option

An option offers its holder the right to buy or sell a particular security at a specific price within a specific time frame. Two kind of options are put options and call options.

What’s an IPO? Here’s what you need to know, as well as reasons why investing in an IPO may not be the best decision for your portfolio.
WALMART INC. $127 is a buy. The retailer (New York symbol WMT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 2.8 billion; Market cap: $355.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.walmart.com) is buying 4,500 all-electric delivery vans from Canoo Inc....

WALMART INC. $127 is a buy. The world’s largest retailer (New York symbol WMT; Conservative Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 2.8 billion; Market cap: $355.6 billion; Dividend yield: 1.8%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.walmart.com) raised your quarterly dividend by 1.8% with the April 2022 payment, to $0.56 a share from $0.55....
It’s odd that while investors crave cash dividends, they rarely get excited about stock buybacks. But in some ways, buybacks (or share repurchases) are almost as good as dividends.


Stock buybacks have three major advantages: First, stock buybacks raise earnings per share....
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Amazon is now moving further into food-related services through its Prime membership program. The online commerce giant has provided grocery benefits to Prime members under its Whole Foods Market division as a way to make its annual subscription program more valuable—and it’s now adding food delivery.


AMAZON.COM INC., $110.40, is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.amazon.com; Shares o/s: 10.2 billion; Market cap: $1.1 trillion; No divds.) has now agreed to add Grubhub to its suite of Prime services in the U.S....
Visa has been a terrific performer for you since we first recommended the stock at $19 (adjusted for share splits) in the December 2010 issue of our Wall Street Stock Forecaster.

The company first sold its stock to the public at $11 a share in March 2008. We held off recommending it at that time, as the best way to cut the risk of investing in initial public offerings is to wait till after the next market slump and/or recession comes along....
AMAZON.COM INC., $115.54, symbol AMZN on Nasdaq, is a buy. The company is one of the world’s largest online retailers. It’s also the third-largest digital ad provider in the U.S. Its Amazon Web Services (AWS) is also one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructure service providers.

Amazon has now agreed to add Grubhub to its suite of Prime services in the U.S.

For Grubhub’s parent, Netherlands-based Just Eat Takeaway.com, the deal is aimed at letting it expand its food-ordering reach by tapping Amazon’s membership program.

For Amazon, it gets an initial option to take a 2% stake in U.S.-based Grubhub, and U.S....
DUPONT DE NEMOURS INC., $55.58 symbol DD on New York, formerly known as DowDuPont, took its current form on June 1, 2019, when it set up Corteva (its agriculture business) as a separate company (symbol CTVA on New York and a recommendation of our Power Growth Investor newsletter)....
TELUS CORP., $28.89, Toronto symbol T, is a buy.

The company is Canada’s second-largest wireless carrier, with 11.48 million users. That’s just behind BCE’s Bell Mobility (with 11.79 million users) and ahead of Rogers Communications (10.06 million users)....