ViacomCBS Is Changing Its Name. Subscribership Grew, but at a Cost.

Text size ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount Global. Dreamstime ViacomCBS reported a very solid quarter of streaming-subscriber gains on Tuesday, but that growth didn’t come cheaply. The comp...

3M, T. Rowe, and 7 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week

Text size Dupont said it will increase its quarterly dividend by 10%. Mark Makela/Getty Images Interpublic Group of Companies, Kimco Realty, and DuPont de Nemours were among the larger U.S. companies ...

Amazon Stock Soars on Good Enough Earnings. The Price of Prime Is Going Up.

Amazon . com reported strong fourth-quarter results on Thursday, driven by strong growth in both its AWS cloud unit and its growing advertising business. The results could be a relief to some investor...

Alphabet Stock Is Soaring After an Impressive Earnings Beat

Text size Stock in Alphabet, Google’s parent, is up more than 40% over the past year. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Alphabet crushed expectations and announced plans for a 20-for-one stock split afte...

With Chevron Stock Near Record Highs, Analysts Are Divided

Text size A Chevron petroleum storage tank in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The oil giant missed analysts’ earnings estimates when it reported fourth-quarter results on Friday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images C...

Hedge Fund Melvin Lost $6.8 Billion in a Month. Winning It Back Is Taking a Lot Longer.

Gabe Plotkin wasn’t sleeping. His bets against meme stocks such as GameStop Corp. GME 4.69% were backfiring, and losses at his $12.5 billion hedge fund were mounting. Strangers angry about his wagers ...

The bear-market selloff in Chipotle’s stock has created an ‘attractive’ buying opportunity, analyst says

The bear-market selloff in the shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has created an “attractive entry point” for investors, and tempted Morgan Stanley analyst John Glass to make a “risk on” call on th...

Las Vegas Sands Stock Could See Better Luck Ahead

Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...

Exxon Could Go Even Bigger on Its Dividend

Text size David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Oil companies used to compete on how much crude they could produce. Now they’re competing on how much cash they can send back to investors. That dynamic could pay...

These are the best-performing S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks of 2021

The performance of the stock market in 2021 has been nothing short of remarkable, surprising many investors after the dramatic crash-and-recovery cycle of 2020. A continuing recovery for the world eco...