Top 10 Performing U.S. Dividend Stocks for January 2025
Dividend-paying stocks that combine healthy balance sheets with hefty yields can provide investors with steady incomes, cushion against market downturns, and grow investments at a healthy clip. In January 2025, the top-performing dividend payers included CVS Health CVS, International Business Machines IBM, and Bank OZK OZK. To find the month’s 10 best-performing income-focused stocks, we […]
Weekly Market Outlook: Inflation Concerns Escalate Amid Upcoming Tariffs and US CPI Announcement
Markets Weekly Outlook – Inflation Fears Rise with Tariffs Ahead of US CPI Release Read More: Global Market Outlook 2025: Trends, Risks, and Opportunities for Traders Week in Review: Tariff Fears Sees Inflation Expectations Rise Markets had an interesting end to the week with a mixed bag of jobs data leaving a lot to be […]
Following a Dividend Hike, This Wide-Moat US Stock…
Lockheed Martin LMT recently raised its quarterly dividend by 5%, effective with its Dec. 27 payout. In fact, this wide-moat aerospace and defense contractor has increased its dividend for 22 years in a row. The stock recently fell into undervalued territory after Lockheed reported that cost overruns on two programs had lowered operating profit. While […]
Are Market Forecasts Truly Significant?
Key Takeaways The best use case for investors for experts’ forecasts for stock and bond returns is if you have some savings target where you have a 10-year horizon.Most investors, if they’re listening to forecasts that are short term, for the next year or the next three years, it’s good entertainment, but I probably wouldn’t […]
Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosures Will Remain Under Wraps: What This Means for the Public.
The public won’t get to see Elon Musk’s financial disclosures. Here’s why that matters. Washington—Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, whose companies have contracts with and interest in the federal government while Musk and his team overhaul the size and scope of government, won’t be filing a publicly available financial disclosure report. Instead, Musk’s required […]
Anomaly in Gold Stock Valuation – MINING.COM
From a high-level valuation perspective, gold mining is a simple business. Miners excavate, haul, and crush gold-bearing ores, process them to recover the gold, then sell it usually at prevailing market prices. Profits are the difference between those and the costs of bringing that gold to market. While the metal can surge fast as this […]
Is Apple Stock a Buy, Sell, or Something Else After Earnings?
Apple AAPL released its first-quarter fiscal earnings report on Jan. 30. Here’s Morningstar’s take on Apple’s earnings and stock. What We Thought of Apple’s Q1 Earnings Apple’s AAPL December-quarter revenue rose by 4% year over year to $124.3 billion. IPhone revenue declined 1% year over year to $69.1 billion, and services revenue rose 14% year […]
Top-Performing ETFs | Morningstar
Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are often low-cost instruments for investors to track popular indexes or leverage experienced manager choices in an attempt to beat the market. The best ones serve as building blocks for a portfolio, and unlike open-end mutual funds, all ETFs are traded throughout the day on an exchange. In January 2025, the […]
Top US Energy Stocks to Invest in Today
1-Year Performance of Energy Stocks Source: Morningstar Direct. To come up with our list of the best energy stocks to buy now, we screened for: Energy stocks that are undervalued relative to the average stock in the sector, as measured by our price/fair value metric.Energy stocks that earn narrow or wide Morningstar Economic Moat Ratings. […]
Column: Another Cobalt Bust, but This Time It’s Unique
Column: Another cobalt bust but this time it’s different The market for cobalt, the essential battery metal that powers today’s electric vehicles (EVs), is experiencing another significant downturn. This wave of overproduction, unlike the artisanal mining surge that led to previous downturns in 2018-2019, is primarily driven by the actions of China’s CMOC Group. The […]