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It's not surprising to see Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) off to the races after going public on Thursday. The fast-growing provider of cloud monitoring and analytics tools checks off all of the boxes

Every investor has a method for choosing the stocks to add to their portfolio. Tech stocks are a big buzzword this past decade (for good reason). Whatever your experience level, there are ways to

Yet another high-ranking executive is leaving Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), and investors must wonder how the management team will lead the firm into the future.

Robin Vince, Goldman Sachs' chief

Software giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is currently the largest company in the world (by market cap) and for good reason. It's firing on all cylinders, deepening its various wide-moat businesses

The name VEREIT (NYSE: VER) is supposed to make investors think of the Latin word "veritas," which basically translates to "truth" today. At first blush, that may seem like a funny name for a real

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Darden Restaurants Inc (NYSE: DRI)Q1 2020 Earnings CallSep 19, 2019, 8:30 a.m. ET

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Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) launched its new fiscal period with results that fell behind the pace needed to meet its own financial performance goals for the year. In addition, the restaurant

Investing is all about getting your money to work for you, and seemingly one of the easiest ways to do that is through dividends. 

You buy shares of a stalwart business, relax, and watch the checks

General Mills (NYSE: GIS) this past week announced a discouraging return to sales declines after two consecutive quarters of modestly positive results. The packaged foods giant said organic revenue

The booming smartwatch market is helping drive soaring shipments in the broader wearables market. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) continues to lead the way with its category-defining Apple Watch, which all

Shares of engineering and construction firm McDermott International (NYSE: MDR) are down 23% as of 1:30 p.m. EDT today. Today's drastic stock plummet comes after yesterday's free fall that was

Jim Chanos made a name for himself betting that Enron would collapse in the early 2000s. Now the short-seller is betting against Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB), a leading restaurant delivery company whose

Marijuana stocks have explosive potential. The global cannabis industry could generate annual sales as high as $200 billion within the next decade, according to investment bank Stifel. This would

Every day, Wall Street analysts upgrade some stocks, downgrade others, and "initiate coverage" on a few more. But do these analysts even know what they're talking about? Today, we're taking one

The stock market had managed a small gain by Thursday afternoon. An interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday may be helping the cause.

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A year ago today, investors were falling all over themselves to grab a piece of Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY), the hot Canadian pot grower. A bubble that had been forming in the stock following its July

Shares of Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) were down 3.9% as of 1:00 p.m. EDT Thursday after the parent company of chains including Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse served up mixed quarterly

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Herman Miller Inc (NASDAQ: MLHR)Q1 2020 Earnings CallSep 19, 2019, 9:30 a.m. ET

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"We look at Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) as a wonderful company and service and they're a good customer of ours," FedEx (NYSE: FDX) CEO Fred Smith said in December of last year. "We don't see them as a

As we begin to contemplate year-end 2019, professional-environments manufacturer and design-house Herman Miller (NASDAQ: MLHR) is one of my candidates for small-cap sleeper stock of the year. The

There was probably a lot of eye rubbing as Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) shareholders tried to assess the streaming pioneer's nearly 14% slide on Wednesday. The surprising culprit -- Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA)

We are leading [Starbucks] to try to redefine the role and responsibility of a public company.-- Howard Schultz, former Starbucks Chairman and CEO

The Seattle-based coffeehouse chain single-handedly

On Monday, investors woke up to the news that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) had secured the global streaming rights for Seinfeld, the iconic TV show whose popularity hasn't waned since its premiere over 30

The great investor Benjamin Graham famously said: "In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." We could also say that the market is a

Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC recently offered details about its intentions to jump on the video streaming bandwagon through Peacock, a platform that will feature over 15,000 hours of content when