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As a member of the Magnificent Seven, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) crushed the market this year. Shares are up nearly 60%, while the S&P 500 has returned just 15%. With the hype around

The market was ripe with stock splits last year, with some of the world's biggest companies launching these operations -- from Google parent Alphabet to electric vehicle giant Tesla. Stock splits

The world's largest companies dominate Wall Street headlines and are household names. Who doesn't know mega-cap stocks like Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla? To be fair, the business world is ruthlessly

The S&P 500 slipped 5% in September as Wall Street grappled with the growing probability that Fed policymakers will keep interest rates elevated for a prolonged period of time. The September

Many new businesses don't even last five years. Few get beyond a decade, and only the best of them -- typically those that have built solid economic moats and can continue improving their financial

Inflation has consistently eased since reaching a high of 9% in June 2022, with the Consumer Price Index rising 3.7% last month. The cost of living is moving in the right direction, with many

There are many parts of the economy that can provide solid investment ideas. One popular area is the technology sector: Not only are the companies at the forefront of innovations, but they're also

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) is a growing business that generates billions in annual profit and has some incredible opportunities ahead. It's easy to see why investors are bullish on the

One of the advantages individual investors have is the length of time their stocks are held. Research shows that trading in and out of stocks is detrimental to returns. Timing the market is

A term coined by Bank of America analyst Michael Hartnett, the "Magnificent Seven," refers to the seven heavyweights in the S&P 500 index: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) has had an impressive run so far this year, riding the broader-based recovery of technology stocks. Shares of the cloud monitoring specialist are up more than 22% so far this

As computing technology advances, it has become increasingly clear in recent years that tighter integration between semiconductor and software development is needed. The surge in artificial

Ark Invest Founder Cathie Wood is known for making outlandish forecasts. In 2018, she said Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) would reach $4,000, and by 2021, the EV maker had remarkably done just that. She also

Investors in industrial supply company Fastenal (NASDAQ: FAST) were pleased to see their stock rise 7.5% on the day of the third-quarter earnings release. That's excellent news for Fastenal, and

It's hard to overstate how great of an investment Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been. The stock's 52% trailing-three-year return crushes the 18% gain of the Nasdaq Composite. And if we zoom out even

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has attracted plenty of bulls this year, with its shares up 55% since the start of January. Investors have rallied as the company has delivered a solid return to profitability

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the hot growth opportunity that many businesses have been focusing on in 2023. For retirees, however, it may seem like the next big risk, or tech bubble, that's not

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood has made a name for herself as an expert in picking high-risk, high-reward growth investments. Her big investment wins include buying Bitcoin when it was priced at roughly

Any list of the most successful companies of all time would no doubt include Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). By focusing on design and the user experience, Apple created innovative and disruptive products

Appetite-curbing treatments and weight-loss supplements are taking the world by storm. In particular, a number of diabetes and obesity medications developed by Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) and Eli Lilly

Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) first generation of discrete graphics cards has been a mixed bag. The hardware itself is solid, and prices are aggressive, but the company still has work to do on the software

As the second-largest company globally, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) gets a lot of attention as an investment. With its fingers in exciting areas like artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing

The S&P 500 currently trades at 17.7 times forward earnings. That's below the five-year average of 18.7 times forward earnings and roughly in line with the 10-year average. That metric suggests

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has been one of the best-performing stocks this year. Shares are up 167% in 2023 (as of Oct. 1), a huge reversal from the monumental drop from late 2021 to late 2022.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has been cutting prices all year and added another cut in just the last few weeks. But the impact on the business may not be what investors think. Margins are dropping and