Investors may be tempted to imagine how much higher the S&P 500 Index would be if three of its most influential stocks ...

The stock market cares more about future earnings potential than the past -- and that may be why Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple ...

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has more than recovered its losses from earlier this year and is now up nearly 4.4% year to ...

The S&P 500 ($SPY) is up around 6% this year, but its gains could be even higher if three major companies—Apple ($AAPL), ...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the defining stock of the late 2010s and into the early 2020s, but time is up for its leadership ...

Meanwhile, Alphabet’s valuation net of cash has soared to $431 billion, or just 6% less than Apple’s. Remember at the start of the year that investors were valuing Apple’s operations at a 56 ...

— -- Alphabet, Google's parent company, has dethroned Apple as the world's most valuable company after a blockbuster quarter fueled by the growth of its digital advertising business. In its ...

Alphabet, the holding company formerly known as Google, has a much different stock profile than Apple does. Beginning with the fundamentals, GOOG stock carries a meaty P/E of 30 and pays no dividend.

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) market capitalization briefly eclipsed Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) several times over the past decade. But the last time Alphabet was more valuable than Apple ...

Apple (AAPL) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) are battling with each other to be the world's most valuable company. Investors just want to know which one will be the most valuable in their ...

But Apple and Alphabet both have more reasonable valuations (31.2 P/E for Apple and just 18.6 for Alphabet). These companies also generate a ton of free cash flow and earnings that they can use ...