Applied Materials Raises Dividend, Increases Buybacks. Stock Climbs.

Applied Materials the largest chip-equipment maker in the world, announced Monday a 23.1% lift in its quarterly cash dividend, from 26 cents to 32 cents per share. The dividend is payable on June 15 t...

Buy Nike And Applied Materials

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AMAT Stock: Applied Materials Encroaches On ASML Business

Applied Materials (AMAT) earned positive reviews for its latest semiconductor manufacturing tools, which target high-end chips made using extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, lithography equipment from indust...

Applied Materials’ Gloomy Memory-Chip Outlook Is Bad News for PCs

The outlook for memory chip demand keeps deteriorating. On Thursday, the largest chip-equipment maker in the world Applied Materials (ticker: AMAT ) reported slightly better-than-expected overall resu...

Applied Materials Beats Earnings. Stock Rises.

Applied Materials reported better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal first quarter, sending the stock higher in after-hours trading. The chip equipment maker reported adjusted earnings of $2.03 a s...

Stocks moving big after hours: DASH, AMAT, DKNG

Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. DoorDash — The online food delivery platform’s shares jumped 7% after it reported a reven...

Intel stock’s dividend sticks out among chip makers. But a cut may be coming.

Semiconductor stocks have been on a tear so far this year, following a difficult 2022. But now that we’re in the thick of fourth-quarter earnings season, investors will be questioning whether or not I...

Salesforce, Abbott, Spotify, and More Stock Market Movers

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Dow ends nearly 350 points lower after strong economic data, bearish comments by David Tepper fuel worry about rate hikes

U.S. stocks ended well off session lows but still fell sharply, after a round of upbeat economic data and a warning from hedge-fund titan David Tepper that he was “leaning short” against both stocks a...

Applied Materials to expand manufacturing in Silicon Valley, Texas

Applied Materials Inc. AMAT, +2.32% said late Tuesday it plans to make “multi-billion-dollar investments” to expand its manufacturing capacity between now and 2030. The chip-manufacturing equipment ma...

18 semiconductor stocks that shine when compared with Nvidia this earnings season

Nvidia Corp., which said yesterday that quarterly sales slumped, exemplifies the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry despite the company’s inroads into fast-growing markets. Still, many chip...

Home Depot, Walmart Kick Off Busy Week Of Retail Earnings; Tech Investors Eye Results from Cisco, Nvidia, AMAT

Dow Jones stocks Home Depot (HD) and Walmart (WMT) headline a busy week of retail earnings reports as Wall Street weighs the impact of higher interest rates on the economy. X Big box retailer Walmart ...

2 Chip Equipment Stocks to Buy on the Dip, According to an Analyst

Text size The stocks of both Applied Materials and ASML have fallen more than 40% this year. Paul Morris/Bloomberg It has been a terrible year for chip equipment stocks. But based on history, prices i...

U.S. Suppliers Halt Operations at Top Chinese Memory Chip Maker

BEIJING–U.S. chip-equipment suppliers are pulling out staff based at China’s leading memory-chip maker and pausing business activities there, according to people familiar with the matter, as they grap...

Semiconductor Stocks Tumble After U.S. Announces New Chip Restrictions

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U.S. plans new curbs on exports of chips, chip-making tools to China: report

The Biden administration plans to expand export restrictions for U.S. chip companies to China, according to a new report. Reuters reported Sunday night that the new curbs on artificial-intelligence se...

Dow Futures Fall as Wall Street Parses Mixed Signals on Pace of Rate Hikes

Text size Investor focus remains on the Federal Reserve’s pace of future interest-rate increases. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stock futures pointed to a lower start for Wall Street Friday as inve...

Dow Futures Steady as Fed Signals Need to Keep Raising Interest Rates

Text size Federal Reserve officials agreed they need to keep raising interest rates to cool inflation. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Stock futures fluctuated Th...

When Is Tesla’s 3-for-1 Stock Split?

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Tesla has given investors something to look forward to this coming week: a three-for-one stock split. As of the close of trading on Aug. 24, Tesla shareholders wi...

Tesla’s Stock Will Split on Aug. 24

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Tesla has given investors something to look forward to this coming week: a three-for-one stock split. As of the close of trading on Aug. 24, Tesla shareholders wi...

Intel, Micron, and 3 Other Stocks With Direct Exposure to Taiwan

China has launched military drills near Taiwan in response to a visit to the self-ruled island by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Here: a large screen in Beijing shows a news broadcast about China...

Chip Investment Decisions Await Congressional Action on $52 Billion Funding Bill

Political wrangling in Congress over government funding for the semiconductor industry is leaving tens of billions of dollars of potential factory projects hanging in limbo and could dent the ambition...

Chip Stock Earnings Estimates Still Look Way Too High, Goldman Analyst Warns

Text size Goldman Sachs’ cuts to earnings forecasts for chip manufacturers were both broad and deep. Dreamstime Chip stocks are gaining ground on Friday following better-than-expected financial ...

What to Buy Right Now: 42 Picks From Barron’s Roundtable Pros

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There may be another shoe to drop after Micron’s big outlook miss

Micron Technology Inc. delivered an outlook that fell far short of the consensus view, prompting questions about how the memory market will fare in a downturn. The company expects August-quarter reven...

Micron, Netflix, and 5 Other Beaten-Up Tech Stocks That Could Be Bargains

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7 Beaten-Up Tech Stocks That Could Be Bargains

Text size Meta Platforms’ advertising business has faced challenges from TikTok and Apple’s privacy changes. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg This year has been brutal for U.S. stocks, but that...

Applied Materials whiffs across the board on earnings, stock drops

Applied Materials Inc. shares declined in the extended session Thursday after the semiconductor-manufacturing equipment maker missed on earnings, revenue and its forecast and pointed at continuing sup...

Apple and Nvidia Are Picked by Robot Trader That Dumped Google and Meta

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Applied Materials stock surges after setting new $6 billion repurchase program, increasing dividend

Shares of Applied Materials Inc. AMAT, -1.06% surged 3.6% in premarket trading Friday, after the semiconductor-equipment maker nearly doubled its repurchase authorization and boosted its dividend by 8...

Stocks Are on a Wild Ride. 20 Bargains to Buy Now, According to Barron’s Roundtable Experts.

Fed be nimble, Fed be quick. The quicker, the better, in fact. Hike interest rates, shrink your balance sheet, and let’s be done with it all before the stock market sinks even further. The market’s re...

Tech Stocks to Buy as Interest Rates Rise

Text size Chip stocks look like good bets in th new world for tech stocks. Maika Elan/Bloomberg Tech stocks finally showed a little fight last week, aided by an impressive batch of earnings reports. B...