Looking for $100,000 Salary? See How Much the Biggest U.S. Companies Pay Workers

By John Stensholt and Nate Rattner May 31, 2022 7:00 am ET Wages for the median workers at the majority of big American companies are higher than they were before the pandemic, with the tight job mark...

Consumers Aren’t OK. Why April Retail Sales Are Misleading.

Walmart sales climbed in the first quarter from a year ago, but flat transaction numbers suggest inflation drove the gain. Here, a Walmart in San Leandro, Calif., last year. David Paul Morris/Bloomber...

Home Depot Raises 2022 Guidance After Record First-Quarter Sales

Text size Home Depot tops first-quarter earnings expectations. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Home Depot exceeded earnings expectations as sales rose to the highest ever for the first quarter of the yea...

Walmart, Moderna, Target, Deere, Home Depot, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size It’s the tail end of first-quarter earnings season, with mostly retailers left to report this week. Government data on U.S. retail sales will also be released. Home Depot and Walmart report ...

Home Depot & Lowe’s: Do-It-Yourself Profits

Miniature model house standing on a heap of dollar bills. Photo with clipping path.Some similar … [+] pictures from my portfolio: getty There are few industries in which just two companies hold ...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Spent Billions on Chevron. This Might Be Why.

Text size Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images There is a cottage industry on Wall Street predicting what would Warren would buy. That, of course, refers to Berkshire Hathawa y (ticker: BRK.B) C...

Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Other Stocks That Can Keep Climbing—Even If the Housing Market Slows

Text size Home improvement retailers like Home Depot will thrive even if the housing market has peaked. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Home improvement stores were big beneficiaries of the white-ho...

The Pandemic Made These Retailers Stronger. Their Stocks Are Buying Opportunities.

Far from killing retail, as initially feared, Covid-19 wound up being a boon for the industry. It’s the recovery that looks more perilous. The pandemic was a great time for retailers. Consumers were f...

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...

Retailers’ Wage Increases to Attract Workers Aren’t Yet Denting Profits

Large retailers and other employers that hire hourly workers are continuing to lift wages, and so far have kept profits growing as well. On Monday, Target Corp. TGT 0.28% said it plans to spend up to ...

Home Depot Gets Hammered As Gross Margins Decline Year-Over-Year. Here’s How To Trade The Stock Now.

(Photo by Nicholas Kamm) AFP via Getty Images Home Depot (HD) beat earnings-per-share estimates for the seventh consecutive quarter before the opening bell on February 22. Sales remained strong for ho...

Lowe’s Stock Rises. The Retailer Had Strong Earnings and Sees Higher Profits Ahead.

Text size Lowe’s same-store sales grew 5% in the fourth quarter. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Lowe’s reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that topped analysts’ estimates and raised guidance f...

Lowe’s Beats Profit Estimates and Boosts Fiscal-Year Forecast. The Stock Rises.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Lowe’s reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that topped analysts’ estimates and raised guidance for the next fiscal year. Shares of home-improvement retailer ...

Home Depot Stock Dips Despite Earnings Beat and Dividend Hike

Text size Home Depot posted better-than-expected sales and profits Tuesday. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Home Depot stock lost steam Tuesday even as the home-improvement retailer reported stronger-t...

Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount and Fed Tightening Weighs. There’s Only 1 Certainty for Markets.

U.S. stocks are being bumped around from crisis to crisis as if in a pinball machine. The uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s policy and the future path of interest rates keeps surfacing on a reg...

Home Depot Makes Notable Cross Below Critical Moving Average

In trading on Wednesday, shares of Home Depot crossed below their 200 day moving average of $349.33, changing hands as low as $347.63 per share. Home Depot shares are currently trading off about 1.3% ...

Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.

Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...

Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...

Tesla and Nvidia Picked for Big Gains by Robot Trader. It’s Been Right Before.

Text size Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images An exchange-traded fund with holdings picked by artificial intelligence is betting on big gains from Tesla and Nvidia in January. It has been right a...

These Two Fund Pros Think Dividend Stocks Are Primed to Prosper

For dividend investors who’ve been jarred by the pandemic, the new year brings a clean slate and hope for a brighter future. While many companies that cut their payouts early in the global health cris...

Home Depot Was the Dow’s Best Performer. Why the Gains Are Set to Continue.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Home construction and improvement stocks are poised to continue their gains in 2022, as the work-from-home trend continues, mortgage rates remain low, and proper...