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When it comes to the business world, being bigger is very often better. A clear example of this today is real estate investment trust (REIT) Realty Income (NYSE: O), which stands head and shoulders

If you're not paying attention to the yield curve, then you're probably missing important indicators for your retirement account's performance. Last month, the yield curve sent out an ominous signal

The bulls are back... almost. After a horrible performance in 2022, all of the major indexes are up solidly so far this year. The Nasdaq Composite Index is only a little over 1% away from entering a

Investors looking at real estate investment trusts (REITs) need to consider the portfolio of properties that underpin the business. Diversification is important. And yet, sometimes, picking the

Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT) and Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) both help companies break down silos and organize large amounts of data. Confluent's cloud-based platform processes and analyzes "data in motion"

The market has taken investors for a wild ride of high highs and low lows over the past year. Regardless of what happens with the market in the next few weeks or even the next few months, history

Investors initially put Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) stock in the doghouse after the company's late-March earnings report. While sales expanded at a decent pace for most of 2022, and earnings trends were

Energy infrastructure companies Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) pay whopping yields. With respective dividend yields of 7.5% and 6.3%, all you would have to do

Investors who keep an eye on the technology sector have probably noticed that companies operating in the artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor sectors tend to dominate the news. And for

Predictions are difficult. But that is what you are doing when buying stocks, making a prediction about the future prospects of a publicly traded company. From my seat, this means you should either

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock investors will not want to miss this video about the implications of Tesla's latest production numbers.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of April 4, 2023. The

Got a few extra bucks you know you won't be needing anytime soon? Put it to work! That is to say, scoop up a growth stock or two while they're still trading at a discounted valuation. Stocks may or

Since a financial update on March 16, things have been somewhat quiet with First Republic (NYSE: FRC), one of the banks that has really struggled since the banking crisis started in March. The bank

For more than a decade following the end of the Great Recession, growth stocks thrived. Historically low interest rates allowed innovative companies to borrow cheap capital and sustain double-digit

Pharmaceutical companies can be great long-term investments. This is because the demand for medicines and vaccines is steadily growing along with an aging global population.

Because of the major

Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) continues to attract increasing interest for its analytical capabilities, and much of that interest appears to revolve around AI and machine learning (ML). In CEO

Some of tech's most respected minds are calling for a pause in generative artificial intelligence (AI) development. A recently circulated open letter, which was signed by various politicians

Stock splits have been popular over the last few years. Among the high-profile stocks that have split their shares since 2020 are Tesla, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Shopify, among others.

Given

March came in like a lion, as bank woes sent the markets lower. But they recovered, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average actually finished the month up 1.9%.

One of the hardest-hit stocks on the

Most tech investors probably recognize Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT) as the former cloud software division of LinkedIn that was spun off into a new company in 2014. It went public in June 2021, then more

Few people garner attention from everyday and professional investors quite like Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett. Despite being fallible like every other investor

With a combination of high profitability, generous cash returns to shareholders, and reasonable valuations, Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) and Pool Corp. (NASDAQ: POOL) offer outsized compounding potential to

Fun fact: Real estate investment trusts (REITs) were created in 1960 as part of the Cigar Excise Tax Extension of 1960. And at times, they have been delivering smoking returns ever since.

The REIT

The fact that seniors get to choose their Social Security filing age can be a blessing as well as a curse. On the one hand, it's nice to get options. On the other hand, the decision to start taking

There has been a lot of hype around artificial intelligence (AI) recently thanks to the popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT. The chatbot took just two months to hit 100 million users because of its