Walt Disney Co. displaced Netflix Inc. as king of the video-streaming market, and it is expected to widen the gap. Disney DIS, +0.33% seized the mantle three months ago as its potent content troika of...
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Opinion: Disney’s ESPN is aiming for a potential pact with DraftKings. The better bet for investors is FanDuel, which has a few aces in the hole
It can be maddening when other people don’t see the world the way we do. In the stock market, this kind of misalignment can be a source of great wealth. I was thinking about that kind of contrarian ap...
These 20 stocks in the S&P 500 tumbled between 20% and 30% in September
Stocks declined again on Friday, closing out September with large losses across the board as the rally from the June lows partway through August faded into memory. The S&P 500 SPX fell 1.5% on Fri...
AT&T, Verizon and Comcast stocks just had their worst quarter in two decades
Some of the biggest telecommunications stocks just posted their steepest quarterly declines in two decades amid pressures both new and old on the cable and wireless industries. Shares of wireless comp...
Buy Luminar Stock, Analyst Says. It’s a Winner in Radar for Autonomous Cars.
Text size Luminar’s stock is forecast to reach $30 by December 2023. Here, a photo of a Luminar Lidar-based sensor on a test vehicle. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images The autonomous vehicl...
AT&T’s Dividend-Loving Investors Are Dialing the Wrong Number
AT&T income-hungry shareholders should have seen it coming. In April last year, a month before announcing the spinoff of its media division to shareholders in the form of shares of a 71% stake in ...
Movie Theaters Brace for a Rough Intermission
Cineworld doesn’t seem to have much faith in The Rock, though he probably shouldn’t take it personally. The U.K.-based owner of the Regal Cinemas movie-theater chain is preparing to file for chapter ...
Disney, Coinbase, BioNTech, Rivian, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Second-quarter earnings season continues this week, while a pair of July inflation figures and consumer sentiment surveys will be the highlights on the economic-data calendar. On Monday, Tys...
Disney, Coinbase, BioNTech, Rivian, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Second-quarter earnings season continues this week, while a pair of July inflation figures and consumer sentiment surveys will be the highlights on the economic-data calendar. On Monday, Tys...
Warner Bros. Discovery stock slammed after earnings debut
In its first earnings report since bringing in HBO Max and other WarnerMedia properties, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Thursday missed revenue expectations by roughly $2 billion and reported a large ...
Buy Warner Bros. Discovery, But Sell Paramount, Goldman Says. Here’s Why.
Text size Combining and relaunching the HBO Max and Discovery+ services as well as cutting costs can be tough for WarnerMedia. Dreamstime Investors should buy Warner Bros. Discovery stock because the ...
AT&T’s Dividend Yield Jumps as the Stock Falls After Earnings
Text size AT&T Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T stock is shedding value on Thursday, after a big miss on second-quarter free cash flow and lowered guidance for the remainder of the year. That...
AT&T Stock Drops Despite Adding Subscribers. Here’s Why.
Text size AT&T added more wireless and fiber subscribers than expected, paid down debt, and continued to invest in fiber and 5G. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In its first three months as a telecom...
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.
AT&T is among the big telecoms reporting earnings this week. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Text size Telecom stocks have been a haven in 2022, with the big U.S. companies leading the mar...
AT&T Stock Is a Buy Ahead of Earnings, Analyst Says
Text size ATT said in June it expected higher margins in the second half of the year. Dreamstime AT&T stock remains a Buy at Citi ahead of the company’s first earnings report since separating from...
Disney’s Abrupt Firing of Top TV Exec Just the Latest Drama Stock Doesn’t Need
Text size Peter Rice joined Disney in 2019. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images A top executive at Walt Disney is leaving nearly a year after renewing his contract in what might be just the latest headache for...
Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Netflix and Disney Stocks Hit a Rough Patch. Don’t Count on a Quick Bounceback.
Netflix hasn’t done much wrong, despite a 35% plunge on quarterly results this past week, and a 22% one back in January. The company has convinced 222 million customers worldwide to hand it an average...
AT&T CEO John Stankey on the Dividend, Inflation, and Why to Buy the Stock
The focus is on 5G wireless and fiberoptic broadband services. DirecTV, WarnerMedia , Vrio, and Xandr all are gone or in the process of being divested. AT&T (ticker: T) completed the spinoff of it...
Netflix sheds subscribers and CNN+ will shut down amid competition from Disney, Hulu, HBO, Amazon Prime and Apple. Have we finally hit peak streaming?
Media companies keep dueling for more streaming subscriptions, but viewers might be tapping out in the clash for their attention — and their cash. Netflix on Tuesday reported a first-quarter net loss ...
AT&T and WBD Stocks Both Look Attractive. Here’s Why.
Text size Barron’s praised AT&T’s Warner Bros. spinoff in a May 2021 cover story. Both stocks are attractive now. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T has officially closed the book on a tumultuo...
Disney stock tumbles to worst day since 2001 after ‘massive earnings downgrade’
Walt Disney Co. has a profit problem, and that’s helped send shares of the media giant to their worst daily performance in more than two decades. Though Disney DIS, -13.16% notched record sales during...