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It's no surprise that most investors look at the S&P 500 when trying to assess how the stock market has performed over a certain period of time. This index of the 500 largest and most profitable

April was a tough month on the market. The S&P 500 index dropped 4% last month, erasing some of the big gains from the past several months. Here in early May, the market is now up 8%, down from an

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) stock has struggled over the past year, losing around 28% of its value. Its dividend payout, meanwhile, has continued to rise again and again. This combination has pushed the

Buying stocks in great companies and holding them for the long term is a recipe for investing success. The challenge is knowing what to buy and how to allocate the capital one has for investing

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) stock has crushed it for the last year. The online brokerage that revolutionized free stock trading is up 100% in the last 12 months, compared to 27% returns for the

Just like it does a wonderful job taking care of its customers, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) continues to cater to its shareholders as well. The tech titan reported first-quarter 2024 revenue and earnings

With the S&P 500 near record territory, investors might think that there aren't compelling buying opportunities being served up right now. While that's a rational way to think, it's just not true.

Buy straw hats in the winter, when nobody wants them, and sell them in the summer when everybody needs them.--American billionaire investor Kenneth Fisher

It's repeatedly been shown that the best

3M (NYSE: MMM), Carpenter Technology (NYSE: CRS), and Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) are vastly different stocks, but all three are attractive on a risk/reward basis. They each have a different investment

Dividends are small but mighty wealth creators. That's abundantly clear in the data. Over the past 50 years, the average dividend-paying stock in the S&P 500 has delivered a 9.2% average annualized

Earnings season is in full swing, and all eyes are on the "Magnificent Seven" stocks. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) just hit the earnings tape with one major headline: a $110 billion stock buyback

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) made Wall Street's best and brightest look painfully slow this week. Analysts predicted the popular online brokerage would earn only $0.05 per share in its first

Right now, there are only seven companies in the world with a market capitalization in excess of $1 trillion. Ranked in order from largest to smallest, those companies are Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia

To build lasting wealth with stocks, you want to look for companies with plenty of room to expand for many years. No matter how the stock performs in the near term, a company that grows its revenue

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be one of the biggest revolutionary advancements in technology that the world has ever seen. Companies are just starting to embrace the technology

There are several textbook arguments against monopolies. According to one of them, companies that control a market can lower the quality of their products with impunity.

However, Vertex

If you like income, you've come to the right place. A few Fool.com contributors have highlighted some of their favorite income stocks.

What they like about this particular trio, MPLX (NYSE: MPLX),

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is one of America's lesser-known privately owned makers of military hardware -- even though it makes everything from ground vehicles to airplanes to spacecraft. It's

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has been a turnaround investment opportunity for some time, but the reversal is taking longer than many would like. Still, that doesn't discount how great of an investment

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock has delivered impressive gains to investors over the past five years, with shares of the tech giant rising close to 250% during this period and outpacing the S&P 500

Tobacco stocks have been phenomenal performers over the long term. They have strong profit margins and the consistent ability to raise prices, so shareholders who have held on for multiple decades

Semiconductors are a core pillar in the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Yet the chip space is largely dominated by just two players: Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.

However,

Being a Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) shareholder isn't for the weak stomach. The company's stock movements can be erratic, and many people may worry if they're not used to the volatility.

Tesla's stock

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is designed to help retirees keep up with rising costs due to inflation. Unfortunately, that doesn't always work out, and 2024 is shaping up to

There haven't been many stocks that have performed better than Mastercard (NYSE: MA) in recent memory. Since its initial public offering in May 2006, the credit card payment processor's shares have