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Amazon Leapfrogs Apple in Fortune 500
Fortune released its annual Fortune 500 rankings this week, listing the largest companies by revenue generated last year. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) was able to pull off a major coup: The e-commerce
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Is Annaly Capital Management Stock a Buy?
Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) is offering investors a massive 16% dividend yield today. Normally that should throw up a warning flag that there's something amiss. However, the real estate
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Walmart Just Did Something That Amazon, Home Depot, and Target Couldn't
Investors had expected Walmart (NYSE: WMT) to report strong sales growth in its fiscal 2021 first quarter (which ended May 1) given the rush to stockpile food and other essential products in March
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Stressed About Finances Right Now? Here's What to Do.
Many Americans had financial concerns before COVID-19, but the pandemic has caused its share of panic since cases started multiplying domestically back in March. Since then, unemployment levels have
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This Underrated Pot Stock Is a Scorching Buy
A big challenge with investing in pot stocks is that bad returns by one company can send all the others into a tailspin. Aphria (NYSE: APHA) is a good example. The company has been one of the
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Here's How Charter and Comcast Can Curb the Cord-Cutting Movement
Since 2014's peak in the total number of U.S. cable television customers, streaming alternatives like Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) have served as the scapegoat for falling subscriptions. And for good
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Is Gap Stock a Buy?
Gap (NYSE: GPS) was already a troubled retailer before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and after nearly two months of store closures, it is even more so.
While J.C. Penney, J. Crew, and Neiman-Marcus
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3 Dividend Aristocrats to Buy and Hold Forever
Dividend Aristocrats are an exclusive group of S&P 500 companies that have paid and increased their dividends every year for at least 25 years straight. These companies tend to have stable
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3 No-Brainer Stocks to Buy in Tech
The coronavirus has thrown some businesses into crisis mode. Brick-and-mortar retail shops, airlines, and restaurants are all trying to figure out how to survive during this challenging time.
But
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2 Top Stocks Still Paying Dividends
Dividend cuts and suspensions are becoming standard practice during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Companies that have pulled back on dividends to preserve cash include automakers, retailers, real
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Better Buy: Plug Power vs. Bloom Energy
Hydrogen fuel cells are hot again.
So far in 2020, the biggest fuel cell stocks have handily outperformed the market. Shares of fuel cell generator manufacturer Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) are up 7.5%
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Is Alteryx Stock a Buy?
Alteryx (NYSE: AYX) has delivered a fantastic one-year stock price gain above 50% to its shareholders, but it has been a wild ride getting there. Over the last 365 days, the stock peaked above $147
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Better Buy: GlaxoSmithKline vs. Pfizer
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) have both been in the headlines lately as they lead the way in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine. While it hasn't been an easy year for
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4 Signs the Cannabis Industry Is Still Ultra-High-Risk
If you're looking to invest in the cannabis industry, you have to be prepared to take on some significant risks. The industry's been struggling during the past year, and a turnaround is not
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With Oil Prices Up 259% in the Last Month, Is USO Stock a Buy or Sell Right Now?
Crude oil prices have been incredibly volatile this year. WTI, the main U.S. oil price benchmark, started 2020 right around $60 a barrel. However, dual shockwaves from the collapse of Russia's oil
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Warren Buffett Sold Phillips 66 -- Here's Why I'm Holding (and May Buy More)
This quarter's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) 13-F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission -- the document that discloses the company's massive stock portfolio holdings at
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Shake Shack Has Limits to Raising Prices
It is easy to dismiss Shake Shack's (NYSE: SHAK) poor quarterly results, which saw same-store sales (comps) drop 12.8%. Certainly, the coronavirus pandemic played a part with March's comps down 29%
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The Suburbs Are Hot Again; How American Homes 4 Rent Is Taking Advantage
The COVID-19 crisis has been tough on financial stocks, especially banks and real estate investment trusts (REITs). The banks have been clobbered on market fears that nonperforming loans are about
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3 Dividend Stocks to Buy on Sale
With volatility through the roof over the last few months, finding a good dividend stock isn't as easy as it once was. A number of stocks, especially in the consumer discretionary sector, have
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Better Buy: Costco vs. Lowe's
Costco (NASDAQ: COST) and Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) are both large, national retail chains that were deemed essential services and have stayed open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this
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74% of Workers Plan to Hold Down a Job in Retirement. Here Are 3 Great Reasons to Do the Same.
After a lifetime of effort, you may be more than ready to stop working once you reach a certain age. A lot of people don't work in retirement, but there are benefits to holding down a job in some
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Better Buy: ExxonMobil vs. Royal Dutch Shell
In this corner...the largest oil company in the world!
In the opposite corner...also the largest oil company in the world!
Today, it's a clash of the titans of the oil industry. I'm pitting
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Is Green Thumb Worth a Second Look?
Green Thumb Industries (OTC: GTBIF) is making a strong bid to become one of the survivors in the fast-growing but unstable marijuana industry.
On Thursday, the 6-year-old company announced
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Aurora Cannabis: More Than Half of Its Total Assets May Be Written Down
What a difference an earnings report makes if you're a shareholder of the most popular pot stock on the planet, Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB).
Following a precipitous 14-month downtrend that saw
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2 Good Reasons to Claim Social Security Early Due to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many older workers to rethink their retirement strategies. The unemployment rate among Americans age 55 and older surged from 3.3% in March to 13.6% in April