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It's important to have goals, but is Plug Power's (NASDAQ: PLUG) plan to hit $1 billion in revenue by 2024 reasonable, or is it just pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking?

Considering the hydrogen fuel

The purpose of saving money in a 401(k) plan is to accumulate enough cash to cover your living expenses in retirement. The benefit of 401(k)s is they allow you to save in a tax-advantaged fashion

2019 is in the books, and it was a great year for fintech investors. The biggest names in the business, Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA), ran up 42% and 58%, respectively, and small but

Leadership training and organizational consulting dynamo Franklin Covey (NYSE: FC) will report its fiscal first-quarter 2020 earnings on Jan. 9 after the close of trading. The company completed a

Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) and Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google both develop artificial intelligence technologies like machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks. Both companies

Looking for healthcare stocks that can make you rich? In 2019 these three providers of home-based healthcare services outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 index, and there are reasons to believe it

If you're considering investing in the gene editing sector, it's worth taking some time to look through all the main players in this small but promising biotech market. At the moment, there are just

A few years ago, my family relocated from the Midwest to the East Coast for an incredible job opportunity. We knew going in that we would be facing a higher cost of living, but a snafu with our

Operationally speaking, Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) is doing pretty well right now. That is highlighted by the company's 25% dividend increase in 2019, with another hike of the same size currently

Professional services giant Accenture (NYSE: ACN) reported financial results on Dec. 19, covering the first quarter of fiscal year 2020. The company edged out Wall Street's estimates across the

The investment worthiness of ride-hailing company Uber (NYSE: UBER) is smack dab in the middle of a war zone at the moment. On one side sit many customers who love the use of technology as a means

With the market at record levels in what has been the longest bull market in history, an investor can be forgiven for feeling a little wary. Although we don't know when the bull market will end, one

Working Americans are often warned to save for retirement because Social Security alone won't be enough to sustain them once their paycheck goes away. Yet many workers neglect their savings

For all of the hype surrounding gene therapy and gene editing, the precision genetic medicine approach that turned in the best 2019 may have been RNA interference (RNAi). The gene-silencing

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) expanded into Match Group's (NASDAQ: MTCH) backyard last year with Facebook Dating, a new tab that lets users maintain separate dating profiles. That seemed like dire news for

Last year was supposed to when the marijuana industry proved skeptics wrong and demonstrated that it could be a profitable industry. For the most part, this vision fell flat on its face.

In Canada

The energy industry is decidedly out of favor today, even though the world still needs the oil and natural gas that it creates. That presents an opportunity for investors with a contrarian bent. But

2019 is in the history books, and overall, the stock market performed extremely well. Even many broad-based index mutual funds produced returns of 20% or more, and some of the top performers had

If you have access to a 401(k) plan through your employer, then you have a prime opportunity to save for retirement. That's because 401(k)s come with much higher contribution limits than IRAs and

As the calendar changes to a new year, it's once again time for investors to scour the stock market for intriguing bargains. For a lot of investors, large-cap stocks (those with a market cap of at

Pestilence stalking the world's commercial swine herd, plus a breakthrough in trade talks with China, could spell strong profits for Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN), major producer of pork, beef, and

JD.com (NASDAQ: JD), the largest direct retailer in China, lost half its market value in 2018 amid concerns about its decelerating growth and rising expenses, along with a rape allegation against

There's little question that Disney (NYSE: DIS) investors have been enthusiastic about the prospects for its namesake streaming service Disney+. The stock has soared 35% over the past year since

If you're looking for investing ideas to begin the new year, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway portfolio isn't a bad place to start. After all, he's one of the world's greatest investors, having

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) and Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) are two of the bigger names in healthcare, and they're great options for investors looking to add safe stocks to their portfolios. They have