Chipotle‘s (CMG +0.18%) stock closed at a record high of $68.55 per share on June 18, 2024. At the time, investors were impressed by the fast-casual restaurant chain’s robust comparable-store sales growth, ongoing expansion, and rising restaurant-level operating margins. But today, it trades at about $35. It pulled back as its comps growth cooled down

I’m not predicting another stock market crash anytime soon. However, I already know which dividend stocks I’ll be looking to buy if it does. Coca-Cola (KO +1.71%), Procter & Gamble (PG +1.13%), and Waste Management (WM +0.09%) operate resilient businesses with impressive dividend-growth track records. The only thing holding me back from buying more shares

AppLovin has experienced sustained upward momentum driven by strong institutional accumulation and growing confidence in the company’s artificial intelligence-powered advertising infrastructure. A primary catalyst behind the stock’s appreciation is the continued commercial validation of its Axon 2.0 recommendation engine. The platform has demonstrated exceptional efficiency in audience targeting and ad delivery, which has expanded the

Arista Networks faced notable downward pressure as broader market risk aversion and profit-taking hit artificial intelligence infrastructure and networking equipment providers. Following an extended run-up driven by the buildout of next-generation data centers, investors have grown increasingly sensitive to the capital expenditure trajectory of major hyperscalers. Heightened scrutiny over the timing, financing, and return on

Last Thursday — Nov. 5 — the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index plunged 4.4%, its worst day since April 2025. That seems pretty scary, certainly to newer investors who might not have seen many market pullbacks. But investors shouldn’t worry, as occasional small corrections and pullbacks in the market undo excess and prevent larger corrections

It’s been a rough stretch for growth stocks. The AI trade has cooled, and Nvidia (NVDA -4.06%) just lost its legendary CEO. And to say that the stock market has been volatile since the midterm elections would be an understatement. However, when markets get choppy, some great businesses get dragged down with everything else, and

Applied Digital (APLD -5.36%) shares have lost about 30% since 2026 began, even as the S&P 500 (^GSPC -0.35%) gained 12%, and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC -0.39%) added 10%. Still, it’s up by about 250% over the last three years — not bad. While the company had its beginnings in the crypto mining space, it