GE Is Worth More in Pieces. Wall Street’s Math Shows Why.

Text size GE management is breaking up the company. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg General Electric will soon be breaking into three parts, so Wall Street is starting to value the company on a sum-of-the par...

Boeing delivers first 787 Dreamliner since 2021 after manufacturing flaws

An employee works on the tail of a Boeing Co. Dreamliner 787 plane on the production line at the company’s final assembly facility in North Charleston, South Carolina. Travis Dove | Bloomberg | ...

6 Ways Contextual Data Can Drive Informed Decision Making In Manufacturing

Imagine you’re looking for a florist. If the only tool you have is a spreadsheet of possibilities, finding a suitable match could be a clunky process. Instead, picture all the florists on a map of nei...

Tesla Stock Is Splitting. When It Takes Effect and Everything Else to Know.

Text size Tesla stock will begin trading at a 3-for-1 split-adjusted price on Aug. 25. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla has given investors something to look forward to: The electric-vehicle giant a...

GE Is Building the Electricity Grid of the Future. Here’s What We Found on a Tour.

Text size GE wants to be a player in the electricity grid of the future. That will benefit its coming Vernova business. Brandon Bell/Getty Images NISKAYUNA, N. Y–In General Electric ’s sprawling resea...

The Math Behind GE’s Breakup. It’s a Sum-of-the-Parts Party.

Once the mightiest of industrial conglomerates, General Electric is breaking into three pieces and it is time to value each of the businesses. That means doing a sum-of-the-parts, or SOTP, valuation. ...

Buy GE Stock as a Breakup Looms

So, it comes to this— General Electric once arguably the greatest of American companies, will cease to exist, at least as the industrial titan it once was. After more than 20 years of decline, the com...

Why GE Stock Is Worth More Than You Think

So, it comes to this— General Electric once arguably the greatest of American companies, will cease to exist, at least as the industrial titan it once was. After more than 20 years of decline, the com...

Caterpillar’s Earnings Are Good and Sales Top Estimates. But the Stock Falls.

Text size Caterpillar’s earnings and sales in the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations. Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images Caterpillar reported second-quarter numbers that beat Wall Str...

What Stocks Are Moving Monday? Alibaba, Boeing, NIO and More.

Text size Alibaba stock rises early Monday. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Stock futures were trading lower Monday as recession fears remained at the forefront of investors’ minds as a new trading mo...

NIO, XPeng, and Li Auto Deliveries Cool Off in July. The Stocks Jump Anyway.

Text size NIO delivered more cars year over year in July. But deliveries fell from June. Odin Jaeger/Bloomberg Demand for Chinese electric vehicles cooled off in July. Falling EV sales in the world’s ...

Giant Pension Bought Apple Stock. It Sold Tesla, Microsoft and AT&T.

Text size An Apple store. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Oregon’s public pension recently made big changes in some of its biggest stock investments. The Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund bought more s...

The World Food Shortage Is Getting Worse. These Companies Have Solutions.

Scorching heat and drought shriveling up crops in the Midwest and eastern Africa. A continued pandemic. War in Ukraine. Rarely has the world seen such a confluence of disasters, threatening the abilit...

‘We’re entering a new era’ for chip manufacturing

Semiconductor companies are awaiting President Biden’s signature on the crucial CHIPS Act after it passed both the Senate and House of Representatives this week. “This is something we’ve been su...

Get Ready For An Explosion Of Productivity In Biotechnology

plant seeding growing step. concept agriculture getty If biotech follows the same arc of growth as agriculture or computer technology, it could transform the world. For all of our shortcomings, humans...

For Manufacturers, A Key To Culture And Inclusion Could Come From An Unlikely Place: Literature

As manufacturing leaders, we spend much of our time thinking about how we can solve pressing problems through the most advanced systems at our disposal. So, I’m enthralled by an approach to organizati...

Manufacturing Titan 3M Is Spinning Off Its Healthcare Business Into A Separate Company

The 3M company, historically known as The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is famous for some of the world’s most well known products. These products include daily household staples such as...

For Bio Manufacturing To Scale, It Has To Think Outside The Tank

Row of shiny metal micro brewery tanks. getty Bio-based technology and manufacturing offer many opportunities to meet human needs sustainably, at worldwide scales, in harmony with nature. That’s...

Intel to Help Make Chips for Taiwanese Designer MediaTek

Text size Intel will make chips for Taiwan-based MediaTek. Courtesy Intel Corporation Intel said Monday its technology would be used by Taiwan-based  MediaTek   to manufacture chips for smart devices....

Giant Manager Buys Up Apple, Nvidia, Corning, and Pfizer Stock

Text size MEAG bought 66,593 Nvidia shares to double its investment to 130,142 shares at the end of June. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The investment arm of one of the world’s biggest insurers just ma...

Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Plunges as Earnings Miss Estimates

Text size Cleveland-Cliffs stock has fallen a bit more than the broader market so far this year. Dreamstime Cleveland-Cliffs reported lower earnings than expected, news that sent the stock sharply low...

Chinese headphone maker in Dongguan shuts down, intensifying country’s woes in manufacturing, cross-border e-commerce

A major Bluetooth headphone maker, Dongguan Koppo Electronics Co, has decided to shut down for good and dismiss all its workers, becoming the latest casualty of the economic headwinds, supply chain di...

4 Things Decision Makers Should Know About Manufacturing And Supply Chain Responsiveness

Supply chain risk is something enterprises can’t eliminate. But learning how to mitigate and adapt to that risk differentiates successful businesses from those that could buckle under pressure. Here a...

Rivian Stock Is Surging Thanks to Amazon

Text size Amazon has begun using Rivian’s all-electric delivery vans. Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg Stock of electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive is rising, and Amazon.com is the reason. The...

Ford Now Has Enough Batteries to Grow EV Deliveries Faster Than Tesla—Profitably

Text size The Rouge Electric Vehicle Center Ford plant. Courtesy of Ford Batteries are a critical success factor for any auto maker looking to win electric-vehicle market share. Ford Motor sad it has ...

The War In Ukraine: Lessons For Manufacturers

An already highly challenged global supply chain has been stretched beyond capacity. Indeed, a … [+] combination of rising demand and a shortage of vital commodities — from fuel and food to meta...

High-Performance Supply Chains Begin With The Gemba

Understanding what’s going on where the value is created is critical to manufacturing success Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash As senior business leaders, it’s easy to slip into thin...

GE’s Three-Way Split Is Near. What the New Companies Will Be Called.

Text size GE’s aviation business will become GE Aerospace. Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images General Electric is undertaking an epic transformation under the leadership of CEO Larry Culp—the ...

Big Investor Sold Apple Stock, Bought Coinbase, GE, and Nvidia

Text size Customers shop at an Apple Store. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A large European asset manager recently made material changes in its largest U.S-traded stock investments. DNB Asset Managemen...

Fastly Cloud Computing Traffic Bumped Higher. That Should Boost the Stock.

Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...

Elon Musk: ‘Lithium Batteries Are the New Oil’

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of a Tesla plant in Germany. Christian Marquardt/Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk defined energy independence for an electric-vehicle w...

Peloton to outsource all manufacturing as part of its turnaround efforts

A Peloton Interactive Inc. logo on a stationary bike at the company’s showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Peloton said T...