The stock market’s crazy first five months of 2025 have left Wall Street pros in a bit of a pickle. Coming off the best month for the S&P 500 Index in a year and a half and the best May since 1990, the benchmark is still basically flat for 2025 and putting up one of its worst starts to a year since the 1950s.

TipRanks’ analyst ranking service discusses three dividend-paying stocks, including Home Depot and Diamondback Energy, highlighted by Wall Street’s top pros.

Wall Street analysts have downwardly revised their earnings estimates since President Trump took office because tariffs are expected to be a headwind to economic growth. The consensus estimate in January said S&P 500 companies would report 14% earnings growth in 2025, but analysts now expect 8.5% earnings growth, according to LSEG.

Whether you are bullish, bearish, or indifferent, there's one thing every person involved in the stock market hates — volatility. This is true whether you are a seasoned investor who buys to hold stocks and invest in them,

The stock market has been on a winning streak for six days — a welcome change from the downward slide in the days and weeks after "Liberation Day." While Wall Street is feeling more optimistic now than they were earlier this year,

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) logged its best May since 1990 and its best month since Nov. 2023, rising over 6%, while the Dow (^DJI) added 4% over the month and the Nasdaq (^IXIC) surged nearly 10%, thanks to tech sector strength.

Nvidia's results were much better than they might seem at first glance. Both the top and bottom lines were hurt by new U.S. government export controls on the company's H20 chip, which it had specifically designed for the Chinese market to comply with the government's second round of advanced AI chip export controls.

Shares of Opera (NASDAQ: OPRA) have blown hot and cold on the market so far this year, as the company's strong quarterly results have been overshadowed by the broader stock market weakness; however, analysts are expecting shares of the Norway-based web browser maker to reverse the 8% drop they have witnessed so far in 2025 and head higher in the coming year.

Michael Saylor’s all-in Bitcoin plan turned Strategy into a market beast. The company’s value exploded past $80 billion. They’ve stacked more than $60 billion worth of Bitcoin. Yet somehow, Wall Street is still side-eyeing anyone else who tries to do the same thing.