Giant Pension Bought AMD, Tilray, Uber, and Petrobras Stock

Text size An AMD EPYC processor. Courtesy AMD New Jersey’s state pension materially increased investments in some of its larger positions. State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, the pension’s larg...

Market’s 2022 Slide Has Already Changed Investor Behavior

The 2022 pullback in U.S. stocks intensified last week, with stocks on Thursday staging their largest single-day decline since the onset of the pandemic. The plunge came just a day after Federal Reser...

Virgin Galactic Burned Less Cash Than Expected. The Stock Fell Anyway.

Text size Virgin Galactic reported a loss of 36 cents a share in the first quarter on sales of $319,000. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Space tourism pioneer Virgin Galactic posted first-quarter results wer...

Zillow stock slides to 2-year low, Wall Street keeps slashing targets amid ‘dour’ housing market outlook

Shares of Zillow Group Inc. slumped to a two-year low Friday, as Wall Street analysts continued to slash their price targets in the wake of the real estate information company’s upbeat first-quarter r...

Bill.com Stock Plummets as Revenue Growth Slows

Text size Bill.com’s financial forecasts point to slower revenue growth than in the past. Dreamstime Bill.com’s stock lost nearly a third of its value even though the bill-payment automation com...

Oil Prices Top $100, Yet Some Big U.S. Frackers Let Their Production Fall

Oil prices are at their highest in years and politicians want companies to pump more. But most large American frackers are standing pat, or even letting production decline, and instead are handing inv...

Elon Musk pitch deck for Twitter promises to nearly triple ad revenue, create $10 billion subscription business: report

Elon Musk is telling potential investors in his deal for Twitter Inc. that he will seek to triple the company’s ad revenue and create a $10 billion-a-year subscription business within six years, accor...

PepsiCo Raises Its Dividend, and Marriott and Hilton’s Payouts Make a Comeback

Text size PepsiCo stock yields 2.7%. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Baxter International , Devon Energy , and PepsiCo were among the large U.S. companies that announced dividend increases this week. In addit...

Yes, GM Needs to Do More to Challenge Tesla. But the Stock Is a Buy.

General Motors has grand ambitions and a cheap stock. That could be a winning combination for investors. But to realize it, the pace of the giant car maker’s electric-car launches must catch up to the...

Illumina Stock Plunges Despite Strong Results, Gene-Sequencing Sales

Text size Illumina turned in stronger financial results than expected. Dreamstime The gene-sequencing supplier Illumina delivered on its March quarter financial forecasts, as global demand for genetic...

Zillow Stock Tumbles After Selling More Homes Than Expected. Here’s Why.

Text size Zillow says it has 1,300 homes left in its inventory, most of which have sold or are in agreement to be sold or disposed. Courtesy of Zillow Faster-than-expected home sales in Zillow’s iBuyi...

Stifel and JPMorgan analysts trade blows on Scotts Miracle-Gro’s valuation

Analysts from JPMorgan and Stifel said Scotts Miracle-Gro Corp. stock is trading at a discount, but duked it out over whether the fertilizer and hydroponic equipment company deserves it. Saying it has...

Opinion: Once richly valued, ‘unicorn’ startups are being gored and investors and funders have stopped believing

When Homer Simpson was asked, “How are we going to get out of this hole?,” he replied, “We’ll dig our way out!” Many people who find themselves in holes they can’t climb out of think that the solution...

Airbus posts profit, plans new jet assembly line in Alabama

Airbus said Wednesday that its profit in the first three months of 2022 more than tripled to 1.22 billion euros ($1.28 billion), helped by an increase in aircraft deliveries as airlines recover from t...

How to Hitch a Ride on the Porsche IPO

Porsche POAHY 2.09% was more profitable than ever in the first quarter. Investors will have to wait until the fall for its initial public offering, but there are indirect ways to get in early. Volkswa...

Block earnings promise many moving parts, but Square’s parent company may have a secret weapon

Square recently changed its name to Block Inc. in a bid to better encompass the diversity of its business, and the company’s Thursday earnings report will highlight just how many stories have been rol...

Twilio’s stock reacts wildly after company issues cautious revenue guidance

Twilio Inc.’s stock wildly fluctuated in frenzied trading Wednesday after the company issued cautious revenue guidance on better-than-expected results. Shares of Twilio TWLO, +5.50% initially plunged ...

Fed lifts interest rates and will wind down $9 trillion bond stockpile in double-pronged attack on high U.S. inflation

“Inflation is much too high and we understand the hardship it is causing,” said Fed Chairman Jerome Powell in what he called a direct message to the American public. “We are moving expeditiously to br...

Opinion: AMD will finally give investors its data-center data as business soars

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s data-center business will finally get its own spotlight. After reporting record sales Tuesday and predicting another record this quarter, AMD AMD, +6.25% Chief Financial ...

AMD Earnings Beat Expectations. The Stock is Rising.

Text size AMD stock has been under pressure this year, largely because of a weakening demand for PCs. Dreamstime Advanced Micro Devices’ high-end server-chip business is thriving and taking share from...

Shopify’s Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.

Text size Fears about inflation and weakening e-commerce trends have weighed on Shopify shares. Dreamstime Amazon.com ’s weaker-than-expected e-commerce results dampened expectations for Shopify’s own...

Lyft stock plunges 26% after forecast, rider numbers come up short

Lyft Inc. said Tuesday that it had a better-than-expected first quarter, with Chief Executive Logan Green saying ride-hailing volumes hit “a new COVID high,” but shares plunged after executives’ forec...

Uber moves up earnings report after Lyft forecast sends stock into a slump

After Lyft Inc.’s financial results sent Uber Technologies Inc. shares into a spiral late Tuesday, Uber announced executives would move up the time of their own earnings announcement. Lyft LYFT, -2.35...

Expedia Stock Falls Sharply Even as It Sees a ‘Robust’ Summer Recovery

Text size Expedia’s CEO says the company is ‘feeling very good about a summer recovery that should be very robust.’ Dreamstime Expedia was falling sharply Tuesday even after revenue ...

Plug Power CEO total 2021 compensation nearly quadruples to more than $52 million

Plug Power Inc.’s long-time Chief Executive Andrew Marsh recorded total compensation of more than $52 million in 2021, a year after the fuel-cell systems company’s losses widened sevenfold but the sto...

Paramount’s Streaming Losses Mount as Subscriber Count Grows

Text size Paramount+ accounts for the bulk of the company’s streaming subscribers. Dreamstime The streaming-stock bloodbath continues: Paramount Global (ticker: PARA) is the latest company in th...

‘You don’t want to own bonds and stocks’ in this environment: Paul Tudor Jones

“‘You can’t think of a worse environment than where we are right now for financial assets…Clearly you don’t want to own bonds and stocks.’” — Paul Tudor Jones, Tudor Investment Corp. That cheery concl...

Jeff Bezos Is Worried About Tech Valuations, and It’s Weighing on Amazon Stock

Text size Jeff Bezos has given investors new reason to worry about the valuations of tech stocks. David Ryder/Getty Images Technology investors hoping for a quick rebound to new highs may be in for a ...

Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon, Bought $10 Billion of Financials

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...

Chegg stock plummets toward lowest price in 4 years after annual forecast chopped

Chegg Inc. shares plunged toward their lowest price in four years Monday afternoon, after the online-education company slashed an annual forecast provided three months ago. Chegg CHGG, +0.97% righted ...

ON Semiconductor Gets Backed by Auto Demand. Stock Rises on Record Revenue.

Text size ON Semiconductor said it expects automotive and industrial customers to account for an increasing share of revenue. Photograph by Adi Goldstein  ON Semiconductor delivered record revenue for...

Stifel cuts cannabis industry view as analysts weigh Tilray

Stifel analyst W. Andrew Carter on Monday said the firm continues to approach the cannabis sector with “negative overall bias” amid a reduced outlook for the U.S. market and lackluster performance in ...