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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...