Famously, it’s been said that the restaurant business is a horrible one. You have to pay the rent, the staff, the food costs, and keep the lights on, and when you’re done with all that you have to hope your menu is right, the chefs show up each day, and the customers like the food.
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Some stocks just don’t get a lot of notoriety but they deserve the plaudits. In the United States if you were to ask someone to name a digital payment processor, you would likely hear the names Square or Stripe, but the odds are Adyen wouldn’t rank highly in a poll.
It’s with good reason that the Dutch firm flies under-the-radar.
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It’s no easy feat trying to track down a company that has been so consistent in growing its top line that each and every single quarterly report is accompanied by a declaration of year-over-year growth but that’s precisely the case with Humana over the past half decade.
If you were attempting to identify a perfect stock,
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When you think of AI plays, Airbnb is not the first company that springs to mind. Yet, Brian Chesky’s firm has made a splash by snapping up GamePlanner.ai for $200 million.
Although it’s not apparent at first glance how artificial intelligence plays into the Airbnb business model, a deeper dive reveals the genius behind the acquisition.
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It’s really hard to explain away why Paypal has been so beaten down this year.
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Yet another year has gone by where Tesla has absolutely crushed the market. Despite each year starting out with naysayers predicting doom for Musk’s car manufacturer, the performance again has been market-beating.
In fact, Tesla has outperformed the general stock market by about 6x this year, a jaw-dropping result considering all the bearish prognostications at the start of the year following a dismal 2022.
Some REITs focus on warehousing, some on industrial properties, some on retail, and still others on fitness centers, and then there is WP Carey that diversifies its revenues across a wide variety of property types to ensure that it is not unduly exposed to any particular sector.
That formula of limiting risk isn’t limited to property types but expands to geographies too.
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As a prominent mall REIT, Simon Property Group (SPG) share price has been doubly impacted by both the rise of remote work and the surge in online retail, leading to its dividend yield soaring to an impressive 6.5%.
This high yield has prompted a significant change in management’s investment strategy, now favoring the repurchase of SPG shares.
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In a market punctuated by rising inflation and soaring interest rates, the rise of project management software firm Monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) stands out.
Monday.com recently showcased a stellar 38% year-over-year revenue increase, hitting just shy of $190 million for the quarter. Strikingly, the company, primarily known for its innovative CRM solutions,
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Imagine your job is to grow Starbucks. You’ve got your work cut out for you launching hundreds of store locations each year in prime locations. Market research, consumer trends, cost of real estate, these are just a few of the factors you’ll need to analyze before building out the stores, and then you’ve got all the challenges of hiring baristas,
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