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Here's How to Find the Best Dividend Stocks
Owning stocks that pay dividends can be an incredibly profitable part of your investing strategy, but not every dividend stock is created equal. If you want to find the best dividend stocks, you....
2 Chip Stocks to Ride the Semiconductor Growth Wave
The semiconductor market is on a roll this year. According to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, global semiconductor revenue will grow 11.5% this year to $378 billion, a remarkable upgrade....
Nike, Inc. Delivers As Promised to Start the New Fiscal Year
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) announced fiscal first-quarter 2018 results on Tuesday after the market closed, and shares are down around 4% in after-hours trading as of this writing. Just as the athletic....
Twitter, Inc. to Experiment With Doubling Character Count
Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) has had a rough time in recent years. Monthly user growth has struggled and revenue growth subsequently turned to declines. As a result, Twitter stock has plummeted. Shares....
Spirit Airlines Is Crashing: Is It Still a Buy for Long-Term Investors?
After a strong run in its first several years as a public company, Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ: SAVE) has disappointed investors again and again since 2015. Yet while profitability has been receding,....
3 Stocks the Smartest Investors are Buying Right Now
Figuring out which stocks to buy is hard, but perhaps harder still is figuring out when it's a smart time to buy them. Fortunately, our Motley Fool investors are here to help. We asked three of....
Yield Rates for iPhone X Components Are Terrible Right Now
Stories detailing Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone X delays just keep coming in -- we're talking about two fresh reports thus far this week, and it's only Tuesday.Various component suppliers are....
Installers Are the Big Losers If Trump Imposes Solar Tariffs
The International Trade Commission found "injury" against Suniva and SolarWorld on Friday, September 22, 2017, and that could mean tariffs or other protections are coming to imported solar....
3 Dividend Stocks That Thrive in Both Bull and Bear Markets
The stock market has been in a bull market for over eight years now, and it's only a matter of time before we see a bear market again. The problem is, no one knows when the bear market will come.....
IBM CEO Defends Watson Against Critics
International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has invested billions of dollars in Watson, its cognitive computing system that made a name for itself by winning Jeopardy! back in 2011. Watson is....
Axovant Sciences' Alzheimer's Disease Trial Comes Up Empty -- What Now?
Historically, 99% of Alzheimer's disease drugs to enter clinical trials have failed, yet Axovant Sciences (NASDAQ: AXON) believed it could design a phase 3 trial for its Alzheimer's disease drug,....
How Brookfield Asset Management Could Improve TerraForm Power
The market certainly sees some good things ahead for TerraForm Power (NASDAQ: TERP), the embattled yieldco that's being partially bought out by Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM). Shares are....
What Happened in the Stock Market Today
Stocks were mixed on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) closing down slightly and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) just barely edging into positive territory.Data....
Why Axovant Sciences, The Habit Restaurants, and Silvercorp Metals Slumped Today
Tuesday was a relatively calm day for the stock market, leaving the Dow and S&P 500 little changed and still trading near all-time highs. Investors continue to wrestle with a variety of....
Why Snap, Greenhill, and Actua Jumped Today
Stocks were quiet on Tuesday, and major benchmarks generally finished slightly higher although they didn't make much headway from where they began the day. Positive comments from Federal Reserve....
Better Buy: J.C. Penney, Inc. vs. Amazon.com
With the seemingly inevitable rise of e-commerce, it's no mystery that the retail industry is quickly changing. And some of the world's best-known traditional retailers are being left behind in....
Is It Too Late to Sell Shake Shack, Cheesecake Factory, and Habit Restaurants?
It's not easy running a restaurant these days -- and it's not easy being an investor in most eatery stocks, either. Shares of Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK), The Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ: CAKE),....
Here's Why QEP Resources Inc.'s Stock Is Sinking Today
Shares of QEP Resources (NYSE: QEP) slumped on Tuesday and were down nearly 10% by 2:30 p.m. EDT. Driving the decline was the company's updated outlook for production, which it reduced after....
5 Signs Alibaba Group's Best Days Are Ahead
It's been a fun year to be an Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) investor.The Chinese e-commerce titan's shares have surged more than 90% so far in 2017. Even better, the stock appears set for even larger....
3 Stocks to Hold for the Next 50 Years
At The Motley Fool we're all about long-term investing. We love stocks that have the potential to create value through growth or dividends years and decades into the future.We asked three of our....
A Big Wall Street Upgrade for These Offshore Drillers: Buy or Sell?
On September 26, UBS analysts made waves in the offshore drilling contractor sector, raising their price targets for shares of Transocean LTD (NYSE: RIG), Noble Corporation Ordinary Shares....
Why Apple, Inc. Jacked Up iPhone 8 and 8 Plus Prices
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is exercising its pricing power this year in a big way -- and in more ways than one. The most obvious example is the iPhone X and its $1,000 price tag, but the iPhone 8 and 8....
Apple Should Buy GoPro
One of the best arguments against GoPro's (NASDAQ: GPRO) cameras for the past few years has been the fact that most people have products like an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone in their pocket at all....
The Quiet Bull Market in Oil
Oil prices burst out of the gate this week, rising more than 3% on Monday. That rally pushed the U.S. oil benchmark, WTI, up to more than $52 per barrel, while the global benchmark, Brent, rose....
Better Buy: Enbridge Inc. vs. Williams Partners L.P.
While Enbridge (NYSE: ENB) and Williams Partners (NYSE: WPZ) both operate energy infrastructure assets like pipelines, these companies are quite different otherwise. For starters, Williams....