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Drops for Big Tech companies including Microsoft and Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms led Wall Street lower.

Despite the strong outlook for the industry, Wall Street analysts only expect one of these enterprise-software leaders to keep climbing higher over the next 12 months. Palantir has a median-price target of $38 per share, based on the estimates of 22 analysts. That implies a downside of 30% from its share price, as of this writing.

U.S. stocks edged lower as momentum came out of the torrid “Trump trade” that swept Wall Street following Donald Trump’s presidential victory. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% Tuesday, coming off its latest record.

Dividend-paying stocks rarely rise dramatically, but over time they tend to outperform. From 1973 through 2023, the average dividend payer in the S&P 500 index delivered a 9.17% a