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Millions of Americans are struggling financially because of COVID-19. To provide relief, lawmakers passed the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act in late March, which comes

A year ago, the stock of Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH), supplier of solar power system solutions, was trading for under three times sales. Now it's more than triple that. The stock has had an

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Getting in on the right stock early can make all the difference in the world for your retirement. But how do you identify a potential millionaire-making stock?

While looking for companies that

Stocks for non-essential retailers have cratered since the beginning of the year. But Tractor Supply Co.'s (NASDAQ: TSCO) stock is up over 10% as its stores remain open to provide essential supplies

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett may well be the greatest investor of our time. We're talking about someone who first began investing in the stock market at age 11

Xilinx's (NASDAQ: XLNX) fiscal fourth-quarter results turned out to be a mixed bag. The chipmaker beat Wall Street's revenue expectations by a small margin and met earnings estimates, but its

While Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) offers Prime members a lot of benefits for the $119 per-year fee, including access to movies, music, books, groceries, and more, the primary reason consumers sign up

The most successful companies identify trends before their rivals do and then take maximum advantage of them. In the beauty industry, Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA) executed that strategic plan to

Do you like finding the silver linings in dark clouds? The COVID-19 pandemic has, figuratively speaking, caused a very dark cloud to hover over the entire world. But there is at least one silver

Off-price retailers TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) and Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST) haven't escaped the coronavirus crisis. Like department stores and smaller apparel chains, TJX and Ross have temporarily

No one expected that Align Technology's (NASDAQ: ALGN) first-quarter results would be great. The orthodontic device maker began to reset expectations in late January when it provided Q1 guidance in

The coronavirus pandemic has hit a lot of small and mid-sized businesses hard. These are the types of companies that Paychex (NASDAQ: PAYX) provides with payroll, human resources, retirement, and

If you just look at the headline numbers in Teladoc Health's (NYSE: TDOC) first-quarter results, you might miss some important details. Sure, the telehealth services provider missed the consensus

Investors looking for something of a safe haven in the COVID-19 storm might like BioMarin Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: BMRN). While most stocks have languished in 2020, the biotech's shares are up 12% so

Teck Resources (NYSE: TECK), one of Canada's largest and most diversified miners, looked to move into the oil space to further increase its diversification. Although its massive Fort Hills oil sands

In this battle, we pit the global leader in the field of DNA sequencing against an up-and-coming biotech that uses the former's research tools to gain insights into the immune system. Both companies

With COVID-19 battering the economy and driving millions of Americans into unemployment, lawmakers knew they had to do something to provide relief to those struggling. That's how the CARES

bluebird bio (NASDAQ: BLUE) is a biotech company that focuses on gene editing. This technology seeks to treat diseases by replacing the defective genes responsible for them with their healthy

Right now, much of humanity is hunkered down, hiding from the world and that ugly COVID-19 bug. We're staying indoors, in our sweatpants, staring at video screens all day. We're shopping virtually

You can become a television star -- or at least make a lot of appearances on business and investing shows -- by pretending you know how to time the stock market. Saying you know that the bottom has

For the past two-plus months, investors have been taken for a wild ride. Since the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) hit its all-time-high closing on Feb. 19, we've witnessed (in no particular

Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. (NASDAQ: ROIC) recently suspended its dividend after reporting a roughly 9% drop in profits in the first quarter of the year. But while it is true that ROIC is

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) with exposure to retail assets are getting hit hard these days. Realty Income (NYSE: O) and Store Capital (NYSE: STOR) are down from their recent highs by about

Over the past 1 1/2 months, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has wreaked never-before-seen havoc on the U.S. economy and labor market. With roughly a third of the 2.9 million