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Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) and Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH) make diagnostic tests to help screen for cancer. The two healthcare stocks have similar price-to-sales (P/S) ratios, and over the past

The market has been wobbly over the past month as high interest rates continued to drive investors from stocks toward fixed-income investments. But the S&P 500 is still up 11% year to date, so we

Oil and natural gas markets are anything but boring. For investors, they can be downright exciting at times, both to the upside and to the downside. It's the nature of the business and some level of

The stock market has rendered its verdict on AT&T (NYSE: T) stock this year. While the S&P 500 is up around 10% year-to-date, shares of the telecom giant have tumbled roughly 20%.

There are some

Growth investors often lament that if they had just put $10,000 in one of the more successful tech giants, they would be millionaires today. Knowing that, they will often buy what they think are

After spending much of last year headed in the wrong direction, Wall Street turned the tables in 2023, with many stocks making up lost ground. Each of the major market indexes climbed at least 20%

Last week, renowned hedge fund manager Bill Ackman spoke at length about a new position in his portfolio. As it turns out, Silicon Valley investors are not the only ones looking to capitalize on the

One battle-tested way to look for outperformance in the stock market is to find businesses that pay a well-funded and growing dividend. A study by Hartford Funds showed that since 1973, dividend

Will Social Security be there for you when you retire? If you ask today's workers, that's questionable.

In fact, many people are convinced that Social Security is on the brink of ruin, and that

Growth-oriented investors looking for stocks that can heat up their portfolios before the end of 2023 want to turn their attention to the healthcare sector. Upcoming binary events could soon send

Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) has a very attractive distribution yield of 7.3%. But a big yield alone doesn't make an excellent investment, noting that there are plenty of high yields

The Biden administration has introduced several programs to help make student loans more affordable, as well as to create a clearer path to loan forgiveness for millions of federal student loan

Adyen (ENXTAM: ADYEN) is a global payments processor focused on online transactions and large enterprises. With its modern offerings that allow merchants to accept any form of payment anywhere in

When scanning the list of companies that have paid and raised their dividends for over 50 consecutive years -- colloquially called Dividend Kings -- investors often focus on recognizable names and

Kids (and many adults) enjoy trying to find a character named Waldo in different settings in the children's book series Where's Waldo?. It can sometimes take a little time to find Waldo, but the

Cathie Wood manages net assets of around $12 billion in her Ark Invest exchange-traded funds (ETFs). It's part of her job to keep close tabs on macroeconomic trends while also focusing on major

Most of us probably like the idea of getting something for free. And most of us like the idea of having money, too. Therefore, the prospect of receiving free money should be especially enticing.

The Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the type of company that you buy and forget about for long stretches of time. When you go back and look at it a few times a year, the story is likely to be very

Are you eager to retire with a growing stream of income from the dividend stocks in your portfolio? Now is a great time to go shopping.

There's hardly ever a bad time to buy shares of successful

Some investors may not like the fact that Penn Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ: PENN) completed an acquisition earlier this year -- only to turn around and sell the business back to its founder months

Lower consumer confidence in the economy and rising interest rates have been major headwinds for retail companies. The Consumer Discretionary Select SPDR ETF has underperformed the S&P 500 index

Volatility has been the name of the game on Wall Street since this decade began. Since 2020, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and

Warren Buffett has invested in all three major U.S. wireless carriers, but Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) currently owns just one.

T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) has outlasted its peers

When President Biden set out to have student loan debt forgiven, many Americans were hopeful that he'd manage to succeed. But unfortunately, the Supreme Court shot down that student loan forgiveness

The auto industry is tough and hasn't really been great for investors for many years (with the exception of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)). In this video, Motley Fool contributors Jason Hall and Tyler Crowe