It’s the rare oil major that seems built to outlast cycles, keep the dividend flowing, and, as Warren Buffett clearly believes, keep getting stronger.
The yield is about 4.4%, nearly four times what the S&P 500 pays and on paper that looks tempting, but high yields in energy can be a trap. The difference here is Chevron’s payout isn’t balanced on a knife’s edge.
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Every few years, investors rediscover Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) and wonder if the long-suffering hydrogen pioneer is finally about to turn the corner. Today, it’s officially a penny stock, which means under $5 per share technically.
And that’s a painful reminder that, adjusted for reverse splits, Plug’s pre-dot com IPO price of $150 feels almost mythical compared to where the stock sits today.
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C3.ai shares are back at price levels investors haven’t seen since early 2023, and the reasons are downright concerning.
The artificial intelligence firm with ticker AI has endured a brutal year that began in January when the share price was cut in half. The torpedos keeping hitting the bow, as evidence by the latest business update that pointed to a steep revenue shortfall.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific has a knack for thriving even in challenging markets. While the company isn’t entirely immune to today’s global headwinds, slower biopharmaceutical spending, tighter budgets in academic labs, and muted demand in China, it has weathered the storm far better than most of its peers.
The reason?
A combination of unmatched scale,
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Over the last five years, Altria’s share price climbed by just over 50%, but that’s only part of the story. When you factor in dividends, a payout the company has raised for 55 consecutive years, total returns swell to over 120%.
That streak includes 59 separate payout bumps, and with today’s yield hovering around 6.36%,
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This year, nuclear energy stocks have been some of the market’s best performers. Small modular reactor (SMR) developers like NuScale Power (SMR) and Oklo (OKLO) have been announcing a steady stream of partnerships, and Donald Trump, has pushed fresh executive orders aimed at accelerating the sector’s development.
Investors have plenty of reason to be excited but a surprising new catalyst has emerged,
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For more than half a decade, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway accumulated the same stock quarter after quarter, 23 straight times, to be exact. Then, without warning, the buying stopped last year.
It wasn’t because Buffett lost faith in the company. In fact, his recent moves suggest he’s been biding his time, waiting for the numbers and the price to line up again.
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Apple shares climbed late last week on Wall Street’s growing belief that the company may have defused one of its biggest political risks, the ongoing tariff standoff with the Trump administration.
The breakthrough comes after Apple announced an eye-popping $600 billion investment in the United States, a figure that instantly turned heads in Washington and on Wall Street.
Lip-Bu Tan hasn’t been in the driver’s seat at Intel for long, but the new CEO is already making it clear that the era of open-ended spending is over. If Intel’s bleeding-edge chip manufacturing can’t justify its existence with real customer demand, it won’t get more money, period.
That kind of financial discipline might sound like corporate buzzkill,
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AI might be the future, but that future has a power problem. For all the fanfare surrounding generative AI, one inconvenient truth continues to lurk in the background, which is it consumes an extraordinary amount of energy.
And unless someone cracks the code on power efficiency, scaling AI beyond the data center and into billions of edge devices will remain an expensive dream.
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