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You can't exactly forget Amazon. Some 200 million people are Prime members, and millions more still purchase from the e-commerce behemoth, or at least see the Prime truck rolling down their streets daily...

After disappointing investors in 2022 with a 50% drop, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares have had an impressive run this year. As of this writing, the stock is up 71%, trouncing the still-impressive 35% rise of the Nasdaq Composite index. Should investors buy, sell, or hold this FAANG stock?...

Relative strength is key when choosing top stocks. GE stock and Amazon stock pass the RS Line Blue Dot screen...

Amazon is an e-commerce Goliath, but that's not why it was one of the year's top performers. The company's stock price has benefited from growing interest in developing artificial intelligence applications because much of the training and operating of these apps is being done in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud network. As a result, Amazon's shares rallied 72% higher year-to-date through mid-September...

The Nasdaq has long been home to some of the leading icons of go-go growth in the technology age, including companies like Google parent Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon. It's not typically the place to shop for real estate investment trusts (REITs), those pools of income-producing properties managed more for dividends than for growth. In fact, of the approximately 225 publicly traded REITs, only 33 trade on the Nasdaq, and most have badly trailed the Nasdaq itself in total returns...

For the first time in nearly two years, investors had the chance to get in on a major initial public offering. Instacart dropped on its second day of trading and has continued to fall ever since, now down 25%. Meanwhile, the grocery delivery giant recently reported its first batch of earnings as a publicly traded company, and an initial glance offers us some rather positive numbers -- with gains in gross transaction value, revenue, orders, and gross profit based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)...

Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares have skyrocketed well over 40% in 2023. Yet, it's still nowhere close to being the top-performing mega-cap stock this year. Meta Platforms and Nvidia are duking it out for that honor...