Oracle’s cloud strength, ‘resilient’ revenue, prompt analysts to raise targets

Oracle Corp.’s stock fell following the software giant’s fiscal third-quarter results released late Thursday, although analysts have highlighted strong momentum in the company’s cloud business. The co...

Why DocuSign Stock Might Be Falling Despite Strong Earnings

DocuSign shares were trading lower after the electronic-signature software company posted better-than-expected results. DocuSign (ticker: DOCU) posted fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share...

Datadog’s software goes down — and so does its stock

Datadog Inc.’s software suffered an outage Wednesday, and its shares declined as analysts voiced concern about a potential hit to revenue. Datadog DDOG, -3.80% first notified customers that engineers ...

Okta’s stock jumps more than 14% as earnings forecast doubles expectations

Okta Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Wednesday after the identity-management software company topped estimates by a wide margin, and executives predicted adjusted earnings that were more t...

Snowflake Stock Tumbles As Growth Outlook Disappoints

Snowflake shares are sharply lower in late trading Wednesday, after company provided guidance for the January 2024 fiscal year that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. The softer outlook is cons...

Snowflake stock falls after earnings as forecast underwhelms

This update corrects the FactSet consensus for Snowflake’s fiscal first-quarter and fiscal 2024 product revenue. Shares of Snowflake Inc. fell more than 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the d...

The 20 worst U.S. stocks in February: the biggest loser dropped 35%

Updated with month-end prices. The euphoria of January reversed in February, with broad declines for stocks across the board as interest rates continued to rise. Bond interest rates are more attractiv...

How big is the storm in cloud? Salesforce, Zoom and Snowflake will tell you

Is a cloud recession forming on the horizon? Markets could soon find out as some of the biggest names in the cloud-software business report earnings in the week ahead after a storm for their stocks. T...

One laid-off tech worker’s odyssey: 5 months, 25 interviews, 100 job applications

At times, Todd Erickson’s search for a tech job felt more like an odyssey. But after five months, about 100 job applications and more than two dozen interviews with recruiters and companies — includin...

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...

As Big Tech cuts workers, other industries are desperate to hire them

Workers who jumped from one high-paying job to another as Big Tech companies staffed up at a dizzying pace in recent years are now considering leaving the sector entirely as those same large employers...

Fastly Stock Jumps Ahead of Earnings. Analyst Says Shares Can Soar 62%.

A BofA Securities analyst turned bullish on Fastly, upgrading shares to Buy on optimism about the company’s recently appointed CEO. The cloud computing company’s stock surged as a result. Tal Liani, B...

Lumen stock has worst week in more than two decades, hits lowest prices since Reagan was in office

Lumen Technologies Inc. shares plunged to their worst weekly performance in more than two decades and their lowest prices since Ronald Reagan was in office Friday, as the business that used to carry t...

Lumen stock plunges toward levels not seen in 34 years amid a ‘reset’

Shares of Lumen Technologies Inc. were tumbling to levels not seen since 1988 Wednesday as the telecommunications company, which provides voice, broadband and other services, pressed the reset button ...

AI Stocks Are Soaring. It’s a Feeding Frenzy That Won’t End Well.

Investors are in a feeding frenzy over artificial-intelligence software plays, and you have to think this isn’t going to end well. You can date the start of the AI stock craze to the Nov. 30 launch of...

Buy Splunk Stock, Not Datadog, as Cloud Growth Slows, One Analyst Says

As companies tighten their budgets ahead of a potential recession, enterprise software spending is likely to slow in 2023. That has consequences for many stocks in the group. KeyBanc Capital Markets a...

C3.ai, BigBearAI, and SoundHound Stock Are Soaring in an AI Feeding Frenzy

Investors are in a feeding frenzy over artificial-intelligence software plays, and you have to think this isn’t going to end well. You can date the start of the AI stock craze to the Nov. 30 launch of...

IBM’s ‘substantial’ dividend, debt take wind out of Big Blue’s sails as analyst downgrades stock

International Business Machines Corp.’s stock was downgraded Monday after one analyst said that with Big Blue’s transformation efforts and its somewhat stable stock price over the year, there isn’t mu...

Wall Street wants to know when ‘GTA VI’ is going to drop, too.

The biggest question for Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. executives would be the same for gamers and Wall Street analysts: When is the next “Grand Theft Auto” going to drop? Take-Two’s TTWO, -4.74%...

Bill.com stock drops 20% as weak revenue forecast overshadows earnings beat

Bill.com Holdings Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the business automation software company’s revenue outlook struggled to exceed Wall Street expectations. Bill.com BILL, +8....

Michael Burry says sell and Jim Cramer says buy. As the Fed meets, here’s how they both could be wrong on stocks.

Michael Burry, the hedge-fund manager at Scion Asset Management who correctly forecast the 2008 financial crisis, on Tuesday night sent out a one-word tweet: “Sell.” Burry didn’t elaborate, but it’s n...

AMD CEO promises to keep taking data-center from Intel even as cloud demand pauses following ‘strong’ 2022

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares rose in the extended session Tuesday after the chip maker’s data-center sales gained and executives forecast sales of more than $5 billion to start 2023, even as clo...

Amazon expected to post first unprofitable year since 2014 and worst loss since the dot-com bust

Amazon.com Inc. is expected to reveal this week its first unprofitable year since 2014 and the worst year for its bottom line since 2000 — and expectations for this year aren’t headed in a positive di...

AMD earnings face even more scrutiny after ‘astonishingly bad’ Intel outlook

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. gets to show Wall Street if it “certainly” ended 2022 in a better place, after the price of clearing inventory helped gut results from rival Intel Corp. AMD AMD, +0.32% is ...

IBM’s layoffs aren’t helping the stock, as analysts still fret about cash flow

International Business Machines Corp. shares slumped Thursday after analysts picked apart Big Blue’s free cash flow results and outlook amid layoffs, and found a “mixed blessing” in the company’s driv...

Opinion: Intel just had its worst year since the dot-com bust, and it won’t get better anytime soon

Intel Corp. ended 2022 with its worst financial results since the dot-com bust more than 20 years ago, thanks to a double whammy of a downturn in both PCs and data centers that isn’t going to turn aro...

Intel stock drops nearly 10% after earnings miss, execs predict quarterly loss as data-center market shrinks

Intel Corp. shares dropped more than 9% in the extended session Thursday after the chip maker reported a big miss for the fourth quarter, forecast a loss for the first quarter, said the data-center ma...

IBM Earnings Top Expectations. Its Stock Is Falling.

IBM turned in strong financial results, with better-than-expected revenue, driven by the company’s software and infrastructure businesses. Its forecast of revenue was upbeat as well, but the outlook o...

IBM posts biggest annual sales increase in more than a decade, announces layoffs

International Business Machines Corp. increased revenue more than 6% in 2022, the biggest sales increase for Big Blue in more than a decade, but its stock fell in extended trading Wednesday. Chief Exe...

Opinion: Microsoft gave Wall Street hope, but then the cloud forecast turned dark

Microsoft Corp. sparked a relief rally for the cloud Tuesday, then rained on that parade after less than two hours of joy. Microsoft MSFT reported slightly disappointing holiday-quarter results, but t...

Microsoft Posts Earnings Beat On Solid Cloud Results, But Guidance Disappoints

Microsoft posted better-than-expected results for the December quarter, driven by strength in cloud computing. But the strong results were tempered by disappointing guidance for the March quarter. Whi...