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Home Depot's Successful $1.6 Billion Gamble to Drive Growth
While retail stocks have been hammered on Wall Street lately, one of the few exceptions to the rule is Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD). Since the beginning of the year, the giant home improvement....
3 Innovation-Forward Healthcare Stocks to Buy Now
Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), Mazor Robotics (NASDAQ: MZOR), and Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) are reshaping healthcare with innovative solutions that may produce market-beating returns for investors. Here's....
3 Things That Affect When You Should Apply for Social Security
The decision to file for Social Security isn't one to be taken lightly. That's because while your benefits themselves are calculated based on how much you earned during your top working years, the....
3 Value Stocks at 52-Week Highs Still Worth Buying
The whole idea behind being a value investor is that you find over-looked, un-loved, usually boring businesses, and buy them on the cheap. The very idea of buying a "value" stock at or near it....
Do You Remember the Dow's 373-, 274-, 238-, and 234-Point "Plunges" This Year?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), which is composed of 30 U.S. multinational giants from a variety of industries, is full of flaws. To begin with, the index is price-weighted....
Gilead Sciences' Kite Pharma Deal Has Already Paid for Itself -- for Investors
The year 2021 -- that's when Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) thinks its acquisition of Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE) will start to pay off. When Gilead announced plans to buy Kite, the company stated....
Apple's AI Just Took a Huge Leap Forward
With all the excitement surrounding Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) latest iPhone release and the finally answered questions regarding the price, naming convention, number of phones, and of course the....
3 Growth Stocks to Buy and Hold for 25 Years
What if you bought stocks but couldn't sell them until the year 2042 at the earliest? What criteria would you look for before buying those stocks?We asked three Motley Fool investors these....
What Philip Morris International's Latest Dividend Increase Really Means for Investors
Dividend investors want their stocks to make regular increases in their quarterly payout, and their favorite stocks typically make predictable boosts at around the same time every year. During its....
3 Growth Stocks for Nest-Egg Building
Building up a nest egg is important. If you want to attain your long-term savings goals, investing in stocks with growth potential should be a part of how you accomplish it. Not only have growth....
10 Common Credit Score Myths
Image source: Getty Images.The FICO credit scoring model is misunderstood by many consumers. There are some popular misconceptions about what actions can boost or damage your score, what's....
3 High-Yield Pharmaceutical Stocks
It can be tempting to buy stocks based solely on their dividend yield, but that can actually be a big mistake. However, that doesn't mean that all high-yield stocks should be avoided.So which big....
3 High-Yield Stocks Smart Investors Can't Get Enough Of
Buying and holding stocks is arguably the best way to consistently create wealth over the long term. But considering the S&P 500 has historically averaged a roughly 10% annual return, beating....
Smartphones Will Be Big Catalysts for These 2 Chip Stocks
The smartphone market isn't going to run out of momentum anytime soon, thanks to plenty of room for growth in emerging markets such as China and India. IDC estimates that smartphone shipments....
3 Stocks to Buy for the Next Generation
When it comes to stocks, there's no arguing that our market is a forward-looking machine. But all too often, investors fail to look past relatively short time frames, focusing the bulk of their....
4 Big Ways Lawmakers Are Messing With Your Retirement Security
Keeping track of the news out of Washington is a challenge. Unfortunately, many actions taken in recent months seem almost targeted toward making America's retirement crisis even worse. From....
Ford Finds a New Ally in India: Mahindra
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and Indian automaker Mahindra and Mahindra (NASDAQOTH: MAHMF) have announced a new alliance. The two have agreed to work together on a number of initiatives that could....
Could The Priceline Group Inc. Be a Millionaire-Maker Stock?
The Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) has been one of the best-performing stocks in the market over the last decade. The leading online travel agency has surged more than 2,000% over the last 10....
How Skyworks Solutions Makes Most of Its Money
Skyworks Solutions (NASDAQ: SWKS) is widely known among tech investors as a key component supplier for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhones. The company makes a host of semiconductors and technologies....
Better Buy: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. vs. NVIDIA
The last several years has been something of a renaissance for graphics processing units (GPUs). Once merely the domain of hardcore gamers, the humble processor has found a home in the growing....
3 Stocks for a Bull Market
The stock market continues to hit new, record highs daily, and while a rising tide often lifts all boats, that's not always the case for each industry and every stock.We asked three Foolish....
Checking In on FireEye Inc.'s Turnaround
The cybersecurity company FireEye (NASDAQ: FEYE) is coming off a solid financial performance in the second quarter; the stock has climbed up from its low earlier in the year but is still....
Bad News for Retirement Savers: A Key Rule That Protects Your Finances Is Facing Delays
Countless working Americans turn to financial advisors for help in saving for retirement and meeting their long-term financial goals. But it looks like a new rule designed to safeguard everyday....
Is TerraForm Power, Inc. a Buy?
TerraForm Power (NASDAQ: TERP) has been an abysmal investment over its short life as a public company. Overall, the stock is down nearly 60% since its IPO in 2014, while the S&P 500 has....
BEST Inc. IPO: What Investors Need to Know
China's BEST Inc. operates in a hot sector of the country's economy, is backed by hot e-commerce operator Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), and has a former top manager of Alphabet's Google China operations....