Peter Lynch, in his heyday with Fidelity Magellan funds (Nasdaq: FMAGX), took a remarkably powerful yet simple approach to wealth-building: Avoid companies that provide products or services that are too hard for the layman to understand. Indeed,... read more »
To the dismay of average investors, great companies such as Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), Priceline.com Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLN) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) come with a steep price tag. Each has a stock price above $500, making it nearly impossible for... read more »
Gold versus silver. It’s a long-standing debate among precious-metal investors as to which commodity is a wiser investment. Both are seen as a hedge against inflation, as the prospects of ever-weakening currencies could send investors... read more »
Here at StreetAuthority, we’ve been relentlessly talking about the $1.7 trillion “Dividend Vault,” the name we’ve given to the unprecedented amount of cash that U.S. companies have stockpiled since the Great Recession. This... read more »
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Dec. 12, 2012. In the past four to five years, investors have been more squarely focused on the consumer end of the tech landscape, bidding up shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google... read more »
When looking at the actions of Sandridge Energy’s (NYSE: SD) CEO Tom Ward, the phrase “heads I win, tails you lose,” comes to mind. He’s overseen an 80% plunge in his company’s stock since Sandridge’s 2007... read more »
As the major indexes post multi-year highs, many investors credit the invisible hand of the Federal Reserve. The Fed‘s pump-priming quantitative easing (QE) has acted as a key source of liquidity for a range of investment classes,... read more »
As the U.S. economy underwent a heady boom in the 1950s, our nation’s energy needs grew at a rapid pace. Seizing an opening, legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens used his geology degree to become one of the energy industry’s most aggressive... read more »
When Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) shelled out $16.7 billion this month to acquire the half of NBC Universal still owned with partner GE (NYSE: GE), analysts suggested the deal would provide the nation’s largest cable company with another path... read more »
When assessing any stock, you need to weigh the risk against reward. Yet for Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) shareholders, it’s a challenging task. To be sure, it’s really hard to see how much risk there is when Apple’s net cash... read more »
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