Opinion: These 5 tech stocks — including small caps you probably don’t know — can lead the sector’s comeback

Amid all the big swings in the S&P 500 and other benchmarks, it’s natural for many investors to be worried. But as the adage attributed to Warren Buffett goes, sometimes it pays the most to be gre...

Splunk Stock Surges on Report of $20 Billion Cisco Buyout Offer

Text size Cisco made an offer to acquire Splunk for more than $20 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Splunk were rising sharply Monday on a report th...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Stays the Course, Betting Big on Innovation

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC is snapping up more shares of largely unprofitable companies, doubling down on a bet that many traders and investors expect to be tested this year by rising...

Twilio shares surge 28% on earnings, sales that top analyst estimates

Shares of Twilio Inc. quickly jumped 28% in extended trading Wednesday after the company posted earnings and sales that breezed past Wall Street estimates as well as a strong outlook. The company TWLO...

Zynga reports record results, stock mostly unmoved after hours pending acquisition by Take-Two

Zynga Inc. reported record results in the extended session Wednesday with a slight bottom-line miss, but shares of the videogame publisher were flat after hours given its pending acquisition by Take-T...

New Relic Stock Tanks as Guidance Disappoints. Here’s What Analysts Are Saying.

Text size Dreamstime New Relic was falling 29% on Wednesday, a day after issuing fiscal fourth-quarter guidance that frightened investors. New Relic (ticker: NEWR) said it expects fourth-quarter reven...

Snap Stock Had Its Best Day Ever. It Doesn’t Have All of Facebook’s Problems.

Text size Snap said daily active users grew 20% year over year during the fourth quarter to 319 million. Dreamstime Snap stock rocketed higher Friday after the Snapchat parent reported a surprise prof...

Snap earnings spark stock rally that’s so big, it’s making people nervous

A stock moving more than 50% higher in a single session is normally cause for celebration on Wall Street, but Snap Inc.’s big rally Friday was met with skittishness. Shares of the Snapchat parent comp...

Tech Stocks to Buy After a Crazy Week of Earnings

Amazon stock was up almost 14% on Friday after the company reported solid earnings and said it was raising the price of its Prime membership for the first time since 2018. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images...

Unity Software Stock Rises as 2022 Revenue Forecast Tops Estimates

Text size Dreamstime Unity Software stock traded higher Friday after the fourth-quarter adjusted loss at the videogame developer tools maker was narrower than Wall Street expected and the company issu...

Snap shares soar 59% on first profitable quarter

Whipsawed by Meta’s poor results a day earlier, Snap Inc. reported its first quarterly profit as well as top- and bottom-line numbers that beat Street expectations on Thursday. The results turned arou...

Snap and Pinterest Sink After Meta’s Big Miss. Both Report Earnings Thursday.

Text size nikkimeel/Dreamstime Shares of Snap and Pinterest and pretty much all social media stocks were falling sharply Thursday after Meta Platforms , the parent of Facebook, reported weaker-than-ex...

Facebook parent Meta stands to shed more than $200 billion in market value after rough earnings report

Shares of Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. plunged more than 20% in extended trading Wednesday after detailing a holiday-earnings miss, weak guidance and intensifying competition. Meta FB, +1.25% s...

U.S. Stock Futures Poised for Lower Open on Monday

Stocks are poised to open lower on Monday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Text size Here’s what you need to know to navigate the markets today. • U.S. stocks are set to open Monday slightly down. On Sunday n...

Citrix Systems Near $13 Billion Buyout by Elliott, Vista: WSJ

Cloud-computing company Citrix Systems is close to a deal to be taken private, The Wall Street Journal reported. Dreamstime Text size This story originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Cloud-c...

Weekend reads: Robinhood’s bad news — and a bit of good news

It’s been a year since Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD, +9.65% briefly suspended “buy” orders for GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69%, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, +3.72% and other meme stocks. The brokera...

Investor Bought Up Moderna and Nvidia Stock. It Sold Salesforce and Sirius XM.

Text size A large U.K.-based asset manager bought up Moderna and Nvidia stock in the fourth quarter. Clement Mahoudeau/AFP via Getty Images A large U.K.-based asset manager made big changes in its U.S...

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...

Cash Pours Into Anti-ARK ETF as Cathie Wood Struggles

Text size Catherine Wood’s innovation-focused ETFs have been falling. PATRICK T. FALLON/ AFP / Getty Images As Cathie Wood’s innovation-focused exchange-traded funds have tumbled amid the latest...

Opinion: Microsoft stock’s post-earnings roller-coaster ride won’t be the last

Microsoft Corp. reported incredibly strong holiday-season earnings Tuesday afternoon, topping $50 billion in quarterly sales for the first time and beating expectations across the board. Yet the stock...

Microsoft stock turns green after strong sales forecast, reversing a post-earnings decline

Microsoft Corp. sales topped $50 billion for the first time in the holiday quarter of 2021, and a stock decline in late trading turned around Tuesday after the software giant predicted stronger revenu...

Microsoft Stock Falls Despite Strong Earnings

Text size Microsoft earnings were up 22% in its latest quarter. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft shares were down about 5% in late-trading Tuesday, despite better-than-expected December qu...

MicroStrategy Stock Falls After SEC Objects to Bitcoin Accounting

Text size The price of Bitcoin has been slumping. Dreamstime MicroStrategy stock continued its downward spiral Monday, dragged down by plunging Bitcoin prices and newly released filings showing that t...

Can Microsoft acquisition cure Activision Blizzard’s toxic workplace?

Besides concerns about antitrust scrutiny and a record $68.7 billion price tag, Microsoft Corp.’s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. also raises a key question: How will it deal with the ...

Tesla, AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, Visa, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It will be a packed week of fourth-quarter earnings releases, with more than 100 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. IBM and  Halliburton are Monday’s highlights, followed ...

Tech Stocks Got Hit Hard. Where to Find Bargains Now.

The technology sector may not be on sale, but it certainly has gotten cheaper lately. Major technology stocks like Apple (ticker: AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta Platforms (FB) are...

Where to Find Bargains Among Tech and Growth Stocks

The technology sector may not be on sale, but it certainly has gotten cheaper lately. Major technology stocks like Apple (ticker: AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta Platforms (FB) are...

Virgin Galactic Stock Is Worth Just $10, Analyst Says

Text size Virgin Galactic stock closed on Tuesday down 85% from an all-time high of almost $63 set back in February 2020. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Investors in space tourism pioneer Virgin Galactic Ho...

Microsoft could have just kicked off a Big Tech gold rush, which helps videogame stocks but maybe not gamers

Microsoft Corp.’s agreement to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. would be the largest tech acquisition ever, and the chance it could prompt other Big Tech names to make their own acquisitions sent videogam...

Microsoft Buys Activision. What to Know About the Acquisition and Stocks.

Text size Troy Harvey/Bloomberg Activision Blizzard shares were surging following Microsoft ‘s announcement that it would acquire the gaming company in a nearly $70 billion deal. Microsoft (ticker: MS...

Tech Is Falling Again. Why Apple, Tesla, and Other Tech Stocks Are Still Buys.

Text size Apple and other tech stocks have had a rough start to 2022. They could still be good picks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech stocks are getting slammed yet again, for familiar reasons. Inve...

These 3 ETFs let you play the hot semiconductor sector, where Nvidia, Micron, AMD and others are growing sales rapidly

Semiconductor stocks may continue to be an excellent area of the market for investors, even though the prospect of a long period of rising interest rates has put pressure on some high-flying technolog...