Twitter Stock Is Downgraded. Analyst Needs Just One Sentence to Explain Why.

Text size Twitter stock is downgraded given uncertainty over the company’s pending acquisition by Elon Musk. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter stock received another downgrade on Friday, fuel...

New Buyback Tax Will Force Companies to Think Twice on How to Use Cash

In the scrap over how to fund President Joe Biden’s spending plans, the Democrats’ focus has shifted from taxing private funds to public at the last minute. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) backs dropp...

Buy GE Stock as a Breakup Looms

So, it comes to this— General Electric once arguably the greatest of American companies, will cease to exist, at least as the industrial titan it once was. After more than 20 years of decline, the com...

Warner Bros Discovery Had an Ugly Quarter. It’s Combining HBO Max and Discovery+.

In its first quarter as a combined company, Warner Bros. Discovery missed Wall Street’s estimates across the board, saw streaming subscriber growth slow, and watched its leverage rise. Warner Bros. Di...

Warner Bros. Discovery stock slammed after earnings debut

In its first earnings report since bringing in HBO Max and other WarnerMedia properties, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Thursday missed revenue expectations by roughly $2 billion and reported a large ...

Zillow is almost done selling homes, but stock slumps as the hard part is still to come

Zillow Group Inc. is almost done selling all the homes it bought in a flurry that led to a flameout of its iBuying business, but its plans for the future led to shares plunging in extended trading Thu...

CoinSmart is eyeing crypto acquisitions across US and Europe, CEO says

CoinSmart Financial Inc. (SMART.NE), a leading Canadian-based crypto asset trading platform, looks to take advantage of the crypto winter to snap up struggling crypto companies on the cheap. The compa...

Airbnb stock falls sharply despite earnings beat, plan to repurchase $2 billion in stock

Airbnb Inc. said Tuesday that it had its first profitable second quarter as a public company, and that it is so confident in its business that it is buying back $2 billion of its stock. “Our Q2 result...

BP raises dividend and buyback after profit surge

BP PLC BP, +3.29% on Tuesday reported that its profits rose further in the second quarter of the year, and increased both the dividend and the quarterly share buyback. The multinational energy group m...

Cathie Wood’s Ark Bought More Roku Stock. This Analyst Sees 24% Downside.

Text size Cathie Wood of ARK Invest has Roku as one of the biggest investments in her funds. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Roku’s earnings report last week sent shares into a free fall, but Cathie Woo...

Apple Borrows Money to Buy Back Stock. What That May Say About the Bond Market.

Text size A new Apple store in London, shown in late July. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Apple is gearing up for a four-part bond sale to fund stock buybacks. Apple (ticker: AAPL ) is planning to use the p...

Nikola to Buy Battery Maker Romeo Power for $144 Million

Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-truck startup Nikola said it has agreed to buy battery-technology company Romeo Power in an all-stock deal that values Romeo at roughly $144 million. Nikola said...

Did Buffett Buy More Apple Stock? Berkshire’s Earnings Should Make It Clear.

Text size Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett went on a buying spree in the stock market during the first quarter, when Berkshire Hath...

Buy or Sell Apple Stock After Its Strong Earnings? 5 Reasons to Pick It Up.

Text size Apple has had to grapple with supply chain challenges and rising interest rates. Photo by DANIEL SLIM Apple ’s better-than-expected earnings report helped shake off investor concerns about h...

A Spirit Deal Is Finally Here. Why J.P. Morgan Says Sell the Stock.

Text size Spirit stock is up more than 17% in 2022. Joe Raedle/Getty Images JetBlue reached a deal to purchase Spirit on Thursday, but while that company prepares to buy Spirit for $33.50 a share, J.P...

Lockheed Martin Stock Is Up for the Year. Director John Donovan Bought Shares.

Text size Lockheed Martin stock has logged gains this year, and a director scooped up shares on a recent dip. Gretchen Lemke/Lockheed Martin Corporation Lockheed Martin stock has performed nicely this...

One Big Reason To Buy Woebegone Netflix Stock

Netflix app (Photo by Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty Images NetflixNFLX , once a darling of the tech world, has had a spate of bad news lately. The streami...

Twitter v. Musk: Why the Court of Chancery Will Never Order Specific Performance.

Text size A court could compel Tesla chief executive Elon Musk to purchase Twitter, but could it compel him to operate it in the best interest of shareholders? Al Drago/Bloomberg About the author: Car...

Paramount stock drops after bearish call by Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs weighed in with a skeptical view of Paramount Global Inc. Tuesday, writing that the current economic backdrop could complicate the media company’s streaming objectives. “We have not chan...

Nancy Pelosi’s husband sells $4 million worth of Nvidia stock at a major loss

The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sold more than $4 million worth of shares in software and computer-chip company Nvidia NVDA, +7.60% this week, publicly available financial disclosures show. ...

Buy Warner Bros. Discovery, But Sell Paramount, Goldman Says. Here’s Why.

Text size Combining and relaunching the HBO Max and Discovery+ services as well as cutting costs can be tough for WarnerMedia. Dreamstime Investors should buy Warner Bros. Discovery stock because the ...

Uber and 10 Other ‘Busted IPOs’ That Could Still Have Value

Text size Of the top five 2021 IPOs ranked by size, all are in the red versus original offering prices, including Rivian Automotive. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Investors often clamor for access to b...

Alibaba Plans to Move Its Stock to Hong Kong. Others Will Follow.

Text size Alibaba says it has filed to change its primary stock listing to Hong Kong rather than the U.S. AFP via Getty Images Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday said it has filed to change its primary ...

Microsoft’s Activision Deal Is Likely to Win Approval, Analyst Says

Text size Microsoft has said it plans to release Activision’s Call of Duty videogames on Sony’s PlayStation. Rich Polk/Getty Images for Activision Activision Blizzard stock continues to tr...

Redbox stock shoots toward best day on record

Shares of Redbox Entertainment Inc. were surging toward their best day on record Monday, though it wasn’t immediately clear what was driving the stock move. The shares were soaring 87% in afternoon tr...

Weekend reads: Prepare for a big week — a crucial Federal Reserve decision, tech-company earnings and a GDP report

It was mostly a week for stocks, particularly a rebound in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, as companies topped expectations on second-quarter earnings.  The coming week brings a heavy dose of t...

The Best Tech CEOs: What Matters Most

Text size Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke spent years programming before he co-founded the e-commerce software firm. He has said he knows how long projects will take—and which initiatives to choose—because of ...

Palantir stock’s ‘strength will prove unsustainable,’ analyst says in downgrade

Palantir Technologies Inc. shares are up nearly 50% from their May lows, but one analyst worries that “this strength will prove unsustainable.” Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. analyst Brian White dow...

GameStop Stock Is Splitting to $38. Trading Starts Today.

Text size GameStop has been hit hard as more people download games rather than using physical discs. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The GameStop saga is set to take another turn on Friday when shares be...

AT&T earnings were ‘actually good’ despite stock selloff, says analyst

AT&T Inc.’s shares fell sharply Thursday after the telecommunications giant cut its free-cash-flow forecast for the year, but one analyst said the latest report wasn’t all bad. In fact, LightShed ...

Opinion: As Snap melts down, its founders make sure to protect the people who matter: themselves

Snap Inc. has never been an investor-friendly company — as long as those investors weren’t its founders, at least — and the parent company of the Snapchat app made that even clearer Thursday. Amid a m...

How Amazon’s $3.9 billion wager on primary care could change your Prime membership

Amazon’s AMZN, +1.52% $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical ONEM, +69.45% is the e-commerce giant’s biggest bet on healthcare to date, and it hints at a future in which primary care and streaming op...