The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Nowhere is this more true than on the stock market. For example, in just 15 years, the total annual revenue of the five largest American companies has soared 50% from $1.6 Let's dig in and see which stocks have shouldered their way into the top five and which have dropped out. A lot can change in 15 years. trillion to $2.4

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

It's a near-certainty that there's a security or 10 that matches your risk tolerance and/or investment goals But among the seemingly countless ways money can be made in the stock market, few strategies have been more consistently successful than buying and holding high-quality dividend stocks over an extended period.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 19, 2023

Still, in 2022, Alibaba and other Chinese stocks faced delisting threats from the SEC before the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board received access to the audit information regarding its financial statements. Since the beginning of the year, Alibaba stock is up 2%, versus nearly 15% for the S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , the massive conglomerate led by Warren Buffett, is best known for its $365 billion stock portfolio and for its subsidiary businesses like GEICO, Duracell, and many others. And this is just a tiny fraction of the publicly traded companies Berkshire could buy.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

When you consider Buffett is worth over $110 billion, and his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , is one of the premier blue chip stocks on the market, it's easy to see why that might be the case. But the stock market isn't logical, and nobody can predict its movements. Not at all.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

There is some irony in the fact that uncertainty is the only certainty in the stock market. The general long-term direction for the broader stock market is positive, but there will always be volatility and swings along the way. Below are two go-to stocks. This didn't happen by luck, either.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Warren Buffett has never claimed to be able to predict what the stock market would do over the near term. In a 2008 op-ed for The New York Times , he wrote, "I can't predict the short-term movements of the stock market. I haven't the faintest idea as to whether stocks will be higher or lower a month, or a year, from now."

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