Tag: Financial Performance

Shopify Inc. produced a better holiday quarter than expected according to a Wednesday earnings report, but a forecast for slowing revenue growth hit the stock in after-hours trading. Shopify SHOP, +6....

Bed Bath & Beyond’s $1 Billion Stock Deal: What to Know

It has been a whirlwind for Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s meme-stock investors, marked by a credit default, store closings and a last-gasp financing deal that saved the company from chapter 11. The tur...

Cisco Stock Rallies on Earnings and Guidance Beat

Cisco Systems shares are trading sharply higher in late trading Wednesday after the networking equipment provider posted solid results for its fiscal second quarter ended Jan. 28, while sharply increa...

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...

Taiwan Semiconductor shares drop after Buffett reveals stake sale

Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. dropped on Wednesday following news that Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in the third-party silicon-wafer fabricator late last year. In Taipei, sh...

Berkshire Hathaway Slashes Stake in Taiwan Semi. What Else Buffett Sold.

Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor during the fourth quarter and nearly eliminated what had been a large stake in U.S. Bancorp according to filings late Tuesday. Berkshire Ha...

Palantir Stock Is Still Surging. It’s Not Just Earnings Causing Excitement.

Palantir Technologies stock was surging Tuesday. But a quarterly update from the data-analytics software company was probably not the real reason, with comments from the CEO about M&A more likely ...

Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Falls After Earnings Beat Estimates. Here’s Why.

Steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs had a tough finish to the year as prices for its products fell. Still, quarterly results came in better than expected, but investors Tuesday weren’t giving the company muc...

The peak of this market rally is almost here, says JPMorgan. Time to ditch U.S. stocks, and buy these instead, says Wall Street giant.

Roses are red, violets are blue, will CPI turn into the stock market’s Waterloo? The inflation data showed higher prices remain sticky, even if overall pressure eased a bit. The stock market seems to ...

Microsoft has a long path of earnings growth ahead, says Morgan Stanley

Microsoft Corp. has been a bit of an artificial-intelligence story lately, thanks to the company’s investment in and partnership with OpenAI, the creator of the hot ChatGPT chatbot. But Microsoft MSFT...

George Soros loads up on Tesla and these other beaten-down stocks

Even as shares of Tesla Inc. sank last year, billionaire investor George Soros appeared to find something to like in the electric-vehicle maker — and some other beaten-down names — as the year came to...

Palantir Reports First Profitable Quarter. The Stock Is Soaring.

Palantir Technologies shares are soaring in late trading Monday after the company posted better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter, including its first-ever GAAP profit. The data-analytics s...

Palantir posts first profitable quarter, stock soars after earnings

Palantir Technologies Inc. logged its first-ever quarterly profit in the fourth quarter, and the company expects to continue on that trajectory this year. The data-software company reported Monday aft...

Three Oil Stocks Exposed to Natural-Gas Plunge

Natural-gas prices have tumbled this year because of warm weather and high levels of gas in storage in Europe and elsewhere. U.S. prices are down 45% to $2.46 per million British thermal units. The dr...

Tesla Stock Is Down Again. It’s Not From EV Competition.

Tesla stock is down again, dropping for a second consecutive day. Are investors fretting about more electric-vehicle competition? Probably not. The stock chart is a better explanation for Monday’s dip...

The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing

The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...

Fastly Stock Jumps Ahead of Earnings. Analyst Says Shares Can Soar 62%.

A BofA Securities analyst turned bullish on Fastly, upgrading shares to Buy on optimism about the company’s recently appointed CEO. The cloud computing company’s stock surged as a result. Tal Liani, B...

FIS walks back Worldpay merger, will spin off its merchant business

Financial-technology company Fidelity National Information Services Inc. plans to spin off its merchant business, the company announced Monday. FIS FIS, -15.21%, which announced a “comprehensive asses...

Here are five companies to pick if Goldman Sachs is right about the stock market being flat in 2023

Hearts, flowers and CPI data. Get ready for Tuesday. And hell hath no fury like a disappointed Wall Street. The last time CPI let the markets down — last September — stocks melted down like chocolate....

JNJ Bought Up Biotech Stock MeiraGTx. It Sold Procept BioRobotics.

Johnson & Johnson recently increased an investment in an embattled biotech stock, and slashed a position in a maker of surgical robotics that rocketed last year. Johnson & Johnson (ticker: JNJ...

Only 13 companies have issued upbeat profit forecasts for Q1, but earnings are due from this pessimism-resistant industry

A tough fourth quarter for corporate earnings is largely in the past, and the first quarter isn’t exactly looking great either, but upcoming results this week from the one industry spared by the pande...

Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Apple, Tesla, and Disney Stock. It Sold Walmart.

The largest public pension in the U.S. by assets just made major changes in its investment portfolio. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System bought more Apple (ticker: AAPL), Tesla (TSLA),...

Who Will Win the Super Bowl This Year? Sports Betting Apps Might Be the Champs.

The first U.S. sports-betting operations are moving toward profitability after a period out of favor with investors. Feb. 11, 2023 12:01 am ET Fans will flood into Phoenix on Sunday to watch Super Bow...

Why MGM Resorts International Stock Is Worth a Wager

These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...

The Market Loved Disney’s Cost Cuts. The ESG Crowd, Not So Much.

Like many companies, Walt Disney does its best to avoid controversy. But in winning over investors this past week, with plans to cut costs and reinstate its dividend, Disney may have irked investors w...

Big Oil’s Big Paradox: Record Profits, Low Stock Valuations

Big Oil has never been more profitable, but it has hardly ever been a smaller part of the stock market. That’s enough to make industry executives feel unappreciated. “We’re grossly undervalued,” says ...

Prudential, Corning, and 8 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Prudential Financial, Phillips 66 Tractor Supply and Interpublic were among the various large companies that announced dividend increases this week. It continues to be a busy period for such moves as ...

Everything GE CEO Larry Culp Had for Investors in the Annual Report

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Tesla Stock Options Trading Soared. Now Shares Are Falling.

After eight straight gains, Tesla stock is down. There is no smoking gun to blame Friday’s drop on. Shares just hit $200 too soon, driven by everything from stock chart patterns to options traders to ...

Ford Stock Is Falling. This Is Why.

Stock in Ford Motor has had a strong start to 2023, but the shares have slid since the company reported fourth quarter earnings, when CEO Jim Farley lamented profits his company left on the table in 2...

Lyft stock melts down after earnings ‘debacle for the ages’

Lyft Inc. isn’t getting too many stars for its latest earnings report, which is helping to send shares down more than 30% Friday morning as numerous bulls head for the hills and fret about the company...

This nearly 150-year-old fund hasn’t cut its dividend since 1938. Here are the stocks it likes, and four it doesn’t.

02/10/2023