Dynatrace Reports Strong Earnings. Why the Stock Is Falling Sharply.

Text size Dreamstime Shares of Dynatrace fell sharply after the software intelligence company posted earnings that beat expectations, but issued guidance that disappointed investors. Dynatrace (ticker...

PayPal Is Plunging. Wall Street Is Reassessing the Stock.

Text size PayPal stock pointed 19% lower in premarket trading Wednesday. Getty Images PayPal ‘s fourth-quarter earnings, and particularly its disappointing outlook, are spooking investors. Wall Street...

The ‘best job in America’ pays $145,000, has 14,000 job openings — and offers a generous work-life balance

A six-figure salary and the option to work from home? It sounds too good to be true. Job openings are rising, while workers continue to quit. The number of vacant jobs hit 10.9 million in December, up...

Alphabet Stock Is Soaring After an Impressive Earnings Beat

Text size Stock in Alphabet, Google’s parent, is up more than 40% over the past year. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Alphabet crushed expectations and announced plans for a 20-for-one stock split afte...

Opinion: Google is finally splitting its stock; will Amazon be next, leading to a Dow shakeup?

Alphabet Inc. is finally carving into its gargantuan stock price with a stock split, which leaves only one Big Tech company remaining with a huge per-share price despite an easy avenue to change it. A...

Google could challenge for $2 trillion market cap after earnings, stock-split news

Google parent Alphabet Inc. headed toward a couple of elusive marks Tuesday evening, after disclosing earnings and plans for a stock split: A $3,000 share price and $2 trillion market cap. Alphabet sh...

PayPal stock sinks after earnings as inflation, spending pressures weigh on outlook

PayPal Holdings Inc. largely matched expectations for its holiday quarter but shares plunged late Tuesday after the company delivered an earnings forecast that came up shy of expectations. Shares were...

PayPal Stock Sinks as Earnings Miss, Guidance ‘Lacks Anything Redeeming’

Text size PayPal stock was sinking after the company reported disappointing earnings. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images PayPal stock was sinking after the payments company reported earnings and guidance th...

AMD Reports Earnings This Afternoon. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size An AMD processor. Growth in demand for chips used in PCs is expected to slow, while analysts are upbeat about the outlook for servers. Dreamstime While the recent downdraft in high-price tec...

AT&T Is Getting Closer to a Clean Slate. Here’s What Comes Next.

Text size After a saga of misguided M&A, there’s still work to be done for AT&T. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images AT&T shed some light on its pending exit from the media business on ...

AT&T CFO Defends Spinoff, Saying It Benefits Retail Investors

Text size AT&T’s chief financial officer, Pascal Desroches. Courtesy AT&T AT&T is defending its move to spin off its big stake in WarnerMedia rather than pursue a split-off, or excha...

AT&T’s Move to Spin Off WarnerMedia Disappoints Investors

Text size AT&T plans to pay a $1.11 annual dividend, down from the current $2.08 a share. Stefani Reynolds /AFP via Getty Images AT&T ‘s decision Tuesday to spin off its stake in WarnerMedia t...

Nio Deliveries Fell Last Month. What That Means for Tesla Stock.

Text size Deliveries for XPeng, Li, and NIO combined were down in January, snapping a two-month streak of gains. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle deliveries at NIO , XPeng , and Li...

AT&T to Spin Off WarnerMedia, Plans Deep Cut to Its Dividend

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T said Tuesday it would spin off its interest in WarnerMedia following WarnerMedia’s merger with Discovery . AT&T (ticker: T) also said its board appr...

Exxon Remakes Corporate Structure Ahead of Tuesday Earnings

Text size Exxon Mobil is moving its headquarters. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Exxon Mobil is remaking its corporate structure, elevating its low-carbon operations to its own division, and even moving i...

Tesla, GM, and 3 Other Stocks That Could Be Best EV Plays

Text size Tesla stock is a pick for a play on autonomous driving. Jens Schlueter/Getty Images Electric vehicles are taking over. That spells opportunity for investors. The growth of EV sales is great,...

With Chevron Stock Near Record Highs, Analysts Are Divided

Text size A Chevron petroleum storage tank in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The oil giant missed analysts’ earnings estimates when it reported fourth-quarter results on Friday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images C...

Opinion: The Fed is determined to stop wages from rising

AUSTIN, Texas (Project Syndicate)—Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has now committed to putting monetary policy on a course of rising interest rates, which could boost the short-term rate (on feder...

Opinion: AT&T and 4 more unloved dividend stocks to buy in a ‘risk-off’ era

With stocks off to one of their worst starts to the year since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, it’s no longer crazy to talk about a sustained period of market volatility or a prolonged “risk off” envi...

Mobile shopping company Wish’s stock gains as Foot Locker exec is named as new CEO

Wish parent company Contextlogic Inc. announced Monday that it found its new chief executive at Foot Locker Inc., and shares gained in late trading. Vijay Talwar, most recently the CEO for Foot Locker...

NXP Semiconductors’ stock volatile as revenue, outlook exceed Street expectations

NXP Semiconductors NV shares were volatile in the extended session Monday after the chip maker’s quarterly revenue results and forecast exceeded Wall Street expectations. NXP NXPI, +8.44% shares, whic...

Why AT&T May Be Leaning Toward a Spinoff of Its Discovery Stake

AT&T may be leaning toward a straightforward spinoff of the 71% stake in the new Warner Bros. Discovery in the coming months rather than a complex “split-off,” or exchange offer. A transaction in ...

These 7 semiconductor stocks may be close to a bottom. This chart pattern shows when and how much they might rebound.

Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard since the industry group rose to a record in early January. Analysts at Jefferies see a “peaking” pattern similar to those of 2014-2015 and 2017-2018, and expec...

Why Electric-Component Supplier Wesco’s Stock Is a Buy

Demand for cloud computing, power from renewable sources, and electric vehicles, along with more extreme weather events, mean that electrical infrastructure will need extensive investment for years to...

The Worst Big IPOs of 2021

Text size Oscar Health shares closed at $6.20 on Friday, down 84% from the IPO price. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg IPOs soared for most of 2021, making the year one of the best ever for companies to list the...

This Is What a Stock-Market Earnings Slowdown Looks Like. Things Could Take a Turn for the Worse.

Text size It’s been a painful time for investors hoping that earnings could drive stocks higher. Even the rallies are stomach-churning. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:...

What CEOs Are Saying About Inflation: ‘The World Has Changed’

This is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said on their quarterly earnings calls this week about what they are seeing and doing about inflation. “We’re seeing inflation.…Logistics, as I’ve me...

Caterpillar stock suffers biggest selloff in more than a year as margin, cost disappointments offset big earnings beat

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. took a dive Friday, as surging costs and a disappointing outlook on profit margins overshadowed a big quarterly earnings beat. The construction and mining equipment company ...

Fidelity Wants a Piece of the Crowded Field of Metaverse ETFs

Text size Dreamstime Fidelity is trying to make a push into the metaverse. The fund giant filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday for an exchange-traded fund called ...

Visa Stock Is Rising After Earnings Report. May Break Away From Mastercard.

Text size Stock in Visa was up nearly 9% on Friday morning. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Visa stock achieved its biggest bounce in nearly two years as investors responded to surprisingly strong financial ...

Who Really Got Rich From the GameStop Revolution?

When Reddit became the rowdy center of the investing universe last January, its co-founder Alexis Ohanian called the frenzy a “revolution” and a “chance for Joe and Jane America, the retail buyers of ...