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The Best Video Game Stocks of 2017
The Best Video Game Stocks of 2017
If you invested in video game stocks this year, chances are good that you earned a solid return. Just about every company engaged in producing either the hardware or the software that caters to....
Disney's Interest In Fox Is All About Streaming
Disney's Interest In Fox Is All About Streaming
Disney (NYSE: DIS) is working on a couple of direct-to-consumer streaming products for ESPN and its film studios. Adding in the assets of Twenty-First Century Fox's (NASDAQ: FOXA) film and....
Apple May Soon Get Another OLED Display Supplier
Apple May Soon Get Another OLED Display Supplier
This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone X, which included (among other standout features) an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. OLED displays have several advantages....
Home Depot Gives Investors a $15 Billion Christmas Gift
Home Depot Gives Investors a $15 Billion Christmas Gift
Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is the stock that keeps on giving. Ahead of its analyst meeting, and just in time for the holidays, the retailer announced a $15 billion share buyback.For longtime owners of....
Where Will Kraft Heinz Find Revenue Growth Going Forward?
Where Will Kraft Heinz Find Revenue Growth Going Forward?
Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) has demonstrated that it can cut costs (to the tune of nearly $2 billion) thanks to the playbook of major shareholder 3G Capital. But what about top line expansion? In....
You'll Be Stunned by How Many Cancer Immunotherapies Are Being Developed
You'll Be Stunned by How Many Cancer Immunotherapies Are Being Developed
For years, chemotherapy was the best treatment that the world of medicine had to offer in fighting cancer. That's no longer true. A powerful new class of cancer drugs called immunotherapies has....
Why 2017 Was a Year to Remember for Microsoft Corporation
Why 2017 Was a Year to Remember for Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) had a lot to write home about this past year. The company beat analysts' consensus earnings estimates four times in 2017, made huge strides toward its lofty cloud....
2 Tech Companies With Enormous Free Cash Flow
2 Tech Companies With Enormous Free Cash Flow
In investing, free cash flow is the good stuff. Defined as a company's cash from operations minus its capital expenditures, free cash flow is the cold, hard cash left over after regular operations....
Will Defense Stocks Soar on Trump's $683 Billion Budget Boost?
Will Defense Stocks Soar on Trump's $683 Billion Budget Boost?
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has laid out the bull case for defense stocks, concluding in a report that the full military buildup advocated by the Trump Administration would boost....
Starbucks Opens Its Second Roastery as It Aims to Move Upmarket
Starbucks Opens Its Second Roastery as It Aims to Move Upmarket
Earlier this week, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) opened its second Starbucks Reserve Roastery. The pilot location opened in Starbucks' hometown of Seattle three years ago. Fittingly, the second....
3 Top Pipeline Stocks to Buy Now
3 Top Pipeline Stocks to Buy Now
There are more than 2.4 million miles of energy pipelines running through the United States, which is the largest network of oil and gas pipes in the world. This system ensures that there's enough....
Is Gilead Sciences, Inc. a Buy?
Is Gilead Sciences, Inc. a Buy?
With only a few weeks remaining in 2017, Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) stock price appears to be on course to finish roughly at the same level that it began the year. After getting off to a rocky....
What This Apple Supplier Just Told Us About iPhone X Demand
What This Apple Supplier Just Told Us About iPhone X Demand
For quite a while, chipmaker Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) has telegraphed to the investment community that it expects to see a substantial boost in the dollar content within Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) 2017....
3 Growth Stocks I'd Buy Right Now
3 Growth Stocks I'd Buy Right Now
What's a six-letter word that's guaranteed to make investors happy? Growth. While growth comes in several flavors, they're all interrelated. Growth in revenue helps make earnings growth possible,....
Forget Bitcoin: IOTA Just Partnered With 5 Brand-Name Companies on a New Project
Forget Bitcoin: IOTA Just Partnered With 5 Brand-Name Companies on a New Project
We're just three weeks from turning the calendar on 2017, but cryptocurrency price appreciation has shown absolutely no signs of slowing. While marijuana and cloud-computing stocks have impressed,....
More Marijuana Stock Deal-Making Is on the Way for This 1 Simple Reason
More Marijuana Stock Deal-Making Is on the Way for This 1 Simple Reason
Canopy Growth (NASDAQOTH: TWMJF) rocked the cannabis industry in October when it announced a $245 million deal with Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ), the maker of Corona beer and a long lineup of....
Better Buy: Pfizer (PFE) vs. AbbVie (ABBV)
Better Buy: Pfizer (PFE) vs. AbbVie (ABBV)
For Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), 2017 so far has looked better than the past couple of years in terms of stock performance. However, the stock's 9% year-to-date gain isn't anything to jump up and down....
Lululemon Athletica Pushes Forward With Ambitious Goals for 2020
Lululemon Athletica Pushes Forward With Ambitious Goals for 2020
Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) stock was up following a strong earnings report, building off the company's similarly robust second quarter results. The athleisure brand enjoyed solid....
The Individual Mandate: We Hate It, but We Need It
The Individual Mandate: We Hate It, but We Need It
Big change is afoot in Washington, and it has nothing to do with the weather. Republicans in both houses of Congress have passed their respective version of tax reform and now are working on a few....
3 Stocks You Can Safely Own Until 2030
3 Stocks You Can Safely Own Until 2030
Some stocks force us to keep close tabs on the underlying business. For other investments, you can simply buy the stock and forget about it for the next 10 to 15 years.If you're looking for new....
These 3 Companies Grew at Least 40% in 2017, and They Aren't Slowing Down
These 3 Companies Grew at Least 40% in 2017, and They Aren't Slowing Down
2017 has been a great year for the market at large. The S&P 500 index has reached record levels and gained 18% year to date as of this writing, both the Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones....
CME Bitcoin Futures: A Better Way to Buy (or Short) Bitcoin?
CME Bitcoin Futures: A Better Way to Buy (or Short) Bitcoin?
Bitcoin has seen immense gains so far in 2017, and prices have been extremely turbulent, hitting investors with substantial corrections even amid a general upward trend. Bitcoin futures have....
Apple's 2 Biggest Growth Opportunities
Apple's 2 Biggest Growth Opportunities
For the fiscal year that ended at the end of September, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported revenue just shy of $229 billion. While this was nearly $14 billion more than it generated in its prior fiscal....
Is the 3G Capital Model Working for Kraft Heinz?
Is the 3G Capital Model Working for Kraft Heinz?
In this segment from Industry Focus: Consumer Goods, the cast offers a brief history of packaged food conglomerate Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ: KHC), before diving into the underlying business model....
Mobileye’s Latest Moves Will Strengthen Intel’s Clout in Autonomous Cars
Mobileye’s Latest Moves Will Strengthen Intel’s Clout in Autonomous Cars
Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) acquisition of Mobileye earlier this year has put the chipmaker firmly on track to make a big dent in the autonomous vehicle industry. In fact, Chipzilla now seems to be in....