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Tech Sector Boosted Dividends to Start 2021 In the first quarter of 2021, companies were 14 times more likely to have positively raised or initiated a dividend than negatively cut or suspended dividend payments. This was nearly triple the ratio from a year earlier. Dividend growth returned in early 2021 as the economic impact of the pandemic began to ease. In the first three months of 2021, 906 U.S. companies either raised or initiated a dividend according to S&P Dow Jones Indices, up 24% ...

Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU). Heres a closer look at how badly theyve done of late and why theyre still worth investing in right now.  Image source: Getty Images. 1. Moderna Shares of Moderna slipped to less than $120 late in March -- a nearly three-month low for the healthcare stock. Its possible that the companys year-end results, which Moderna released on Feb. 25, played in a role in the stocks recent activity. For the fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31, 2020), the company generated $570.7 million in rev...

Spring Ahead or Fall Back? No Fear, Nasdaq Uptrend, Trading AbbVie and AMD COVID numbers stopped improving a while ago, even with ever-improving rates of vaccination. Just what is going on here? Mar 16, 2021 | 07:40 AM EDT I saw my first robin of spring late last week. A few minutes later, I met about a dozen of his or her pals. Temperatures were indeed spring-like out in my neck of the woods last week, and will be again later this week. Monday, however, the wind chill was in the single...

Author Bio Daniel has been writing for Fool.com since 2019. A fan of value and dividend stocks, he covers the industrial sector, oil and gas, and renewable energy. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Houston with a BBA in finance and marketing and a certificate in personal financial planning. Over time, technology stocks have produced some of the greatest market-beating returns. More recently, the average stock in the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (N...

Valuations are very high, but this is more likely to cause volatility than a sharp decline. That's an ideal "buy the dip" scenario.

Josh Brown revealed on CNBCs "Fast Money Halftime Report" he no longer owns Slack Technologies Inc (NYSE: WORK). He has been in a position for a while and it has been one of the worst-performing software names in the whole market. He sees the trade as a mistake, but he likes the... Read More...

I have a feeling, and it's just a feeling, that CEO Tim Cook will find a way to surprise to the upside....AAPL

March 9, 2021 “This Time is Different” is an infamous phrase in finance that has historically led to some spectacular results, both positively and negatively. Over the past ten years in the United States, the information technology sector (“TECH”) of the equity market has outperformed all other equity market sectors by a significant margin [1]. For some investors, the valuation of the TECH sector today is reminiscent of the TECH sector of the late 1990s and are worried about history ...

You have successfully joined our subscriber list. According to a technology strategist at investment bank Baird, Ted Mortonson, the new tech dynamic is FOGK (fear of getting killed). Tech stocks are under pressure due to recent rising yields. In the last five days, the Nasdaq Composite Index has declined nearly 5%. In the past year, tech stocks were triggered by FOMO (fear of missing out) during the unprecedented global pandemic. At the time, investors bid up tech stocks that saw growth in thei...

Hype and hope surrounding the emerging 5G market should spur a new round of iPhone growth for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), D.A. Davidson said Monday. The Analyst Tom Forte raised the target price from $300 to $375 and reiterated a Buy rating on Apples stock. The Thesis Apple can exploit a multi-... Read More...