Make better investment decisions with Simply Wall St’s easy, visual tools that give you a competitive edge. IBM (NYSE:IBM) is tripling entry level hiring in the US, with a focus on AI fluency and durable skills. The company is redesigning entry level roles to emphasize customer engagement and work that is less exposed to automation

Most investors aren’t fans of the plan, but they’d dislike the outcome of the alternative even more. Given the stock’s sizable price drop immediately following the announcement, it’s clear that most investors aren’t big fans of Amazon‘s (AMZN 0.41%) 2026 spending plans. The e-commerce giant said it plans to earmark $200 billion for capital expenditures,

Don’t count the tech giant out yet. After performing well for the first six months or so of 2025, shares of Microsoft (MSFT 0.13%) started moving in the wrong direction in the second half of the year. And the company has shown no signs of a rebound so far in 2026. Microsoft’s shares are down by

Market crashes happen, but when they do they should be seen as an opportunity to buy some great stocks at a discount. In the immortal words of Warren Buffett: “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” Put more succinctly, buy the dip. Over the long term, the American stock market

The sell-off in Oracle and Netflix is making aspirations to join the $1 trillion club increasingly distant. In August, I predicted that Netflix (NFLX +1.28%) and Oracle (ORCL +2.38%) would reach at least $1 trillion in market capitalization by 2030. But Netflix is down 38.6% from its 52-week high at the time of this writing,

History says the stock market is likely to decline (perhaps sharply) in the years ahead. The S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.05%) has advanced nearly 80% over the last three years, but the stock market and bond market recently flashed warnings not seen since the dot-com era. Those warnings suggest that investors are caught in a high-risk,

When things seem too perfect on Wall Street, they often are. From a statistical standpoint, the stock market has thrived with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. During his first term (Jan. 20, 2017 – Jan. 20, 2021), the widely followed Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.10%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.05%), and innovation-inspired Nasdaq

Nvidia and Micron Technology are real bargains right now. The market is trading near its all-time highs, but there are still some very inexpensive stocks out there for consideration by long-term investors. Here are two that investors can dip their toes into with a $1,000 investment. Nvidia Nvidia (NVDA 2.21%) has gone from a stock

Sandisk’s red-hot stock market rally seems here to stay thanks to the favorable dynamics of the flash storage market. Sandisk (SNDK 0.72%) has set the stock market on fire in 2026, rising an incredible 166% as of this writing, thanks to red-hot demand for the company’s flash memory storage solutions used in a variety of

Healthcare industry stocks are traditionally good hedges against technology and other growth stocks, because they tend to perform well when the larger stock markets do not. But it depends on which industry. In the pharmaceutical or biotech industries, for example, some stocks tend to behave more like growth stocks. A nice feature of investing in

Image source: Getty Images It would be easy to think a stock market crash looks a million miles away. Only two days ago (11 February), the FTSE 100 broke past the 10,450 mark to set another all-time high. The S&P 500 climbed to within a hair of its own record high around the 7,000 mark.

The S&P 500 Shiller CAPE ratio is hovering near its highest levels since the dot-com bubble. The last three years have been quite pleasant for growth investors. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), the technology sector has witnessed a once-in-a-generation boom that’s spread to other industries across energy, industrials, utilities, and more. As such,

These fast-growing companies are trading at attractive valuations and have the potential to deliver significant upside for investors. Buying fast-growing companies and holding their shares for the long run can help investors achieve market-beating returns. That’s because growth stocks represent those companies capable of increasing their revenue and earnings at a faster pace than the

S&P 500 futures are flat this morning prior to the opening of markets in New York after the index fell 1.57% yesterday as traders fled from stocks exposed to AI. The market is now in negative territory for the year. Tech stocks led the decline yesterday, with the Nasdaq Composite down 2%. The S&P 500’s

Pfizer’s long-acting GLP-1 weight loss candidate could set the stage for a stock rally. Pfizer (PFE +0.38%) has a well-above-market dividend yield of 6.3%. Despite a payout ratio that is over 100%, the drugmaker states that it plans to maintain the dividend. But the real catalyst for a stock rally could come in June, when

Ed Yardeni thinks the US is in the midst of the “Roaring 20s,” which will carry the economy through the rest of the decade without a recession. In a video update on Friday, the founder of Yardeni Research re-upped his bullish thesis, noting that he sees no reason for the US to tumble into a

Dividend paying stocks are a great low-stress way to build your wealth, and these three companies are some of the best looking right now. Have you ever been put off from investing by the prospect of risk? Many people have. The thought of losing your initial investment is scary. Fortunately, you don’t have to take

On Feb. 12, 2026, investors weighed massive AI capex against surging cloud momentum and the associated risks. Today’s Change (-0.34%) $-0.67 Current Price $198.93 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.1T Day’s Range $197.28 – $199.56 52wk Range $161.38 – $258.60 Volume 1.3M Avg Vol 47M Gross Margin 50.29% Amazon (AMZN 0.34%), global e-commerce and cloud

FILE PHOTO: Bull and bear symbols for successful and bad trading are seen in front of the German stock exchange (Deutsche Boerse) in Frankfurt, Germany, February 12, 2019. Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters European shares edged lower on Friday, after AI fears triggered another sell-off on Wall Street overnight. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was trading 0.2%

Key Points Valuation trends suggest the stock market could be topping out. While parallels between the AI revolution and dot-com boom can make some sense, there are notable differences between these two periods. Smart investors are ditching volatile growth stocks and choosing durable blue chips for the long haul. 10 stocks we like better than