What to watch for as J&J gets ready to spin off its consumer unit

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is preparing next year to spin off its consumer health unit into a publicly traded company separate from its pharmaceutical and medical technology operations. Ahead of the ...

An S&P 500 ETF delivering double-digit percentage dividends

Investors may want to consider JPMorgan’s Equity Premium Income Fund ETF in order to get more reliable gains in the current volatile market environment. According to the firm, the ETF uses S&...

Jim Cramer makes the bull case for consumer goods stocks

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday told investors to consider adding shares of well-established consumer packaged-goods companies to their portfolios. “Nobody’s championing what actually...

SoFi, Nucor, Starbucks, CSX & more

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading Wednesday. Starbucks – Shares of Starbucks gained nearly 1% after the company boosted its long-term forecast and said it expects double-di...

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Twitter, Gilead Sciences and more

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday Monday: Gilead Sciences — Shares of Gilead rose 3.8% after the biopharmaceutical company revealed it settled a patent case over its HIV therapie...

Carvana, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Alphatec and more

Ernie Garcia, CEO, Carvana Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Monday. Carvana — Shares of the online car seller rose more than 7% in the premarket after Piper S...

Stocks making biggest midday moves: Netflix, Bristol-Myers and more

The Netflix logo is seen on a TV remote controller, in this illustration taken January 20, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Catalent Inc. – Shares...

Passage of Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers

A pharmacist collects medications for prescriptions at a pharmacy. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Medicare is poised to renegotiate the prices of some of its most expensive drugs through a hi...

10 defensive stocks that can also provide you with growth and dividends over the long term

The S&P 500 Index has rallied 10% since June 22 from a deep decline, but there are different schools of thought about whether investors are out of the woods yet. Mark Hulbert has called the recent...

Having women in the boardroom or C-suite drives diversity, study finds

shironosov | Getty Images If you want to take a good guess at a company’s gender diversity record, you might want to first look at who its CEO or board chair is, according to the findings of a n...

Here’s Jim Cramer’s advice to navigate this uncertain earnings season

Earnings season is entering full swing on Wall Street, and CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that investors would be wise to take a wait-and-see approach toward shares of companies that are about to...

Turning Point Therapeutics, Lululemon, RH and others

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Turning Point Therapeutics (TPTX) – The biopharmaceutical company’s shares more than doubled in premarket trading after agreeing to be a...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals new stakes in Paramount, Citigroup

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company on Monday revealed all the investment moves it made in the first quarter, when it spent more than $51 billion on stocks. But Buffett had already shared the bigge...

Robinhood, Amazon, Apple, Roku and more

Vlad Tenev, CEO and co-founder Robinhood Markets, Inc., is displayed on a screen during his company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market site in Times Square in New York City, U.S., July 29, 2021. Brendan McDer...

Inflation is raging, but these 16 companies have pricing power

Decades of deflationary forces that helped feed booming prices for U.S. stocks are over, at least for now. But some companies are countering the trend, by a combination of holding down expenses and ra...

Senate confirms Biden FDA pick Califf, despite objections to drug industry ties

Robert Califf testifies during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the nomination to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. Bi...

Amazon, Snap, Ford and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) – The drugmaker reported adjusted quarterly earnings of $23.72 per share, beating the $18.35 consensus estima...

Have your buy list ready for ‘hideous moments’

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday previewed next week’s major corporate earnings reports after Wall Street capped off a wild week filled with major intraday moves for the major U.S. stock indexe...

23 dividend stocks that can pass this strict quality screen

Stocks are expensive. You’ve probably been hearing that for years, and based on traditional price-to-earnings ratios it’s true. If you invest now in a broad index, such as the benchmark S&P 500 SP...