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Dividend stocks that pay every month aren't common. But they can be valuable assets in an income investor's portfolio as they will bring in cash on a more regular basis, which you can use to save or

While small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have difficulty competing against commerce powerhouses like Amazon and Walmart, companies like Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) have been helping them compete

Live Oak Bancshares (NYSE: LOB), which focuses heavily on serving small businesses with its high-touch, technology-driven bank model, has struggled with its stock down about 37% over the last year. 

With the coronavirus pandemic providing a huge boost to online shopping behavior, many readers might believe that brick-and-mortar retail is now dead. But this couldn't be further from the truth.

Despite the Nasdaq-100 rocketing 10.6% higher in January 2023, some stocks haven't had nearly the same success. The three worst Nasdaq-100 performers in January were Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH)

The doldrums that cannabis stocks have drifted through over the last year have driven some investors out of the market. 

It's hard to take losses of more than 70%, which were experienced last year

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock responded well to the fall in revenue. Still, the decrease in top-line growth proves the company is not immune to the macro economy.

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Investors are warming up to both McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) stocks right now. The two Dow giants outperformed the market in 2022 as Wall Street began to favor stability

The stock market was quiet early Tuesday morning, as investors seemed ready for a mixed opening on Wall Street. Futures on some stock indexes were down while others were up, but none made

Many growth-oriented investors flocked toward cryptocurrencies over the past few years as the prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital tokens skyrocketed. But last year, the crypto market

Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) has an exceptional record of growing value for its investors. The master limited partnership (MLP) has increased its distribution for 24 straight years.

Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) dropped more bad news for the advertising industry on Monday. The search social media company announced worse-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue and guided for first-quarter

It was a rough two years for Cathie Wood, but the Ark Invest founder, CEO, and money manager is bouncing back in 2023. Her family of growth-oriented exchange-traded funds is rolling again.

Wood's

Since many companies report their fourth-quarter results in January and February, recent weeks have seen the usual beginning-of-year flood of dividend raises. 

Even in the financial sector, which

Last year was a much-needed reminder that just as there will be plenty of winning years in the stock market, there will also be a year of losses (or sometimes even two or three) sandwiched in

Shares of digital ad-buying platform The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) rose 13.1% in January, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Honestly, there wasn't much company-specific news that

Ask anyone who is getting a raise this year how they plan to put that money to use, and they'll probably have at least a few ideas. Spending at least some of it can feel like a well-deserved reward

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) isn't performing at the high level that investors have been used to seeing over the past few years. The video game company recently announced a surprising decline in its

Discovery and search social media platform Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) has been on a rollercoaster ride over the last few years. Today, the stock sits close to 70% below an all-time high achieved in

With cannabis stocks looking beaten-down and cheap thanks to a brutal bear market in 2022, it's no wonder that investors are questioning whether the industry's gold rush era is gone for good. For

In the cryptocurrency market, only one coin has ever attained a trillion-dollar market capitalization: Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). But a growing number of analysts and investors now think the next crypto

Digital bank and one-stop-shop financial services company SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI) beat analysts' consensus estimates for the fourth quarter.

Perhaps more importantly for investors, management also

Marketed as "the world's greenest blockchain" and often called an "Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) killer," the Algorand (CRYPTO: ALGO) blockchain network offers a fast, low-cost platform for smart contracts

Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) is already the largest real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on self-storage properties. However, it wants to supersize that portfolio by acquiring rival

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) posted its latest earnings report on Feb. 2. In the first quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended on Dec. 25, the chipmaker's adjusted revenue dropped 12% year over year to $9.46