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Social Security recipients get an annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to protect the buying power of benefits from inflation. The Social Security Administration can't calculate the official 2025

Shares of AppLovin (NASDAQ: APP) jumped following its second-quarter earnings report after yet another strong quarter of revenue and profitability growth for the adtech company. The stock has been a

A stock's dividend yield moves in the opposite direction of its stock price. If shares fall, the yield rises, while a rally would push its yield lower. Because of that, volatility can provide

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) isn't exactly a high-dividend stock, with a 0.6% yield as of this writing. However, there's more to any dividend stock than its current yield. With that in mind, here's a look

Investors have underrated American Express (NYSE: AXP) for years. Competing payment networks Visa and Mastercard dominate the payments discussion and trade at premium valuations. And yet, over the

In November 2024, Tory Bruno, CEO of space giant United Launch Alliance (ULA), had reason to be thankful.

Several years prior, Bruno had promised investors he would lower the cost of rockets

Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) is gearing up for its next act. With new products in development and an entire global market to penetrate with its robotic surgical systems, the current moment

Market volatility is picking up again, with major sell-offs in many top stocks. Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Cognex (NASDAQ: CGNX) have plummeted in recent weeks, while Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG)

Long-term investors in Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) already know it's a cyclical company whose revenue and profit margins bounce around with its end markets. That knowledge won't stop traders from trying

Since reporting second-quarter earnings last week, shares of Boeing (NYSE: BA) have lost $25 in value -- a stock market decline of more than 13% -- as of this writing. That should not come as a huge

The stock market did not take kindly to machine vision company Cognex Corp.'s (NASDAQ: CGNX) recent second-quarter earnings report. Unfortunately, its end markets are weakening in 2024, and the

Shares of leading public-safety technology provider Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ: AXON) have risen by 28% this week as of 11:45 a.m. ET on Friday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market

Caterpillar's (NYSE: CAT) recent second-quarter earnings inspired a Truist analyst to raise the company's price target to $399 from $390 while maintaining a buy rating on the stock. The price target

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is known for having huge stakes in companies like Apple, Coca-Cola, and Bank of America. But the conglomerate also has much smaller positions.

It has a tiny

Things have gone from bad to worse for Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) in 2024. After its proposed merger with JetBlue Airways was blocked, the stock fell. Then, the company started to report earnings

CEOs make a difference. And for different reasons, investors in these three companies will hope that their new leaders will make a tangible difference in improving performance.

William Brown took

In this podcast, Motley Fool analyst David Meier and host Ricky Mulvey discuss the state of home sales, and earnings from UPS and Spotify.

Then, Motley Fool host Alison Southwick and contributor

One day after it published earnings that pleased investors, Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) got some love from analysts, too. Wednesday saw a clutch of them raise their price targets on the sturdy