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Home Depot (NYSE: HD) shareholders have some new reasons to celebrate. The home improvement retailer announced fresh operating numbers this week that included record sales even compared to soaring

One of the easiest ways to evaluate a company's business is by looking at its statement of cash flow. Here investors can avoid a lot of the noise and pitfalls that can come with simply looking at a

Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) is a divisive stock. The bulls believe the data mining firm will continue to expand across the government and commercial sectors, while the bears believe it's too dependent on

Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced a new smartphone on Tuesday: the Pixel 5a. The latest Pixel device rounds out the company's new smartphone lineup, as Google already

A dollar a day isn't very much money. It adds up to just $365 per year. And almost anyone can come up with $1 a day to invest in the stock market.

But if you put $1 a day into the market, what

AMC Entertainment Group (NYSE: AMC) has been the subject of intense investor interest in 2021. Redditers encouraged each other to buy shares of the movie theater chain and hold them until the stock

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) beat analyst expectations with its second-quarter financials for both revenue and earnings. As people returned to shopping in stores, and the retailer benefited from a strong

Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings on Thursday, Aug. 12. After more than a year of potential visitors being purposely kept from entering to reduce the chances of

With the stock market trading at or near all-time highs, investors have to work extra hard to find good value. It's not enough to look at conventional names that are mainstream and popular, instead

Having passed the U.S. Senate last week, the infrastructure bill is now the subject of focus in the House, where some representatives are less than keen on the legislation, though it appears to be

There is quite a bit about special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, that is not well understood by many investors. And this is especially true when it comes to SPAC warrants. In this Fool

The second quarter was a rough one for e-commerce stocks.

A number of big names plunged on earnings as they faced difficult comparisons with Q2 2020 when lockdowns drove a surge in online sales

A college education is something that many parents hope they can provide for their children. But college costs are high -- Vanguard estimates the average costs at $22,180 a year now for a public

Regions Financial (NYSE: RF), with $155 billion in assets, has, for the past decade, been a pretty mediocre regional bank that hasn't given shareholders much to cheer about. But like many banks

Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) stock has dipped sharply of late, losing over 12% of its value in the past week as Wall Street sentiment regarding the memory market's prospects has taken a turn for

Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) recently reported earnings for its second quarter of 2021. Investors liked what they saw, and the stock jumped 15% in a short amount of

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world's top cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) services company, went public in 2004. A $10,000 investment in its IPO would be worth over $900,000 today.

Investing in fast-growing companies can be risky. Often these are businesses that are not yet profitable on the bottom line. Additionally, they are likely to be relatively young companies and

It's good practice to constantly search for new ways to optimize your strategy around saving for retirement. By making small changes today, you're setting yourself up for a more comfortable

Since he's the most famous and perhaps most successful investor of all time, Warren Buffett's stock-picking philosophy is something that every investor should understand. If you want to become

Though the coronavirus pandemic has meant a marijuana boom in many areas, Canadian cannabis stocks are having a hard time generating profits. Most of them haven't even achieved positive earnings

We recently learned that fintech giant Square (NYSE: SQ) plans to acquire buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) leader Afterpay in a $29 billion all-stock deal. In this Fool Live clip, recorded on Aug. 5

Norwegian energy titan Equinor (NYSE: EQNR) has spent a lot of time talking about oil and gas this year, which might seem odd given that it talked a lot about renewable energy last year. Oil and gas

Over the last 15 years, growth investors have done quite well for themselves. In fact, according to S&P Global, growth stocks have generated an annualized return of 13.4% over that time period

There is a lot going on at New York Community Bancorp (NYSE: NYCB) these days. Earlier this year, the nearly $58 billion asset bank announced its intention to acquire the Michigan-based Flagstar