Why Intel Has Soared 32% in 2014
Filed under: Investing For years, Intel was a big disappointment to shareholders. In fact, for a rull five years shares of the semiconductor giant traded in a range between $22 per share and $26 per...
View ArticleHow PayPal Can Become a $100 Billion Company
Filed under: Investing PayPal's co-founder Elon Musk and former Chief Operating Officer David Sacks have both shared similar beliefs -- that it makes no sense for PayPal to be a part of eBay . Both...
View ArticleHow Safe is The Home Depot Inc. Stock and Its Dividend?
Filed under: Investing When the housing market crashed in 2007 and 2008, home-improvement stores were some of the hardest hit companies around. Case in point: Home Depot's stock plummeted 56% between...
View ArticleHewlett-Packard Inc.'s Historic Breakup: A Watershed Moment for One of Tech's...
Filed under: Investing As the song goes, breaking up is hard to do. But in the case of American tech icon Hewlett-Packard , its recently announced corporate separation has been years in the making....
View ArticleWhy Google Tried to Buy Cyanogen for $1 Billion
Filed under: Investing Cyanogen -- the maker of CyanogenMod, a modified version of Android -- recently revealed that it rejected a buyout offer from Google for around $1 billion. CyanogenMod, a popular...
View Article3 Top Dividend Growth Stocks to Buy Today
Filed under: Investing Dividend growth stocks are arguably the best type of stocks to own because they continuously reward shareholders with dividends and share buybacks. The goal when investing in...
View ArticleThe Other Bull Market
Filed under: Investing The S&P 500 has doubled in the last five years. That's huge. Historically, it takes an average of 10 years to earn those kind of returns. Such a big run has many people...
View ArticleWill Apple Inc. Open Apple TV to Facebook and Twitter Next Week?
Filed under: Investing Source: Apple TV remains an area of great interest for Tim Cook and Apple . The company, whose Apple TV set-top box is in 20 million homes, may be looking to open up its...
View ArticleWhy GT Advanced Technologies Inc Shouldn't Keep Its Investors in the Dark
Filed under: Investing Reuters reports that GT Advanced Technologies is asking the court to "keep crucial documents sealed," a move described as a "highly unusual situation." GT reportedly alleges...
View ArticleUrban Outfitter's Wants Anthropologie to Be Like Ikea
Filed under: Investing Urban Outfitters apparently no longer believes "big is the enemy of cool." Photo: Flickr user South Granville Maybe other than having to assemble your own clothes, retailer Urban...
View ArticleDividend Aristocrats: Time to Buy Kimberly-Clark?
Filed under: Investing Source: Kimberly Clark. The best dividend stocks have business models that are deceptively simple, generating regular income that shareholders can depend on year in and year out....
View ArticleCheap Stocks Wall Street Hates: Transocean LTD
Filed under: Investing Even though shares of Transocean at today's prices offer a dividend yield of greater than 9.5%, just about every analyst out there is saying "don't touch." In the past three...
View ArticleAfter Tanking 12%, Here's Why Gap Inc. is a Good Buy
Filed under: Investing Earlier this week, Gap's CEO, Glenn Murphy, announced that he was going to step down, naming Art Peck as his replacement. Peck is currently the head of Gap's digital division and...
View ArticleIs It Time to Buy Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.'s Stock?
Filed under: Investing Insurance companies are still cheap. Property and casualty insurance leaders like American International Group or The Hartford Financial Services Group trade at persistently low...
View ArticleYour Olive Garden Breadstick Basket Is About to Get Lighter
Filed under: Company News, Consumer Goods, Restaurants Richard Levine/Alamy The "When you're here, you're family" casual-dining chain had a rude awakening at its annual family reunion Friday. Activist...
View ArticleIs Clean Energy's Niche Under Attack?
Filed under: Investing Natural gas specialist Clean Energy made a strategic decision early on to enter the industrial market, focusing on such things as getting natural gas powered buses and garbage...
View ArticleWhy Shares of NXP Semiconductors NV Shorted Out
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View ArticleWhy EXACT Sciences Corporation Is Today's Best Healthcare Stock
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View Article8 Fascinating Reads
Filed under: Investing Here are 8 great things I read this week. Good news We're living longer than ever: — U.S. life expectancy for a child born in 2012 was 78 years and 9½ months, up about six...
View ArticleWhy Tesla Motors, Inc. Stock Is Down Today
Filed under: Investing After some big news Thursday night about a new version of the Model S and some new autopilot features, Tesla stock is down more than 6% at the time of this writing. What's behind...
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