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There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about the havoc last week’s GameStop Affair wrought. I see it in a totally different light.

Holding a great growth stock forever can be smart. Excellent stock-picking combined with a bull market can be rewarding.

Drug manufacturing is a $160 billion market, with $30 billion in profits. By 2020, sales are expected to top $170 billion. That bodes well for drug stocks.

A continuing rally to start 2023 is largely dependent on the Fed successfully engineering a “soft landing.” Here are two dividend stocks we like in case they don’t.

Enovix (ENVX) Up On Q1 Results and Development Agreement, Weave Communications (WEAV) Dips After Q1 Report

It’s too early to tell whether the market rally is broadening out or petering out, but solid defensive names are likely to benefit in either case. Here are two I like right now.

Dividend stocks love lower interest rates, and these two dividend payers are among the best in the market.

In the closing days of 2020, when many people were focused on preparing for the holidays, a small software company went public through a SPAC IPO. The event occurred on December 23.

Part customer relationship management (CRM) platform, part lead generation and marketing platform, the company’s software helps home services companies grow and manage their businesses, and it streamlines the move-in and post-move journey for homeowners.



The stock represents a compelling way for investors to gain exposure to evolving consumer and business trends related to the housing market and home services, especially home inspection, moving, insurance and utility services. After a pandemic-affected 2020 growth could top 60% in 2021, then remain well above 30% for the foreseeable future.



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What are qualified dividends? It’s important to know what makes a dividend qualified for tax purposes. Here’s what you need to know.

Learn how you can reduce your U.S. capital gains tax liability - and find out if that’s the right move for your investing success.

Most investors and consumers are well aware of how reliant we are on China’s economic production and consumption, but that reliance is far more important than many realize.

What do you do if you want regular income? What do you do if you’re retired and looking for a new source of quarterly checks? Where do you go to find investments that are safe and pay regular, dependable dividends? I suggest you look at Dick Davis Income Digest, our monthly publication that’s chock full of investing ideas culled from the experts at the best investment newsletters. Every issue brings you dozens of ideas (some new, some follow-ups) on the best income-producing investments that are available to individual investors.

Chief Analyst Roy Ward applies these six yardsticks, or price multiples, to help him find undervalued companies: P/BV, P/CF, P/D, P/E, P/S and PEG ratios.

Today’s addition is one of the world’s best engineering and construction firms in the highly specialized natural gas-fired power plant industry.

It’s a highly leveraged play on increasing U.S. energy loads and the expected, multi-year gas power plant buildout. If you want exposure to a picks and shovels play on AI, EVs and other electrification trends, this one is for you.

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Explorer stocks had an unusually quiet week as the Delta variant and weaker-than-expected job growth gave markets something to worry about. Meanwhile, the economy moves ahead. In particular, the pace of U.S. electric vehicle sales doubled in the first half of 2021 as we try to catch up to other parts of the world. Today’s recommendation is an indirect but powerful way to play this accelerating trend.

Please join me for the 9th Annual Smarter Investing, Greater Profits Online Conference, August 17-19. We have an incredible line-up of experts ready to share their best picks.

Vita Nelson’s The Moneypaper specializes in direct investing through dividend-reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. However, this month Nelson also provided subscribers with some helpful advice for investing in fixed-income instruments in today’s low-yield environment, and explained the pros and cons of various types of bond funds. “Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke has promised...

Outsourcing can be a political hot button, as companies register complaints about sending jobs overseas and consumers gripe about incompatible language problems when they seek technological help. But like it or hate it, the truth is that outsourcing has saved American companies billions of dollars in labor costs, and it...

I recommend that you sell Boeing and move your capital into WellCare Health Plans (WCG) or Cardinal Health (CAH).

As marijuana stocks have blasted off over the past couple of weeks, it’s become clear that institutional money is entering the sector—and this is good. We like having institutions confirm our early judgment that the cannabis industry is a great place to invest, probably the greatest growth sector of our time.

Five of the largest mega-cap stocks have a combined weight that accounts for nearly a quarter of the S&P 500. And right now, they’re saving the market.