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Rick Orford

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Rick is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best-selling author and finance writer. His work has appeared in several high-ranking media placements, including Good Morning America, Washington Post, Yahoo Finance, NBC, FOX, CBS, and ABC News.

He is known as a respected, influential business leader that brings a proven ability to translate vision into reality.

Born and raised in Canada, Rick is both fluent in both English and French and is currently working on his Italian. He’s an energetic busines…

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Cisco Is Up 46% and Oracle Is Down 25% in 2026. The Better Dividend Buy Might Surprise You.

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| Yahoo Finance Verified
In this case, Oracle is the better buy in terms of financial health, but these numbers aren't the only ones that matter… Financial health is important, but for income investors, what matters more is how much these companies reward their investors. Cisco pays a forward annual dividend of $1.68, translating to a yield of around 1.4%. Its dividend payout ratio is at 48.16%, suggesting a balance between company growth and shareholder value.
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Is Equinix the AI Infrastructure Stock Investors Are Missing Out On?

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By Rick Orford Verified
| Aol Verified
Is Equinix the AI Infrastructure Stock Investors Are Missing Out On? Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) may look like a data-center REIT, but the real story could be its interconnection moat. As enterprise AI moves from experiments into production, companies may need secure physical locations to connect data, clouds, networks, and AI models. That could make Equinix a quiet winner in AI infrastructure. Stock prices used were the market prices of June 23, 2026. The video was published on July 1, 2026.
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This Tech Stock Could Benefit From the Next Computing Breakthrough

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By Rick Orford Verified
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