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Holding a stock forever can seem crazy, but as investors, we want to have the kind of time horizon that allows us to think in terms of decades. 

Two companies that fit that description of forever

GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO) makes some very cool cameras capable of amazing things. That, however, isn't enough to turn a company into a sustainable business. And yet GoPro generates roughly $1 billion in

The stock market is off to a decent start in 2023, with the S&P 500 up by about 4% with about a week left in January -- not a stellar performance but a welcome change from last year. However, some

It took just an afternoon for the market to forget about Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) confirmation that it's investing $10 billion into ChatGPT creator and parent company OpenAI. Microsoft reported

Motley Fool contributor Zane Fracek analyzes Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock and the electric vehicle company's fourth-quarter earnings. Through weak demand, higher interest rates, and price cuts, CEO

ChatGPT, an AI-based chatbot from OpenAI, has gone viral. Based on the company's GPT-3.5 large language model, ChatGPT is capable of some impressive feats. It's not always right, but this technology

Hundreds of companies used so-called blank check companies, or SPACs, to go public in 2020 through early 2022. And while I kept my position sizes very small when it came to these businesses, there

There's little question that early investors in Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) have been amply rewarded. Since the company's $17 IPO in mid-1992, the stock has returned an incredible 40,000% -- even after

Social Security has a revenue problem to grapple with -- and soon. In the coming years, the program expects to owe more in scheduled benefits than it collects in revenue. Those benefits can continue

General Electric (NYSE: GE) spinoff GE HealthCare Technologies (NASDAQ: GEHC) will report its fourth-quarter earnings on Jan. 30. Still, investors already have a good idea of what it will say thanks

Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD), generally referred to as TD Bank, boasts a generous 4.2% dividend yield at recent prices. Compare that to Bank of America's 2.6%, and you can see why dividend

Warren Buffett likes stocks. He began investing in stocks at age 11, buying three preferred shares of Cities Services. Through the years, he has amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune thanks to the

Fellow investors, we're off to a good start in the new year. All of the major market indexes are up so far in 2023. The S&P 500 has risen nearly 5% in less than one month. 

This fledgling momentum

When the seas are rough, captains batten down the hatches on their ships. Investors have a similar mindset when the stock market is choppy. Their equivalent to battening down the hatches is to

The past year has been difficult for the stock and bond markets, as anyone who tracked the performance of their 401(k) can attest. The bear market also was a negative for the companies that own the

Investors don't yet know what to expect in 2023. The market may slowly stroll along the path to recovery. Or it could race ahead, with stock prices soaring. In either case, it's a good idea to add

It's that time of year when Wall Street analysts start adjusting their predictions, and one dividend-paying stock, in particular, is getting a lot of positive attention.

Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:

While the S&P 500 remains down sharply from its all-time high more than a year ago,  Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) shares are close to 52-week highs and up sharply since last summer. While there's some

Last year, investors were reminded in a not-so-subtle way that stocks can go down just as easily as they can rise. Following a nearly unstoppable march higher in 2021, all three major U.S. stock

On Jan. 19, the U.S. government hit the debt ceiling, which is the largest amount of money the government can borrow to pay for expenditures that lawmakers have already approved and committed to.

If the past dictates the future, between 80% and 90% of today's U.S. workforce is going to be reliant, in some capacity, on Social Security income when they retire. This 80% to 90% range reflects

Stocks continued their 2023 recovery on Friday, with modest gains for the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) but another solid performance from the Nasdaq

Companies splitting their stock, one way or another, have grabbed headlines over the past year or so. That's not going to happen with electric vehicle (EV) company Mullen Automotive (NASDAQ: MULN)

The beaten-down shares of cloud data intelligence company Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO) jumped by almost 55% in value this week, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. That was

Shares of American Express (NYSE: AXP) climbed 10.5% on Friday after the credit card giant boosted its dividend and provided an upbeat financial forecast for the coming year.  

American Express's