When Will Walmart Join The Trillion Dollar Club?
At today’s $673 billion valuation, Walmart’s metrics track remarkably close to Microsoft’s pre-trillion phase, though through a distinctly retail-centric lens.
Where Microsoft achieved its milestone through software margins expanding from 28% to 35% over five years, Walmart charts its course through scale economics and business mix evolution, as evidenced by its operating margin expansion from 4.6% to 4.7% year-over-year.
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1 FinTech Firm with 30.6% Upside
When you study business for a while, certain metrics just turn out to be much more important than others. The cost to acquire customers is a key focus for many new business owners but their retention is what those who have been around the block focus on.
If you can acquire customers at the same price as the competition but sell them into many other products and services,
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How To Blow $3 Billion
Among the many rules of business is be careful in whose playground you are competing. Gaming companies learned this the hard way a few years ago when they built their businesses on top of the Facebook platform. So too did media companies like PopSugar. When Facebook decided to focus more on surfacing individual posts over corporate ones,
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#1 Most Important Rule That Made Millions
When Mark Minervini won the US Trading Championships, some attributed his victory to luck. As the years went by and he kept winning the narrative changed. Then he decided to enter the competition again, and naysayers told him not to risk his reputation. He went on to win once again, out-trading every other competitor and coming top of the podium in the $1 million+ category.
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Is Jessica Alba’s Stock Set For 50% Pop?
The Honest Company (NASDAQ:HNST) is a lifestyle brand most famously associated with founder Jessica Alba that sells a variety of personal care and beauty products, as well as diapers and other baby care products.
It primarily sells online through its own website and other eCommerce channels, though its brand also has a presence in brick-and-mortar retailers.
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3 Dividend Stocks Worth Buying Now?
Thanks to surging stock prices over the past two years, dividend yields on major stock indices have fallen to fairly low levels. The S&P 500, for instance, currently carries an average yield of just 1.3%.
The mature companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average fare a bit better, and some of them offer yields that exceed the S&P 500 several times over.
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Will New Buffett Buy 10x?
Last year, Warren Buffett surprised practically everyone when he acquired more than 30% of embattled internet radio giant Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI).
At first, Buffett appeared to be taking advantage of an arbitrage opportunity, but subsequent purchases have suggested that the Oracle of Omaha is more interested in building a long-term position in Sirius XM.
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New Secure 2.0 Act tackles retirement plan confusion as 59% mistakenly believe they're enrolled
Federal legislation aims to help millions of Americans reconnect with workplace retirement accounts they may have forgotten or “lost.”
DALLAS — Many of us might immediately race out of the office as soon as the clock strikes quitting time. But we might want to make sure we are on track for the ultimate quitting time — when we clock out for good and head to life in retirement.