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During its fiscal first-quarter earnings call, Palo Alto Networks' (NYSE: PANW) management confirmed the company was on track to deliver according to its three-year plan it outlined a few months

No company is immune from the effects of a market downturn. That fact means investors have to be willing to accept periods of declines in their portfolios.

But high-quality businesses tend to emerge

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) stock has more than doubled so far this year. But there's no need to worry if you've missed this terrific run as AMD is built for more upside.

The strong growth

"Edison's general electric" is how some newspapers referred to the then-fledgling company General Electric (NYSE: GE) in the late 1800s, when the stock first began trading publicly. The famed

Stocks rose through the shortened trading week last week as both the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) gained more than a full percentage point. That

Though retirement is an exciting milestone to look forward to, it's also a scary one, at least from a financial perspective. Not having an incoming paycheck means having to rely on a combination of

A decade from now, we'll be getting ready to turn our calendars to the year 2030 (or, perhaps, have a real-life version of the Jetsons' robot Rosie do it for us). And the news media will be spewing

There's little question of what the marijuana industry could one day become. After seeing tens of billions of dollars change hands in the black market annually, it's evident that global weed sales

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is facing some serious competition now that Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) has released its streaming platform, Disney+. Not only is Disney going to be pulling content from Netflix

Brookfield Property Partners (NASDAQ: BPY) is an odd duck in the real estate business. However, a hefty 6.8% distribution yield with a disbursement increase in each of the last seven years

Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) latest electric vehicle, its futuristic stainless-steel Cybertruck, has left Wall Street and investors scratching their heads about its viability, but consumers appear to love

This has been a banner year for three biotech stocks and their shareholders. All of them have soared in response to promising clinical trial results for some very different experimental therapies.

Workers who neglect their retirement savings do so for a number of reasons. For some, it's a matter of pressing expenses getting in the way. For others, it's an overreliance on Social Security. But

Marijuana stocks began the year on a promising note, and it's not hard to understand why. Canada had legalized recreational marijuana in mid-October, and Wall Street's expectations for the pot

Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) used to be a dividend investor's darling before slashing its payout by 75% in late 2015 to just $0.50 per share per year. The cut came as Kinder Morgan was

Major indexes are near all-time highs, but with the market approaching the 11th year of a bull run and some macroeconomic factors raising the specter of recession, it makes sense to allocate some of

Even if you're entering retirement with a modest amount of savings, you'll probably end up relying on Social Security to some degree, so the better you're able to maximize those benefits, the

Though there are plenty of ways to make money as an investor, dividend stocks tend to be more of a sure thing than most bets. Historically, stocks that pay a dividend have handily outperformed their

Diamondback Energy (NASDAQ: FANG) is starting a new chapter. The energy company has spent the past five years building out a large-scale drilling operation in the oil-rich Permian Basin. As a

The holiday shopping season has started with a bang.

Online shoppers spent $7.4 billion on Black Friday alone, according to data collected by Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE). It's the biggest online sales

Fifty years is a long time. Yet there are a select few businesses that can not only survive, but also thrive for multiple decades -- and those that do can generate fortunes for their investors along

For years, major retailers have seen small-format stores as a means of better serving new markets, often in dense urban areas where it would be too costly or too impractical to open a full-size

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have been two of the best-performing stocks of the decade. The streaming titan has returned a whopping 3,600% over the last ten years, while the

Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) recently released its third-quarter results in what was a challenging period for the company. Although it generated earnings per share of $1.08, that was below market

The market's rolling into the holidays, so it's not a shock to see so many stocks at the top of their game. There were more than 680 stocks on the major U.S. exchanges hitting new 52-week highs last