Investing in the stock market is one of the simplest ways to transform your finances and increase your net worth over time.

While the S&P 500 large-cap index has dominated that past 10 years, mid-cap and small-cap stocks present better expected returns over the next 10 years. Investors focusing exclusively on the S&P ...

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Berkshire Hathaway beat the S&P 500 in 2024, but significantly underperformed in 2023. The last down year for the S&P 500 came in 2022 with the SPY down 17.5% for the year. For Berkshire Hathaway ...

Walgreens was the worst stock in the S&P 500 last year. An analyst writes that it’s still “premature to say that Walgreens is on a stable path to growth,” despite upbeat earnings.

Indeed, of late, odds are any “active” attempts to top the S&P 500 have been met with underperformance, given the index is fresh off posting its second consecutive year of more than 20% gains.

The Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF has earned an average rate of return of 15.14% per year over the past 10 years and 16.34% per year since its inception in 2010. If you had invested $5,000 exactly ...