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The Ultimate Guide to Investing in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF for Maximum Returns

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After all, if you invest in the S&P 500, you're taking positions in the top companies driving today's economy. On top of that, the S&P 500 has shown its strength over time, generating an annualized average return of more than 10% since its debut as a 500-company index. Image source: Getty Images.

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This Completely Off-the-Radar Company Yielding 11.5% Might Be the Safest High-Octane Dividend Stock to Own in 2025

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With thousands of publicly traded companies and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to choose from, every investor is likely to find one or more securities that'll help them meet their goals. But what's most important to investors is that dividend stocks have crushed non-payers in the return column over the last half-century.

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Will Nvidia Be a $5 Trillion Company in 2025?

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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the hottest stocks on Wall Street over the past two years and performed well enough that it's vying for the title of the world's largest company against Apple. Alongside that incredible business performance came impressive stock returns, which is why the stock price is up 600% since 2023.

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New Space Force Program Boosts America's Smallest NewSpace Companies

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Forty companies in total offered to perform demonstration missions for Space Force, and nearly half of these companies made the cut, being named "prime contractors" that will be allowed to bid for future contracts under the HALO program. Most of the companies you've probably never heard of before -- but a few you might.

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Billionaire Michael Saylor's Company Just Bought This Popular Cryptocurrency

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MicroStrategy's Bitcoin portfolio is equal to about a third of the company's enterprise value of $73.3 So why is this enterprise software company still so bullish on Bitcoin? Prior to 2020, most investors knew the company as a slow-growth provider of data mining and analytics software. billion, and about 1.4%

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Prediction: Nvidia Will Be the World's First $4 Trillion Company

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As measured by market capitalization , there has never been a company worth $4 trillion, but Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is starting to close in. If a company can grow its revenue by 8.3% On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop.

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Billionaires Are Piling Into This Nasdaq Stock-Split Company Down 52% and Yielding a Healthy 4% Dividend

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Professional investors often invest larger sums of money seeking returns over shorter time horizons than retail investors. In recent months, several funds run by billionaire investors have piled into a stock-split company trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange that has struggled this year but pays a healthy dividend. Let's take a look.