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Unrivaled market share, a massive opportunity, and a bargain-basement price make this stock a compelling buy...

Walmart is beating Amazon in the battle for online consumers in India, a rare ecommerce win for a US retailer known for selling low-cost goods in bare-bones stores. Walmart struck the most expensive ecommerce deal in history to break into the Indian market in 2018, paying $16bn for a 77 per cent stake in Flipkart, an online retailer founded by former Amazon employees in the world’s most populous country. The deal was criticised by analysts who expressed concerns about Flipkart’s losses and Indian regulations designed to protect traditional retailers...

Now, strictly speaking, limiting oneself to a single stock violates one of The Motley Fool's core philosophical principles of buying and holding 25 or more stocks. Here's the main reason I would own Amazon if I could only own one stock: Its large and varied revenue streams provide its shareholders with diversity -- even if they own no other stocks. The second reason this is the best stock to own -- if you could only own one stock -- is that Amazon's business looks like it's on the upswing...

There's a lot going on at the king of e-commerce, but it's still going to be more of the same...

In 2017, the company paid $550 million to acquire Shipt, a company which also deploys contractors to personally shop and deliver food from Target stores. At these locations, Shipt and other third party drivers pick up products and deliver them to consumers 24 hours after they placed the order. Same-day and next-day deliveries are becoming increasingly popular and Target, like most retailers, has been struggling to keep up...