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Many of us have been taught that having a long-term buy-and-hold strategy is an important key to successful investing. While that is certainly true, there are times when you need to summon the

Papa John's International's (NASDAQ: PZZA) business is still enjoying a strong sales lift from pandemic-related consumer shopping changes. The pizza delivery specialist said on Tuesday that

COVID-19 has changed the world forever. With social-distancing guidelines and lockdown mandates, many have been unable to be social and meet new people under normal circumstances. It has also made

Investing in the stock market can always be daunting, but it's particularly intimidating right now when the market is so volatile. The past few months have been a wild ride to say the least, with

Target (NYSE: TGT) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) just reported blowout second-quarter results, a strong follow-up to their outperformance in Q1. The two retailers saw robust growth in their stores and

After the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act authorized economic stimulus payments for American families, the IRS sent out more than 160 million payments via direct deposit

In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, Dylan Lewis is joined by Motley Fool analyst Brian Feroldi to discuss different ways to value businesses and look at the valuation of a company. They also

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) are both high-growth cloud stocks that were well insulated from the COVID-19 crisis and other macro headwinds over the past year.

Both companies

Airlines have burned through substantial amounts of cash in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic has crushed air travel demand. With demand unlikely to improve very much in the near term, most airlines

Meatpacker and refrigerated and packaged foods maker Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL) reported an upbeat fiscal third quarter for 2020 this morning, chowing down on record-breaking results in at least one

Are you thinking of claiming Social Security? If so, you should be aware that your decision to file at a specific time can affect the amount of your checks for the rest of your life. It can also be

Social Security is an incredibly popular program, and it's been very successful at keeping seniors out of poverty. However, it's now facing serious financial trouble that's left many Americans to

Movie theaters in China are returning to normal, with the newly released film The Eight Hundred getting off to a strong start. The movie began preview screenings on Aug. 14, and since then has

Privately held Snowflake Inc., which makes software for storing and managing cloud data stored in data warehouses, filed on Monday to conduct an IPO.

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MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) has been one of the great stocks to own over the past decade. The company had a head-start in Latin America's e-commerce scene, and then used its excess funds to develop

Perhaps even veteran observers of agriculture and construction equipment manufacturer Deere (NYSE: DE) have been surprised at the company's share performance this year. Despite a contraction in

Game engines have been getting an awful lot of attention lately. Epic Games, maker of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, is currently engaged in an escalating legal war with Apple. The Mac maker has

A lot of stocks have been rallying in recent months, but it doesn't mean that everything that the market has left behind is worthless. There are plenty of stocks -- even some with Happy Meal price

If you peruse the list of stocks that have doubled over the last few months, you'll find it littered with speculative investments fueled by short-term growth drivers. But some stocks are soaring

On Monday evening, oil giant ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) was officially removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company had been a member of the index since 1928, when it was still known as

If you're a movie fan, you know that sequels rarely live up to the original, much less surpass it. Cinema chains across North America have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and lately, they've

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Cango Inc (NYSE: CANG)Q2 2020 Earnings CallAug 25, 2020, 9:00 p.m. ET

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Meat processing giant Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) stock has badly trailed the market in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with shares down over 30% in 2020 through mid-August. The S&P 500 is up by 6%

Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) stock has badly trailed the market in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with shares down over 40% in 2020 through mid-August. The wider market is up by 6%.

Investors have

The deployment of 5G wireless networks in 2020 hasn't yet been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic. According to third-party estimates, 5G connections in the first quarter of 2020 shot up 308%