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Last year proved to be a good year for many tech stocks, with many reversing course from the drops they experienced in 2022. The tech-dominant Nasdaq Composite finished the year up 43%

Choosing what age to begin taking Social Security is one of the biggest retirement decisions you'll make, and it will affect your monthly income for the rest of your life.

To receive your full

Altria (NYSE: MO) has a huge 9.4% dividend yield. For a consumer staples company, that is shockingly high. However the dividend has been increased annually for years, so some dividend investors

If you are in the market for high-yield stocks, you are probably trying to live off of the income you generate. That's a wise decision, but one that requires extra care when you think about

With all the attention going to artificial intelligence lately, many investors have probably forgotten about some of the hyped-up technologies from years past. One such fad was the metaverse.

Investors watching gold prices might want to buy into this hard asset. There are a few different ways to do that, but one of the most attractive is with a dividend-paying stock called Royal Gold

Prologis (NYSE: PLD) is a giant real estate investment trust (REIT). It has achieved a great deal of success of late, which understates just how well the business has been performing. And yet

After a decade-plus of epic market outperformance, digital payment infrastructure companies Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) had a middling 2023. Both companies provided shareholders with a

Shares of Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) and C3.ai (NYSE: AI) have been in red-hot form on the stock market over the past year, gaining 140% and 107%, respectively, thanks to the expectation

Realty Income (NYSE: O) has trademarked the nickname "The Monthly Dividend Company." One big takeaway from this choice is that the real estate investment trust (REIT) is heavily focused on

When Carnival (NYSE: CCL) reported third-quarter 2023 earnings it was happy to note that it had record-level performance in some key metrics. So, in many ways, its business isn't just back to

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian highlights one of the best beaten-down growth stocks to buy for 2024.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Jan. 17, 2024. The video was published

Dividend income can play an important role in an investor's long-term returns, but not all dividend stocks are worth buying.

Some high-yield stocks can be deceptive. For example, a company

There is very little love on Wall Street for 3M (NYSE: MMM) today. And that makes complete sense given the headwinds the industrial giant is facing, both internally and externally.

And yet there is

Financial services like banking and payments are the crux of the economy. Nothing happens without money moving through the system to make things happen. The financial sector is a sure-fire place to

Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) has generated some volatile gains since its IPO in September 2019. The cloud-based content delivery network (CDN) provider went public at $15, and its shares soared to an

It's natural to come up with an idea of what retirement will look like well ahead of that milestone. And your picture of retirement may involve owning a second home.

In some cases, buying a second

When a stock's valuation collapses, there are usually good reasons behind it. At the same time, it's not unusual for negative sentiment to push a company's share price far lower than it should be

Right now, crypto investors are laser focused on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). That's fair enough. The recent approval of the new spot Bitcoin ETFs has made Bitcoin even more popular than it already was.

Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE: WPM) is a gold and silver stock, but it isn't a miner. This is an important fact, even though its revenue and profits are driven by the sale of these precious metals

There's an old axiom on Wall Street that includes a reference to buying when others are fearful. That's easier said than done, of course, but two stocks that seem to fit the bill today are UDR

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Office suite has long been the choice of productivity tools for businesses and customers. While this will continue to be the case, Microsoft is also launching more tools

Social Security benefits first become available to you when you're 62. But you'll see lots of advice telling you not to start them so young. The problem is that if you begin your retirement benefits

If you owned Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) stock this past year, you're likely very happy with your recent returns. The streaming video specialist's shares more than doubled in 2023, beating the rallying S&P

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), a developer of data mining and analytics software, made a lot of investors millionaires shortly after its public debut on June 11, 1998. It went public at a