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Renowned retailer Walmart (NYSE: WMT) doesn't need much introduction; it's the largest retailer in the world when ranked by revenue, and it has stores located within 10 miles of 90% of Americans

If you're looking for more great stocks to add to your portfolio this month, you don't have to look far to find quality businesses with compelling growth stories. Provided you have the capital on

The 2022 bear market was brutal. The Nasdaq Composite Index ended last year down by about 33%. However, it has been recovering nicely in 2023: For the last 12 months, it's now down just 9.6%. Amazon

After soaring to 9.1% in June 2022, the inflation rate eased to a still-high 6.4% this past January. This steep rise in the cost of living has led to a challenging year for all kinds of industries

While the Great Recession was leading to dividend cuts at dominant U.S. banks like Citi and Bank of America, Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD) held its dividend steady. That's a testament to TD

A big challenge for healthcare giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is going to be replacing revenue from its COVID-19 vaccine this year and beyond. While it has a strong pipeline that can potentially help

The stock market remained in a tug-of-war between bulls and bears early Thursday. Investors are confused about the likely course of monetary policy going forward and the potential economic impact of

It's not easy buying when everyone else is selling, but Wall Street wisdom suggests that's exactly what long-term investors should be doing. My take on that is to focus on long-term dividend payers

Many conversations regarding "meme stocks" revolve around GameStop, AMC Entertainment, or other struggling companies. That's because those stocks were volatile, heavily shorted, and ripe for short

Investors in cannabis companies should know they're playing a long game. That's because marijuana sales will continue to rise as more states legalize cannabis over the next few years. And

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett is a legend within investing circles, and for good reason. Over the past 57 years, Berkshire has delivered a compound annual return

Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) is a bona fide travel stock superstar thus far in 2023. It's not only trouncing the performance of the S&P 500 index but also sailing past fellow travel titans Expedia and

Dividend stocks offer something for every type of investor. Whether you're risk-averse or prefer a more aggressive style of putting your cash to work in the market, companies with a lengthy track

Since the start of 2023, multiple stocks across various industries have been on the rise. After a sell-off last year, signs of a recovery are encouraging for the market's future. As a result, now is

Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ: ACB) hit a long-awaited milestone in its most recent earnings results: adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) profitability. It's

Generating 5x returns over a decade is no simple feat. However, $200,000 invested evenly across a basket of The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD), Pubmatic (NASDAQ: PUBM), and Global-e Online (NASDAQ: GLBE)

Even as the volatile market continues to deliver highs and lows to investors, that doesn't mean you can't continue to work toward your long-term personal portfolio goals. The types of companies you

The cannabis industry in Canada hasn't been in good shape for some time. Growth is almost nonexistent, profits are elusive, and stock prices of marijuana producers have been nosediving. What's

Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) are up more than 19% over the past 12 months during a period in which many other gene-editing biotech stocks tumbled.

It's easy to see why investors

Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) was the star of 2020 and 2021, with its shares skyrocketing as a result of its ambitious work to develop a coronavirus vaccine and get it approved for sale. Since March 2020

Recession fears landed the S&P 500 in a bear market last year, and the broad-based index is still down 17%. That decline has undoubtedly put a dent in many portfolios, and steep losses often lead to

Growth has become much harder to find in the retailing industry. In their recent fourth-quarter earnings updates, both Target (NYSE: TGT) and Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) forecast roughly zero sales gains in

Equity markets have been bruised and battered in the past 12 months, but over the past decade, stocks have performed well. That's the great thing about focusing on the long game. The U.S. market is

The data on dividends is powerful: Over the last 50 years, dividend-paying stocks have outperformed their non-paying peers by 2 to 1 (with 9.6% average annual total returns for dividend payers vs

Investors wanted anything that sounded "futuristic" for their portfolios in 2020 and 2021. This included sectors like electric vehicles or the space economy, industries with little proven financial