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Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ: ACB) has perhaps been the most disappointing pot stock since Canada legalized adult recreational uses of marijuana back in 2018 -- and that's saying something. The company

Wall Street is excited about Wayfair (NYSE: W) stock again. Shares of the home furnishings retailer have more than doubled in 2023 on hope that the worst of its growth hangover has now passed.

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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) stand as the world's two largest e-commerce companies. Each company also stands as the largest provider of cloud infrastructure services in the core

Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and its Japanese rival Komatsu are the two leading players in the global construction and mining machinery markets. Therefore, what one of them says about its end markets

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) posted its latest earnings report on Sept. 14. For the third quarter, which ended on Sept. 1, the creative software giant's revenue rose 10% year over year (13% in constant

Utilities have fallen out of favor with investors in recent years. Surging interest rates have made lower-risk investment options like government bonds and bank CDs more attractive. 

However, now

No other company has seen as much of a business transformation as Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) in 2023. Throughout 2022, Nvidia's sales were falling. However, thanks to unprecedented demand for its GPUs

Not every long-term winner is already an industry giant. Today's business titans were smaller and hungrier once upon a time, and some of today's under-the-radar small-caps will be tomorrow's sector

The ups and downs of the major indexes over the last three years has been a frustrating experience for new investors. But history shows that the strongest companies always bounce back, providing

Based on Shopify's (NYSE: SHOP) most recent results, more than $220 billion worth of merchandise will likely be sold on its e-commerce platform this year. That telling metric (along with several

Social Security is big business, and crucial to many Americans, sending out more than $113 billion each month to more than 66 million beneficiaries.

The average total retirement benefit going to a

There are arguments to be made for investing in multiple facets of the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain. There is the data collection side, data center suppliers, software applications, or

If you're someone who has decided that active investing is the right course of action for you, then obviously, your goal is to find stocks that have the potential to beat the market over the long

Investors have high expectations for Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) stock ahead of the company's upcoming earnings report. The warehouse retailing giant is outpacing the broader market's rally

Oil and gas giant Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) recently signed a deal with tech behemoth Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) for a 10-year carbon capture partnership. In this video, Motley Fool contributors

Cybersecurity (or lack thereof) continues to make headlines. Vulnerabilities in ironically named Progress Software's MOVEit data-transfer service managed to expose the personal information of at

The world's most popular search engine, Google, was founded in 1998. And as the platform continued to become more dominant, the company invested aggressively in new areas of the technology industry

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has been a winning investment this year, with its price up almost 60% in 2023 (as of Sept. 15). Interest from investors is growing after a tumultuous 2022 that saw digital

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), one of the largest mobile chipmakers in the world, saw its stock close at a record-high price of $181.67 on Dec. 15, 2021. The price had more than doubled over the previous

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already beginning to change the trajectory of companies and industries. AI is being put to work doing everything from evaluating medical diagnoses to making cars

The stock market has been generally strong in 2023 so far, but there are still some bargains to be found. In this video, Fool.com contributor Tyler Crowe and I sit down to discuss why you might want

Does splitting a stock really change anything?

On the surface, stock splits do not materially affect a stock since 100 shares at $100 per share hold the same value as 200 shares at $50 per share

Owning multiple stocks is better than owning just one. Indeed, at the top of The Motley Fool's core investing principles is investing in 25 or more stocks. However, what if an investor could only

By all accounts, 2022 was something of a dumpster fire for many investors as the stock market plunged to levels not seen in more than a decade. So far this year, however, Wall Street has done an

Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank fame knows a thing or two about business. He founded educational computer game maker SoftKey -- later called The Learning Company -- in 1986. SoftKey made its fortune