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Want to Beat the Average Stock Market Return? Here Are 10 Stocks to Help

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The benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) stock market index has delivered a gain of 67,036% (including dividends) since it was established in 1957. But, historically, investors who purchased specific individual stocks have far outperformed the return of the S&P 500. Image source: Getty Images.

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1 Magnificent S&P 500 Dividend Stock to Buy and Hold Forever

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While most stocks like to stay as far away from market volatility as possible, MarketAxess (NASDAQ: MKTX) and its electronic bond-trading platform play a contrarian role. Typically, MarketAxess sees increased trading activity the more volatile the market gets -- much like its stock market counterpart tends to see.

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Interest Rate Cuts Could Be a Catalyst for Growth Stocks: 2 Stocks to Buy and Hold

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Second, lower interest rates mean fixed-income assets, like bonds, lose some of their appeal compared to stocks, so many investors switch over to and bid up equities. The relationship between interest rates and the stock market is complex and not set in stone, but equities could benefit from the U.S.

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1 Stock-Split Stock That Created Many Millionaires, and Will Continue to Make More

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The stock market is a proven wealth generator over the long term, even for conservative investors who buy index funds. But some individual stocks like Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) have delivered an absolute fortune to investors who were game enough to bet on them early. Netflix was founded in 1997.

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3 Stocks That Could Turn $1,000 Into $2,000 by 2029

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That's a stroke of flexible genius from 2015 , among the first acts of CFO and financial heavyweight Ruth Porat, formerly the CFO of financial services giant Morgan Stanley. The stock's price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is well within reason at 6.2 since the initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. for five years and 23.3%

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Move Over, Nvidia and Broadcom: Wall Street's 2 Newest Stock-Split Stocks Are Taking Center Stage This Week

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Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been the talk of Wall Street for much of the last two years, the euphoria surrounding companies enacting stock splits has been an equally important catalyst for the stock market in 2024. This means no single customer is vital to its success, or capable of capsizing the proverbial ship.

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Time to Pounce: 2 Beaten-Down Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks Begging to Be Bought in June

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Over the last century, the stock market has stood on a pedestal above all other asset classes. While investing in Treasury bonds, housing, gold, and oil would have increased your nominal wealth, none of these other asset classes has come anywhere close to the average annual returns delivered by stocks over the very long term.