The company's dividend looks sustainable, provided management hits its medium-term targets.UPS' (UPS -0.28%) current forward dividend yield of around 4.4% is highly attractive for income-seeking investors, but is the payout sustainable? The company's earnings have disappointed recently, and the dividend cover looks pretty thin in 2024. Is UPS a stock for dividend hunters to buy? Here's what you need to know before buying the stock.UPS' dividendThe company's trailing-12-month dividend cost it about $5.4 bill ...

Investors weren't pleased with the latest financial update that Shopify's management provided.With the Nasdaq Composite Index in record territory, you might be thinking that most stocks are also near their all-time highs. But this just isn't the case.Take Shopify (SHOP 1.25%). As of May 15, the leading e-commerce platform's shares are currently 65% below their peak, which was established in November 2021. It doesn't help that Wall Street hasn't been pleased with the company's recent financial updates.Does t ...

The home improvement giant just affirmed its 2024 outlook.Home Depot (HD 0.43%) investors might be pinching themselves right about now. Their stock has kept up with the rally in the S&P 500 over the past 12 months, allowing the home improvement giant to stand out from many of its struggling peers. It's not just the wider retailing industry that's under pressure, either. There's less demand for home improvement projects in the wake of the pandemic, and rising interest rates have pinched home sales as well.Ho ...

The e-commerce behemoth's web is about to expand a little more.Investors keeping tabs on Amazon (AMZN 0.58%) likely already know it's now waist-deep in the advertising business. In 2023, it collected a total of $47 billion from third-party sellers looking to feature their products more prominently at Amazon.com. That's a $10 billion improvement on 2022's tally, and nearly one-tenth of last year's top line. Not bad.With this particular business's growth finally starting to slow, though, the e-commerce giant ...

AI-powered search could be a huge opportunity for the companyAlphabet (GOOGL 1.08%) (GOOG 1.06%) showed that it's going all in on artificial intelligence (AI), unveiling new AI features and products at its Google I/O developer conference on May 14. The company has long invested in AI, but there have been some lingering doubts among investors that it is behind and that AI could disrupt its dominant position in search. This can be seen in the company's valuation, which trails other leading large-cap AI names. ...

These companies can turn idle cash into a passive income stream.There are lots of ways to invest $1,000 these days. You could take a flyer on the latest cryptocurrency or hyped AI growth stock. Those bets could turn your investment into a lot more money, or they could lose some or all of your investment. A lower-risk option is to invest that cash into an income-generating investment like dividend stocks. While you can still lose money investing in dividend stocks, they've historically been a solid investmen ...

These businesses are building tech that could exceed the abilities of today's AI.The field of artificial intelligence is still in its early years, yet several businesses are already working on technology that can become the foundation for AI's future. These companies are developing quantum computing systems capable of processing mountains of data in seconds, which would take decades for a conventional computer.Quantum machines can execute multiple computations simultaneously, accelerating processing time, w ...

Billionaire money managers have bought millions of shares of both Pfizer and Walgreens Boots Alliance this year.Are you famous enough for picking great stocks to become a billionaire money manager? If not, then there's a lot you could learn from the handful of folks who have.It's easier than ever for individuals to invest alongside the professionals. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission makes anyone with more than $100 million under management report their activity to the public every three months. T ...

Nvidia's dominance in the artificial intelligence chip market has helped the stock to soar.Nvidia (NVDA -1.99%) never is short on big news. Most recently, the company wowed investors with details of its new Blackwell architecture and said the launch will happen later this year. And prior to this, Nvidia said it aimed to start shipping its H200 graphics processing unit (GPU) -- which doubles the performance of its current chip -- in the second quarter of the year.All of this along with soaring earnings have ...

These companies are trading at a better value than AMD and have massive growth potential.Tech stocks have probably made more than a few millionaires recently, with the Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector up 51% since last May, for example. Increased interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has caused countless stocks to skyrocket. The launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT highlighted just how far the technology has come and its potential to boost many industries.As a leading chipmaker, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 1.14%) has ...