Buy Zillow stock now to profit from ‘brighter environment’ next year, UBS says

Investors should buy Zillow Group Inc. now, UBS says, even if they have to wait a year before the U.S. housing market starts improving. Analyst Lloyd Walmsley initiated research coverage of the online...

Cloud software is a ‘fight for a knife in the mud,’ and Wall Street is souring on the one sector that was winning

The cloud-software business has come to resemble a “fight for a knife in the mud,” as one popular TV character would put it, with vendors scrambling for the crumbs of declining business spending and h...

McCormick, PulteGroup, and Merck Boost Dividends

McCormick PulteGroup and Merck Merck were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. McCormick (ticker:MKC) will boost its quarterly disbursement to 39 cents a share fr...

Caterpillar, Deere, and More Industrial Stocks Ready to Break Out

Stocks in the industrial sector have been on a tear. In aggregate, they are knocking on the door of reaching new heights. The Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF (ticker: XLI ), home to Caterpillar (CAT...

BYD Can Take Lead in EV Deliveries. Tesla May Pass Toyota on Operating Profit.

China’s BYD wants to challenge Tesla for its crown as the biggest EV maker. It just might succeed, but Tesla could snag a more important prize held by Toyota Motor. On Friday, BYD (ticker: 1211. Hong ...

Buy AbbVie Stock. The Pharma Giant Is Still Worth Owning Even as Humira Fades.

Sometimes, a single worry grows so large that it obscures all the good things happening at the same time. That’s the case with the stock of pharma giant AbbVie whose blockbuster drug Humira faces pate...

Nio EV deliveries rise 30% to a record in November, XPeng’s tumbles 63%

Nio Inc. reported Thursday that November deliveries that surged to a record monthly total, outpacing rival China-based electric vehicle makers by a wide margin. The company said it delivered 14,178 EV...

Marvell, Zscaler, Asana, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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Marvell Stock Sinks as Earnings Fall Short. Customers Are Pulling Back.

Marvell Technology shares were sinking in late trading Thursday after the data- center semiconductor firm’s earnings and outlook disappointed Wall Street. The company said makers of storage equipment ...

Okta stock surges more than 25% as analysts approve of company’s profit heading

Okta Inc. shares surged by more than a quarter of its value Thursday after analysts praised the identity software company for heading in the right direction after it promised a profitable fiscal 2024 ...

Zscaler stock drops 10% on conservative guidance, as it’s taking longer to close deals

Zscaler Inc. stock fell in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company said longer sales cycles and other headwinds contributed to its conservative guidance, one slightly above the W...

ChargePoint Results Fall Short. Guidance Is Saving the Stock.

Shares of EV charging company ChargePoint have been caught in the sell off that’s hammered small-capitalization stocks that don’t produce earnings or generate free cash flow, yet. Investors hoped that...

Costco’s Sales Update Slams the Stock. Strong Grocery Sales Aren’t Enough.

Stock in Costco dropped Thursday as its same-store sales fell short of expectations, a rare miss for the warehouse club owner that highlights how strong sales of groceries aren’t enough to make up for...

Gun maker Sturm, Ruger to pay $5 special dividend, stock surges

Shares of Sturm, Ruger & Co. rallied toward a four-month high Thursday, after the firearm maker said it would pay a special dividend of $5 a share. Shareholders of record on Deb. 15 will be paid t...

It’s Rough Out There. Stick With Dividend Stocks to Stay Afloat.

Dividend stocks are poised to notch an impressive victory this year. The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend index is ahead 5.5%, cruising past the S&P 500 index, down 14.4% in total returns. Even more...

This trader sees a 43% drop for the S&P 500 and says to take shelter in these ETFs instead.

A day after the Dow DJIA, -0.11% climbed out of bear territory on hopeful comments by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, stocks look ready to rethink on that optimsim, even after fresh inflation data showed ...

Alibaba stock flies toward best month in 7 years

The U.S.-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. were ending a historically strong month on a high note Wednesday, as the China-based e-commerce giant was swept up in the hope that the country wil...

Opinion: Salesforce better get used to Marc Benioff in charge, because he keeps chasing off his chosen successors

Salesforce Inc. has twice promoted a seasoned executive to co-CEO, and both times it was taken as a sign that the cloud-software pioneer had found an eventual successor to co-founder Marc Benioff at t...

Snowflake stock drops after sales forecast that CFO admits is ‘conservative’

Shares of Snowflake Inc. fell more than 5% in after-hours trading Wednesday, when the data-software company’s executives announced quarterly revenue that topped expectations but came up shy with their...

Okta stock jumps 15%, CEO promises profit as sales reps get on same page

Okta Inc. executives on Wednesday said they will report an adjusted profit in the fourth quarter and, in a surprise, predicted profitability for all of next fiscal year, trumping profit concerns stemm...

Carvana Stock Downgraded After a 97% Drop. Why Analysts Waited.

Carvana stock is falling in Wednesday trading, following a BofA Securities downgrade. The move comes after the stock has swooned 97% so far this year, although BofA isn’t alone in riding the used-car ...

XPeng’s Results Miss Forecasts but the Stock Is Soaring

XPeng investors desperately needed some good news. They didn’t get much with the company’s third-quarter earnings report. Shares are soaring anyway to start the day. It looks as if the badly beaten up...

China electric vehicle maker XPeng posts wider than expected 3Q loss of CNY2.38 billion ($332m)

XPeng Inc. XPEV, +6.53% said Wednesday that it expects its fourth-quarter vehicle deliveries to decline as much as 52% as the Chinese electric-car maker reported a wider loss for the third quarter. XP...

Private-prison stock hits two-year high as analysts cite potential for more detention beds, detention alternatives

Shares of private-prison operator GEO Group Inc. jumped to their highest level in roughly two years on Tuesday after Wedbush analysts upgraded the stock, citing a GOP-controlled House, possible change...

Competitors chip away at Tesla’s share of U.S. EV market

DETROIT — New electric vehicle models from multiple automakers are starting to chip away at Tesla’s dominance of the U.S. EV market, according to national vehicle registration data. But numbers collec...

CrowdStrike Stock Falls Hard as Outlook Disappoints

CrowdStrike Holdings shares were tumbling in after-hours trading Tuesday after the security software company gave an outlook for the current quarter that fell short of what Wall Street had expected. F...

CrowdStrike stock drops nearly 20% as elongating sales cycle slows new subscriptions

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Tuesday after the cybersecurity company said new subscriptions came in below expectations amid macro headwinds and longer customer buyi...

20 dividend stocks with high yields that have become more attractive right now

Income-seeking investors are looking at an opportunity to scoop up shares of real estate investment trusts. Stocks in that asset class have become more attractive as prices have fallen and cash flow i...

Twilio Stock Has Been Hammered. 3 Reasons It Could Fall Even More.

Twilio stock was falling Monday after a Jefferies analyst cited three reasons why he has lost confidence in the cloud-based software provider over the near-term. Analyst Samad Samana downgraded shares...

Apple Stock Keeps Falling—and I Feel Fine

If Apple stock falls and it doesn’t make a sound, will anyone notice? Not if the market stock market keeps going up. The past month has been good for the stock market and bad for Apple stock (ticker: ...

Elon Musk Email Was Old News. He Still Likes His Advice For Managers.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk looked to have some welcome news for investors. But it was old news. All that investors can take away from a Saturday tweet is Musk doesn’t like a lot of meetings. An email from Mu...

Hormel Foods and HP Inc. Declare Dividend Increases

Text size Hormel stock has returned about 3% this year through Friday, dividends included. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Hormel Foods and HP declared dividend increases in a light week for such announcements...