KBW recommends buying these 11 financial stocks, including First Republic, following federal backstop for banks

On a Monday following high-profile bank failures on Friday and Sunday, it may seem to be a strange time to recommend buying stocks of banks and other financial services companies, but Keefe, Bruyette ...

20 income-building stocks that numbers say may become elite Dividend Aristocrats

Back in January, we took a deep look into three groups of Dividend Aristocrat stocks to show which ones had increased their payouts most significantly over the past five years. Now it is time for a fo...

14 dividend stocks that rose 100% or more in 5 years as the payouts doubled

In basketball, a double-double is a combination of at least 10 or more of the following in a game: points scored, rebounds, assists, blocked shots or steals. For dividend stocks, you might find a scre...

Only 13 companies have issued upbeat profit forecasts for Q1, but earnings are due from this pessimism-resistant industry

A tough fourth quarter for corporate earnings is largely in the past, and the first quarter isn’t exactly looking great either, but upcoming results this week from the one industry spared by the pande...

A Barron’s Roundtable Primer | Barron’s

To the Editor:Regarding “Primed to Prosper” (Roundtable Part II, Jan. 20), my advice is to listen to the macro suggestions and not always the micro. Decide which themes and industries discussed best a...

Deere, Dollar Tree, and 21 More Investment Ideas From Barron’s Roundtable Pros

The “January effect,” according to market lore, is the tendency of stocks to rise in the year’s first month. So far, so good: The S&P 500 is up 6% year to date and the Nasdaq Composite has gained ...

Don’t let the ‘bear market house of mirrors’ fool you, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson warns of the stock market

An important week for earnings is straight ahead, with the spotlight on updates from the tech space, which has been laying off thousands of workers. Among those not expecting good news in the earnings...

Buy Toll Brothers Stock. Shares of the Top Luxury Home Builder Look Very Cheap.

This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2022. To see the full list, click here.  With home builder Toll Brothers ‘ stock down 30% this...

Barron’s 10 Top Stock Picks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Nike, FedEx, Micron, General Mills, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

A bevy of economic data and several notable companies reporting will keep investors busy this week, before things slow down for the holidays. On Tuesday,  Nike FedEx and General Mills release quarterl...

The Valuation Game: SpaceX Soars as Elon Musk Slips to No. 2

Quiet weeks are rare in Elon Musk’s world. This past Monday, Bloomberg reported that Musk was raising funds for his space company, SpaceX. At $77 a share, the offer would lift Space X’s valuation 12%,...

Barron’s 10 Favorite Stocks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

The Housing Boom Is Over. But Housing Stocks Could Still Be Winners.

Plunging orders. Widespread price discounting. Shrinking profits. These are just some of the factors weighing on home builders after surging mortgage rates burst the pandemic-era real estate boom. Hom...

McCormick, PulteGroup, and Merck Boost Dividends

McCormick PulteGroup and Merck Merck were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. McCormick (ticker:MKC) will boost its quarterly disbursement to 39 cents a share fr...

Is the Housing Market Headed for a Big Crash? What’s Ahead for Real Estate.

Todd Clark and his wife, Jocelynn Wilde-Clark, have lived through the ups and downs of the housing market in the time of pandemic. In the summer of 2021, as Covid produced frenzied home buying, the co...

What’s next for lumber as it looks to be 2022’s worst-performing commodity

Lumber has the dubious honor of being among the biggest commodity price decliners this year, and the outlook for the market doesn’t look to improve anytime soon. Random-length lumber for January deliv...

Alibaba stock flies toward best month in 7 years

The U.S.-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. were ending a historically strong month on a high note Wednesday, as the China-based e-commerce giant was swept up in the hope that the country wil...

How the growing Atlanta economy burned low-income renters, homebuyers

Metro Atlanta is on a hot streak. More than 6 million people now live in the region, according to recent Census Bureau estimates. Experts say that’s about a 50% increase from 20 years ago. ̶...

New-Home Sales Surge. It’s Still a Mixed Picture for Housing.

Text size Sales of new homes rose in October. Here: completed and under construction new homes in Trappe, Maryland. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Sales of new homes unexpectedly rose in October, pai...

Ford Shows That Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Is Happening

Reshoring is a term industrial investors are becoming as familiar with as outsourcing. Outsourcing manufacturing to the regions of the planet with the cheapest labor to drive lower prices for consumer...

D.R. Horton and 7 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Text size D.R. Horton plans to boost its quarterly payout by 11% to 25 cents a share. Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg It was a busy week for dividend increases among large U.S. companies across a varie...

20 dividend stocks that may be safest if the Federal Reserve causes a recession

Investors cheered when a report last week showed the economy expanded in the third quarter after back-to-back contractions. But it’s too early to get excited, because the Federal Reserve hasn’t given ...

Small-Cap Stocks Have Rarely Been So Depressed. 7 to Buy Now.

Longtime investor Nicholas F. Galluccio has seen his fair share of market turmoil, but one thing has remained constant over nearly four decades: a focus on finding small stocks with big prospects. Gal...

Millions of working Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck — and running out of cash as another recession looms

Inflation is taking its toll on people’s emergency funds. The share of workers who say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck has surged among middle- to high-income earners — 63% and 49%, respectively ...

Residential housing demand ‘cratered’ as mortgage rates spiked, analyst says

Raymond James analyst Buck Horne lowered ratings on all of the home-builder stocks he covers, as he believes the recent “relentless” climb in mortgage rates has ensured a housing recession. “Interest ...

Cano Health Stock Plumments on Report CVS Is Abandoning Purchase

Cano Health shares had their largest drop on record Monday following a report that CVS Health has walked away from a potential acquisition of the primary care provider. Dealreporter was the first to r...

Tesla, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, AT&T, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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China Evergrande’s Debt-Crisis Fallout: Losses, Layoffs and More Defaults

Listen to article (2 minutes) When China Evergrande Group began struggling under a mountain of debt last year, it quietly set off a chain reaction across the country.  Chinese authorities prevented a ...

Kroger’s $24.6 Billion Purchase of Albertsons to Create a Grocery Giant

Grocery giant Kroger said it was acquiring rival Albertsons in a roughly $24.6 billion tie-up that will help drive profitability and establish a larger footprint of nearly 5,000 stores. Kroger (ticker...

Opinion: Florida’s insurance rates have almost doubled over five years, yet insurance companies are still losing money — and the reason is more insidious than hurricanes

Hurricane risk might seem like the obvious problem, but there is a more insidious driver in this financial train wreck. Finance professor Shahid Hamid, who directs the Laboratory for Insurance at Flor...

Famed Value Investor Buys Stock in Citigroup, PulteGroup, and Oshkosh

Value investor Edgar Wachenheim III’s Greenhaven Associates recently made major changes in its investments. Greenhaven increased its stakes in Citigroup (ticker: C) and home builder PulteGroup (PHM), ...

Robert Toll, Who Headed Luxury Homebuilder Toll Brothers, Dies at 81

Robert Toll, who built Toll Brothers into the country’s largest luxury homebuilder and brought a founder’s passion to the business, died Friday at age 81 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease The e...