If There’s a Recession Coming, Not Even the Fed Could Stop It Now

The word recession is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Influential investor and philanthropist George Soros is talking about it in Davos. The Federal Reserve, on the day minutes are published, is cons...

Novavax Gets a Sell Rating. It’s Got a Covid Vaccine Problem, Analyst Says.

Text size A healthcare worker prepares a dose of Nuvaxovid vaccine. Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images Novavax stock was dropping Friday after receiving a Sell-equivalent rating — the first since...

BioNTech Earnings Top Forecasts on Strong Sales of Covid-19 Vaccine

Text size BioNTech is continuing to work with Pfizer on follow-on Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by THOMAS LOHNES/AFP via Getty Images) BioNTech , the German biotech company, reported first-quarter earning...

Big Pharma Has Enough Cash to Buy All of Biotech. Why M&A Isn’t Happening.

Text size Late last year, Barron’s predicted a wave of deals, citing biotech companies’ cash holdings. Above, the plates used to print one-dollar bills. Alex Wong/Getty Images With biotech...

Bausch + Lomb, Year’s Second-Biggest IPO, Pops in Public Debut

Text size Bausch + Lomb’s IPO is the second-biggest so far this year. Scott Olson/Getty Images Eye-care company Bausch + Lomb and biotech PepGen kicked off their lives as public companies Friday...

Illumina Stock Plunges Despite Strong Results, Gene-Sequencing Sales

Text size Illumina turned in stronger financial results than expected. Dreamstime The gene-sequencing supplier Illumina delivered on its March quarter financial forecasts, as global demand for genetic...

AbbVie Shares Drop Amid Missed Sales Expectations for Key Drugs

Text size AbbVie stock is up 15.4% so far this year. Courtesy of AbbVie In a quarterly earnings report out Friday, the drugmaker AbbVie cut its full-year earnings guidance, and a number of its key dru...

For Ackman’s Pershing Square, a Record of Big Hits and Misses

Pershing Square Capital’s William Ackman has had some successes in recent years, but also some big flops, with Netflix being the latest example. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New York Times ...

AbbVie, Gilead and 4 Other Defensive Healthcare Stocks With Big Dividend Yields

Text size An AbbVie bio safety hood Courtesy of AbbVie Deep into the second quarter of the year, stocks have yet to recover, and investors are seeking safety in defensive plays. One sector that’s bene...

Big Investor Sold AMC and Apple Stock. It Bought PayPal and Pfizer.

Text size An AMC theater Dreamstime A large European asset manager slashed its investment in the volatile shares of a movie-theater chain, and made other changes in its U.S.-traded stock portfolio. DN...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GSK

Text size The deal comes ahead of GlaxoSmithKline’s planned spinoff of its consumer health division in July. AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy compa...

Antares Pharma Stock Soars After $960 Million Halozyme Buyout

Text size Nasdaq-listed Antares Pharma is being bought by Halozyme Therapeutics in a deal valued at $960 million. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Shares of Antares Pharma surged more than 47% in premarket tra...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GlaxoSmithKline

Text size AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy company Sierra Oncology for $1.9 billion in cash, as it looks to boost its portfolio of new specialty medicine...

Pfizer’s New CFO David Denton Negotiated One of the Biggest Healthcare Deals in History

Pfizer on Monday named a new chief financial officer with a resume that hints at the company’s plans to spend big with its Covid-19 vaccine windfall. David Denton is taking up the CFO role at Pfizer (...

Walgreens Earnings Top Estimates but Its Outlook Crushes the Stock.

Text size Walgreens delivers a second-quarter earnings beat. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance tumbled Thursday after investors were disappo...

8 Stocks That Are Negative Since Pandemic Low—and 1 That Just Turned Positive

Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...

The 8 Stocks in the S&P 500 That Are Still Negative Since the Pandemic Lows

Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...

After an Incredible Rally, Beware a Dead Cat Bounce

An oil tanker stands at an oil terminal Thursday at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Getty Images Text size It has been a tough year for stocks. A rally on Wednesday seemed to promise some reversal of the tren...

Biogen Stock Has Fallen 50%. Why It’s Time to Buy.

Text size Biogen’s Alzheimer’s disease treatment was once expected to be a megablockbuster. Dominick Reuter/AFP via Getty Images Shares of the biotech firm Biogen are down 50% since June 1...

Carl Icahn Slashes Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities....

Novavax’s Revenue Falls Short. Management Expects a Surge.

Text size A doctor handles a vial holding a potential coronavirus vaccine at a Novavax lab in 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The Covid-19 vaccine maker Novavax expects sales of b...

Viatris to Sell Biosimilars Business for $3 Billion. Shares Tumble.

Viatris will sell the biosimilars business of the former Mylan to the Indian drugmaker Biocon for as much as $3.3 billion. Dreamstime Text size Viatris , the company formed in 2020 through a merger of...

Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Face a New Rival as GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Prepare to Enter the Ring

As new Covid-19 cases fall, the postpandemic vaccine market grows more interesting. On Wednesday, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, two of the world’s largest vaccine makers, said they would submit a Covid ...

Here Are the 10 Highest-Yielding S&P 500 Stocks

High dividend yields are a nice offset to inflation, now running at more than 7%, the highest rate in four decades. Barron’s screened the S&P 500 for the 10 highest-yielding stocks based on data f...

8 Biotech Stocks So Cheap That Their Technology Is Effectively Free

Text size A number of biotechs have market values that are less than the cash on their balance sheets. Dreamstime It’s mid-February, and the beleaguered biotech sector is showing no real signs of reco...

Pfizer Stock Is Falling. Did Investors Misunderstand the Revenue Guidance?

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks. John Thys/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Text size Pfizer shares dropped sharply after the company’s 2022 sales guidance appeared to fall short of expectations. The guidance tha...

Pfizer Stock Fell 2.8%. Did Investors Misunderstand the Revenue Guidance?

Text size Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks. John Thys/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Pfizer shares dropped sharply on Tuesday after the company’s 2022 sales guidance appeared to fall short of expectations. The g...

Novavax Stock Tumbles on Report That Vaccine Deliveries Are Lagging

Text size Novavax labs in Gaithersburg, Md. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Novavax shares were plunging more than 15% Tuesday after the company acknowledged to Reuters that it has comp...

Pfizer Reports Earnings Tuesday. What to Expect.

Text size Pfizer is scheduled to report its earnings before the market opens on Tuesday. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images There’s no mystery about what 2022 will bring for Pfizer : Enormous, record-shattering...

Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...

Moderna Faces Challenges Beyond the Covid Vaccine. Its Stock Is Still a Buy for the Long Term.

In 2019, four pharmaceutical giants shared virtually all of the $33 billion worth of vaccine revenue earned worldwide. The pandemic has upended the vaccine business. Moderna has sold or contracted to ...

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...