Giant Pension Sells Caterpillar and Microsoft Stock, Buys Comcast and Visa

One of the largest Canadian pensions made major changes in its U.S.-traded portfolio. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan sold all its Caterpillar stock (ticker: CAT), slashed a Microsoft (MSFT) investment...

Warner Bros. Discovery sues Paramount over $500 million ‘South Park’ deal

NEW YORK — Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. WBD, -1.14% is suing Paramount Global PARA, -4.86%, saying its competitor aired new episodes of the popular animated comedy series “South Park” after Warner paid...

Intel’s dividend cut shows the need for quality. Here are 20 dividend stocks screened by UBS.

Stocks that pay high dividends can provide comfort during times of market turmoil. It is much easier to be patient if money is rolling in, and a strategy of reinvesting dividends may outperform when t...

Walmart, Alibaba, Moderna, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Walmart, Alibaba, Moderna, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Apple, Tesla, and Disney Stock. It Sold Walmart.

The largest public pension in the U.S. by assets just made major changes in its investment portfolio. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System bought more Apple (ticker: AAPL), Tesla (TSLA),...

Disney Plans to Reinstate Its Dividend and Cut 7,000 Jobs. Nelson Peltz Declares Victory.

Walt Disney stock jumped after the entertainment company topped earnings expectations, while also announcing it was planning to cut jobs and reinstate its its dividend. Disney (ticker: DIS) reported n...

Disney Plans to Reinstate Its Dividend and Cut 7,000 Jobs. The Stock Jumps.

Walt Disney stock jumped on Wednesday after the entertainment giant topped earnings expectations, while also announcing it was planning to cut jobs and reinstate its its dividend. Disney reported non-...

Big Tech added to a shrinking forecast, but maybe Bob Iger can brighten the mood

Wall Street’s expectations for 2023 have been diving as forecasts for the new year come in light, and the news could get worse once they factor in disappointing results from Big Tech. But at least Bob...

Giant Swiss Bank Bought Up Intel, Disney, and AT&T Stock. It Sold AMD.

A big Swiss bank made a call in chip stocks, and loaded up on media and entertainment shares. Julius Baer of Zurich bought up Intel (ticker: INTC), Walt Disney (DIS), and AT&T (T) stock, and sold ...

AT&T Throws Off Cash as Earnings Top Expectations

AT&T ‘s fourth-quarter earnings beat Wall Street’s estimates. A key metric for the wireless company also came in higher than expected.  For AT&T (ticker: T), the driver this earnings season is...

AT&T earnings preview: What to expect

A day after Verizon Communications Inc. posted earnings, AT&T Inc. will share its perspective on the state of the wireless market. AT&T T started to curry more favor on Wall Street last year a...

Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Toyota, Warner Bros., and 24 More Stocks Barron’s Roundtable Pros Love This Year

Roundtable Companies Shares of companies with strong fundamentals are poised to shine this year, no matter the economic backdrop. Toyota and Warner Bros. fit the bill. Updated Jan. 20, 2023 8:35 pm ET...

Wells Fargo, Disney, and 10 Other Stocks Value Investors Are Watching

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For All His Criticisms of Disney, Peltz and Iger Probably Agree: Streaming Has to Be Fixed

“Great news: Nelson Peltz made a slide deck about me,” said no CEO ever. But maybe Walt Disney Bob Iger had mixed feelings about the 35-pager that dropped this past week. One one hand, it says that he...

‘Our kids say our small house is embarrassing’: My husband and I earn $160K, have $1 million in retirement savings, cook at home and drive an old Honda. Are we missing out? 

I’m a pretty fortunate person who lives a pretty fortunate life, and our annual household income at $160,000 is high compared to the rest of the world. However, we are still pretty frugal — we cook at...

Disney, Uber, and 4 Other Value Stocks Poised to Shine in 2023

Value stocks finally outperformed growth stocks in 2022 after lagging behind them for more than a decade. The value subset of the Russell 3000 index of most U.S. stocks lost about 8% after dividends t...

Buy Comcast Stock. The Telecom Company Is One of Our Picks for 2023.

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. Shares of the telecommunications giant Comcast have be...

These Stocks Had a Terrible 2022. The New Year Should Be Better.

Videogame maker Take-Two Interactive Software is known for two things: Grand Theft Auto, and did I already say Grand Theft Auto? The stock was down 43% in 2022, making it the group’s worst performer. ...

AT&T Stung Investors by Spinning Off Warner Bros. Discovery

AT&T ‘s April decision to parcel out its big interest in Warner Bros. Discovery to all shareholders, rather than giving them the option of receiving an equivalent amount of the phone company’s sto...

Disney, Amazon May Join an Unenviable Club of 44 Stocks

Amazon com was trading lower on Tuesday, putting it within a hair’s breadth of closing below its pandemic low. Walt Disney waffling between small gains and losses, is in the same territory. With the S...

Disney stock on its way to worst year since 1974 after ‘Avatar’ sequel disappoints

“Avatar: The Way of Water” couldn’t reverse Walt Disney Co.’s recent funk, which has the stock on a path for its worst year since 1974. Disney shares DIS, -4.77% sank nearly 5% to their lowest level s...

Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and T-Mobile: A Peek at 2023 for Telecom Stock

Charter Communications sent a shudder through the world of telecommunications stocks on Tuesday evening. It held investor day that promised billions of dollars of additional network spending over the ...

Giant Fund Dumps Carnival Stock, Buys Snap, Warner Bros., and Baker Hughes

One of the largest public funds in the world recently made major changes in its U.S.-traded equity investments. National Pension Service of South Korea exited its investment in cruise giant Carnival (...

Verizon stock has had a tough year. Is a ‘drastic’ shakeup in order?

At a time when AT&T Inc. is winning praise for disentangling itself from recent deals, is it time for rival Verizon Communications Inc. to actually think about a merger of its own? LightShed Partn...

AT&T has been ‘a star’ this year. Why this analyst says its stock can be one too.

AT&T Inc. has gotten itself out of its unwieldy media gamble, and the company is back to making strides in what it does best. The refined focus and wireless momentum have given the stock’s story a...

The Disney CFO Who Raised Concerns About Bob Chapek Has Respect on the Street

Christine McCarthy, Walt Disney Co. ’s longtime finance chief, took an unusual step when she expressed a lack of confidence in the chief executive to directors of the entertainment giant.  Finance chi...

Top Disney exec Kareem Daniel to leave as Bob Iger returns

Kareem Daniel, the chairman of Walt Disney Co.’s vast media and entertainment distribution segment, is leaving the company as part of an organizational reshuffling that comes a day after Robert Iger r...

Disney Stock Has a Tough Year Ahead. Investors Have Already Been Burned.

Walt Disney stock is an orphan. It’s too pricey for value investors, not expected to grow fast enough for growth investors, and ditched its dividend in 2020, putting it out of reach of income funds.  ...