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Here's Why Walmart Continues to Crush the S&P 500 (and if the Dividend Stock Is a Buy Now)
  • May 24, 2025

Here's Why Walmart Continues to Crush the S&P 500 (and if the Dividend Stock Is a Buy Now)

Walmart has rewarded investors with outsized gains. Last year, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) soared 71.9%, making it one of the best performers in the S&P 500 and the second-best performing component in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (behind only Nvidia). Walmart is following up on that impressive performance with a 6.7% year-to-date gain at the time of this writing, which is far better than the S&P 500's 2.1% decline.

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3 Red-Hot Growth Stocks to Buy in 2025
  • May 24, 2025

3 Red-Hot Growth Stocks to Buy in 2025

Spotify offers a music streaming service and is seeing healthy traction in paid membership, rising profitability and free cash flows. Lyft just turned profitable and free-cash-flow-positive, and has a huge total addressable market that will allow for many more years of growth. It pays to spot promising growth stocks that you can buy and keep for years or even decades.

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2 Top Vanguard ETFs to Buy With $500 Right Now
  • May 24, 2025

2 Top Vanguard ETFs to Buy With $500 Right Now

There are dozens of excellent Vanguard ETFs to choose from with low expenses. The Vanguard Real Estate ETF could be a big winner as rates come down. If you're building a portfolio of Vanguard ETFs, a few are excellent choices no matter what the stock market and economy are doing.

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1 Unstoppable ETF That Could Turn $40,000 Into $1 Million
  • May 24, 2025

1 Unstoppable ETF That Could Turn $40,000 Into $1 Million

The Invesco QQQ Trust gives investors exposure to most of the largest stocks on the Nasdaq exchange. The exchange-traded fund has averaged a compound annual growth rate of more than 18% over the past five years. It has the potential to turn a $40,000 investment into a holding worth more than $1 million -- but it'll probably take a few decades.

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