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This has turned out to be a very solid year for artificial intelligence (AI) stocks as companies benefiting from the rapidly growing adoption of this technology have witnessed a solid improvement in

It's been a good year for the stock market as a whole and a tremendous year for a couple of drugmaker start-ups. Shares of Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX) and Summit Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SMMT)

Finding a company that can make you a millionaire from a modest investment is rare. However, they are out there and sometimes right under investors' noses. For example, $10,000 invested in Nvidia

Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) has established a dominant presence in the Brazilian banking market and is making strides in expanding across Latin America.

However, its journey hasn't been without its

While Social Security remains a large part of the majority of Americans' retirement incomes, most also rely heavily on personal savings. Tools like traditional IRAs and employer-sponsored plans like

For many years, MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) was a sleepy tech stock. Between 2010 and 2020, the data mining and analytics software provider only grew its annual revenues at a compound annual rate

Nearly four years ago, space company start-up AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) made a bold proposal to investors in its SPAC IPO: For the low, low price of just $10 a share, you could invest in a

Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST) has been on a major upswing as of late. Since early August, shares of this artificial intelligence (AI)-powered lending platform have skyrocketed 92% (as of Dec. 11), driven

China was once the land of promise for Detroit automakers. With the country's booming middle class, and surging light-vehicle market, the companies could only see dollar signs. At first, automakers

Even though 2024 is drawing to a close and a new year full of surprises is upon us, artificial intelligence (AI) will surely remain a top priority for investors next year.

While Nvidia is widely

With drugs like Novo Nordisk's Wegovy becoming household names over the last couple of years, it's no surprise that there are quite a few opportunities to invest in the burgeoning market for

With its shares falling more than 80% over the last three years alone, investors are likely eager for a major shakeup in the way that Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) does business. If the

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares got a nice lift after the company unveiled a new quantum computing chip. The company's stock had been struggling in the second half of the year after

The past few years have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) into various aspects of life. Cashing in on this expansion, companies involved in this space are most

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the best performing stocks over the past few years, a run that catapulted it into the world's most valuable company. But over the last month or two, it slipped

Emerging markets might be the best place to find lucrative investment ideas in today's banking industry. Consider that Latin America has a population of 665 million, roughly double that of the

The largest neobank in the Western world is a company you've likely never heard of. Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) is the parent company of Nu Bank, a digital bank taking Latin America by storm. Starting in

Some stocks sizzle, then fizzle. Others, though, build long-lasting momentum thanks to strong underlying business fundamentals. Three Motley Fool contributors believe they've found stocks in the

I've written a lot about SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) this year. In early 2024, the company secured a multimillion-dollar investment from Nvidia, the largest supplier of artificial intelligence (AI)

December is a great time for investors to look at stocks or industries that have underperformed over the past year but that could be ripe for rebounds in the next one. One market that's showing

There are all sorts of exchange-traded funds (ETF) you can buy on the market. State Street pioneered the idea of the ETF when it launched the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust in 1993, and today, there are a

Costco Wholesale's (NASDAQ: COST) stock rallied nearly 80% over the past three years as the S&P 500 advanced about 30%. The warehouse retailer outperformed the market as it impressed investors with

The Nasdaq has blasted higher over the past two years, gaining more than 43% last year and now heading for an increase of more than 33% for 2024. This is thanks to the artificial intelligence (AI)

The S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is yielding a scant 1.2%. By comparison, the 6.3% yield on offer from Enbridge (NYSE: ENB) and the 6.4% from Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) are huge

Investing in a company to hold it forever is a simple idea, but it's not easy. Most companies can't maintain competitive advantages forever. Eventually, most businesses succumb to existential