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...

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...

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 ...

Giant Bank Bought Up Apple, Comcast Stock. It Dropped AT&T and Visa.

Text size German banking giant Commerzbank bought up Apple stock in the fourth quarter. Dreamstime A German banking giant made some abrupt changes in its U.S.-traded investments. Commerzbank initiated...

Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings Bought $20 Million of Stock

Text size Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings just made his first purchase of the company’s shares on the open market. Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Netflix ‘s stock has slumped in 2022,...

Investor Bought Up Moderna and Nvidia Stock. It Sold Salesforce and Sirius XM.

Text size A large U.K.-based asset manager bought up Moderna and Nvidia stock in the fourth quarter. Clement Mahoudeau/AFP via Getty Images A large U.K.-based asset manager made big changes in its U.S...

These 14 Stocks Paused Dividends Early in the Pandemic. Here’s Where Their Payouts Are Now.

Ford Motor is among the dividend payers that have restored their once-suspended payouts at a lower level than before the pandemic. Courtesy of Ford Text size Although there are some large U.S. compani...

Comcast, Chevron, and 7 More Companies That Just Boosted Their Stock Dividends

Text size Comcast raised its dividend this week. Jeff Fusco/Getty Images for Comcast Chevron , Comcast , and Kimberly-Clark were among the many U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this wee...

Peloton and Netflix Stocks Have Fallen. Here’s How Best to Play It.

One bank says to use the recent growth-stock selloff to buy shares of Alphabet . Another says Amazon.com and Facebook owner Meta Platforms . A third is going in a different direction and picking all t...

Stocks Are on a Wild Ride. 20 Bargains to Buy Now, According to Barron’s Roundtable Experts.

Fed be nimble, Fed be quick. The quicker, the better, in fact. Hike interest rates, shrink your balance sheet, and let’s be done with it all before the stock market sinks even further. The market’s re...

Why Bill Ackman Sees More Play in Netflix Stock

Text size Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square took a large stake in Netflix with an eye to a recovery in the streaming giant’s shares. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg One pandemic play that has been laid low co...

Monday’s worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 are down as much as 42% for 2022

Monday’s stock-market decline accelerated, and a closer look at the day’s worst performers highlighted painful double-digit year-to-date drops. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.92% was down a...

Netflix Stock Might Be a Buy After Earnings Selloff

Text size Netflix added 8.3 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, but the company’s first- quarter forecast came up well short of Wall Street’s estimate. Dreamstime And just like that, Netflix pr...

Tech Stocks Got Hit Hard. Where to Find Bargains Now.

The technology sector may not be on sale, but it certainly has gotten cheaper lately. Major technology stocks like Apple (ticker: AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta Platforms (FB) are...

Where to Find Bargains Among Tech and Growth Stocks

The technology sector may not be on sale, but it certainly has gotten cheaper lately. Major technology stocks like Apple (ticker: AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta Platforms (FB) are...

It’s Time to Bargain Hunt. 27 Picks to Beat the Stock Market From Barron’s Roundtable Experts.

“There is no easier way to make money in the market than to buy a great company under pressure due to short-term concerns.” So said the newest member of the Barron’s Roundtable, David Giroux of T. Row...

Alibaba Stock and JD.com Are Outperforming Apple and Tesla. Here’s Why.

Text size Shares in Chinese tech giants Alibaba and JD.com are rising after China cut rates. Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images It’s a good day for Chinese tech stocks. While the wider U.S.-listed tech...

Alibaba Stock May See Its Worst Day of 2022. Here Are Two Reasons Why.

Text size Alibaba stock has outperformed much of the tech sector so far in 2022. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba stock is poised to take one of the biggest tumbles of the year Tuesday as inves...

Tech Is Falling Again. Why Apple, Tesla, and Other Tech Stocks Are Still Buys.

Text size Apple and other tech stocks have had a rough start to 2022. They could still be good picks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech stocks are getting slammed yet again, for familiar reasons. Inve...

Spin or Split? AT&T Has a Big Decision to Make on Discovery Stake.

Text size An AT&T store on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Spin or split? That is the decision that AT&T (ticker: T) faces as it considers what do with a 71% stake...

Giant Stock Swings Kick Off 2022

U.S. stocks are off to a rocky start in 2022. Under the surface, things are even more volatile. More than 220 U.S.-listed companies with market capitalizations above $10 billion are down at least 20% ...

DirecTV to Drop OAN Conservative News Channel

DirecTV said Friday it plans to drop conservative news channel One America News Network, a move that could sharply reduce the pro-Trump channel’s audience. “We informed Herring Networks that, followin...

Satellite TV Can’t Be Saved With a DirecTV-Dish Merger

Text size In some parts of the country where cable access is limited, Dish and DirecTV remain the only way to get pay-TV subscriptions. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg For 20 years now, Dish Network and rival ...

These 3 ETFs let you play the hot semiconductor sector, where Nvidia, Micron, AMD and others are growing sales rapidly

Semiconductor stocks may continue to be an excellent area of the market for investors, even though the prospect of a long period of rising interest rates has put pressure on some high-flying technolog...

Alibaba Stock, JD.com, and Others Are Soaring. Here’s Why and Who to Thank.

Text size An Alibaba Group sign David Becker/Getty Images Chinese tech stocks are soaring. Many have been looking cheap of late, and soothing words from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell only fueled...

AT&T Stock Can Close Gap With Verizon. Why Shares Might Be a Buy.

Text size A sign is posted in front of an AT&T retail store in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T could finally start catching up to its main rival, prompting analysts a...

GE’s Larry Culp Posted an Open Letter on LinkedIn. He’s Talking to Investors.

Text size Larry Culp, General Electric’s chief executive officer. Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg General Electric CEO Larry Culp ripped a page from the playbook of another CEO—Tesla‘s Elon Musk—a...

FuboTV Boosts Revenue Projections. But the Stock Is Falling.

Text size Rafael Henrique/Dreamstime.com FuboTV Monday boosted its fourth-quarter revenue guidance, saying it expects revenue of $215 million to $220 million, higher than previous estimates. The strea...

Nearly 8% of the S&P 500 has taken a bath this week — 39 stocks fell at least 10%

This stock market is very sensitive to any hint of an increase in interest rates, so it may be no surprise that many tech high-flyers have been falling to earth. But there are others whose shareholder...

Has AT&T stock been punished enough? One analyst says the ‘bear case’ is mostly exhausted

After another year of underperformance versus the S&P 500, AT&T Inc.’s “bear case” may have mostly played itself out, according to an analyst. While AT&T T, +2.74% still faces a number of ...

Auto Stocks Have Revved Up on EV Ambitions. Here’s Where They Go Next.

Who needs parody cryptocurrency when car stocks are this exciting? Ford Motor , General Motors , Tesla , and Rivian Automotive each had price swings of more than 10% during the first trading week of t...