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Over the past decade, the S&P 500 has rocketed more than 4x but Realty Income, a mere 2x and change. Not disastrous, you’d still have more than doubled your money, but far from spectacular. Yet this may be exactly where the story gets interesting.

After years of lagging, the company known as “The Monthly Dividend Company” could be sitting at an inflection point,

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Micron Technology soared by more than 42.98% over the last 30 days, a jaw-dropping rally even by tech’s feverish standards. The reason? Artificial intelligence and specifically, the voracious appetite for memory chips powering the world’s new AI data centers.

But beneath the surface of the AI euphoria, do the fundamentals justify the soaring share price?

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It was President Donald Trump’s social feed that lit the spark on cannabis stocks this past week.

On Sunday, Trump posted a video on Truth Social highlighting the potential health benefits of hemp-derived CBD for seniors. He even floated the idea that Medicare could cover it one day.

The post came on the heels of another Trump remark just weeks ago that he was considering reclassifying marijuana at the federal level,

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When Nextracker went public two years ago, few investors expected it to triple so quickly.

But after such a run, is it too late to buy? Or is this “picks and shovels” play on the clean-energy revolution still undervalued?

Key Points

• Nextracker controls about a quarter of the global solar tracker market.

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IBM has been tinkering with quantum computing longer than most of today’s retail investors have even been in the market. For decades, the company’s message has been quantum is coming, and when it arrives, it will change everything from chemistry to finance. The problem? The finish line has always felt just out of reach, perpetually ten years away.

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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,

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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.

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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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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.

Key Points

• Intuitive Surgical has more than doubled profits in five years.

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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.

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