Chip Stock Earnings Estimates Still Look Way Too High, Goldman Analyst Warns

Text size Goldman Sachs’ cuts to earnings forecasts for chip manufacturers were both broad and deep. Dreamstime Chip stocks are gaining ground on Friday following better-than-expected financial ...

Tesla, Ford, and GM’s Plan to Unlock EV Battery Capacity

Text size Panasonic will put up an EV battery plant in Kansas. It’s the latest of a long list of planned battery plants coming to North America. David Becker/Getty Images Lithium batteries are t...

Here’s the sector most at risk from Russia permanently shutting off gas to Germany — and it’s taking a tumble

There are few companies with more at stake from Russian natural-gas flows into Germany than the chemicals sector. Shares of chemicals companies including BASF BAS, +2.61%, Lanxess LXS, +3.77% and Cove...

Ford Closes EV Battery Deal With Partner. Billions in Spending Is Coming.

Text size Ford is aiming to sell two million EVs globally a year by 2026. Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images Ford Motor and Korea’s SK Innovation sealed the deal on the creation of a joint venture t...

Opinion: ‘I see buying opportunities.’ How this stock trader with 40 years of experience makes money in a bear market

Howard Kornstein, a professional trader with more than 40 years’ experience in stocks, options and futures, developed and fine-tuned his strategies while facing every imaginable market environment. He...

Qualcomm Is a Top Stock Pick on Valuation, Says J.P. Morgan

Text size Qualcomm headquarters in San Diego. Bing Guan/Bloomberg J.P. Morgan believes semiconductor company Qualcomm is getting too cheap to ignore. On Thursday, analyst Samik Chatterjee reiterated h...

Taiwan Semi Boosts Revenue Forecast After Topping Earnings Estimates

Text size Photograph by Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images Strong demand from auto makers and consumer goods giants helped Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing raise revenue forecasts for the year and beat second...

Taiwan Semi shares rise after earnings, sales beat forecasts

Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. rose on Thursday after the third-party silicon wafer manufacturer reported forecast-beating earnings and sales in its June-ending quarter. TSMC TSM, +2...

Chip Prices Are Plunging. What It Means for Nvidia, Intel, and AMD Stock.

Text size Nvidia got a price-target cut. Dreamstime Susquehanna is getting less bullish about three chip stocks. On Wednesday, semiconductor analyst Christopher Rolland lowered his price targets for N...

Opinion: ‘Quality’ companies are getting stronger yet their shares are down in this selloff. This is how to find the bargains.

If you’re a long-term investor, this year’s selloff is good news because it offers a great chance to pick up quality companies at a discount. But wait a second. If a company is “high quality,” why wou...

Nvidia Stock-Price Cuts Pile Up as Street Worries Over Gaming, Crypto Risks

Text size An Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti gaming graphics card. Courtesy of Nvidia Wall Street analysts are falling over themselves slashing their projections for Nvidia. In April, Barron’s cautioned in...

Broadcom loses top software exec in the middle of VMware deal to head combined Citrix-Tibco company

Broadcom Inc.’s head of software Tom Krause is leaving the company in the middle of a $61 billion software acquisition he helped bring about, which analysts called “a surprise” and “not the greatest o...

Demand for Smartphones Is Slowing. These 3 Stocks Could Be Hurt, Analysts Say.

Text size Qorvo is more at risk from the slowdown in the economy than other makers of wireless chips because it focuses more on the lower end of the market, according to Cowen. Dreamstime Wall Street ...

Nvidia Stock Gets a Price Target Cut. Russia and China Will Hurt Sales.

Text size Nvidia has said that Covid-19 lockdowns in China, plus the suspension of sales in Russia, will reduce its second-quarter revenue by $500 million. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Nvidi...

NIO conducts own probe into Grizzly short-seller report, retains forensic accounting firm

NIO Inc. said Monday that it has formed a committee to look into recent allegations that the China-based electric vehicle maker is using an affiliate battery maker to boost financial results. Short-se...

JPMorgan, Delta, Morgan Stanley, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Second-quarter earnings season is here. More than a dozen S&P 500 firms report this week, including several major banks. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley go first on Thursday, followed ...

Advanced Micro Devices’ Lisa Su: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Photograph by Arturo Olmos Text size Under CEO Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices has become known for flawless product execution. While rival Intel has stumbled wi...

Micron’s Woes Are Trouble for Nvidia and These 5 Other Stocks

Text size A technician inspects a semiconductor wafer. Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg News last week that Micron Technology expects weak Chinese demand for semiconductors to hit its quarterly results means a ran...

General Mills and Micron Raised Their Dividends. Banks Will Soon, Too.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images General Mills and Micron Technology declared dividend increases this week, and various large banks announced plans for their disbursements. General Mills (ticker...

Micron’s Weak Outlook Crushes Chip Stocks. There’s More Trouble Coming for Tech.

Text size Dreamstime Almost every analyst on Wall Street knew that the memory chip company Micron Technology was likely to provide quarterly guidance below previous Street estimates. And that’s exactl...

There may be another shoe to drop after Micron’s big outlook miss

Micron Technology Inc. delivered an outlook that fell far short of the consensus view, prompting questions about how the memory market will fare in a downturn. The company expects August-quarter reven...

AMD Stock Is the Chip Play for a Recession, Says Analyst

Text size Advanced Micro Devices’ server-chip business likely wouldn’t be hurt by a recession, according to Northland Capital Markets. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AMD shares now offer a g...

AMD stock gets an upgrade as analyst says recession worries are already priced in

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. likely wouldn’t be immune to the effects of a recession, but Northland Capital Markets analyst Gus Richard said that risk is already baked into AMD’s stock price. While he ...

Opinion: The chip boom likely over, as Micron says it’s in a ‘downturn’

The semiconductor boom of the past two years appears to be ending. Memory-chip maker Micron Technology Inc. MU, -1.32% gave a downbeat forecast for its next fiscal quarter Thursday, predicting a massi...

Micron Issues Muted Sales Forecast On Demand Weakness

Memory-chip maker Micron Technology issued a subdued revenue outlook, spooking investors even as it reported a strong rise in earnings for its latest quarter. “Recently, the industry demand environmen...

Micron Stock Is Sliding. The Outlook Disappointed.

Text size New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu says recent weakness in Micron Technology stock represents an opportunity to buy. Dreamstime Micron Technology stock is trading lower after the mem...

Wall Street’s favorite stock sector has potential upside of 43% as we enter the second half of 2022

At the midpoint of 2022, investors are looking at a remarkable change in stock valuations. The S&P 500 SPX has declined 20%, but the benchmark index’s forward price-to-earnings valuation has falle...

Intel Should Slash Its Dividend. Its Future May Depend on It.

Text size Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Under CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel has committed to massively increasing its capital spending investments by tens of billions of dollars. But with a ...

Micron earnings to provide more clues as to whether chip boom has passed

Micron Technology Inc.’s earnings on Thursday will provide a much-anticipated clue into a problem that has worried Wall Street all year about the chip industry: Whether customers have been hoarding ch...

SOX semiconductor index could double over the next couple of years, analyst says

Despite potential for further downside, semiconductor stocks could rebound significantly over the next couple of years, according to Columbia Threadneedle Senior Equity Analyst Dave Egan. Semi stocks ...

Oaktree’s Howard Marks is finding bargains: ‘I am starting to behave aggressively’

Stocks are mostly higher on Tuesday, with China to thank for some of that as the country announced the biggest easing in COVID travel requirements since about March 2020. China’s news may add to the s...

Pessimism on chip stocks is hitting a new high, and the money seems to be flowing toward software

The outlook for the semiconductor sector is moving from bad to worse, and investors appear to be moving their money into the software sector as a result. Pessimism about the future of the chip sector ...