who had left the workforce would be supported by a "three-legged stool." These three legs included Social

Oil prices have gone on a wild ride in 2020, with energy companies like Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) taking massive hits on the top and bottom lines. It shouldn't be much of a

Over the past several months, companies have increasingly chosen to go public via the special purpose acquisition company -- or SPAC -- route. Some, like Nikola Corporation and Virgin Galactic

Patients need access to medicine to treat or manage serious health conditions, no matter what state the economy is in. Drugs are effectively a recession-proof business. As a result, most

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) shares have stumbled in 2020, having underperformed the market by over 10 percentage points through mid-August. That gap might seem surprising to investors who see the consumer

America witnessed history being made earlier this week. On Tuesday, August 11, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president Joe Biden announced via tweet that his 2020 running mate would

Though the COVID-19 pandemic has done a number on the economy, small businesses have perhaps been hurt the most. Over 100,000 small businesses have closed permanently in the course of the ongoing re

Do you need dividend income? Do you want to keep things simple? As an investor, you can easily achieve both without sacrificing results. There are plenty of dividend-oriented exchange-traded funds

You'd have to look pretty far afield to find someone who hasn't heard of Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE). Its suite of software tools are used by creative professionals everywhere, and the company has an

On Monday, Equinor ASA (NYSE: EQNR) announced a shift change as six-year CEO Eldar Saetre retires to open the door for 23-year Equinor veteran Anders Opedal. With an engineering background and a

It may seem inconceivable that businesses can continue to grow during this COVID-19 pandemic. After all, the lockdowns and movement control restrictions have resulted in large swaths of the world