Chelsea Clinton Buys Large Block of Clover Health Stock

Text size Chelsea Clinton, a director at Clover Health, bought $252,530 of the embattled shares. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Clover Health Investments stock has tumbled this year. Director Chelse...

Biogen Stock Has Fallen 50%. Why It’s Time to Buy.

Text size Biogen’s Alzheimer’s disease treatment was once expected to be a megablockbuster. Dominick Reuter/AFP via Getty Images Shares of the biotech firm Biogen are down 50% since June 1...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Block of Occidental Petroleum Stock

Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks to the press as he arrives at the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshi...

C3.ai Shares Tumble as Deutsche Bank Tells Investors to Sell the Stock

Text size Dreamstime C3.ai shares are taking a beating Friday, pressured by a negative research note from Deutsche Bank analyst Patrick Colville, who cut his rating on the stock to Sell from Hold, wit...

Opinion: These 10 dividend-paying stocks show why cash isn’t trash in a brutal market

The best shareholders love dividend stocks —and anyone concerned about the current global financial market turmoil should consider them. Dividend stocks give shareholders regular cash payouts year aft...

Verizon Has Plans for Faster Growth. Stock Buybacks Are Coming Closer.

Text size Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications could be poised to deliver faster growth in profits and revenue, making possible continued dividend inc...

DraftKings Wrapped Up Its Investor Day. These Are the Main Takeaways.

Text size Scott Eisen/Getty Images for DraftKings DraftKings is on its way to achieving a path to profitability as it works to increase gross margins and reduce spending on customer acquisition, the c...

Salesforce tops $7 billion in quarterly revenue for first time, executives focusing on Slack instead of looking for new acquisitions

Salesforce.com Inc. shares rose in extended trading Tuesday after the software company said it would focus on last year’s acquisition of Slack Technologies Inc. instead of considering more purchases a...

Vroom Stock Stalls Out as Used-Car Seller Posts Disappointing Quarter

Text size Vroom’s revenue was higher than anticipated, but the used-car seller lost more money than expected. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Tight supplies and soaring prices for new cars continue to hav...

Rivian Stock’s Price Target Gets a Cut. There Are Too Many Headwinds.

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter earnings in about a week. One analyst cut his price target on the stock ahead of the report because there a...

As BP Exits Russia, Other Oil Companies Face Risks Too

Text size Shell has a big stake in a Russian liquefied natural gas project. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Oil companies haven’t been this financially strong in decades. They also haven’t been as politi...

Warren Buffett’s Preferred Equity Allocation Is 100%

Warren Buffett’s preferred equity allocation is 100%, and he has adopted that strategy both personally and at Berkshire Hathaway in a way that is radically different from other companies in the insura...

Semiconductor sales to Russia banned, but that shouldn’t hurt Intel, AMD and other chip makers

Semiconductor companies are banning sales to Russia following the company’s invasion of Ukraine, but an analyst says the companies shouldn’t feel much of an effect. As Russian forces continued to bomb...

Viatris stock slides 24% as analysts say sale of biosimilars to Indian partner removes key growth driver

Viatris Inc. said Monday it has agreed to combine its biosimilars portfolio with privately held Indian company Biocon Biologics Ltd. for up to $3.335 billion, as part of a broader overhaul of its busi...

Viatris to Sell Biosimilars Business for $3 Billion. Shares Tumble.

Viatris will sell the biosimilars business of the former Mylan to the Indian drugmaker Biocon for as much as $3.3 billion. Dreamstime Text size Viatris , the company formed in 2020 through a merger of...

Ford CEO Shuts Down EV Spinoff Rumors. The Ford Family Won’t Let It Happen.

Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley told investors Wednesday there were no plans to spin off his company’s electric vehicle business. That shouldn’t be a surprise. The Ford family is unlikely to ever let an EV ...

Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Finds ‘Little That Excites Us’ in the Stock Market

Berkshire Hathaway finds “little that excites us” in the stock market, CEO Warren Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning. “That’s largely because of a truism: Long-ter...

Look to the Energy Patch for a Dividend Bonanza. Devon Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources Look Good.

What was already going to be a challenging year for investors was further disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in a market that has been lacking in certainty, income investors may want to ta...

Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Face a New Rival as GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Prepare to Enter the Ring

As new Covid-19 cases fall, the postpandemic vaccine market grows more interesting. On Wednesday, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, two of the world’s largest vaccine makers, said they would submit a Covid ...

Dell stock drops as earnings miss offsets new dividend

Dell Technologies Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the computer maker’s earnings fell short of Wall Street expectations while the company’s board initiated a dividend. Dell  ...

AMD announces $8 billion stock buyback program

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. inched higher in after-hours trading Thursday after the chip company announced a new $8 billion buyback authorization. The new repurchase authorization is in addi...

Bill Gates Bought Up More of This Waste-Management Stock

Waste-management company Republic Services has been down in the dumps this year, but its largest shareholder, Bill Gates, just bought more shares. Republic Services stock (ticker: RSG) has slid 14% ye...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Stake in American Express Is Poised to Hit 20%

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway ‘s longstanding stake in American Express is set to hit the 20% threshold in the coming...

Here Are the 10 Highest-Yielding S&P 500 Stocks

High dividend yields are a nice offset to inflation, now running at more than 7%, the highest rate in four decades. Barron’s screened the S&P 500 for the 10 highest-yielding stocks based on data f...

Asana Shares Tumble Despite Stock Buying Spree by CEO

Text size Dreamstime Asana shares are melting down on Wednesday, giving up most of their gains following a recent rally spurred by mammoth purchases of the workflow software management company’s stock...

Rio Tinto to Pay Its Highest-Ever Dividend After Posting Record Profit

Text size Rio Tinto says it will pay a total dividend for the year of $10.40 a share, including a special dividend of $2.47. Photograph by Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Rio Tinto ‘s earnings for 2021...

Rio Tinto to Pay $7.7 Billion of Dividends After Posting Record 2021 Profit

Text size Rio Tinto Photograph by Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Rio Tinto ‘s earnings for 2021 jumped 72% as prices of commodities soared and the world’s second-largest miner said it would reward sha...

Meritor shares headed toward 24-year high after Cummins buys axle, braking and powertrain maker for $3.7 billion

Shares of Meritor Inc., a maker of axle, braking and electric powertrain components, were headed toward a 24-year high Tuesday, after the company announced a deal to be acquired by diesel truck engine...

Home Depot Stock Dips Despite Earnings Beat and Dividend Hike

Text size Home Depot posted better-than-expected sales and profits Tuesday. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Home Depot stock lost steam Tuesday even as the home-improvement retailer reported stronger-t...

Cummins Is Buying Parts Maker Meritor. It’s a Deal About EV Trucks.

Text size Cummins is best known for its diesel engines, but it is also investing in electric powertrains and hydrogen technology. Dreamstime The diesel-engine manufacturer Cummins disclosed plans to b...

Why Barrick Gold’s CEO Is Looking to Boost Its Copper Business

Text size Barrick aims to boost its gold production to 4.8 million ounces annually by the end of decade from 4.4 million in 2021. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Mark Bristow, the CEO of one of the bi...

Giant U.S. Pension Bought Up EV Stocks NIO, XPeng, Li Auto, and Rivian

Text size A Nio eP9 car Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images The second-largest U.S. pension by assets bought up shares of four electric-vehicle makers as 2021 was coming to a close. Unfortunately, the...