IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), the parent company of Google, aren't frequently compared with one another. IBM is a mature tech stock which is generally owned for stability and income, while Alphabet has been a growth stock ever since its IPO in 2004
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has been investing aggressively in e-commerce. In fact, nearly three-quarters of the company's net sales growth came from its online operations last year. Management expects the digital platform to account for more than half of its total top-line growth in fi
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has been investing heavily to build up its e-commerce operations in recent years, and now it's taking another big step to close the gap with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN).
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Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've been hearing a lot about the coronavirus, which is dominating investors' minds this week and driving down equity indices around the world.
In late 2019, Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) launched its streaming service, Disney+. Driven by the company's impressive content portfolio, Disney+ is off to a blazing start. By the end of 2019, Disney+ paid subscribers stood at 26.5 million, and this figure rose to 28.6 million at th
Investors were in for a bit of a shock earlier this week. On Monday, Feb. 24, all three stock market indexes put up some of their largest point declines in history. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 355 points, the broad-based S&P 500 sank almost 112 points, and the Dow J
It wasn't so long ago that Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) stock seemed to be a sure thing. Even recently, the stock seemed to be on the way to a nice recovery following the company's missteps on data privacy and other issues. However, investors seemed frustrated with Facebook's lates
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett is well known for his stock-picking prowess and his unwavering devotion to the buy-and-hold ethos. Following the publishing of the company's annual letter to shareholders this past weekend, we learned that, since 1
In this week's Rule Breaker Investing podcast, we revisit David Gardner's five-stock samplers from 2017 and 2018 and find out how they fared compared with the market. Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) were top perfo
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Target (NYSE: TGT) has become a digital sales leader. The company moved from the number 11 e-commerce company in 2019 to eighth place in 2020, according to an annual report from eMarketer.com.