Northrop Grumman and 5 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week

Text size Northrop Grumman said it would raise its stock dividend. Courtesy of Northrop Grumman American Tower , Chubb , and Northrop Grumman were among the U.S. companies this week that announced pla...

Buy Genco Shipping & Trading Stock. The Shipping Company Is About to Pay a 14% Dividend Yield.

The shipping industry is undeniably cyclical, a feature that has kept away legions of investors burned by too many sudden downturns with no clear pattern of recovery. But for Genco Shipping & Trad...

Robinhood and 4 Other Broken IPO Stocks That Could Be Buys

After a bubbly year for initial public offerings, 2022 looks like a bust. Shares of many companies that came public last year are down 80% or more from their peaks. “This is the IPO market’s worst sel...

Shopify and 5 More Stocks That Aren’t as Cheap as They Look

Text size As stocks tumble, investors should know how GAAP earnings can reveal flaws in seemingly attractive companies, such as Lyft. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Stocks are tumbling and bargains aboun...

Boeing Sells 50 737 MAX Jets to IAG at Discount

Text size A Boeing 737 MAX 10 airliner. Ellen Banner-Pool/Getty Images International Consolidated Airlines Group said it has ordered 50 Boeing 737 MAX jets, with options for a further 100 aircraft at ...

You bought. They sold. Meet some of the insiders who unloaded $35 billion in stock amid the tech IPO bonanza before it tanked.

A year ago, Heather Hasson and Catherine “Trina” Spear traveled from Santa Monica, Calif., to New York to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The co–chief executives of FIGS, an onli...

‘I partially support my partner of 12 years as his business is, sadly, failing’: I’m 33, and have $300,000 in company stock. Should I sell those shares to pay off my debt of $56,000?

I am 33 years old, I currently make just over $120,000 a year, including an annual bonus, and my company has gifted me with around $300,000 in equity in the firm, although our stock is brand new, so i...

Twitter Strikes Back, Says It Will Enforce Agreement With Elon Musk

Text size Elon Musk says the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter is on hold. Twitter disagrees. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Twitter will hold Elon Musk to his offer to buy the company at the $44 billi...

Opinion: Elon Musk doesn’t want to buy Twitter anymore, but Twitter should make him pay for it

It’s becoming quite clear that Elon Musk no longer wants to buy Twitter Inc., at least not at the price he negotiated. But Twitter should not walk away without at least $1 billion — and potentially mu...

Doximity stock plummets after forecast, heads lower than IPO price for first time

Doximity Inc. shares plunged toward all-time lows in after-hours trading Tuesday, following an earnings report that projected an unexpected revenue decline in the current quarter. Doximity DOCS, +2.36...

Which of Buffett’s bank stocks might make you the most money?

This is the time of the quarter when investors get to see what changes Warren Buffett and the management team at Berkshire Hathaway have made to the conglomerate’s stock portfolio. The big splash in B...

Berkshire Hathaway Didn’t Have to Disclose Earlier its 10% Stake in Paramount. Here’s Why.

Text size Berkshire Hathaway now owns 10.6% of Paramount Global. Dreamstime Berkshire Hathaway ’s purchase of more than 10% of Paramount Global , disclosed late Monday, normally would have triggered a...

Rivian CEO Bought Stock in the EV Start-Up. The Shares Are Rising.

Text size CEO R.J. Scaringe’s recent purchase means he owns about 4.5 million shares of Rivian stock. Courtesy of Rivian Rivian ’s CEO R.J. Scaringe stepped up and bought the dip in his company’...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals new stakes in Paramount, Citigroup

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company on Monday revealed all the investment moves it made in the first quarter, when it spent more than $51 billion on stocks. But Buffett had already shared the bigge...

PayPal borrows $3 billion to help fund debt buyback plan

PayPal Holdings Inc. hit the market on Monday with a $3 billion corporate bond financing to help the online money-transfer and payments giant fund a $2 billion tender offer for its own debt. The four-...

Berkshire Hathaway Sold Nearly All Its Verizon Stake in the First Quarter

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire bought stakes in Paramount Global and Market in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway bought stakes in Citigrou...

Carvana Issued a New Operating Plan. The Stock Is Rallying.

Text size A Carvana used car “vending machine” on May 11, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Carvana shares were rising Monday as investors reacted to the used car platform’s ...

Diamondback Energy Agrees to Buy Rattler Midstream for $2.2 Billion

Text size The energy landscape has transformed dramatically since Rattler was taken public in 2019. Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Rattler Midstream shares soared on Monday after the company announc...

JetBlue Launches Tender Offer for Spirit Airlines at $30 a Share

Text size Spirit Airlines planes are shown at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Spirit Airlines shares surged Monday after JetBlue Airways launch...

Crypto Prices Move in Tandem With Traditional Markets, Punishing Investors

Cryptocurrency prices are moving in lockstep with stocks and bonds like never before, punishing those who bought bitcoin and other digital assets in part to diversify their investment holdings. The th...

A $100 Billion Comedown: Soaring Defaults Shrink Asia’s Junk-Bond Market

Once the place to be for yield-seeking global investors, Asia’s junk-bond market has shrunk drastically and new debt issuance has slowed to a trickle. Less than 18 months ago, the dollar-bond market f...

Renault Sells Russia Business to State-Backed Entity for One Ruble

PARIS—French auto maker Renault SA has reached a deal to cede its 68% stake in Russia’s biggest car maker to a state-backed entity for one ruble and a six-year option to buy back its shares, according...

JetBlue to Launch Tender Offer for Spirit, Urge Shareholders to Vote Against Frontier Deal

JetBlue Airways Corp. said it plans to launch a hostile takeover attempt for discount carrier Spirit Airlines Inc. after Spirit rejected JetBlue’s $3.6 billion offer in favor of an existing deal with ...

Are SPACs That Bad? Study Find Similar Returns for Blank Checks and IPOs

Text size A wheel loader moves ore at MP Materials’ mine in Mountain Pass, Calif. Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg Special-purpose acquisition companies have lost their luster this year. But recent data ...

Opinion: Elon Musk is likely trying to get a lower price for Twitter

Is Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid for Twitter actually a $1 billion joke by the world’s richest man? That’s a possibility that cannot be ignored, as investors scramble to make sense of Musk’s latest shen...

Princeton University Discloses Large Stake in Lithium Miner

Text size Students walk on campus at Princeton University. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images Princeton University disclosed that it owned a large stake in an early-stage lithium miner. In fact, Princet...

Phillips 66, Electronic Arts, and 5 More Companies That Raised Their Dividend

Text size Phillips 66 raised its stock dividend this week. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Phillips 66 , Cardinal Health , and Electronic Arts were among the U.S. companies that declared dividend increase...

Buy Citizens Financial Stock. Its Shares Could Gain 29%.

Bigger is better in banking—and Citizens Financial Group has been taking steps that should allow it to play with the bigger boys. Its stock looks like a winner. These days, it’s nearly impossible for ...

Soros fund doubles down on Rivian bet, buys stakes in Lucid, Nio

Billionaire George Soros’s investment fund has doubled down on its bet on Rivian Automotive Inc. and taken new positions on EV makers Nio Inc. and Lucid Motors Inc., according to a filing late Friday....

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz Bought $10 Million of Stock

Text size Howard Schultz has halted Starbucks’ buybacks of its stock. Getty Images Howard Schultz, now on his third stint as Starbucks ‘ top executive, just bought millions of dollars of the cof...

Fisker and Foxconn confirm compact EV will be built at Lordstown plant

Fisker Inc. confirmed Thursday that Foxconn will build its second car, a compact EV, at a newly acquired plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The Fisker FSR, +12.55% Pear will enter production in 2024 and cost a...

Beyond Meat’s stock slides 20% on weak sales, heads lower than IPO price for first time

Beyond Meat Inc.’s not-so-good 2022 took an ugly turn for the worse Wednesday with quarterly results that lacked sizzle. The maker of plant-based meat products BYND, -13.83% reported a net loss of $10...