Buying top dividend stocks and holding them long-term can be a great approach to building your investment portfolio. It boils ...

As Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel once wrote, "Competition is for losers." When a firm enjoys little competition, it ...

The share price is the amount you’ll pay to purchase one share of that company’s stock. The share price for different stocks can vary depending on how each company is performing and what’s ...

I’m not suggesting that you choose among these different sectors or asset classes; just that your portfolio contains a bit of all of them. If stocks take off again, rebalance your holdings to ...

So the usual chorus of warnings that the stock market is overvalued is getting louder. This doesn’t mean you should avoid stocks, but it might serve you well to take a closer look at what makes ...

Right now, health care is important. Within these sectors, different stocks can have more influence on them than others at different times. That's the case now with the healthcare sector and JNJ.

Practically speaking, this is no different than a bond maturity in most cases. However, a retractable preferred stock is not a debt security like a bond. The market prices of preferred stocks do ...

The Zacks Sector Rank considers 16 different sector groups. The average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups is measured, and the sectors are listed from best to worst.