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The relationship between new technologies and investors can be summed up by a term known as the Gartner hype cycle.

Tracking investor sentiment in relation to disruptive forces, the Gartner hype

Diversified industrial icon 3M (NYSE: MMM) has a 6.1% dividend yield. The dividend has increased annually for over 50 years, making the company a highly elite Dividend King. And that hefty yield is

As an investor, you'd be hard-pressed to find two companies more similar than Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW). Both home improvement retailers have consistently rewarded

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN) is up a stunning 72% this year. It remains a top pick of value investors, such as Ark Invest's Cathie Wood, who has repeatedly scooped up

Cryptocurrency investors should be used to volatile prices by now. The market for digital coins and tokens rose from $17 billion to $820 billion in 2017, fell back to $100 billion over the next two

The number of people with COVID-19 has been rising rapidly in China in recent weeks, and there are concerns that the government in Beijing could consider reviving its strict lockdown policies again

In this podcast, Motley Fool senior analyst Jim Gillies and producer Ricky Mulvey discuss:

Plus, Motley Fool analysts Tim Beyers and Meilin Quinn interview DigitalOcean CEO Yancey Spruill about how

This year will likely go down in history as the year artificial intelligence (AI) came of age. AI exploded onto the scene with the debut of ChatGPT, which seemed to mark a paradigm shift for

Regardless of your investing experience or risk tolerance, putting cash into stocks takes a certain tolerance for volatility and uncertainty. No investment has a guaranteed outcome. However, if you

The stock market has started to recover from a painful 2022, but many of yesteryear's high-priced market darlings are still trading far below their two-year peaks. In fact, some of them look

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is one of the leading players in the electric vehicle (EV) market, and it's making big bets on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The company has already introduced some

Shares of C3.ai (NYSE: AI) dropped 22.4% in after-hours trading on Wednesday, after the enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) application software company released its results for the fourth

AI stocks are on a tear, but the excitement around the transformational technology hasn't extended to Ambarella (NASDAQ: AMBA). The semiconductor company specializes in computer vision chips used in

Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) can be tricky, as many companies may not work out as you expect. However, not investing in AI seems like a mistake, as it will have a massive influence on

Fool.com contributor and finance professor Parkev Tatevosian elaborates on how Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) have prospects that are correlated.

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I've long enjoyed Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) products. I'm also a big fan of companies that pay dividends, which the beverage giant does. Despite those factors, I have never owned shares of Coca-Cola.

Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) is still growing, but its short-term earnings outlook is worsening. That was the big-picture takeaway from the retailer's late May earnings update that covered the selling

Demand for NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) AI chips is proving insatiable. The launch of ChatGPT from OpenAI late last year opened the AI floodgates by demonstrating the power and potential of generative

Few companies represented the froth in the IPO market better than Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) when it came public in late 2020. After reaching hilariously high valuation levels of 180 times sales, the

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is one of the world's largest digital payment platforms. It initially went public in 2002, was acquired that same year by eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), then spun off again as an

Will Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) benefit or suffer from the huge AI inflection momentum Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is experiencing? Check out the short video to learn more, consider subscribing,

When it comes to investing for the long term, it is important to not sweat the day-to-day swings in the market and instead remain focused on high-quality stocks trading at great valuations. One of

From its humble beginnings when it traded for less than a penny to eventually reaching a staggering all-time high of over $68,000, Bitcoin's journey over the years has been nothing short of

The artificial intelligence revolution is coming, and investors are rushing to position themselves for the future. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been the early winner; its dominance in high-powered GPUs

As an investor, one of the most important takeaways is that quality matters -- a lot. Buying tremendous businesses at reasonable valuations is a formula for investing success.

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