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Investing in great companies doesn't have to mean tracking them day in and day out. Great companies can be held for decades, so investors can set an investment and forget it. Motley Fool

Warren Buffett has developed a reputation for finding bargains throughout his career. Stocks such as Apple and Coca-Cola have brought him massive returns over the years.

Though Buffett is no longer

The stock market has been dragged down over the past year, with the Russell 3000 dropping by 10%. But growth stocks, losing 16%, have fared worse than the broad market. That's because many traded at

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has put up record stock returns since going public in the late 1990s. Shares are up 99,000% on an all-time basis even after a huge drawdown in 2022, which is more than 100x the

Social Security benefits typically rise every year thanks to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which tries to ensure that retirees don't lose purchasing power due to inflation.

It's been a difficult few years for the airline industry, and Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) hasn't been spared any of it. The pandemic and resulting travel restrictions savaged the industry, and it's

The commercial aviation industry hasn't been a great investment for most of its history. Yet Heico (NYSE: HEI) has almost secretly carved out a high-margin niche and rewarded shareholders with

General economic woes last year crushed many of the world's most promising cryptocurrencies. That's because, in times of uncertainty, investors tend to favor the safest investments. Cryptocurrency

The investment bank Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) launched a consumer banking division in 2016, which included its digital deposit platform Marcus, several credit card partnerships, and the

Sometimes corporate spinoffs work really well. Other times, they don't. You can put General Electric's (NYSE: GE) spinoff of GE HealthCare Technologies (NASDAQ: GEHC) in the former category.

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Both CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) delivered disappointing returns in 2022. Neither stock has started off the new year with a bang, either.

However, Wall Street

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) reported its full-year and fourth-quarter results for 2022 on Wednesday. As is often the case with companies' updates, there was both good news and bad news.

Our human nature is

The past year has been a trying one for Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) investors. After pandemic-fueled lockdowns drove accelerating adoption of e-commerce, merchants flocked to its platform, ready to embrace

In 2016, the investment banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) launched a consumer banking business that would gather deposits, provide online investing capabilities, and issue personal and

Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA) Peacock streaming service has gained a lot of momentum since its launch in April 2020. It's a momentum that couldn't come at a more crucial time for the cable and media

Investors looking for reliable dividend stocks to buy will inevitably run into Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). The stock offers an above-average yield, and it's a Dividend King that has raised its

Investors holding a portfolio with lots of technology stocks in it are probably still feeling battered and bruised after a rough 2022. The Nasdaq Composite index, which has a bigger than average

The bear market left many stocks trading for a bargain. And that means your $1,000 can go pretty far these days. With that investment -- or even less -- you can get in on several remarkable stocks

If you're just not into keeping tabs on a bunch of stocks but still want to build a nice retirement nest egg, you've got options. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are baskets of equities usually

Earning five times your money -- or 400% -- from an investment may sound like a daunting task, but one first has to put it into the perspective of a time frame. To accomplish that return in five

There's little doubt that 2022 was a trying year for the vast majority of the investing community. All three major U.S. stock indexes fell into a bear market, with the broad-based S&P 500 delivering

Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) stock fell 43.9% in 2022, underperforming the S&P 500's decline of 19.4%. Investors can lay some of the blame on Disney+, where spending on new content led to a $4 billion

If you want to beat the market, there's no one better to follow than Warren Buffett.

The compound annual growth from Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B), has nearly

An S&P 500 index ETF currently offers a scant 1.65% dividend yield, not much to write home about if you are a dividend investor. This is why dividend investors might want to consider real estate

After being shunned for most of 2022, the mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) sector regained some popularity as investors sensed the Federal Reserve's tightening cycle is wrapping up