Oil prices have bounced around quite a bit over the past year. The price of crude oil has a meaningful impact on oil stocks. Here's a look at whether it's still worth buying shares of ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) now that oil has dipped below $80 a barrel again.

Investors must have really been pleased with Dutch Bros' (NYSE: BROS) third-quarter 2024 (ended Sept. 30, 2024) financial results. Is Dutch Bros a smart growth stock to buy with $200 right now? With that amount, investors could scoop up three full shares and about one-third of a fractional share.

Quantum computing is hot right now. Shares of pure play quantum computing stocks have been soaring, and the hype train has clearly left the station. Investors should know, however, that quantum computers have never been used to solve a real-world problem faster than a traditional computer and that useful quantum computers could very well be decades away.

Trump can oversee historic stock market returns -- but perhaps not in the way you might be thinking.

Others generate consistent and reliable dividends over the long run. Chevron (NYSE: CVX) has increased its dividend for 37 consecutive years. The oil and gas producer doesn't just have an impressive dividend track record, though.

Warren Buffett and his company Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) need no introduction. Between 1965 and 2023, Berkshire's stock generated a total gain of 4,384,748%, or a compound annual gain of 19.8%. Over the same period, the broader benchmark S&P 500 including dividends generated a total gain of 31,223%, or a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.2%.

These high-quality investment funds offer a combination of exposure to today's hottest growth trends and diversification across companies of all sizes.

Broadcom is still one of the market's best long-term plays on the booming AI market.

Investors have piled into growth stocks that may benefit from a strengthening economy, favoring companies in game-changing technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. Today's $200 billion AI market may top $1 trillion, while quantum computing should soar from about $1 billion to more than $5 billion by the end of the decade, according to Markets and Markets data. One of the stocks benefiting from this momentum is a leader in two growth markets -- e-commerce and cloud computing -- and this player also is set to win in the areas of AI and quantum computing as it offers platforms to its cloud customers.

In those kinds of cases, investors may need to have confidence that the business can get back to profitability or growing its operations, whatever is needed to turn the stock's fortunes around. Three stocks that are trading near multi-year lows today are Hershey (NYSE: HSY), PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP), and Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA). Candy company Hershey is trading near its 52-week low.