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Ironvine Capital Partners, an investment management company, released its Q4 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Ironvine Capital Partners emphasized in its latest investor letter that long-term equity returns are ultimately driven by underlying earnings growth, noting that businesses held across its portfolios increased earnings between 12% and 16% […]
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is generating revenue at a pace that most companies never reach in a lifetime, and the fundamental machinery driving that growth is accelerating, not plateauing. With Q4 FY2026 revenue of $68.13 billion, up 73.2% year-over-year, this is not a company riding a wave. It is the wave. Pillar One: The Earnings Catalyst That ... NVIDIA Is Unstoppable after a $68.1b Quarter, and A Moat That Won’t Stop Growing,
Meta Platforms joined AMD, Broadcom, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI to form the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) MSA, an industry group focused on open optical links for AI infrastructure. The OCI MSA aims to create an open, multi vendor specification for high performance, power efficient optical interconnects used in large scale AI clusters. This move positions Meta as an active participant in setting technical standards that could influence how future AI data centers are built and...
Growth investing has had a choppy start to 2026. The major growth benchmarks are down in the low single digits year-to-date, and some of the biggest names in tech have pulled back meaningfully from their late-2025 highs. For investors with a multi-year horizon, that kind of consolidation is worth understanding in the context of each ... The Only 3 Growth ETFs I Would Buy and Hold Through Any Market
OpenAI entered 2026 confronting a pattern of broken commitments that had turned some of its closest allies into adversaries and cost the company $11.5 billion in 2025 last quarter. Amid the challenges it faces in 2026, co-founder Elon Musk is heading to trial on fraud charges, and Microsoft (MSFT), OpenAI’s largest shareholder, is reportedly considering legal action over an alleged breach of contract. Additionally, six months of consumer backlash over model retirements has exposed the artificial
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - The White House released an artificial intelligence policy on Friday that aims to pre-empt state rules, ensure protections for children and shield communities from
Most large cap growth ETFs hand you a market-cap-weighted slice of the same mega-cap names and call it a day. Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:FELG) takes a different approach: it runs a quantitative investment process that balances both risk and return, favoring companies with improving fundamentals and reasonable valuations, with the explicit goal ... Fidelity’s Active Large Cap Growth ETF Continues to Quietly Outpace Passive Rivals from Vanguard and iShares
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has launched new AI driven cybersecurity capabilities in partnership with Microsoft. The company is introducing advanced agentic AI features for cybersecurity operations to help clients respond to cyber threats. Accenture also unveiled a forward deployed engineering practice designed to accelerate enterprise AI projects. For investors tracking NYSE:ACN, this announcement comes with the shares at $203.55 and a value score of 6. Recent performance has been mixed, with the...
Microsoft (MSFT) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.
NeutronX Corporation ("NeutronX"), a technology integrator focused on artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, today announced that Scott Mauvais, former Senior Director of AI and Global Partnerships for Microsoft Philanthropies and former Director of Microsoft Cities at Microsoft, has joined the company to support the continued development of NeutronX's collaboration with NextNRG Inc. (NASDAQ: NXXT). NeutronX and NextNRG first announced a memorandum of understanding on February 9, 202
A Steward Partners executive made a blunt observation this week that cuts to the heart of what’s frustrating growth investors right now: “Nvidia is unbelievable. If you looked at their last earnings report it was staggering and I think in a different environment, that stock would have really taken off but in this climate, investors ... Steward Partners exec: Nvidia earnings staggering, but nervous investors hold stock back
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The American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) announces the publication of When Mission Meets Money: Financial Guidance for Medical Nonprofit Leaders by Matt Paprocki, JD, CFA, CFP®. This timely resource aims to address a critical gap facing medical nonprofit boards: how to effectively oversee investments when most board members lack financial expertise and time.
JPMorgan Dividend Leaders ETF (NYSEARCA:JDIV) launched in September 2024 with an appealing premise: a curated portfolio of global dividend leaders. The name implies income. The reality is a 1.59% yield at a time when the 10-year Treasury sits at 4.20%. That gap is hard to ignore for income-focused investors. Metric Value Dividend Yield 1.59% Net ... JP Morgan’s Dividend Leaders ETF Sounds Good, But The Yield Underwhelms
NEW YORK, March 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV), the company pioneering Agentic Commerce for retail, today announced that its Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Daniel M. Wagner, will participate in a fireside chat alongside Vic Miles, Americas General Manager, Retail and Consumer Goods Industry solutions at Microsoft, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The discussion will focus on the emergence of Agentic Commerce and the grow
Oil prices have surged 48% in a single month. The VIX sits in elevated uncertainty territory. Retirees who spent years building portfolios are asking a reasonable question: should I be doing something right now? For many, the answer is probably less than they think. But what they hold matters enormously. SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF ... Retirees Who Are Worried About Iran May Want To Look at SPLG Right Now
Insurance Analytics Market Insurance Analytics Market Dublin, March 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Insurance Analytics Market Report 2026-2033" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The leading players profiled in this Insurance Analytics market report include: Hexaware Technologies LimitedLexisNexis Risk SolutionsMicrosoftMicroStrategy IncorporatedOpen Text CorporationOraclePegasystems Inc.Sapiens InternationalTableau Software, LLCVerisk Analytics, Inc. The global insurance an
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Chasing yield feels safe. A high-dividend ETF paying monthly, a covered-call fund with a flashy distribution rate. But investors who have parked capital in income-first vehicles over the past decade have quietly watched the compounding machine of the Nasdaq-100 leave them behind. Invesco QQQ Trust (NYSEARCA:QQQ) makes the case that for investors with time on ... Forget Yield Chasing Right Now and Buy These Growth ETFs Instead
In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone - overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos - was scrapped in barely over a year, one of Amazon’s highest-profile flops. Now, Amazon is dialing up a new phone.
Three tech ETFs are telling three very different stories in 2026, and the divergence reflects a market that is rewarding focus over breadth. Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLK) and Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (NYSEARCA:MAGS), both weighted heavily toward mega-cap names, have struggled as investors grow impatient with AI spending timelines — XLK is down ... The $87 Billion Reason Tech ETFs Are About to Move
Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook on Tuesday dismissed rumours about his retirement and reaffirmed that he will continue to lead the company. This comes amid rumours that Cook is planning on stepping down in 2026. Tim Cook Dismisses Retirement Talk Cook spoke against speculation about his retirement during a "Good Morning America" appearance. He added that he enjoys leading the Cupertino tech giant and cannot see himself stepping away. Cook took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, making him the longest-se
Adams Diversified Equity Fund (NYSE:ADX) has been paying dividends since 1929, making it one of the oldest closed-end funds in the country. Most investors under 50 have never heard of it. That is a mistake worth correcting, because the fund is currently yielding around 6.7% while quietly outpacing the S&P 500 over multiple timeframes. How ... The Closed End Fund Paying 6.7% That Rivals the S&P 500
The dominant consumer brand's share price is up 10,590% in the past 20 years.