A lot is going right for Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) right now. The gaming business is another story. AMD's gaming revenue crashed 69% year over year in the third quarter of 2024 to just $462 million.
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If you like high-yield investments you've probably had both British American Tobacco (NYSE: BTI) and Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) pop up on your stock screens. If you focus exclusively on the dividend, the best choice here is British American Tobacco. British American Tobacco is providing investors with an 8.4% dividend yield.
If you're looking for a simple way to generate wealth in the stock market with little effort, you can't go wrong with an exchange-traded fund (ETF). An S&P 500 ETF tracks the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), meaning it includes all the stocks within the index. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) can be a particularly smart investment because of its low expense ratio of just 0.03%.
A strong market backdrop has lifted Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) even further. Apple is known for selling popular hardware devices. Five years ago in fiscal 2019, 82% of Apple's total revenue came strictly from products.