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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has made many of its shareholders millionaires in the several decades since it began selling books through its online marketplace. The tech giant has expanded to over $250

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) stock is on a roll, up 16% so far in 2024, outpacing the 8% rally in the S&P 500. Those returns also surpass the year-to-date gains of retailing peers like Costco Wholesale and

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Costco (NASDAQ: COST) have certain attributes in common. Both retailers have achieved great success through giving shoppers low prices. And they've rewarded shareholders

It doesn't take a huge sum of money to get started in the stock market. Many investors even like to build up their positions over time -- for example, by buying in thirds. That way you can spread

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) surprised investors earlier this year when the retail giant announced a 3-for-1 stock split, its first split in more than 20 years.

The news was unexpected. It's been a long time

A look back at the performance of Walmart's (NYSE: WMT) stock in the 21st century reveals some interesting trends. From 2000 to 2016, Walmart's stock rose in value by roughly 0%. That's a terrible

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is one of the bellwethers of the global retail sector. It operates over 10,500 stores and numerous e-commerce sites across 19 countries, and that scale helped it survive the

Shares of Kroger (NYSE: KR) popped 9.9% on Thursday after the grocery store chain announced strong fourth-quarter 2023 results and better-than-expected forward guidance.

For its fourth quarter of

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For the first time in over 20 years, retail giant Walmart (NYSE: WMT) executed a stock split with shares trading on a post-split basis as of Feb. 26. The company's decision to do a 3-for-1 split was

Dollar General (NYSE: DG) is one of the largest retailers in the country. And last month, it hit a major milestone with the opening of its 20,000th store. By comparison, big-box retailer Walmart has

Despite Wall Street's enthusiasm about them, stock splits are largely non-events for a business. They don't change the underlying value of the company but merely boost the outstanding share count

Our first earnings season of calendar 2024 is all but over, and like any earnings season, it's left some dividend raises in its wake. Companies like to declare dividends concurrently or near the

In January, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) caught many investors' attention when it announced plans to split its stock. Although the company has conducted multiple stock splits in the past, its most recent was

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) don't directly compete for shoppers, but they share many similarities as investments. They are both leaders in their respective retailing niches, for

Shares of GoodRx Holdings (NASDAQ: GDRX) rallied by 20.4% on Thursday after the company announced stronger-than-expected quarterly results and a new stock buyback program.

In the fourth quarter

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) surprised many investors when it announced a stock split in late January. Stock splits are most common when share prices are nearing over $1,000, not when a stock trades for

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is one of the largest, most widely followed stocks on the market, yet it still manages to surprise Wall Street from time to time. Investors got an example of this when the

Dividend growth stocks can be ideal investments to hold in your portfolio for decades. As long as their fundamentals don't change, these stocks can generate an increasing amount of dividend income

U.S. retailer Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is an American icon. It's one of the largest companies on Earth, and an estimated 90% of U.S. consumers live within 10 miles of a Walmart store. Additionally, the

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) generated quite a splash with several items of news last week. It reported its fourth-quarter and full-year 2023 earnings where the company said its online global fourth-quarter

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) investors woke up to three times the number of shares they had on Friday after the company executed a 3-for-1 stock split.

In this video, Travis Hoium explains why Walmart is

Last month, leading retailer Walmart (NYSE: WMT) announced that it would conduct a 3-for-1 stock split on Feb. 23. In recent years, investors have a seen a number of high-profile tech companies such

After beginning a recovery in late 2022, stocks are officially in a bull market. This has become more difficult to ignore amid the highly publicized gains for some stocks and an economy that has