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Many investors are familiar with the Dividend Aristocrats, an elite list of companies that have raised annual dividend payouts for at least 25 consecutive years. Dividend Kings take this a step

Both Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) touched market capitalization values over $1.5 trillion this week, and the next stop could be $2 trillion. Such sky-high valuations may seem

Grubhub's (NYSE: GRUB) stock recently popped after the American food delivery company agreed to merge with its European peer Just Eat Takeaway (OTC: TKAY.Y), which itself was formed by a recent

A dividend is only as good as the company that's paying it. Sometimes payouts aren't as stable as they seem. With COVID-19 and massive unemployment, business conditions are changing rapidly around

Figuring out how much you need to save for retirement is really complicated, which is why some people avoid doing it altogether. But even workers with a savings goal may be setting themselves up for

Mall real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been hit hard by the efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 -- and Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG), the largest and most diversified name in the

You give money to the Social Security Administration every pay period with the understanding that it will give some of that money back to you as a form of guaranteed income in retirement. But the

Following months of speculation that Uber might acquire GrubHub (NYSE: GRUB), the latter company has decided to instead merge with European food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com (OTC: TKAY.Y)

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has been chipping away at arch-rival NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) discrete graphics card market share for a few years now, and did it once again in the first quarter

United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) operates a global network of transportation services for businesses and consumers.

While you're probably familiar with UPS in some capacity, you might be unfamiliar

COVID-19 has caused unprecedented economic destruction in the U.S., and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act attempted to mitigate the damage to household finances by

Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE: SRG) has taken investors on a wild ride in 2020. Shares traded for around $40 in January, reflecting shareholders' optimism about the REIT's plans to redevelop

Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) is reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy. While the recent slump in commodity prices might go down as the culprit, the company's issues run much deeper than that.

The

When investors see stock from a well-known company such as Hertz (NYSE: HTZ) plunge, it's tempting to pick up shares at a low price while awaiting a rebound -- after all, buy low and sell high

These are challenging times for big media stocks. Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) are doing just fine with their stay-at-home businesses. Disney+ has been a hit since its November

The real estate investment trust (REIT) sector has been smashed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mortgage REITs have seen the value of their assets fall, with their sources of funding severely

Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) have surged recently, briefly crossing $1,000 per share earlier this week. Though shares have pulled back to around $950 more recently, the stock is still notably up

After a nearly year-long tumble culminating with the market meltdown in March 2020, shares of data analytics firm Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) are homing back in on all-time highs. Digital transformation

While George Soros might not be a household name like Warren Buffett, he's one of the most successful investors in modern history. Having donated $32 billion to causes, Soros' current wealth is $8.3

Boeing (NYSE: BA) shares have been all over the map in 2020, losing half their value in March alone as part of a broader pandemic-related market sell-off. Since early May the bulls have largely been

It has been less than two years since Guardant Health's (NASDAQ: GH) IPO in October 2018. Since that time, shares of the cancer diagnostic company have returned 298%, compared to the S&P 500's 2.47%

The COVID-19 crisis hasn't just had a health-related impact; it's also caused a world of financial hurt. Not only did U.S. unemployment levels reach record highs in both April and May, but back in

Despite this past week's pullback, bank stocks have been on a nice run as of late, buoyed by the gradual reopening of state economies and people getting back to work. In the first week of June

In 2018, the founder of Bicycle Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BCYC), Sir Gregory Winter, was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in developing phage display (use of viruses that infect

If you had invested $1,000 in shares of mid-cap biotech company Fate Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FATE) when it IPO'd, you would have close to $4,823.33 as of markets' close on June 11. That's an