Elon Musk Has a Role Model for Taking a Tech Firm Private: Michael Dell

Text size Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies. Matthew Busch/Bloomberg Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted four words—and a link to a government filing—to tell the world, o...

Facebook parent Meta set to take nearly 50% cut from virtual sales — and Apple is calling it out

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.’s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within its emerging metaverse is drawing widespread criticism from developers and longtime nemesis Apple In...

Meta Stock Might Have Another Round of Weaker Earnings Ahead

Text size Meta stock saw a couple of price target cuts as analysts worried about its coming earnings report. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Wall Street is bracing for another rough quarter for Facebook ...

Why Apple’s Stock Buybacks and Its Dividend Could Get a Big Boost

Text size Apple stock has faced headwinds in 2022 but is still up 26% from this time a year ago. Dreamstime Apple ’s quarterly earnings reports frequently hog the spotlight on days when they drop. The...

Cisco Stock Slumps. It Faces Competition From Arista and Juniper, Analyst Says

Text size Cisco Systems logo Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images Shares of Cisco Systems were falling Tuesday after the networking hardware and software giant was downgraded to a Sell by Citi. Analyst ...

Microsoft Stock Slips on Concern About Growth for Office 365

Text size Microsoft Office is one of the company’s biggest businesses. Dreamstime Microsoft shares are under pressure from concerns about how the company might be affected by slowing growth in t...

Nvidia Stock Is Downgraded. China and Russia Are Headwinds.

Text size Dreamstime Nvidia shares were falling on Monday after the stock was downgraded by a Baird analyst, who cited concerns over slowing consumer demand exacerbated by the Russian embargo. Nvidia ...

Warren Buffett Loves Cheap Stocks. The HP Purchase Is Proof.

Text size Warren Buffett. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Warren Buffett is at heart a value investor. Berkshire Hathaway ’s recent investment activity, including the purchase of more th...

AT&T Boss Sees Room to Raise Prices, Cut Costs After Media Exit

AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Stankey says inflation could prompt the wireless and broadband company to raise prices for some core services while it continues to cut costs after getting o...

Buffett Gave HP Stock a Boost. Why It’s Still a Buy.

Text size Shares of HP jumped 15% this past week after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a large stake. Why the stock still looks cheap. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg When Bill Hewlett and Dave ...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes 11% Stake in HP

Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated an 11.4% stake worth $4.2 billion in HP Inc. , the maker of personal computers and printers, ...

Investment Firm Files Finra Arbitration Demand Against Morgan Stanley

An investor accused Morgan Stanley of leaking information about a large sale of shares of Palantir Technologies Inc., saddling it with millions of dollars in losses. Morgan Stanley is at the center of...

Apple Was Dropped From J.P. Morgan’s ‘Focus List.’ What Worried the Analyst.

Text size J.P. Morgan removes Apple from its Analyst Focus List. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple stock has been on an absolute tear. Now J.P. Morgan is removing it from the firm’s Analyst ...

Investors are fed up with Netflix and Facebook’s parent. Why this portfolio manager is digging in and buying more.

It has been a quarter to forget for two of the megacap tech giants, Netflix and Facebook parent Meta Platforms. The 34% decline for Meta FB was its worst on record — the 30% drop in the third quarter ...

Opinion: I’ve always pounded the table on revolutionary companies. Now I’ve found myself buying Intel’s stock

This may be a surprise for those of you who have been following me on MarketWatch, as I have focused on finding Revolutionary companies early on and holding on to them, usually forever. Intel is a com...

Roblox Stock Halved This Year. These Analysts Say Estimates Are ‘Too High.’

A wave of metaverse excitement for Roblox shares evaporated in recent months amid slowing domestic user growth trends and concerns about profitability. Courtesy of Roblox Text size A wave of metaverse...

Intel CEO Gelsinger’s reaps near-$180 million windfall from ‘significant magnitude’ of new-hire awards

Pat Gelsinger had a very, very good year in 2021. He started the year as VMware Inc.’s VMW, -2.00% chief executive officer, where he took in total compensation of $16.5 million during the fiscal year ...

Apple reportedly wants to handle its own financial services, and partners’ stocks paid the price

Apple Inc. has increasing ambitions in financial technology as it explores ways to participate in the financial-services industry more directly, according to a Wednesday report. The company is develop...

UiPath stock drops 20% after outlook falls short of Wall Street expectations

UiPath Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Wednesday after the “software robot” provider’s weaker-than-expected outlook overshadowed a beat of Wall Street’s quarterly results estimates. UiPath...

MicroStrategy to borrow against its bitcoin holdings to buy more of the cryptocurrency

MicroStrategy has been conducting a strategy for some time of using its data analytics business to fund the purchase of bitcoin. Now it’s taking that strategy one step further — it’s borrowing, agains...

Apple Stock Is on Its Hottest Winning Streak Since 2003. What Happens Next.

Text size Apple stock is on a historical tear. Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images for Apple Apple stock hasn’t had a winning streak this hot since spring 2003. Shares in Apple (ticker: AAPL) have climbed i...

Nvidia Stock Is Rising. There’s a New Street-High Price Target.

Text size Nvidia headquarters Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia stock edged higher Tuesday after a Tigress Financial Partners analyst raised his price target for chip maker to a new Wall Street high...

Micron Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size Softening demand for personal computers and smartphones could pressure pricing on DRAM chips. Dreamstime Memory-chip giant Micron Technology reports earnings this afternoon for its fiscal se...

Freed Huawei Finance Chief Meng Wanzhou Returns to Company Spotlight

HONG KONG—Months after returning home to a hero’s welcome in China, Huawei Technologies Co. finance chief Meng Wanzhou was back in the spotlight Monday: This time, she was in more familiar surrounding...

Apple Stock Falls and Suppliers Decline on Report of iPhone SE Output Cuts

Text size The next-generation iPhone SE Courtesy Apple Shares of Apple and the tech giant’s suppliers were falling early Monday following a Nikkei Asia report that said Apple plans to make about 20% f...

GameStop stock shows rare resiliency as it rises to longest win streak in more than 4 years

Shares of GameStop Corp. continued to charge higher Friday, to extend the win streak that started nine trading days ago, after they closed at a one-year low. The videogame and consumer electronics ret...

Southeast Asia Is Surging Postpandemic. Where to Invest.

A floating market in Damnoen Saduak, Thailand. Southeast Asia is looking attractive to investors as countries move past the pandemic. Eduardo Leal/Bloomberg Text size Not all the world news is bad the...

T-Mobile Stock Gets an Upgrade. It Has an Edge Over Verizon and AT&T.

Text size T-Mobile’s stock was upgraded to Overweight. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg T-Mobile US shares were ticking up on Wednesday after KeyBanc Capital Markets upgraded the wireless company’s s...

Apple Stock’s Rally Could Keep Going Thanks to ‘Stellar’ iPhone 13 Demand

Text size People shop at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Demand for the iPhone 13 is on track to outpace previous iPhone models, according to analysts, with the po...

How about a new FAANG? This grouping outperforms the tech giants

The FAANG grouping of stocks has been so 2021. Facebook parent Meta Platforms FB, -1.47%, Amazon.com AMZN, -0.90%, Apple AAPL, +0.82%, Netflix NFLX, -2.20% and Google parent Alphabet GOOGL, -1.14% hav...

Nvidia’s $1 trillion ambitions draw cheers as software becomes a bigger piece of the pie

Nvidia Corp.’s pursuit of what it sees as a $1 trillion opportunity won praise from analysts following the company’s investor-day presentation, even though the chipmaker’s stock conveyed a more muted ...

BlackBerry Valuation Makes It More Attractive. The Stock Receives an Upgrade.

Text size A logo stands on display outside the BlackBerry headquarters. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Shares of BlackBerry received a boost on Monday after analysts at RBC Capital Markets upgraded the sto...