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DECEMBER 22, 2023

A stock could stay cheap forever unless the company does the right thing to turn around the ship. Then, it was the de facto e-commerce company in China, a leader in its technology industry rivaled only by Tencent , and its prospects for growth seemed unlimited. Today, most investors shun the company like the plague.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

The DOJ sued Alphabet's Google in 2023, alleging the company monopolized the digital advertising space by using its size and dominance to take out competitors, essentially forcing publishers to use its advertising tools and holding unfair control over pricing. It now trades at the cheapest forward earnings multiple in the Magnificent Seven.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2024

By scooping up shares of just a couple of these players, you can gain access to a company that already has proven its ability to grow earnings over time and has what it takes to win in a potential AI revolution. In even more good news, you don't need a fortune to invest in these promising AI stocks. The company is investing in AI.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Dividend stocks may not offer the exciting return prospects of growth stocks, but when stock market volatility returns, it is always nice to have extra cash automatically deposited in your account. That is the value of holding shares of strong companies with a long record of paying dividends to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Back in the first quarter of 2016, he added a top technology and consumer goods company to the portfolio -- and that stock has gone on to advance more than 600%. If you haven't yet bought shares of the company, you might wonder if you missed out on an opportunity. Instead, it translates into recurrent revenue for the company.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 8, 2023

The best way to ensure you're always a step ahead of Wall Street is to hold shares of quality companies with great prospects for long-term growth. The stock returned 450%, beating the major indexes, as the company grew revenue and earnings at double-digit percentages on an annualized basis.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The company's revenue was barely up 5% during the year, which isn't enough to get the attention of growth investors. It accounted for two-thirds of the company's revenue in 2023, making it undeniably important for the business. Since the start of the year, it's up more than 130%, absolutely crushing the returns for the S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2024

By investing in companies that contribute the most to the index's movement -- such as the top 10 most heavily weighted in the index -- and then narrowing that down to companies offering exciting growth prospects now. How could you as an investor benefit from a soaring Nasdaq? trillion by 2030.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

The real estate investment trust (REIT) offers an attractive dividend yield of 5.1%. Not only that, but the company pays its dividend monthly, making it an appealing option for investors looking to generate consistent profits from their portfolios. Rising interest rates can hurt real estate companies for several reasons.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2023

What most other companies would call a dividend, limited partnerships such as Enterprise refer to as a distribution. Even better, the company has increased its distributions for 25 consecutive years. The company has a strong balance sheet, and the credit quality of its loans is improving. Bancorp U.S. Shares trade at only 8.1

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Several of the world's most exciting companies completed stock splits last year, an operation that lowers the value of each individual share. Companies often launch a stock split after their shares have soared. Let's take a look at each of these stocks to invest in now. The company also has been improving its free cash flow.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Delta Air Lines 2022 2023 Long-Term Target Return on invested capital 8.40% 13.40% Mid-teens Weighted average cost of capital 8% 8% 8% Data source: Delta Air Lines. The table below shows the company's improvements in earnings and cash flow. JPMorgan Chase is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The company's performance is well short of those expectations. Leading the way in artificial intelligence (AI) has made the company a leader in big data. Foundry helps businesses make better decisions and solve problems, and Forrester estimated Foundry delivers a 315% return on investment (ROI) for its users.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Now, as great as Shopify's business may sound, you may be feeling a bit wary about investing in the company right now after such a run-up. The company's founders wanted to sell them online but couldn't find an e-commerce platform they felt suited their business. Is it too late to buy this market giant?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2023

The company's H100 data center GPUs are the gold standard, and nearly two decades of work building up the software ecosystem around its chips have given it an enormous advantage. Intel, AMD, and the rest Any market where one company generates outsize profits and where demand is exploding will eventually be flooded with competition.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2024

That frenzy helped catapult such AI stocks as Nvidia some 240% higher and into the tiny and exclusive club of companies with a market capitalization over $1 trillion. Aggressive spending on the business, without any up-front return on investment, had soured Wall Street on Meta's prospects. I consider anything under 1.5

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

There's clearly a divergence happening with each company's performance lately. From an investment perspective, there are some important details to be aware of before deciding which of these top retail stocks is the better buy. As the economy gets back on solid footing, the company should return to normalized growth.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2024

It refers to a group of tech companies that have historically delivered market-crushing returns and could continue to do so. Apple Apple's market cap is inching closer to $3 trillion, and the company's biggest growth driver in the past 15 years, namely the iPhone, has lost traction. Last but not least, Apple pays a dividend.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This dramatic slowdown (and eventual shrinking) has caused the market to send the company's shares down 73% from its recent highs. First, most of this slowdown results from how the company recognizes revenue upfront when it sells drinks through its largest distributor, Pepsi. MELI Return on Invested Capital data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2024

But there's a good argument that these companies, and the other mega-cap tech stocks, deserve a premium valuation given the strength of their balance sheets, fundamentals, wide moats, cash flows, brand power, and overall increased relevance in the modern economy. It's essentially betting on the future earnings and cash flows of a company.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Accelerating revenue growth and prospects for an improving advertising market have pushed the stock up 17% this year, but Pinterest is not out of the woods yet. Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly credits the company's improving growth to its "highly attractive user demographics, brand-safe environment, and strong return on ad spend."

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Investors can set themselves up for success by buying shares of companies with solid long-term prospects that are trading at reasonable valuations and holding on tight. The company's hybrid cloud platform can run anywhere, enabling clients to mix and match public clouds and their own private data centers. dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2023

Identifying dividend growth stocks with high returns on invested capital (ROICs) can be a great way to look for investments as both criteria have proven to be market-beating propositions over time. This extra step offers higher passive income prospects while potentially uncovering stocks trading at a discount. Paying a 1.3%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

While it's impossible to know where a stock will be in 20 years, certain attributes in a company increase the likelihood that it will be able to maintain its dividends well into the future. These are attractive characteristics in a company for investors who want to hold onto their stock positions for decades. With only $7.6

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

That's a steal for a company that's projected to increase its earnings at a compound average growth rate (CAGR) of 19% across the next five years. That's despite the company planning to sell its natural gas assets, which currently contribute almost 20% to its cash available for distribution. Its business prospects look great.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2023

Airlines aren't productive (at least for shareholders) The ultimate test of whether a company is allocating capital productively for shareholders is the comparison between its return on invested capita l (ROIC) and its weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Here's the lowdown on a fascinating industry.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Warren still calls the biggest shots in the investing portfolio, but Ted Weschler and Todd Combs have spent more than a decade managing billions of dollars' worth of Berkshire's investments -- and according to Buffett, gotten better returns than he has. Looking forward, there's plenty to like, too.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2024

That's an enviable return on investment over the long term. If you want to beat that return, you need to invest in stocks with above-average growth prospects. However, over many years, there is a high correlation between a company's earnings performance and the stock's return.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

That's because there's one major green flag for Home Depot that will get anyone excited about the company's prospects. The business has proven to be consistently profitable thanks to this scale, and its return on invested capital of over 40% is superb. That's right, a company like Home Depot. is about 40 years old.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2023

I'm talking about companies that have a solid earnings track record and offer bright prospects down the road too. In fact, I'm going to highlight one of the world's top biotech companies and one of the top pharmaceutical companies. This suggests sharing success with shareholders is important to the company.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In brief, the company's losses have been shrinking at a rapid clip, revenue has been growing exponentially, and the industry as a whole has been on a healthy growth spurt of late. That rate of return surpasses the historical average of around 10% per year for major benchmark indices like the S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

With the broader index firmly in bull market territory, investors might want to look at some companies that haven't participated in the market's rally. But this doesn't take away from the company's long-term prospects, driven by a favorable industry backdrop. Each group represents about half of the total company sales.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With the prospect of lower interest rates ahead, housing stocks are looking up. The company reported 2% sales growth and 5% higher earnings relative to the prior year. However, investors were pleased with the overall outlook thanks to low housing inventories and the prospect of interest rates falling later this year.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The company's return on investment in a tower with three tenants can be as high as 24%. While demand is particularly robust in mature markets like North America, it is also growing around the world in less developed regions that may offer stronger long-term growth prospects. If it adds a second tenant that jumps to 74%.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Of the dozens of stocks the company owns, two stand-out food and beverage companies are among its largest holdings. After putting these two consumer product heavyweights head to head, one company stood out. Both companies hold up relatively well during good and bad times, so investors can buy the stocks and sleep well at night.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The company dominates the artificial intelligence (AI) chip niche with a market share of about 80%, and this has translated into record earnings. I think that loss of momentum is temporary, though, and believe this top tech company still represents a fantastic long-term investment. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

The company still expects to produce mid-single-digit revenue growth at constant currency, but it now foresees free cash flow above $12 billion. The company has now booked more than $2 billion worth of business related to generative AI, with about 75% of that total coming from the consulting segment.

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