Day: December 8, 2017

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has stood out from its technology peers for decades because of its willingness to pay dividends to its shareholders. The semiconductor giant started with a small dividend in 1992, and began making dramatic boosts to its payouts in the mid-2000s. Since then, Intel’s dividend yield has grown to respectable levels. As the tech giant finds its way... Read More

The financial industry went to the brink of extinction in 2008, and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was one of the most dramatically affected banking institutions during the crisis . B of A has done an excellent job of recovering from its near-disaster, but even after seeing its shares jump nearly 30% so far in 2017, the bank still has... Read More

Image source: The Motley Fool. Toro Company (NYSE: TTC)Q4 2017 Earnings Conference CallDec 7, 2017, 4:30 p.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good day ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Toro Company’s full-year and fourth quarter earnings conference call. My name is Sandra, and I will be your coordinator for today. At... Read More

Will there be a significant “first-mover” advantage in self-driving cars? Will the first company (or group of companies) to bring the technology to market enjoy significant long-term advantages over rivals that lag? For a long time, I didn’t think so, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment. But General Motors (NYSE: GM) president Dan Ammann recently made an argument that... Read More

Everyone has worked with someone who rubs people the wrong way . People like this may not know that their behaviors annoy everyone else, and in some cases, they actually think their actions are positive. It’s hard to let people like that know that their behavior has hurt their standing in the workplace . What you can do, however, is... Read More

In today’s episode of the Market Foolery podcast, Mac Greer talks with David Kretzmann from Motley Fool Rule Breakers and Supernova and Jim Mueller from Motley Fool Stock Advisor , Options , and Supernova about today’s market news. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Google are battling on the streaming side of their businesses, but it looks as if Amazon is going... Read More

Slowly but surely, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an integral part of our lives . Of course, we don’t have AI-enabled robots running errands for us just yet, but tech companies are integrating the technology very subtly into things that we interact with every day. From Google searches to automatically tagging photos on Facebook , and talking to Siri on... Read More

In this Market Foolery  podcast, Chris Hill and guest Kristine Harjes, host of the Industry Focus: Healthcare podcast, consider the latest on Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN) , shares of which took a sharp jump after Barclays analyst upgraded them. But before anyone decides that the company may be about to turn a corner, let’s review the bidding: The founding CEO... Read More

Earnings are key in investing. Sure, not all companies regularly report profits. Even more, some companies lose money consistently. But at the end of the day, the intrinsic value of any stock is equal to the present value of future earnings. For more speculative stocks, profits could be just around the corner or even years away — or they could... Read More

In this Market Foolery  podcast, host Chris Hill is joined by Industry Focus: Healthcare host, Kristine Harjes, to dig into CVS Health ‘s (NYSE: CVS) offer to purchase insurer Aetna (NYSE: AET)  for $69 billion. Rumors of the acquisition talks had been in the air for weeks, and the shares didn’t move much on the news that confirmed them. The... Read More