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Dividend stocks are always popular, and they belong in any well-diversified portfolio. Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Costco (NASDAQ: COST), and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) are three top dividend stocks to buy today.
Dividend stocks are always popular, and they belong in any well-diversified portfolio. Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Costco (NASDAQ: COST), and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) are three top dividend stocks to buy today.
Google parent Alphabet reported earnings below analysts' expectations on Thursday.
Shares of apparel company Hanesbrands (NYSE: HBI) dropped like a rock on Thursday after the company provided lackluster financial guidance and announced some substantial pivots to management's priorities. As of 11:40 a.m. ET, Hanesbrands stock was down 23% -- particularly painful, considering the market is soaring today. On one hand, fourth-quarter revenue of $1.47 billion beat guidance from Hanesbrands' management.
Exxon Mobil ( NYSE:XOM ) Full Year 2022 Results Key Financial Results Revenue: US$402.2b (up 44% from FY 2021). Net...
When Cathie Wood speaks, people listen. The chief executive of Ark Investment Management has had a far-from-perfect record when it comes to her investment choices -- not to mention not exactly flattering feedback from CNBC's Jim Cramer. When asked what stock Wood would choose she won a million dollar lottery and was forced to choose a stock for ten years, Wood's pick was just as disruptive as her reputation.
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Shares of Carnival (NYSE: CCL) jumped 34.2% in January compared to where it closed out 2022, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, as the cruise line operator, which is working to return to full capacity, said it would raise its prices. The increase in certain rates suggests there is still strong, latent demand for ocean-going travel that bodes well for the cruise company's profitability. Revenue per passenger cruise days for the period was up sequentially from the third quarter and ahead of 2019 even though occupancy was a full 19 percentage points lower than three years ago.
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Shipments hit a nine-year low at 1.21 billion units in 2022, IDC added. The weakness in demand for lower-end phones has also begun to hit premium devices, which fetch companies like Qualcomm higher prices for their chips. A supply glut in the smartphone market, which was the one of the first to show softening in demand following soaring pandemic-led growth, is an added blow.
Higher oil price is likely to have aided BP's Q4 earnings.
Amazon reported its Q4 2022 earnings on Feb. 2.
Dividend stocks are a great way to mitigate downside risk, hedge against inflation, and generate reliable levels of passive income. Closed-end funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and some actively managed diversified holding companies are purpose-built to return an outsize portion of cash flows to shareholders via regular distributions. Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE: ABR) is a REIT with a current annualized yield of 10.75%.
Qualcomm Inc. shares rose in the extended session Thursday after the chip maker beat Wall Street expectations slightly on earnings.
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Leading iBuyer Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN) was having an excellent day on Thursday. As of 3 p.m. EST, the real estate disruptor's stock had risen by 14% for the day and has now more than tripled from its 52-week low in just over a month. There isn't any company-specific news driving the news higher, but there has been a surge in optimism for the real estate market in general.
Top health insurance company Humana (NYSE: HUM) wasn't necessarily tops with investors on Wednesday. After reporting its latest set of quarterly figures, the company's share price bumped slightly higher, by 0.3%, which wasn't high enough to beat the S&P 500 index's more than 1% increase. It's not that Humana's results for the fourth quarter 2022 were bad or uninspiring; it's just that they didn't excel.
For the third day in a row, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock is riding higher -- up 4.3% as of 10:10 a.m. ET. The Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates only 25 basis points yesterday is probably part of the reason for that -- indeed, growth stocks in general seem happy to run today, with the entire Nasdaq up nearly 2%. Tesla's plan to cut the prices of its electric cars, you see -- not just in the U.S., but in China as well -- is having its intended effect of stoking consumer demand.
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