Stock Splits Are Popular Again. 5 Companies That Could Split Their Stocks Next

Stock splits are back in vogue, and the market is quickly rewarding companies that divide their shares. Google parent Alphabet , Amazon.com , Tesla , and GameStop are among the latest companies to see...

The Chip Sector Has a New Worry in Plant Shutdown for Key PFAS Chemicals

Text size PFAS chemicals are used in the etching process for chip manufacturing. Dreamstime The fragile semiconductor supply chain has one more thing to worry about. Chips have been relatively scarce ...

Nvidia, AMD, Intel Price Targets Are Cut. This Analyst Sees Chip Demand Slowing.

Text size Dreamstime Semiconductor stocks have soared over the last few quarters, driven higher by robust demand for chips amid a global supply shortage. But the tide may be turning for semiconductor ...

Inflation Is Here to Stay. How to Adjust Your Portfolio.

Inflation is rampant and ubiquitous today, from the gas pump to the grocery store. The U.S. consumer price index has quadrupled in the past year, from a 1.7% annual rate in February 2021 to 7.9% this ...

AMD, Qualcomm make software-focused acquisitions as growth in core chip businesses questioned

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. both announced acquisitions on Monday that will help diversify into greater software holdings as analysts question growth in the chip makers’ core busines...

SunPower Stock Is Upgraded. It Has an ‘Unobstructed Path’ to Growth.

Text size PV Salvador solar plant near El Salvador, in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. The photovoltaic plant, built by SunPower, a California-based branch of Total, with a maximum output of 70 Me...

U.S. economy will fall into a recession this summer, as inflation eats into consumer spending, former Fed official warns

Higher inflation will force consumers to limit their spending by so much that the economy will slump into a recession by the July-September quarter, former Federal Reserve Governor Lawrence Lindsey sa...

Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...

Buy Micron Stock. The Chip Stock Deserves Better.

Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...

Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...

Defense Stocks Rose With the Ukraine War. Then a Tight Proposed Budget Set Them Back.

Elias Stein Text size Defense stocks took a surprising blow after a proposed defense budget was released last week. The Biden administration asked Congress for $773 billion to fund defense for fiscal ...

Tellurian Stock Is Upgraded Amid Rising Demand for Liquefied Natural Gas

Text size A natural gas processing plant. Dreamstime Shares of Tellurian were surging Friday after the stock was upgraded by Credit Suisse analysts, who cited optimism over the natural-gas producer’s ...

As Oil Briefly Dips Below $100, Russia and Europe Play a Game of Chicken

U.S. oil prices briefly dipped below $100 barrel Friday, as President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels a day of reserves began to have the desired effect. But it’s premature to start th...

Home Builders Are the Cheapest Stocks Around. Is It Time to Buy?

Construction workers on a Toll Brothers home in Boca Raton, Fla. Toll and other home builders currently trade near book value. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Text size The housing market is still robust, but...

Micron Deserves Better. Why the Stock Is a Buy

Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...

Opinion: I’ve always pounded the table on revolutionary companies. Now I’ve found myself buying Intel’s stock

This may be a surprise for those of you who have been following me on MarketWatch, as I have focused on finding Revolutionary companies early on and holding on to them, usually forever. Intel is a com...

Here’s What a 3M Breakup Could Look Like

Text size PFAS problems, product liability litigation tied to earplugs, and slowing growth have caused 3M stock to languish. Dreamstime What would 3M look like if it went down a General Electric -like...

Ethereum’s major upgrade is coming. Should you be more bullish on it than bitcoin?

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch, and I’ll walk you through the latest an...

Intel CEO Gelsinger’s reaps near-$180 million windfall from ‘significant magnitude’ of new-hire awards

Pat Gelsinger had a very, very good year in 2021. He started the year as VMware Inc.’s VMW, -2.00% chief executive officer, where he took in total compensation of $16.5 million during the fiscal year ...

Biden says latest Strategic Petroleum Reserve release could cut gas prices 10 to 35 cents per gallon — but some experts worry about long-term costs

President Joe Biden announced Thursday the daily release of 1 million barrels of oil from the country’s reserves for the next six months as a way to bring down gas prices that have been breaking recor...

These 10 stocks have fallen at least 20% this year, but are expected to soar up to 66% from here

It sure has been a wild ride for investors over the past few weeks, with the benchmark S&P 500 rising 10% from March 8 through March 30. But the broader stock market is still down for 2022. Below ...

Baidu Stock Drops. It’s One of 5 Stocks Added to the SEC’s Delisting Watchlist.

Text size LIU JIN/AFP via Getty Images Baidu stock was dropping Thursday after U.S. regulators added the Chinese search giant to its growing list of companies that could be removed from American stock...

Micron Stock Is Rallying. Earnings and the Outlook Were Strong.

Text size Shares of memory-chip maker Micron were up nearly 3% on Tuesday, in advance of the earnings report. Dreamstime Memory-chip maker Micron Technology posted better-than-expected results for its...

Nvidia Stock Is Rising. There’s a New Street-High Price Target.

Text size Nvidia headquarters Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia stock edged higher Tuesday after a Tigress Financial Partners analyst raised his price target for chip maker to a new Wall Street high...

Defense Stocks Take a Hit on U.S. Defense Spending Request

Text size Defense stocks trade for about 18 times estimated 2022 earnings. Jose Luis Magana / AFP) Defense stocks are taking a small hit after details of the coming defense budget were released. On Mo...

Micron Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size Softening demand for personal computers and smartphones could pressure pricing on DRAM chips. Dreamstime Memory-chip giant Micron Technology reports earnings this afternoon for its fiscal se...

Phillips 66 and Other Underperforming Energy Stocks That Might Be Worth a Look

Text size Storage tanks at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, Calif. Refiners have not reaped the same benefits as oil producers in the past year. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Energy stocks have been ...

Boeing’s 737 MAX 10 Faces Delays. It Might Not Be a Major Problem.

Text size A Boeing 737 MAX 10 airliner. Ellen Banner-Pool/Getty Images Boeing stock is lower Monday morning. The company’s regulatory woes might be creating another overhang in the shares. The new iss...

AMD Stock Is Still a Buy, Just Not a ‘Conviction’ Buy. What That Means.

Text size AMD was removed from Goldman’s conviction list. Courtesy AMD Advanced Micro Devices was removed from Goldman’s Conviction List while other semiconductor companies like Microchip Techno...

Get ready for $900 billion of stock purchases this year, says Goldman Sachs. Here’s who’s buying.

Wall Street is looking a little less surefooted as a new week begins, with oil sliding as fresh COVID lockdowns in China adding to a hefty worry pile. Bonds continue to slump as well. But maybe don’t ...

Deere Stock Catches an Upgrade, but This Analyst Likes a Rival Better

Text size John Deere tractors. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images J.P. Morgan raised its rating on Deere stock to Hold from Sell, but it isn’t that the analyst had a change of heart. A different person is t...