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Shares of tech giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) soared 25.4% in November, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. For context, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite returned 5.6% and 4.5%

Shares of CarParts.com (NASDAQ: PRTS) moved higher last month after the online auto parts retailer reported a better-than-expected bottom-line result in its third-quarter earnings report. The stock

It's been a tough year for investors, with the S&P 500 index down 15% since the start of the year. Despite weakness in the market, one industry is holding up quite nicely: insurance. This year, the

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has suffered an epic collapse over the last year.

The Facebook parent's pivot to the metaverse is on track to cost it $13 billion in operating losses this year, and its

Cloud computing is a massive industry right now and still growing, with an estimated market size of $1.5 trillion by 2030, according to Grand View Research.

Lots of tech companies have their hands

Warren Buffett is well-known for saying that his preferred holding period for stocks is "forever," and it's not too surprising why. Once you've got your hands on a company that'll grow and grow for

Up by a massive 120% year to date, Luckin Coffee (OTC: LKNC.Y) is trouncing the S&P 500 index, which has fallen 15% in the same period. Despite continued uncertainty in China, Luckin's business is

Provention Bio (NASDAQ: PRVB) is a small-cap biotech whose shares have doubled in the past three months. The company can thank the expected and eventual approval of Tzield for that performance. In

Shares of software platform Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) fell 14.7% in November, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Palantir burst onto the public markets in 2020 as a tantalizing

Zscaler's (NASDAQ: ZS) stock tumbled 11% on Dec. 2 in response to its latest earnings report. For the first quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended on Oct. 31, the cloud-based cybersecurity company's

Stock splits don't create any real value for shareholders. However, they do have some tangible benefits. For example, they can make a company's stock more accessible to investors, since it will have

The knee-jerk reaction makes sense on the surface. Dollar General (NYSE: DG) missed its third-quarter earnings estimates, and investors panicked. Fanning the bearish flames is the company's

With its stock down a jaw-dropping 77% year to date, Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) has seen some of the worst that the 2022 bear market has had to offer. But unfortunately for investors, the

Dividends are a great way to boost your investment returns. When companies pay out an annual dividend to investors -- typically a single-digit percentage of their share prices -- you can take home

Companies with higher dividend yields can be great options for those seeking to generate passive income. It enables them to produce more income per dollar invested.

For example, $1,000 invested in

Equities have been southbound for most of the year. And after a solid performance in the early days of the pandemic, the biotech industry is lagging the struggling overall stock market.

But some

Inflation crossed the 2% target in March 2021 and it kept rising, but the Federal Reserve failed to take action for almost a full year, insisting that transitory factors were to blame. That was a

In this article, we are not going to look at the four highest dividend yields among companies in the S&P 500. For that, the reader could easily use a stock screener and have the answer within

As we head into year end, it's clear that 2022 will not go down in the books as a banner year for growth stocks. For example, the growth-oriented Nasdaq Composite and Vanguard Growth ETF are both

The market sell-off has sent numerous stocks tumbling in 2022 as consumer-reliant companies have suffered from declines in spending. Rises in inflation and a potential recession in 2023 have made

After years of resisting the idea of advertising, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has done an about-face on the strategy. Its ad-based tier, priced at $6.99/month in the U.S., launched in November and is now

Stocks rallied last month as investors reacted to signs that inflation is coming down and that the Federal Reserve could start slowing its pace of interest rate hikes as soon as next week when the

Navigating the stock market has been tricky in 2022, with rising interest rates and declines in consumer spending bringing down the shares of numerous companies. The tech industry has been hit

Over the past year, several closely watched tech companies -- including Amazon, Alphabet, and Tesla -- have split their stocks. Those splits didn't make the stocks fundamentally cheaper, but they

The data is pretty remarkable. Companies that grow their dividends outperform all other types of stocks by a lot. Since 1972, dividend growers and initiators have delivered 10.7% total annualized