Big Tech seems to have rediscovered its appetite for Intel, a company that for years has looked more like a laggard than a leader. Billions of dollars are suddenly flowing its way, and the roster of backers is eye-catching.
In the past few weeks alone, the U.S. government committed just shy of $9 billion for roughly a 10% equity stake,
Chevron isn’t the kind of stock that makes headlines every week. It doesn’t have the flash of a Tesla or the cult following of a Nvidia. But that’s exactly why dividend investors have built fortunes with it. It’s a business you can own, forget about, and still let it steadily build wealth over time.
The question is whether now Chevron is an old relic to be forgotten in a new age or a stock set to thrive as energy demands power AI?
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Amazon doesn’t look like a traditional stock. It’s more like a portfolio hiding inside one ticker. The company spans multiple industries, each one a profit driver in its own right.
The most visible business is e-commerce. In the second quarter of 2025, Amazon pulled in $137 billion in sales.
What many investors miss is that over 60% of those sales now come from third-party sellers.
Mortgage rates remain near multi-decade highs, and existing home sales are still down about 30% compared to pre-pandemic levels. That slowdown has created a ripple effect, dragging down everything tied to housing, from builders to brokers to the companies selling furniture and décor.
One name that stands out in this group is RH.
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The SPDR S&P Retail ETF is up about 25% since April 1, putting it within reach of its all-time high from late 2021. That kind of pop isn’t happening in isolation.
Consumer sentiment, which had been stuck near recessionary levels for most of 2022–2023, has recovered to a three-year high in 2025, according to the University of Michigan’s surveys.
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For decades, Novo Nordisk was known mainly within the medical community as a quiet Danish powerhouse in diabetes care. Fast-forward to today, and its brand names are practically pop culture references. Wegovy and Ozempic have become synonymous with rapid weight loss, with late-night comedians, TikTok influencers, and even Hollywood scripts weaving them into conversation. Yet the company’s stock,
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Inside operating rooms across the globe, a revolution has been underway, one led by Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG).
Over the past five years, the company has more than doubled its profits, yet many argue that it’s still in the early innings of growth.
Intuitive Surgical has more than doubled profits in five years.
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SoundHound AI has been one of the market’s more surprising winners in the AI boom. The conversational AI technology has found its way into restaurants, cars, healthcare systems, and even financial institutions.
Over the past year, the stock has soared nearly 3x as revenue growth has consistently blown past expectations.
But revenue growth alone doesn’t pay the bills and while analysts loves a good growth story,
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AI stocks have been on fire in 2025. After Oracle and other hyperscalers revealed record-breaking capital expenditures, most semiconductor names raced back toward all-time highs. Yet one company that sits at the very heart of chip production has been noticeably absent from the party, ASML.
Despite that enviable position, the stock hasn’t kept pace with the AI rally.
When an apparel brand starts showing signs of stress, sales sliding, margins crumbling, losses mounting, the Street doesn’t hesitate to slap the “dying business” label on it.
That’s why it might surprise some investors that Lululemon doesn’t actually fit that description right now. In Q2, sales rose, margins held within historical ranges, and earnings only marginally dipped.
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