Earnings season is just about ready to ramp up. As usual, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and PayPal(NASDAQ:PYPL) are some of the first hot stocks for investors to watch. The two companies are scheduled to report their third-quarter results next week. Though both stocks pulled back over the past three months (Netflix declined about 13% and PayPal fell 7%), investors shouldn’t underestimate the […]

Savvy investors are always keen on finding the next big growth stocks. That’s because growth stocks have been the biggest driver behind the stock market’s massive gains over the last decade. While the S&P 500 is up about 326% since the market bottom during the financial crisis, growth stocks have done even better, as the iShares Russell 2000 […]

This has been a strange year for Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD), and investors are right to wonder which stock makes more sense at the moment. Pfizer practically wrote the book on big acquisitions but has recently shifted gears to focus on its own new drug candidates, as its longtime CEO waves goodbye. Pfizer’s moves don’t seem […]

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is still basking in the limelight since reaching a market cap of $1 trillion back in August. The company’s high-end products and services have delighted its customers for decades, and the recent refresh of its iPhone lineup indicates that there’s no slowing down any time soon. Meanwhile, IBM (NYSE:IBM) has been working on transitioning away from its legacy hardware products over the past few […]

Shares of electric-car maker Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) were slammed during after-hours trading on Thursday when news broke that the SEC filed a complaint against CEO Elon Musk, stating he made “a series of false and misleading statements” on Twitter last month about the possibility of taking the company private. As of 6:03 p.m. EDT, Tesla stock was down 13.3% in after-hours trading on Thursday. The […]