Trade Desk stock rockets as CEO says company is outperforming like never before

Shares of Trade Desk Inc. surged on Wednesday after the advertising-technology company issued an upbeat outlook that helped quell fears about the digital-ad market. Chief Executive Jeff Green spoke po...

Biden targets stock buybacks — do they help you as an investor?

There seem to be two camps when it comes to stock buybacks. On one hand, share buybacks can reduce a company’s share count, which increases profit per share and hopefully supports a rising stock price...

These 20 stocks were the biggest losers of 2022

Updated with Dec. 30 closing prices. This was a year of reckoning for Big Tech stocks — even those of companies that continued to grow sales by double digits. Below is a list of the 20 stocks in the S...

Facebook earnings cut in half, Meta stock sinks toward lowest prices in more than 6 years

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday became the latest tech titan tattooed by a precipitous drop in digital advertising, reporting less than half the profit it had in the same quarter a ye...

These 11 stocks can lead your portfolio’s rebound after the S&P 500 ‘earnings recession’ and a market bottom next year

This may surprise you: Wall Street analysts expect earnings for the S&P 500 to increase 8% during 2023, despite all the buzz about a possible recession as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary pol...

Netflix and Tesla stocks are not having a good year, but here comes a chance to turn it around

Two stocks that have defined Wall Street’s boom in the past decade — streaming giant Netflix Inc. and electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc. — will hope to turn around some poor recent trajectories as earn...

Weekend reads: This may cause the next financial crisis

The Federal Reserve invigorated the economy before and during the coronavirus pandemic by purchasing Treasury bonds. The central bank was the main purchaser of newly issued U.S. debt and created trill...

It’s a great time to scoop up bargain stocks. Here are 21 examples that could make you a lot of money.

Are you a contrarian investor? Sometimes it seems everyone claims to be one, but it isn’t easy, especially after a wipeout such as the one we saw on Sept. 13. An investor who wishes to pay bargain pri...

Snap CEO Sees Challenges in Executing Turnaround Drive

Sept. 8, 2022 12:14 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegel said he’s bracing for a challenging turnaround period as the company tries to revamp itself and rekindle sales...

Apple decimated Meta’s adtech empire. Now, it’s honing in on its advertisers

In terms of Silicon Valley feuds, you’d be hard pressed to find one that’s spicier than the years-long battle between Meta and Apple. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg started steering his company to...

Trade Desk stock shoots 15% higher as ad-tech powerhouse’s sales, forecast top expectations

Trade Desk Inc. reported stronger-than-expected sales and guidance Tuesday amid doubts about the online-advertising industry, sending shares 15% higher in extended trading. Trade Desk TTD, -0.86% repo...

Opinion: As Snap melts down, its founders make sure to protect the people who matter: themselves

Snap Inc. has never been an investor-friendly company — as long as those investors weren’t its founders, at least — and the parent company of the Snapchat app made that even clearer Thursday. Amid a m...

Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...

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 ...

Apple Could Add $10 Billion of Revenue by Selling More Ads. Here’s How.

Text size People walk past an Apple store in Shanghai in October. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images How ironic it would be if Apple was the next great online advertising sales business. Apple (ticke...

10 tech value stocks that at least 75% of analysts rate as a ‘buy’ right now

So far, 2022 is a year of value stocks. But some tech stocks fit that definition. Below is a high-conviction list of technology stocks among the S&P 500 SPX, +0.05% that have low valuations to ear...

Snap shares soar 59% on first profitable quarter

Whipsawed by Meta’s poor results a day earlier, Snap Inc. reported its first quarterly profit as well as top- and bottom-line numbers that beat Street expectations on Thursday. The results turned arou...