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Consumers have a bevy of new streaming options to choose from over the next year, and many investors in consumer discretionary stocks are worried about subscribers leaving Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX)

For a company that made $260 billion in fiscal 2019, $10 billion might not sound like much, but with product sales that declined by more than 5% last year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could be looking for

Here's my up-front admission: Grocery stores are nowhere near my favorite investment theme. Food and basic staple retailing is an old and hypercompetitive business with low (rightfully, in my

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) stock has made a stunning recovery in 2019. Shares of the chipmaker have nearly doubled this year after a muted start, making it one of the top growth stocks on

Last Friday, J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) released its highly anticipated third-quarter earnings report. Its results were very similar to what it reported three months earlier. Comparable store sales

Target (NYSE: TGT) has managed to grow its sales ever so slightly recently by offering an increasingly easy way to shop at its stores. Drive Up has enabled customers to pick up groceries without

Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) have dominated aerospace headlines in 2019, but for very different reasons. Boeing has been scrambling to repair its reputation and get its 737 MAX jet

MPLX (NYSE: MPLX) pays an eye-popping dividend that currently yields 11.7%. Usually when a payout gets that high, it's a sign of trouble. However, one thing the MLP made clear on its third-quarter

For some people, their careers are their identity. They're passionate about their jobs, and can hardly imagine retiring. For others, though, retirement can't come soon enough.

If you're among those

First, they dominated the market for internet search. Later, they became the media sector's most popular broadcaster as YouTube attracts more daily views than any TV channel in the world. They lead

With its first quarterly update since holding its IPO exactly two months ago, Ping Identity (NYSE: PING) released significantly stronger-than-expected Q3 results last week. Shares of the smart

Retail stocks including Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) took a dive Tuesday after Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) kicked off department-store earnings season with a

If we were all privy to a limitless amount of money, we wouldn't need to make tough decisions that sometimes make life less pleasant. But since money does not, in fact, grow on trees, we all need to

With the announcement on Nov. 13 that American Outdoor Brands (NASDAQ: AOBC) will split in two, it's hard to escape the conclusion that the gunmaker made a mistake when it entered the outdoor

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) won't have any 5G smartphones in its lineup until next year, but it's still expected to dominate the market when it does. That's despite the fact that rivals Samsung Electronics

Hulu's Live TV subscribers will see their bill go up about $10 per month within a couple months. The Disney-controlled (NYSE: DIS) streaming platform is raising the price of its Hulu and Live TV

Oil is a big business with even bigger money attached. That's why governments that control oil assets are eager to auction them off to the highest bidder in the hopes of getting a major payout.

But

In case you missed it, last week was the earnings free-for-all in the cannabis industry that Wall Street and investors had patiently waited for. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.

Although

China-based online entertainment specialist Bilibili (NASDAQ: BILI) reported third-quarter results Monday evening. The report showed Bilibili's usual combination of skyrocketing sales and deeper

It's been a rough year for investors in Fiesta Restaurant Group (NASDAQ: FRGI), owner of the Pollo Tropical and Taco Cabana restaurant chains. Revenue is down, profits are gone, and some locations

Slack (NYSE: WORK) CEO Stewart Butterfield keeps telling investors not to worry about the competitive threat that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) poses, but those messages seem to be falling on deaf ears

The trend away from cash and toward digital forms of payment is a global phenomenon. As a leader in digital money transfers and payment processing, PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) is uniquely

Despite working hard and saving what they could, thousands of Americans every year retire without enough money to last the rest of their lives. This isn't always the result of poor planning. Some

Investors eagerly awaiting updates from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Annual Meeting, simply referred to as the Liver Meeting, weren't disappointed when

The "growth versus dividend" debate is eternal. The good news, however, is that with the three stocks listed below, you can get the best of both worlds: a recurring dividend payment as well as a