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Analysts might differ on whether we are in a bull market, but the recent increases in stock prices reduced the pool of cheap tech stocks. This probably means the low-hanging fruit found at the

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian reviews PayPal's (NASDAQ: PYPL) prospects for 2024 and lets you know if the stock is a buy right now.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Dec. 15

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has a knack for using acquisitions to bolster its growth businesses. The tech giant occasionally goes big, as it did with the $34 billion acquisition of

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), much of the attention has focused on larger companies like Nvidia or Microsoft. One can understand that, given their technical capabilities and

Although a successful industry-leading company, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) hasn't been the best to its shareholders. The stock has lost 28% of its value in the last five years, while the Nasdaq Composite

Playing video games has become a mainstream form of entertainment for millions of Americans. Players in the U.S. spent $56 billion on games in 2022, according to the NPD Group, and the figure is

Many investors consider Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) the quintessential artificial intelligence (AI) stock because the chipmaker dominates the market for machine learning processors. Other investors might

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) may not be among the esteemed ranks of the "Magnificent Seven" tech stocks, but the database software kingpin has a long track record of delivering superior returns to investors.

When it comes to talking about artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft often dominates the conversation, and rightly so. Early on, the company partnered up with OpenAI, a start-up that's capturing

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) are two of the world's largest cloud software companies. Adobe transformed its desktop-based media software into cloud-based services over the past

Investors seem to be focused on Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) attractive qualities as 2023 draws to a close. The software giant's stock price is up over 50% through mid-December, easily beating the 38%

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) was once one of the best-performing stocks out there. From its spinoff from eBay in July 2015 to its peak price in July 2021, shares rose about 740%, a monster gain.

But it's

In 2015, eBay spun off PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) into its own publicly traded company. As an investing novice at the time, I didn't fully understand how it worked. So I bought shares of eBay beforehand

Cathie Wood and her team at Ark Invest see advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) propelling a $14 trillion industry in enterprise software by 2030. AI has the potential to improve

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are the No. 1 and No. 2 companies, respectively, in the cloud infrastructure space. While Amazon pioneered the industry, Microsoft drove its

The last couple of years have been brutal for social media giant Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). After spending billions on its metaverse ambitions, Meta lost sight of its core advertising business

The electric vehicle (EV) market is expected to grow at an exponential rate in the coming years. Analysts estimate that by 2030, two out of every three cars sold globally will be an EV. With such

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) represent two different ways to invest in the growing cloud market. Snowflake helps companies clean up and aggregate large amounts of data for

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) posted its latest earnings report on Dec. 13. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 (which ended on Dec. 1), the cloud software giant's revenue rose 12% year over year (13% in

Stocks are climbing out of the deep hole they dug in 2022, powered by hopes for a transformation from artificial intelligence (AI) and signs that the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes are

Up 75% in 2023, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock is once again on fire. Amazon was already a giant at the start of the year, but the company added a staggering $680 billion in market cap this year alone.

Software titan Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) let some of its newer shareholders down recently with a disappointing report from its cloud computing segment. Shares fell about 10% immediately following the

Given its widespread use, most investors are likely familiar with FAANG, a well-worn acronym that refers to some of the best-performing companies of the past decade:

Each of these companies

In this video, I will go over Adobe's (NASDAQ: ADBE) fourth-quarter earnings report. The company comfortably beat Wall Street's expectations, but that wasn't enough to keep the stock from going