The pool business is on fire.Shares of pool equipment makerHayward Holdings(NYSE: HAYW) jumped as much as 30.4% in trading Wednesday after reporting first-quarter 2021 financial results. Shares closed the day up 24.3%.Quarterly revenue jumped a whopping 96% to $334.4 million, and a net loss of $10.4...

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The securities market operator is keeping its payout steady for now.It's dividend payout time at securities market operator CME Group (NASDAQ: CME). On Wednesday, the company announced that it had declared a new quarterly dividend of $0.90 per share, which is to be paid on June 25 to stockholders of...

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Pharmaceutical stocks are facing a major new threat.Shares ofModerna(NASDAQ: MRNA) fell 6.2% on Wednesday after the Biden administration said it would support easing patent protections on coronavirus vaccines.Many countries have been unable to obtain enough vaccine doses to slow the spread of COVID-...

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Detailed results from a late-stage study of the company's lead candidate were published online.Shares of Humanigen (NASDAQ: HGEN) were vaulting 10.8% higher as of 2:47 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. The gain came after the company announced the publishing of results on the online preprint site medRxiv from ...

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The company's consumer lawn and garden and cannabis-related businesses continue to deliver solid growth.Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE: SMG) gave investors reasons to be confident about its prospects this year at the company's investor day event in early April. It raised its full-year guidance and said ...

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The Brazilian investment management company reported a big quarter of earnings and further expansion of banking products.Shares of Brazilian investment management company XP(NASDAQ: XP) traded more than 14% higher as of 11:05 a.m. EDT today, after the company reported earnings for the first quarter ...

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The fantasy sports platform and sports betting operator will report first-quarter results on Friday, May 7.DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) had a volatile 2020. When several major sports leagues canceled or postponed their seasons at the pandemic's onset, engagement on its platform sank heavily. Eventually...

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The company's new asset will be folded into an upcoming subscription service.Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) is about to make a new asset buy. Via its official company blog, Twitter announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Scroll, an early-stage company whose major product is an e-reading app.In the post, ...

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These companies have big payouts and could have underappreciated growth avenues.A company paying high dividend yields can be great, but they're also sometimes a sign that the stock wouldn't otherwise be able to attract investors and that the underlying business is on the decline. So income investors...

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These tech companies are already benefiting from AI's growth.Artificial intelligence (AI) is in everything from voice-enabled smart speakers to smartwatches to computers, and even our cars. But while AI has gone mainstream, not all artificial intelligence companies are benefiting equally.Investors ...

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You might want to consider adding this pharmaceutical giant to your portfolio.Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) outperformed the broad market S&P 500 index in 2020, but its winning days are not in the rearview mirror. With its strong catalog and pipeline, growing revenues, and a recently boosted dividend, I ...

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There was a big asterisk with the company's improved bottom line.Exact Sciences(NASDAQ: EXAS) hasn't delivered the sizzling performance so far in 2021 that it did last year. That hasn't stopped Cathie Wood from scooping up more shares of the molecular diagnostics company for her ARK Innovation ETF (...

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The company went from hero to zero in the fight against COVID-19.Shares of Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: EBS) fell 30% in April, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, after quality-control errors at one of the company's facilities ruined millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID...

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The company's new sensors have the longest range in the industry, and that's a big deal.Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based self-driving start-up funded by Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and Volkswagen AG (OTC: VWAGY), announced that it has developed a new lidar sensor system with enough range to enable ...

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This innovative bank just had a blowout quarter and will soon join a new index.Shares ofThe Bancorp (NASDAQ: TBBK), a $7.7 billion asset bank in Delaware, traded more than 10% higher as of 11 a.m. EDT today, after it came to light that the bank would soon join the S&P SmallCap 600 index.The S&P ...

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A promising investment within e-commerce.In 2020, we leaned more heavily on e-commerce for continuing our way of life. While moving on from COVID-19 could challenge this continued momentum, all signs are pointing to the industry enjoying a sustainable growth runway over the long term.According to ...

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The social media company announces its third convertible debt offering.Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) stock price recently dipped after the company announced a new $1 billion debt offering. The convertible senior notes, which will be sold privately to institutional buyers, will mature in 2027.The notes can ...

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The big drugmaker is relying heavily on one new product that likely won't be able to keep up its momentum.Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) reported its first-quarter results on April 27, 2021. The company missed analysts' top- and bottom-line estimates.In this Motley Fool Live video recorded on April 28, 2021...

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Investors may be charged up about Plug Power's prospects, but that alone doesn't mean it's worth a place in your portfolio.Coinciding with the accelerating interest in electric vehicle stocks over the past few years, investors have become increasingly focused on another niche of the renewable energy...

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Our constant need for medical products will be a major growth driver for these healthcare giants.Day trading is alive and well. With dozens of online brokers offering stock-trading services -- often free of charge -- anyone with an internet connection can look to make a fortune by taking advantage ...

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Shareholders beware: The hits just won't stop coming.Bad news can be good news if you're an investor with a long time horizon and guts of steel. Every time a stock takes a body blow from an ugly reveal, there's an opportunity to buy at a discount.That's the logic that might lead someone to consider ...

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These buy-and-forget investments can be pillars for your portfolio for not just years, but decades.Millions of people have started investing in the past year, thanks in large part to the growing popularity of apps like Robinhood and zero-commission trading. Boredom also could have played a role; in ...

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It's good for producers, but consumers could end up paying a whole lot more for what they want.The stock market was mixed on Monday, with different parts of the market reacting in varying ways to prevailing trends on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) saw substantial ...

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How'd they do?In this episode of Rule Breaker Investing, we review 5 Stocks for the Coronavirus, 5 Stocks for the Age of Miracles, and 5 Stocks I Own That You Should, Too. Spoiler alert: one of these is not like the others! But did we beat the efficient market?To catch full episodes of all The ...

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A single choice could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost benefits.There are tons of articles (including some by yours truly) about what you can do to maximize your Social Security benefits. But often, what you don't do is just as important. People make simple mistakes every day ...

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Ford and BMW will own equal shares of the Colorado-based solid-state battery start-up.Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) said that it's increasing its ownership stake in Solid Power, a Colorado-based maker of solid-state batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) that has positioned itself as a key rival to ...

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Skyworks and NIO just reported earnings, and their stock prices are down from their 52-week highs. Is it time to buy the dip?I look atSkyworks Solutions (NASDAQ: SWKS)and NIO (NYSE: NIO)earnings in today's video. Here are three reasons these two stocks could be giving long-term investors a buying ...

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Coupang has a lot going for it.Coupang (NYSE: CPNG), South Korea's biggest e-commerce company, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 11 through an IPO that raised $4.6 billion.While Coupang is relatively unknown in the U.S., its IPO grabbed a lot of attention -- and for good reasons...

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Three big changes have reduced the support Social Security provides, but for many Americans, they likely went unnoticed.Social Security was established way back in 1935 to provide a safety net for seniors. While it has kept millions of retirees out of poverty and still serves as a financial lifeline...

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The company was profitable and grew its revenue in 2020.Squarespace is a platform that allows anyone to easily build a website through custom domains. The company just released its S-1 filing ahead of its direct listing (similar to an initial public offering but without raising money) on the New ...

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