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With just a few days left in 2025, the S&P 500 index is sitting on a return of 17%, which is comfortably above its average annual gain of 10.5% dating back to its inception in 1957. However, had

Dividend stocks are boring. High-yield dividend stocks are risky.

You may have heard both of these statements before. However, while they can sometimes be true, that's not always the case –

There's a reason retired Americans tend to check for Social Security news during the year. Given that many retirees end up relying heavily on those monthly benefit for income, it's common for

The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) has not just fueled share price gains for the "Magnificent Seven" stocks, but also for a group of smaller, pure-play AI stocks. Some of these have

As the year comes to a close, it's been another double-digit gain for the S&P 500, which is up almost 18% in 2025. The index is up about 80% during the past three years alone, demonstrating why

Palantir Technologies has been one of the best-performing artificial intelligence (AI) stocks in recent years. Shares have advanced 1,000% since January 2024, but many analysts worry about its

Investors just got great news about the U.S. economy. Despite headwinds from President Donald Trump's tariffs -- such as the highest unemployment rate in over four years -- gross domestic product

You work for decades. You decide to retire. You claim Social Security. And your benefits are set in stone, aside from the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).

That's the sequence of events for

MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) stock has been a phenomenal performer for investors. Over the last decade, a $10,000 investment would have grown to $176,000 at the time of this writing. Despite this

Despite enduring a very short-lived stock market crash in early April, following the unveiling of President Donald Trump's tariff and trade policy, Wall Street's major stock indexes have

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) has been trading between $1.80 and $1.90 recently, and it has a market cap of $113 billion (as of Dec. 25).

This cryptocurrency has experienced significant price increases in the

On Dec. 5, 1985, two-year-old retail company Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) went public at $10 a share. In its first earnings report filed the following January, it announced sales of $134.5

Most stocks offer pretty pedestrian dividend yields these days. The S&P 500's dividend yield is near rock bottom at around 1.1%, a low it hasn't touched in over a quarter-century. That's making it

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the artificial intelligence (AI) stock everyone has been watching over the past few years. The company has established itself as the leading AI chip designer and launched an

Jeffrey Lightcap, a member of the Board of Directors of HeartFlow (NASDAQ:HTFL), acquired 40,000 common shares in an open-market transaction valued at $1,053,680 on Dec. 16, 2025; see SEC Form 4

According to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing dated November 14, 2025, Cruiser Capital Advisors, LLC reported a new equity position in TIC Solutions (NYSE:TIC). The filing reflected

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of the best investing opportunities in recent decades. It combines the excitement of the dot-com bubble with real revenue growth. AI models showed investors

In this podcast, Motley Fool analysts Rick Munarriz, Karl Thiel, and Tim Beyers:

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Quantum computing is gradually transitioning from research to commercialization. D-Wave Quantum (NYSE: QBTS) stands out as it is already running quantum-annealing-based production workloads for

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution contains a wealth of investment opportunities, not to mention the potential for massive economic transformation and productivity enhancements. Companies

For the most part, space stocks have knocked it out of the park this year. However, that hasn't been the case with Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW). Year to date, shares in this space infrastructure

Since the end of the 2022 bear market, several artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have delivered massive returns for investors as they transform the technology landscape. Not surprisingly, one of

Investing for the long term requires a disciplined and resilient mindset to navigate the inherent volatility of the stock market. Managing the psychology behind your investment decisions is as

Two significant trends are emerging in the consumer staples sector. First, consumers are concerned about rising costs, and many are reining in their spending. Second, consumers are increasingly

The Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF (NYSEMKT:MGK) and Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF (NASDAQ:VONG) are both low-cost, passively managed funds from Vanguard focused on U.S. large-cap growth stocks.