Fool's School
Women and Money
Many women (and men, too) aren't tending to their finances, and they're paying a high price for it. Consider these facts: Wives tend to be less involved than husbands in household investing and retirement planning. Most married women outlive their husbands. The vast majority of all widows in poverty became poor only after the death of their husbands. Full Story
My Dumbest Investment
I Shoulda Had a T-bill
Dick's Sporting Goods was my dumbest investment. After listening to a TV stock guru talk up the stock, I decided to buy the day before its quarterly earnings announcement. Well, it plummeted. At one point I lost well over 25 percent within only a month. I continued to check out the financials of the company and decided that it was worth hanging onto. Full Story
Name That Company
I was founded in 1963 in Lowell, Mass., aiming to provide Consumer Value. Headquartered in Rhode Island, today, I'm the nation's largest filler of prescriptions, managing more than 1 billion of them annually. Full Story
The Motley Fool Take
GameStop Won't Stop Growing
Video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) recently reported a very good quarter, with earnings up 151 percent year over year and revenue rising 42 percent to $1.81 billion. CEO R. Richard Fontaine said that he is "very bullish on the future as three major metrics are transforming the business and accelerating the potential for GameStop growth. Full Story
Last week's trivia answer
My roots go back to the early 1900s and the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (C-R-T), which made everything from cheese slicers to census tabulators and punched cards. I even sold an industrial welder in the 1960s. Today I rake in nearly $100 billion in sales and $10 billion in net profits annually. Full Story
Ask the Fool
Best Dividend Numbers
Q My stocks' dividend yields vary from less than 1 percent to more than 3 percent. What's a good number? Should I sell the low-yield shares and buy high-yield ones? - H.W., Tucson, Ariz. A It may seem that the higher the yield, the better, as it means you'll collect more money from your investment. Full Story
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