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Having a track record for paying a dividend is one thing. But continuously raising the payout to a record high is a recipe for value creation. Investors have to rely on capital gains to get a return

Most Americans count on Social Security to pay them valuable retirement benefits to make ends meet after their careers end. With inflation ravaging household budgets and earnings under pressure in

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) has climbed in the double digits this year and is trading around its highest ever. There are plenty of reasons for this top performance. The company continues

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have gotten crushed because of rising interest rates. That's due to a couple of factors. REITs borrow a lot of money to acquire and develop real estate. That

Investors looking for wins in electric vehicles (EVs) have had a brutal couple of years. Well, in its third-quarter earnings report and CEO letter to investors, General Motors (NYSE: GM) may have

One of the oldest staples in fintech is PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL). The company founded by Silicon Valley legend Peter Thiel is nearly 20 years old, and was long part of eBay's ecosystem after eBay

In this video, Motley Fool contributors Jason Hall and Tyler Crowe break down Chevron's (NYSE: CVX) deal to buy Hess Corp (NYSE: HES), what makes it look like a smart move, and whether they think

When securities are listed on a centralized exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq, transaction information such as price and trade history is readily available to investors through

Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) became one of the market's hottest artificial intelligence (AI) stocks upon its public debut on June 8, 2022. The producer of autonomous warehouse robots went public by

Warren Buffett's advice to most people trying to save up money is to buy a low-cost S&P 500 Index fund. Essentially, he's saying buy the market -- and, well, just keep buying it. If you find

Earnings season is right around the corner, which usually causes a lot of fluctuation in the stock market. As a result, many investors are probably wondering what stocks are safe bets and likely to

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Too many people underestimate estate planning

Warren Buffett gets plenty of respect. And it's well earned. Buffett is a living legend and one of the greatest investors of all time.

However, not all of the stocks in Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway

Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) lost close to $150 billion in market cap in early trading on Wednesday. Disappointing growth for the company's Google Cloud unit in its fiscal

NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) operates the largest electric utility in the country. It's also a world leader in generating energy from wind and sunlight. The utility has a massive $168 billion asset

You probably wouldn't dream of leaving piles of cash lying around your home. But many investors end up doing this with cash in their brokerage accounts. Uninvested cash is a potentially valuable

Despite the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) index jumping 23% so far in 2023, the technology sector is still finding its feet after a brutal sell-off last year. 

Many individual tech stocks

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) stock price dropped 6% during after-hours trading on Oct. 24 following its third-quarter report. The tech giant's revenue rose 11% year over year to $76.7

Among the wide range of hacking techniques known collectively as social engineering, pretexting is a tactic that hinges on telling a compelling (and, spoiler alert, fake!) story.

With pretexting

To paraphrase Benjamin Graham, the man who helped to train Warren Buffett, a good company can be a bad investment if you pay too much for it. Basically, valuation matters. However, you need to

When volatility and uncertainty pick up on Wall Street, investors of all walks tend to turn their attention to profitable, time-tested, industry-leading businesses. For much of the past 10 years

It hasn't been the easiest time for investors across a range of industries and sectors over the last few years. The good news is that when you're buying stocks to hold onto for anywhere from five

Those who are 65 or older typically rely on Medicare to get the healthcare they need. Medicare has two primary types of coverage. For hospital costs and other inpatient care, Medicare Part A is the

Verizon Communications' (NYSE: VZ) stock price jumped 9% on Oct. 24 after the telecom giant released its third-quarter earnings report. Its revenue declined 3% year over year to $33.3 billion but

Canoo (NASDAQ: GOEV) was a Wall Street darling not too long ago. But the electric vehicle (EV) maker has fallen out of favor in a big way, with share prices down more than 75% over the past year