Stocks are in the green for Thursday, with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the driver’s seat after less disastrous than feared results. Gains are a bit less than what stock futures were promising th...
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Facebook Parent Meta Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size For the March quarter, Meta projected revenue of between $27 billion and $29 billion. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Facebook ’s parent Meta Platforms will release its first-quarter financ...
These 21 large-cap stocks have now crashed at least 50%
Stocks soured on April 26, with major declines for broad indexes that underlined what a difficult year it has been, so far, for technology stocks. Below is a list of 21 large-cap stocks that have drop...
Buying the Dip Can Be a Retiree’s Best Friend. Here’s How Seniors Can Safely Shop.
Photo illustration by Barron’s Staff; (reference) Dreamstime (4) Text size It’s hard at any age to buy stocks when prices are falling, but for retirees it can be especially nerve-racking because...
Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.
Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...
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...
Private Chinese Online Retailer Stuns Apparel World With $100 Billion Valuation
LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 23: Georgia Toffolo attends SHEIN Summer Pop Up Preview Evening on May 23, … [+] 2019 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for SHEIN...
Musk Says Twitter’s Board Owns Almost No Stock. Here’s How It Compares With Tesla.
Twitter’s directors are granted $225,000 of restricted stock units, plus at least $50,000 in cash, annually. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Elon Musk questioned Twitter directors’ alignment wit...
Musk’s Cannabis-Themed Twitter Offer Looks High but Not Wacky
Text size Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter. Al Drago/Bloomberg Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter —and you don’t need to work up a discounted cash flow anal...
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 ...
Netflix and Other Tech Stocks Report Earnings Soon. What to Expect.
Text size Exposure to Russia is a concern for some tech companies this earnings season. Dreamstime The first-quarter tech earnings season is just around the corner, and Wall Street is getting just a w...
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 ...
As Oil Briefly Dips Below $100, Russia and Europe Play a Game of Chicken
U.S. oil prices briefly dipped below $100 barrel Friday, as President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels a day of reserves began to have the desired effect. But it’s premature to start th...
Yandex, Russia’s Internet Giant, Struggles to Dodge Geopolitics
If you thought Silicon Valley had a problem with politics, spare a thought for Russia’s top internet company. Newsletter Sign-up Heard on the Street Agenda-setting analysis and commentary on the bigge...
Biden’s Budget to Include Billionaire Tax Proposal
The proposal to tax billionaire households aims to ensure the wealthiest Americans pay at least 20% on their income and unrealized asset gains. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty Images Text si...
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...
Apple and Nvidia Are Picked by Robot Trader That Dumped Google and Meta
Text size The robot trader likes Apple and Nvidia stock. Fresco/Evening Standard/Getty Images Apple and Nvidia were two stocks singled out for gains in March by a fund with holdings picked by artifici...
The 8 worst-performing S&P 500 stocks with the highest ratings are expected to rebound by more than 50% over the next year
Investors don’t need to be told that stocks have been volatile. There’s a market of extremes as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues and investors wait to see what the Federal Open Market Committee does ...
Bearish Bets: 3 Nasdaq Stocks You Should Consider Shorting This Week
Each week we identify names that look bearish and may present interesting investing opportunities on the short side. Using technical analysis of the charts of those stocks, and, when appropriate, rece...
Analysts Are Cutting Meta Targets. But They Can’t Keep Up With the Falling Stock.
Text size Investors fled shares of the social-media giant after its fourth-quarter earnings report. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Another analyst slashed his price target for shares of Facebook par...
Opinion: I’m raising cash and getting defensive as the stock market works through its excesses
This war is shameful and crazy. All wars are. And there’s no telling what President Putin is going to do next. What I do know is that the globalized world economy is not going back to what it was. The...
It wasn’t hard for Apple to cut off Russia, but the precedent could be troublesome — ‘China is the real test’
When Apple Inc. paused sales in Russia last week, it made a powerful political statement, but it also may have set a dangerous precedent. Big Tech has become as powerful and responsible as the top nat...
Meta Is Fending Off TikTok, and Revenue Growth Will Slow, Morgan Stanley Warns
Text size A Meta Platforms sign Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Meta Platforms made clear on its latest earnings call that the company has growing concerns about competition in short-form video from TikT...
Apple, Microsoft Tumble as Russia-Ukraine Crisis Leads to Selloff of Big Tech
Text size Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images for Apple Some of the biggest U.S. tech stocks and investor favorites weren’t spared in the major stock market selloff Thursday as Wall Street reacted to the Ru...
Forget Apple and Google. Meta Has Another Existential Threat on the Horizon.
Text size Investors in Meta have been taken on a wild ride this month. There are more threats ahead. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ shareholders have had a lot to worry about recen...
Stock market faces the most ‘massive misallocation’ of ‘capital in the history of mankind,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood
Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, took to CNBC to defend the woeful performance of the manager’s suite of disruptive innovation funds. Wood told the business networ...
Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper. Should I Buy the Former Facebook?
Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...
Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO
Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...
Inflation Is Everywhere, Including Places You Might Not Expect
Inflation is seeping through American business, hitting companies in unexpected ways beyond higher prices for materials, shipping or wages. It is adding to legal costs for the maker of Marlboro cigare...
Weekend reads: Inflation fear and opportunities for investors
U.S. consumer price inflation rose to a 40-year high of 7.5% in January. That pace is running way ahead of wage growth, and the official figures can mask even more pain, depending on a family’s circum...
Opinion: Big Tech is no longer winning as big, but these two stocks still seem safe
The Big Tech earnings boom is officially over, but some of the world’s most powerful and valuable companies are breaking off from the pack. As this column told you months ago, profit increases are no ...