This leading business development company still has a bright future.Ares Capital's (ARCC 0.04%) stock has increased only about 40% during the past 10 years. If we include its reinvested dividends, it's delivered a stunning total return of nearly 260%.Ares' stock is now trading near its all-time high, but it remains about $3 shy of Wall Street's top price target of $26. So should investors load up on this high-yield dividend stock before it exceeds that rosy estimate? What does Ares Capital do?Ares Capital i ...

Netflix (NFLX -0.17%) has been one of the biggest surprises on the stock market in recent years after investors had written off the stock in 2022 following two straight quarters of subscriber losses.However, since then, the company has revamped its business, and it's delivered enormous returns, as the stock is up more than 400% since it bottomed out in 2022. Netflix has added an advertising tier, which has been eagerly embraced by both subscribers and advertisers. It cracked down on password sharing through ...

The S&P 500 index is offering up a tiny little dividend yield of 1.2% right now. The average real estate investment trust (REIT) has a yield of 3.8%. All three of the REITs here beat that, with Rexford Industrial (REXR -2.52%) offering a fast-growing dividend and a 4.1% yield. Realty Income (O -0.31%) has a 5.8% yield backed by three decades' worth of annual dividend increases. And W.P. Carey's (WPC -0.05%) 6.4% yield was recently cut, but there's more to that story than meets the eye.Rexford Industrial is ...

Alphabet (GOOGL -3.27%) (GOOG -3.19%) share prices tumbled as much as 8.4% following its Q4 earnings report as the market came away disappointed with the tech giant's cloud computing revenue growth rate. Like a number of other large tech companies, Alphabet is also set to ramp up its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure spending this year. News of Alphabet's AI-related plans was also a drag on the share price.Let's take a closer look at the internet search leader's Q4 results to see if this is a good ...

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If you asked the professional analyst community about ride-sharing company Lyft (LYFT 0.71%), they'd collectively tell you that the stock has strong upside potential. As of this writing, the average price target from analysts is $18.69 per share, according to the 32 analysts tracked by TipRanks. That points to nearly 40% upside from where it trades, as of this writing.That said, the analyst community is often wrong. And I believe that it's wrong again when it comes to its price target for Lyft. But I don't ...

Quantum computing stocks are attracting a lot of attention these days for one simple reason: These companies, if they reach their goals, could offer the world the next game-changing technology. As we've seen in the past -- from internet-related companies to artificial intelligence (AI) players -- these innovators could go on to deliver soaring earnings and stock performance.What exactly is quantum computing? The classical computer computes using bits to store and process data, and these bits represent eithe ...

When searching for new stocks to invest in, dividend investors usually try to find a good compromise between income, income stability, and growth potential. There's no perfect investment that scores high on all three at once, so trade-offs have to be made. Right now, PepsiCo (PEP -0.53%) looks like it is offering investors a good combination of positives because it is facing some near-term negatives that seem likely to be temporary headwinds.Here's why buying PepsiCo today could help to set you up for a lif ...

As Nvidia stock went down, Apple stock went up.The news of DeepSeek's launch last week spread rapidly in the markets, wiping out 16% of Nvidia's value while affecting many other artificial intelligence (AI) stocks.However, several stocks notably withstood the DeepSeek avalanche, including Apple (AAPL -2.40%). Not only that, but it also ended the week with a well-received earnings report, and the world's most valuable company is sitting at an excellent vantage point to benefit from progress in AI.As a large ...

Disney's foundation is strong, and ESPN could put the company over the top.Disney (DIS -1.10%) continues to report improved results on the bottom line, and this is before the company's most important product launch since Disney+. This fall, ESPN goes over the top and could make an already profitable streaming service a money-making machine. Travis Hoium digs into the recent results and what to look for next in this video.*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Feb. 5, 2025. The video was published on F ...