Text size The deal comes ahead of GlaxoSmithKline’s planned spinoff of its consumer health division in July. AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy compa...
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Procter & Gamble hikes dividend by 5%
Procter & Gamble Co. PG, -0.30% said late Tuesday its board approved a 5% dividend hike for its 66th straight year of dividend increases. The consumer products maker said it will pay a quarterly d...
Cisco Stock Slumps. It Faces Competition From Arista and Juniper, Analyst Says
Text size Cisco Systems logo Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images Shares of Cisco Systems were falling Tuesday after the networking hardware and software giant was downgraded to a Sell by Citi. Analyst ...
CarMax’s Awful Earnings Send a Warning to All Car Stocks. Here’s What to Know.
Text size Cars sitting in the parking lot are reflected in the windows of used car retailer CarMax. Yana Paskova/Getty Images Used car giant CarMax delivered an earning miss that has sent the stock lo...
Why Schlumberger and Other Oil Services Firms Are Early in Their Comeback Story
Text size Schlumberger well service trucks. A Piper Sandler analyst thinks Schlumberger stock could rise 29%. Dreamstime Companies producing and selling oil have been the most prominent beneficiaries ...
AT&T Cut Its Dividend With the Spinoff. Why It’s Still Generous.
Text size AT&T’s dividend commitment will total around $8 billion annually. Dreamstime AT&T has officially spun off its media business, with Warner Bros. Discovery trading on its own for the f...
AT&T Stock Rises After Completion of WarnerMedia Spinoff
Text size AT&T has completed the spinoff of WarnerMedia. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T wrapped up its WarnerMedia spinoff late last week, and the stock was rising on Monday. The stock jump...
Nvidia Stock Is Downgraded. China and Russia Are Headwinds.
Text size Dreamstime Nvidia shares were falling on Monday after the stock was downgraded by a Baird analyst, who cited concerns over slowing consumer demand exacerbated by the Russian embargo. Nvidia ...
Costco Stock Is Challenging Amazon as the Most Richly Valued Retailer
Text size Costco Wholesale continues to grow its membership, to 61.7 million members in the latest fiscal year. Mario Tama/Getty Images Costco Wholesale is challenging Amazon . com as the most richly ...
Constellation Brands and Murphy Oil Raised Their Dividends This Week
Text size This week was a slow one for dividend increase announcements. Freeze Frames/Dreamstime.com Constellation Brands and Murphy Oil were among the small number of companies that declared dividend...
FinTech Looks Like a $1.5 Trillion Growth Market
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Wells Fargo ’s Jeff Cantwell says the time to buy fintech stocks is now—14 of them. Cantwell has started coverage of the group with Overweight ratings for all. Th...
Buffett Gave HP Stock a Boost. Why It’s Still a Buy.
Text size Shares of HP jumped 15% this past week after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a large stake. Why the stock still looks cheap. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg When Bill Hewlett and Dave ...
Why P&G Just Gained a New Fan
Text size P&G’s products were popular earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Investors have been wary of consumer staples stocks lately, given worries about high inflation...
Online Sports Betting Is a Buzzy Industry, but Where’s the Money?
Text size Gamblers may have won big with the men’s March Madness championship game on Monday, but investing in online gambling platforms has been a losing hand as of late. Shares of DraftKings (ticker...
Rite Aid stock plunges after Deutsche Bank cuts target to $1, warns of a ‘dramatic negative inflection point’
Shares of Rite Aid Corp. plunged toward a 2 1/2-year low Thursday, after Deutsche Bank analyst George Hill issued a dire warning that the drugstore chain’s equity could be worthless. Hill cut his rati...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes 11% Stake in HP
Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated an 11.4% stake worth $4.2 billion in HP Inc. , the maker of personal computers and printers, ...
The end of one-chip wonders: Why Nvidia, Intel and AMD’s valuations have experienced massive upheaval
It wasn’t too long ago that Intel Corp. was the unquestioned king of U.S. chip makers and the largest semiconductor company by market capitalization. It’s also not long since most computing was done w...