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Why Mattel, Iron Mountain, and J.C. Penney Slumped Today
Tuesday was another positive day for most of the stock market, although certain segments did better than others. Among major benchmarks, the Dow performed the best, with triple-digit gains taking....
What Investors Need to Know About Verizon's Mammoth NFL Deal
Football fans and cord-cutters rejoice, because Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) just kicked off the week with some great news. On Monday, the telecom giant announced a new five-year distribution....
How Safe Is Cintas Corp.'s Dividend?
No matter how high or low a company's dividend is at any given moment, there is no way for an investor can say that a dividend is a complete certainty. There are simply too many variables -- some....
Why 2017 Was a Year to Remember for NVIDIA Corp.
For any investor following the tech sector, NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) doesn't need much in the way of an introduction. The graphics processor maker has successfully taken its GPUs, which were....
Why Ford Is Teaming Up With Alibaba: Online Auto Sales
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is gearing up to test online alternatives to the traditional car-buying process via one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms. Ford and Chinese e-commerce giant....
MoviePass Wants to Be Netflix to Costco's Lament
The best way to make an unsustainable model even more likely to implode is to make it even cheaper, and that's just what Helios and Matheson's (NASDAQ: HMNY) majority-owned MoviePass is doing by....
Facebook to Back Off "Double Irish" Tax Strategy
Like many tech giants before it, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) adopted the controversial (and popular) "double Irish" tax strategy back in 2012. The method is a common way to minimize tax liability,....
The Best Wearables Stocks of 2017
The wearables market is still rapidly growing, with research firm IDC expecting shipments to rise from 125.5 million this year to 240.1 million in 2021. However, it's also a highly competitive....
Here's Where Things Went Wrong for Helmerich & Payne, Inc. in 2017
This past year has been a bit of a let-down for Helmerich & Payne (NYSE: HP) investors considering that the stock shed a quarter of its value, erasing a big chunk of last year's rebound. That....
Wal-Mart Wants to Eat Blue Apron's Lunch (and Dinner)
Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN) may have pioneered the meal-kit business, but brick-and-mortar grocery stores aren't going to let it steal its business. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), the nation's largest grocery....
Intel Corp. Expects to Sample 10-Nano FPGAs in 2018
In 2013, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and programmable logic chip vendor Altera announced a collaboration whereby Intel would manufacture chips Altera designs. This move, Altera hoped, would....
Is Apple Catching Up to Google and Tesla in Self-Driving Technology?
While Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been arguably the most dominant tech company of the past decade, some regard it as a laggard in the race for self-driving cars. Its Project Titan initiative has been....
Why Qualcomm Incorporated Stock Jumped 30% in November
Shares of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) spiked 30.5% last month, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, after Bloomberg reported at the beginning of November that....
Why Wynn Resorts Is the Hottest Casino Stock
Shares of Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ: WYNN) are up 84% in 2017 and 131% since the beginning of 2016, leading a recovery in casino stocks in Las Vegas and Macau. The stock gains have coincided with a....
Northrop Grumman Stock Upgraded: What You Need to Know
Every day, Wall Street analysts upgrade some stocks, downgrade others, and "initiate coverage" on a few more. But do these analysts even know what they're talking about? Today, we're taking two....
Walmart Has Struck a Chord With Online Grocery Sales in China
Don't look now, but Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is crushing the online grocery market in China. Walmart's net sales in the People's Republic of China for the third quarter of 2017 increased 4%, and....
Better Buy: Microsoft vs. Oracle
With their respective transitions to the cloud, analytics, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) in full swing, both Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) have been powering a profitable....
GE Cutting 12,000 Jobs as Renewables and Energy Storage Upend Fossil Fuels
When an electric energy pioneer like General Electric (NYSE: GE) reconfigures its entire energy business, investors should take note. That's exactly what happened last week when GE Power announced....
Intel Reportedly Prepping Ice Lake for First Half of 2019 Launch
A little while back, noted tech leaker "chrisdar" indicated that chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) was planning yet another generation of products built using a derivative of its 14-nanometer chip....
15 Dividends That Have Grown for 10 Straight Years (or More)
Image source: Getty Images.One of the many benefits of owning stocks is the chance to receive small chunks of a company's profit in the form of regular checks. We're talking about dividends, of....
1 Big Reason Netflix Will Be Fine Without Disney
Earlier this year, Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) announced it's pulling its films from Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) when its contract expires in 2019. And Disney isn't the only company pulling its....
Home Depot Stock Beats Apple in This Key Investor Metric
On the surface, Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) have nothing in common. One's a high-flying technology company that redefined communications with its smartphones, and the other is a....
This Chinese Chatbot Company Could Win Big
Investors all over the world have been discovering Chinese stocks this year, and why not? The leading Chinese tech companies, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and JD.com have all been on incredible runs.....
3 Top Utility Dividend Stocks to Buy Now
Utility stocks are a powerful way to boost your dividend income. Thanks to the defensive nature of their business and highly regulated revenue, utilities can generate stable cash flow and offer....
Will Howard Schultz's Biggest Failure Hurt Starbucks Investors?
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) hasn't done many things wrong in its nearly 50-year existence. Founded by three academics in 1971 who learned the coffee business from Alfred Peet of Peet's Coffee and....