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Many investors are still learning about the various metrics that can be useful when analysing a stock. This article is for those who would like to learn about Return On Equity (ROE). We'll use ROE to examine The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (NASDAQ:CAKE), by way of a worked

If you buy and hold a stock for many years, you'd hope to be making a profit. Better yet, you'd like to see the share price move up more than the market average. Unfortunately for shareholders, while the Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) share price is up 41% in the last five years, th

Growth-heavy portfolios have taken a hit this year. The S&P 500 Growth index has fallen 27% from its high, putting the index deep in bear market territory. Even so, the index has still outperformed the broader S&P 500 over the past three, five, and 10 years. That data mak

Warren Buffett famously said, 'Volatility is far from synonymous with risk.' So it seems the smart money knows that debt - which is usually involved in bankruptcies - is a very important factor, when you assess how risky a company is. We can see that Allot Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALLT) d

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The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says 'The biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.' So it might be obvious that you need to c

The first half of 2022 was brutal for many popular companies and indexes. The two largest U.S. companies, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), are down over 19% and 24% year to date, respectively, as of July 18, and the S&P 500 -- which many investors use to gau

A look at the shareholders of Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIGI) can tell us which group is most powerful. Institutions will often hold stock in bigger companies, and we expect to see insiders owning a noticeable percentage of the smaller ones. Companies that used

The second-quarter earnings season is well underway. One of the first companies to report this period is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM), the largest semiconductor/computer chip manufacturer worldwide. TSMC hit the top end of its revenue guidance and generated phen

In an interview from Motley Fool Live, recorded on July 7, Brad Dillman, Chief Economist for Cortland, a multifamily real estate investment, development, and management company, discusses a few prominent worldwide trends that give investors a good picture of where global real est

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Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) is the world's second-biggest cryptocurrency by market value -- and on its way to changing the way business is done. That's because decentralized applications (dApps) on the blockchain help users do everything from managing their finances to collecting art.

There's a reason why the Rocky movies were so successful: Nearly everybody loves a comeback. That isn't just true in entertainment; investors like comeback stories, too.

Early last decade, worries over slackening demand for armored tanks put the fate of General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) tank plant in Lima, Ohio -- and the jobs of 900 workers -- at risk. Israel had just cut short a supply contract for hundreds of armored personnel carriers to be produc

Every October, the Social Security Administration announces how much of a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) the program's beneficiaries will receive for the following year. Those annual increases have topped 11% only twice since 1975, when automatic annual COLAs were first impleme

While we have not technically entered a recession just yet, millions of Americans are feeling nervous about the future of the economy. In fact, around 56% of U.S. adults say they're not financially prepared for a potential recession, according to a recent survey from Insight Glob

It's been a tough year for investors. Stock values have plunged since the start of 2022, and now a lot of people are looking at losses in their portfolios.

Utility stocks are often overlooked. Most consumers aren't familiar with many of them; their only interaction with a utility is when they pay their monthly water, gas, or electric bill.