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The stock market is having a very lackluster 2022 so far. The S&P 500 has contracted 13% since the start of the year, and the Nasdaq Composite, which is heavy with technology stocks, which can be

A lot has changed for Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) in just a year's time. It was June 7, 2021, that the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval for the company's Alzheimer's treatment

While the recent downturn in the crypto market has weighed heavily on the fortunes of Solana (CRYPTO: SOL), it still has one of the brightest long-term outlooks of any of the smaller cryptos

Amid a brutal sell-off in tech stocks this past year, some investors may have come to doubt the value proposition of many of these companies. Many have fallen by more than 75% from recent highs, a

A new cohort of retail investors is rallying around film rental company Redbox Entertainment (NASDAQ: RDBX), and shares have rallied nearly 300% off of their 52-week low. The frenzy has drawn

Target (NYSE: TGT) spooked the market again on Tuesday. Three weeks after the big-box chain provided a dismal first-quarter earnings report, Target said it would accelerate markdowns to right-size

Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ: AXON) is a technology company focused on public safety. The company was founded over 25 years ago by Tom and Rick Smith. After two of their friends were taken by gun

Howard Shultz is back in the CEO role at Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), the coffee chain he built into a powerhouse restaurant company. He's diving straight into renovating the company to meet changing

Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) is a worldwide facilitator of travel. Of course, this was not a great business at the pandemic's onset when the activity nearly came to a halt. But Airbnb is bouncing back and

Shares of MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI), the Latin American e-commerce giant, tumbled 4.4% through 10:15 a.m. ET on Thursday after investment bank Citigroup cut its price target on the shares by 23%

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) might initially look very similar. Both companies are e-commerce leaders that have built up massive cloud infrastructure platforms as their secondary

Now that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock has split, investors can move past the drama and get back to focusing on the fundamentals. Whereas over the past few years the company has posted excellent

Electric vehicles (EVs) will be one of the large secular growth stories of this decade. BloombergNEF researchers estimate that annual unit volumes for plug-in EVs will grow from 6.6 million in 2021

Many investors are understandably wary of stocks in the technology sector these days. The U.S. stock market has experienced a rough 2022 so far due to macroeconomic factors, such as inflation, and

Shares of customer-service software company Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN) plunged on Thursday after the management team announced the end of a strategic review. In short, the company is remaining independent

Many investors gauge the strength of their portfolios by measuring their returns against the performance of the broader market or a specific index. This is often referred to as benchmarking, and in

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The odds were stacked against Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) going into the company's fiscal 2022 first-quarter earnings report (for the three months ended May 1) thanks to multiple tailwinds such as a broken

Your retirement is likely to be the largest single financial goal you'll ever have to save for. Indeed, reaching a comfortable nest egg is a task that will probably take decades to complete. Despite

In the first quarter of 2022, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) paid a regular dividend of $0.46 per share and announced a variable payment of $0.70 per share. Clearly, management is focused on rewarding

Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) stock is down 30% year to date, down over 45% from its all-time high set in March 2021, and is roughly the same price now as it was five years ago. Yet, in the last five

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has earned a spot in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. The e-commerce retailer is buzzing with the news of its recent stock split. While the split takes center

The Wall Street rumor mill went into overdrive Wednesday.

Shares of Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU), the leading streaming-device maker, jumped 9.1% on talk of an acquisition by Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), the