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Do Consumers Even Care About Original Content?
As the pioneer in the streaming-video industry, Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) created the template that its competitors are following, and it plans to spend between $7 billion and $8 billion on....
How Safe is Consolidated Edison's Dividend?
Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED) has grown its over-180-year-old utility business in line with the growth of its primary market, New York City. And, along the way, it has increased its dividend for....
The New McDonald's Value Menu Could Be Bigger Than All-Day Breakfast
A good case can be made that when McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) eliminated its Dollar Menu, it was the root cause of all the problems that followed. By bringing back the deep-discount menu, it could be....
This Investment Turned $1,000 Into $2.2 Billion in Less Than 8 Years
Traditionally, the stock market is the go-to investment for people who understand the value that time and compounding can bring to the table. Over its long history, the stock market has returned....
Fiscal 2018 Will Be Apple Inc.'s Best Year Yet
A little more than three years ago, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) released the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, its first large-screen phones. These devices helped power Apple to a $51 billion (or 28%) year-over-year....
Activision Blizzard Earnings: Another Beat and Raise
Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) winning streak is intact. The video game publisher this week announced quarterly results that -- for the seventh consecutive time -- beat management's....
Oversaturation Is Killing Restaurant Stocks
2017 has been a banner year for stocks. The S&P 500 is up more than 15%, and the Dow Jones Industrials and the Nasdaq have climbed even faster. However, one industry has been left out in the....
4 Timeless Investment Principles From The Motley Fool Investment Guide
For years, the only book I recommended to friends or family members who said they were interested in learning more about investing was Peter Lynch's quintessential classic, One Up on Wall Street.....
5 Dividend Aristocrats With the Fastest-Growing Dividends
Many investors like to buy stocks that are known as Dividend Aristocrats. To join this elite group, an S&P 500 company must increase its dividend for at least 25 consecutive years. But just....
6 Companies That Are the Most Reliant on Government Contracts
Image source: Getty Images.The single largest contractor for the federal government in 2016 was Lockheed-Martin (NYSE: LMT), which raked in more than $43 billion in contracts last year. That was....
3 Things to Watch in the Stock Market This Week
Stocks inched higher last week, continuing a rally that's pushed both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) up by nearly 20% so far in 2017.^SPX....
This Chipmaker Could Win Big From Deep Learning
Deep learning is a subsegment of artificial intelligence (AI) in which multiple computers to talk to each other through artificial neural networks. These artificial neural networks allow computers....
Tech Stocks Last Week: Apple, Facebook, and Shopify Report Earnings
As earnings season continued last week, tech stocks served investors some interesting news yet again. In this week's review of tech stock stories, we'll look at earnings reports from three hot....
1 Reason Why I'd Never Buy Amazon Stock for $1,100
Late last month, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) released a stellar third-quarter earnings report. Sales skyrocketed 34% year over year to $43.7 billion. (The increase would have been 29% excluding....
Why Rite Aid Corporation Stock Is Riskier Than Ever With the Amazon Threat
Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) keeps on taking hits. The pharmacy retailer has lost around 80% of its market cap so far this year, after a planned acquisition by Walgreens Boots Alliance....
Affordable Care Act Enrollment: 5 Money-Saving Tips for 2018
It's that time of the year again: Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which you probably know better as Obamacare, is in full swing. Enrollment began on Nov. 1, as it has in recent....
United Continental Is Forging Ahead With a Bizarre Plan to Grow in Los Angeles
Los Angeles International Airport (also known as LAX) is unique among American airports. Most big hubs have one or two dominant airlines. But LAX is a major base of operations for each of the five....
This Bank Has Tripled in Size Since the Financial Crisis
Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) has gotten into its fair share of trouble of late, but that doesn't change the progress the California-based bank has made over the past decade at growing market....
The Best Marijuana Investment Could Be a Beer Stock
For years, many in the business community believed that tobacco and alcohol companies would eventually break into the marijuana market.Now it seems that prediction is finally playing....
Are Amazon's Brick-and-Mortar Plans in Trouble?
Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) takeover of Whole Foods stunned many brick-and-mortar retailers, which feared that merging Amazon's e-commerce ecosystem with hundreds of physical stores could render....
3 Stocks With Better Dividends Than General Electric
General Electric (NYSE: GE) investors breathed a sigh of relief when new CEO John Flannery opted not to cut the company's dividend -- at least for now. He did say, however, that the decision might....
3 Stocks That Put Microsoft's Returns to Shame
Few stocks have created the type of wealth Microsoft has. Since going public in 1986 -- and accounting for all of the stock splits and dividends that have come in between -- shareholders have....
Could Activision Blizzard Be a Value Stock?
Trading at roughly 42 times trailing earnings and 30 times this year's expected profits, Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) doesn't fit the typical value-stock profile. Those earnings multiples....
3 Stocks Disrupting Their Industries
Change is a common theme throughout history, but it seems it's coming at us faster than ever before. Some companies are not only comfortable with change, but they embrace it. Three companies not....
PayPal Is the Obvious Winner of the Mobile Commerce Revolution
Investors in PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) had plenty of reason to cheer when the company reported its third-quarter results on Oct. 19. PayPal's net revenue came in at $3.24 billion, a 21%....