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85% of Older Americans Missed Out on This Retirement Savings Opportunity

You'll often hear that retiring on Social Security alone isn't feasible. Those benefits will only replace about 40% of your wages if you're an average earner, and most seniors need more like 70% to

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Love AMD Stock? Here Are 3 Better Chip Stocks to Buy Right Now

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has been an incredible turnaround story. Under the guidance of CEO Lisa Su, AMD has made a comeback from chip industry underdog to technological leader. The

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3 Winning Dividend Stocks to Buy After Q2 Earnings

Like most earnings seasons, Q2 2021 has had its share of winners and losers. While it's never a good idea to weigh an entire company's value on three months of performance, there are many cases

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Teladoc's Earnings Had 1 Important Metric for Both Bulls and Bears

Stocks are driven by stories. Although long-term performance is determined by how much a company earns, its price at any given time is a reflection of the story market participants choose to

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Why Wise Reminds Me of Early PayPal

Sending money to friends and loved ones is quick and easy in the digital age. Instead of going to a retail store, bank, or money-transfer service, all it takes is opening an app on your smartphone

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3 Superstar Stocks for Your Retirement Portfolio

If you want the most joyful and relaxing retirement available, you need to have a portfolio of stocks that take the stress out of investing. The right choices can make the difference between needing

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3 Reasons Shopify Should Buy Affirm

The "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) craze hit fever pitch this week with payments giant Square (NYSE: SQ) making a $29 billion play for the global leader in the space, Afterpay. The company's innovative

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7 REITs I Own and Never Plan to Sell

I'm known around The Motley Fool as "The REIT Guy" by many of my colleagues and readers, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that my own stock portfolio is full of REITs, or real estate

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Could This Company Have a $1 Trillion Market Cap One Day?

The global financial services market will be worth an estimated $22 trillion in 2021. But despite the size of the overall banking business, many people around the world are actually underbanked

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My Top Energy Stock to Buy in August

So far this year, the energy sector has crushed it for investors. The Energy Select SPDR ETF (NYSEMKT: XLE) is up 32% in total returns, the best sector in the S&P 500 index, which is up 19% this

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5 Supercharged Stocks to Buy if the Stock Market Crashes 10%

For many investors, there are no scarier words than "stock market crash." But the data doesn't lie: stock market crashes are commonplace, and can arguably be considered the price of admission for

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3 Unstoppable Stocks That Are Beating Warren Buffett So Far This Year

Warren Buffett should be a happy camper. While his beloved Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) shares delivered an anemic performance in 2020, the stock is up 23% year to date. The

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Here Are the 12 Best Dividend Stocks I Own Right Now

Some investors concentrate their portfolios on just a handful of stocks. I like too many businesses to limit my choices. As a result, my portfolio is rather large -- typically between 40 and 50

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3 Special Stocks That Can Turn $25,000 Into $1 Million in 25 Years (or Less)

Contrary to what you might have heard or believe, investing in the stock market isn't hard. Rather, the difficult aspect of investing has to do with being patient and letting your investment thesis

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3 Steps to Claiming the $3,895 Max Monthly Social Security Benefit

You'll often hear that Social Security won't pay you enough money on its own for you to live comfortably in retirement. And for many people, that's true.

But what if you were able to collect $3,895

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