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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) are dominant in their respective fields. Unsurprisingly, investors are curious about which of these incredible growth stocks is

Chevron (NYSE: CVX) reported record earnings and cash flow last year, fueled by higher oil and gas prices. That's giving the oil giant more money to return to shareholders. As a result, it's

Motley Fool contributor Jamie Louko keeps a small Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) stock position. At this early stage, he sees investing in Lemonade as a bet on its superior insurance customer experience.

Sherwin-Williams (NYSE: SHW) posted slightly better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter, but the company's outlook for 2023 was well short of what investors had expected. The market is

Through the power of compounding, you don't actually need a whole lot of capital to start investing in stocks. Top growth stocks, after all, can turn even a modest amount like $1,000 into $3,000 or

NextEra Energy Partners (NYSE: NEP) is a unicorn among dividend stocks. It offers a well-above-average dividend yield of 4.5% after its recent boost, versus 1.7% for the S&P 500. Meanwhile, it's

One painful mistake investors can make is to rely too much on stock screeners when looking for possible investments. For example, if they start their search by filtering out stocks with high

Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and Boehringer Ingelheim's supplemental New Drug Application for Jardiance tablets to treat adult patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) was recently accepted for review by

Motley Fool contributor Jamie Louko breaks down Unity (NYSE: U), including its strongest advantages and toughest struggles lately. A mediocre acquisition further solidifies Unity as part of Jamie's

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock is up 7.7% in Thursday's premarket trading as of 8:30 a.m. ET, following the electric vehicle (EV) pioneer's release of a strong fourth-quarter 2022 report the prior

Wayfair's (NYSE: W) stock closed at its all-time high of $345.47 on March 22, 2021. At the time, the online furniture and home goods retailer seemed like a solid play on soaring home sales and

What will the world look like in a decade? It's hard to predict that with great accuracy, but for investors it's helpful to focus on the knowledge that the stock market has generally generated solid

There are some restaurant concepts that just click with consumers, and those businesses can turn into long-term growth machines. This has been the case for Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG).

3M (NYSE: MMM) reported earnings this week, and the results were mixed. Margins are down, and guidance was weak enough to cause management to announce layoffs. But despite the challenges, this is a

The good news is that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) added nearly 7.7 million paying customers during the fourth quarter of last year, handily topping expectations. The bad news is that net subscriber

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is widely considered one of the best stock pickers of all time, and for good reason. By focusing primarily on a company's intrinsic value and its competitive

For Motley Fool contributor Jamie Louko, the case for owning Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST) comes down to just one metric. And so far, this AI-powered company is delivering.

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Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) is a top healthcare company, and it has generated mild but consistent growth over the years. And during the past decade, its share price has increased by more than 550%. While

We learned in 2022 that some parts (maybe all?) of the cryptocurrency industry are built as a house of cards. When the foundations were found to be flimsy, the collapse didn't take long and several

"Fear of the future is palpable, but crisis can create opportunities." Those were Cathie Wood's words from a letter she wrote and posted on the Ark Invest website earlier this month. Considering the

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks had an atrocious 2022. Unfortunately, much of that was self-inflicted, especially considering the lofty valuations many stocks reached during their late 2021

Shareholders of Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CPRX) got a nasty shock on Jan. 23 when the company reported that a competitor, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE: TEVA), was planning to make a

Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) has a growing business but a shrinking stock price. The vacation rental specialist has seen its shares drop over 30% in the year ended in mid-January even though its last few

The slowing economy and the plunging stock market may be at the top of the minds of most businesses, but smart companies with long-term focus are not getting bogged down by these near-term concerns

The past year wasn't short of misery for e-commerce stocks. Thanks to rising inflation and fears of a recession across the United States and parts of Europe, e-commerce companies went from seeing