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The first time I invested a significant amount of money in individual stocks was in 2014. I had been primarily investing in index funds up until that point while learning about things like stock

2024 was a good year for defense stocks. From Jan. 1 through Dec. 30, 2024, the S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (NYSEMKT: XAR) scored an impressive 30% gain, outperforming even the broader S&P 500 and

My long-term financial goal is to eventually collect enough passive income each year to cover my basic living expenses. One aspect of my strategy is to invest in companies that pay an above-average

One of the key reasons that Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has performed so well, topping $108,000 at one point last year, and been more resilient than the rest of the crypto sector is because investors view

There's a reason so many people rush to file for Social Security at 62. That's the earliest age you're allowed to sign up for benefits. And it's easy to see why many folks would rather get their

"When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever."

-- Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's 1998 Letter to Shareholders

Warren

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn't a theme that's going to wrap up this year. There are still huge gains to be made in this sector, so investors shouldn't avoid it just because it has had a strong

You can look at the momentum for some stocks and have a feeling that it's about to end. Others, though, have such strong underlying business prospects that they're practically unstoppable.

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Today's Dividends Kings are a who's-who of the most successful dividend growth stocks of our time. This list consists of about 50 publicly traded companies that have increased their dividend

There are 10 companies in the world that currently have a market cap of more than $1 trillion. It would be reasonable to assume that none of these businesses have bargain stocks. These companies are

The Federal Reserve began the process of cutting benchmark interest rates in September 2024, as expected. That came after a long series of rate hikes it initiated in early 2022 to help cool off

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) owns shares of more than 40 different companies in its portfolio. To be perfectly honest, there's a solid investment case to be made for all of them

Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software provider C3.ai (NYSE: AI) is off to a shaky start in 2025. Shares of the company have fallen 10% this year, though there has been no company-specific

Dividend cuts can be devastating to an income-focused investor. You lose a portion of your passive income, and a dividend stock's price tends to fall significantly leading up to and after a payout

The stock market had a solid 2024, powered by the technology sector, even as the outsized theme of artificial intelligence (AI) continued to feed investors' appetite for outsized returns. But the

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. -- Garrison Keillor

We'd all like to be above average when it comes to

Lucid Motors (NASDAQ: LCID) stock looks expensive according to several traditional valuation metrics. Its price-to-sales ratio, for example, is 9.6. That's significantly higher than other electric

GLP-1 drugs have become all the rage for weight loss, with sales for drugs like Novo Nordisk's Ozempic and Eli Lilly's (NYSE: LLY) Mounjaro skyrocketing over the past year. However, Eli Lilly

Companies will commonly split their stock after a strong run-up in price. While it doesn't change any of the underlying fundamentals of the company, it's a strong signal from management that it

Billionaire Bill Ackman isn't as much of an activist investor as he used to be. However, he still doesn't mind trying to influence corporate executives to take steps that would boost their

With as impressive of an investing track record as Warren Buffett has achieved, you'd expect his Berkshire Hathaway portfolio would be loaded with great stocks. And you'd be right.

The good news is

Crypto prices are up a ton since Donald Trump won the presidential election in early November, and crypto prices by and large have held up pretty well in the face of a recent rise in Treasury

Do you know what the average American's Social Security benefit is? Or why the program is facing financial trouble? In this short video, I discuss seven important Social Security facts that you

Dividend yields can be like ladders: The higher you go, the scarier it gets. Many of us are more afraid of falling off an especially tall ladder than a shorter one. Many investors are more leery of

Many fintech stocks soared in 2020 and 2021 as pandemic-driven digital transactions, stimulus checks, and low interest rates generated strong tailwinds for the sector. But in 2022 and 2023, a lot of