Shares of cigarette giant Philip Morris (NYSE:PM) have advanced considerably over the last year. The tobacco stock, long looked at mostly for its high dividend yield, has surged by over 75% in the last 12 months and over 20% in the last 30 days alone.
Why has PM stock rallied so far,
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The $2.8 trillion chip juggernaut NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) announced Q4 earnings, and clearly disappointed the Street. There has been a lot of noise around stock based as well as the threat of generative AI technology from China – DeepSeek in particular – which has put the share price under serious pressure.
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VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) is a REIT that specializes in hotel and casino properties. Spun off from Caesar Entertainment in 2017, the company owns several of the most prominent properties in the United States.
Assets owned by VICI include Caesar’s Palace and The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Chelsea Piers in New York and the Hard Rock Casino in Cincinnati.
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Shares of space vehicle launch company Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) have been through a wild ride over the last year. On a 12-month basis, the company’s stock has risen by over 340 percent on extremely strong growth and improving fundamentals.
On a 30-day basis, however, RKLB shares have lost almost 30 percent of their value.
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Tempus AI (NASDAQ:TEM) has seen its stock run all over the board since its IPO last year. The 52-week range for TEM shares runs from a low of $22.89 to a high of $91.45. This is perhaps unsurprising because Tempus is a young, innovative AI startup.
Since the start of 2025,
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While earnings appeared mixed at first glance, management’s comments on the most recent earnings call were sufficient to ignite a sharp rally in GEO shares.
Prior to the earnings call, GEO stock had been in a sustained downtrend with little cushion on the horizon ready to halt the decline but that all changed when management revealed a new,
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There is something inherently attractive about buying a stock and holding it for a long time. Stable don’t just have strong balance sheets that can weather rough markets but they often pay dividends, which account for as much as 95% of total returns over the past century according to research by Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel.
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Dream Finders Homes (NYSE:DFH) is a home-building company that focuses on the fast-growing Sun Belt real estate market.
Like many stocks tied to the real estate market, however, DFH has been through an extremely rocky period over the last year. The stock is down over 30% in the last 12 months,
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Shares of Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) have skyrocketed over the last year, gaining over 345% and handing shareholders returns that massively outperformed the stock market as a whole.
With such enormous gains under its belt, some investors are understandably curious about the possibility of a Palantir stock split. Today, we’ll look at whether a split is likely for PLTR shares or if the company will allow its shares to keep moving higher.
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While the world focuses on AI, the leaders over at Denny’s are snapping up shares as part of a buyback scheme. The move is perplexing at first glance with sales decidedly flat for some time and no obvious catalyst to spark growth on the top line near-term.
So, what exactly are the Board of Directors and management seeing in the numbers that makes the restaurant chain worthy of investing in?
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