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Many tech stocks soared over the past year as the bullish enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, software, and chips broadly offset the bearish concerns about high interest rates

For the past few years, PayPal's (NASDAQ: PYPL) stock has been hampered by the company's slowing growth. To be sure, revenue still heads higher nearly every quarter, but it's at a pace that's far

During the last three months of 2023, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) reported a revenue and diluted earnings per share bump of 25% and 203%, respectively. Both headline figures crushed estimates,

Wall Street had a banner year in 2023. The Nasdaq Composite, which is the standard-bearer for technology stocks, shook off the effects of the bear market, soaring 43% in 2023. After a move of that

Sometimes, the best stock buys are hiding in plain sight. Microsoft shares, for example, gained 1,000% in the past decade, even though the company was already an entrenched software leader back in

Shares of Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) have crushed the broader market handsomely in the past year with impressive gains of 154%, driven by robust growth in its top and bottom lines. It looks like

For some, $1,000 might not seem like enough money to invest to get a great return in the stock market. But if you have a long enough investment time horizon and pick the right investment, $1,000

Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) stock price plunged 33% during after-hours trading on Feb. 6 in response to the social media company's fourth-quarter report. Its revenue rose 5% year over year to $1.36 billion

When a company starts paying a dividend to its shareholders, it is often seen as a signal of confidence that the company is at a stage where it can produce stable and growing earnings and cash flow

Investors were certainly excited to hear about Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ: META) first-ever quarterly dividend. It's been an epic run since the IPO in 2012, returning investors well over 1,000% since

The world is progressively becoming more digital. There are billions of smartphones and connected devices, and companies increasingly work remotely and rely on cloud services. With this rise in

There was excitement on Wall Street when the S&P 500 hit a new high in January after more than two years. But the real story is that it keeps moving up. There's momentum in the stock market, and

As the market hits fresh all-time highs, primarily due to the outsized gains of the "Magnificent Seven" stocks, investors might want to turn their attention to less-prominent businesses that are

What would you do if you could rewind the clock 20 years and buy Amazon stock? I would guess just about everybody would buy it knowing what they do today -- and watch their investment gain more than

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian evaluates PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) and its prospects over the next several years to forecast where the stock price could be in 2026.

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Is David Tepper an income investor? Nope. The hedge fund manager (and Carolina Panthers owner) probably doesn't factor dividends into his thinking much, if at all, when picking stocks.

However, that

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas for tech investors.

After surging 54% last year, the Nasdaq 100 is already up another 4%, paced by the usual suspects. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has jumped

Things can change quickly on the stock market.

It wasn't that long ago that Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), the parent company of Facebook, was facing serious issues. Revenue was crawling higher, at

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian evaluates the financial prospects for Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) and determines if the stock is a buy for long-term investors.

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Shares of stock market darling Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) have gained nearly 219% in the past year and have reached near-record highs. The semiconductor giant's prowess in advanced GPUs and artificial

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) shocked many investors by initiating a dividend this year. The technology titan is starting small with a $0.50 per share quarterly payment ($2.00 annually). That works

Alibaba's (NYSE: BABA) stock price sank 6% on Feb. 7 after the Chinese e-commerce and cloud leader posted its latest earnings report. For the third quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on Dec. 31

What a difference a year makes. In the economic turmoil that characterized 2022, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) was hit hard. Marketers pulled back on digital ad spending -- which accounts for the

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has rewarded investors handsomely in the past year with impressive gains of 55%. Even better, the tech giant's latest results indicate that it could sustain its impressive