Results and guidance indicate consumers are under pressure.2024 has been a great year for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite. But home improvement behemoths The Home Depot (HD -0.55%) and Lowe's Companies (LOW -1.04%) are down on the year after reporting weak guidance.Here's what's challenging both companies and whether either dividend stock is a buy now. A tough road aheadExpectations were low heading into recent reports by Home Depot and Lowe's. Home Depot has an extra week in its current reporting year. On ...

The Nasdaq has historically produced exceptional returns during bull markets.The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 1.10%) entered a new bull market in December 2022, roughly 17 months ago, and it has since advanced 68%. But history says more gains lie in store for the technology-heavy index. The Nasdaq returned an average of 215% during bull markets since 1990, and it achieved those gains over an average of 40 months.In other words, if the current bull market aligns precisely with the historical average, the index wi ...

The e-commerce and payments company has grown dramatically, and investors have been rewarded.MercadoLibre (MELI -0.81%) is often referred to as the "Amazon.com of Latin America," due to its e-commerce dominance in key markets like Brazil and Argentina. But there's much more to this business. In addition to its e-commerce marketplace, MercadoLibre also has the massive Mercado Pago payments platform, the Mercado Envios logistics platform, a fast-growing lending business, and more.The company has evolved and h ...

Wall Street's latest stock-split stock is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that helped kicked off the stock split craze three years ago. Though Wall Street is firmly entrenched in a bull market right now, it's been nothing short of a wild ride for investors since this decade began. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite were whipsawed between bear and bull markets in successive years from 2020 through 2023. When uncertainty is a prevailing theme on Wall Street, it's not uncom ...

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Could Nvidia extend its enormous gain?Nvidia's (NVDA 2.57%) shares are on fire -- but this isn't a short-term phenomenon. The chip designer's stock has been on the rise for a few years. It took off in 2020, and since that time, it's soared more than 1,600%.Investors have piled into the stock on optimism about the company's position in artificial intelligence (AI), a market forecast to grow in the double digits to more than $1 trillion by the end of the decade. Today, Nvidia is the world's AI chip leader, wi ...

Plowing $9 billion into a manufacturing facility could help a successful tirzepatide launch reach new heights.Eli Lilly (LLY -0.13%) stock is already up by about 90% over the past year, and it could climb even higher. BMO Capital analyst Evan Seigerman recently raised his price target to $1,001 per share, which implies a gain of about 24% from recent prices.Seigerman recently noted that soaring demand for Eli Lilly's weight management drug, Zepbound, is outpacing supply. The company plans to improve on the ...

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xAI is reportedly building a supercomputer using 100,000 of Nvidia's H100 AI chips.In today's video, I discuss recent updates impacting Nvidia (NVDA 2.57%). Check out the short video to learn more, consider subscribing, and click the special offer link below.*Stock prices used were the after-market prices of May 24, 2024. The video was published on May 26, 2024. ...

These quality companies can pay you passive income for the rest of your life.Investing in leading consumer brands can be a rewarding dividend investment strategy. History shows that brands that become household names tend to stay that way and keep growing for years.Some of the best income investments may be companies where you shop routinely, which can give you insights about the company's competitive position that Wall Streeters may not fully understand.To give you some ideas, read why three Motley Fool co ...