3M’s stock surges after company says 90% of earplug plaintiffs had ‘normal’ hearing

Shares of 3M Co. surged Wednesday after the maker of consumer, industrial and healthcare products said the U.S. Department of Defense’s records show that the “vast majority” of claimants in litigation...

Stocks Poised for Mixed Open

U.S. stocks are poised for a mixed open on Monday, as the market enters the tail end of fourth-quarter earnings season amid several well-watched economic indicators, including the Conference Board’s C...

JNJ Bought Up Biotech Stock MeiraGTx. It Sold Procept BioRobotics.

Johnson & Johnson recently increased an investment in an embattled biotech stock, and slashed a position in a maker of surgical robotics that rocketed last year. Johnson & Johnson (ticker: JNJ...

15 dividend stocks whose 5% to 10% yields appear safe in 2023 and 2024 by this analysis

Corrected dividend stock screen table, because Hanesbrands had eliminated its dividend on Feb. 2. See note above table. If you are investing in dividend stocks, the last thing you want to see is a com...

GE set to report final pre-breakup earnings

General Electric Co. is scheduled to report next week its final quarterly results before the start of its breakup, with the industrial conglomerate expected to report its highest profit since before t...

SmileDirectClub stock rallies on cost cuts, workforce ‘realignment’

Shares of SmileDirectClub Inc. rallied after hours on Tuesday after the oral-care company said it planned a round of cost cuts and a “realignment” of its workforce — even as its sales forecasts came u...

The Case for Holding—Not Selling—GE’s Healthcare Stock

A healthcare giant has been born: General Electric completed the spinoff of its healthcare business, GE HealthCare Technologies on Wednesday, with the shares trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker GEH...

Buy Medtronic Stock. Shares of the Dividend Aristocrat Look Attractive.

This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2023. To see the full list, click here.  Medtronic  (ticker: MDT) is a dividend aristocrat, wi...

GE Healthcare will join S&P 500 as soon as it begins trading

GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. will be an S&P 500 stock as soon as it officially exists. General Electric Co. GE, -1.05% expects to spin off its healthcare arm into a separately traded company on...

Stocks Limp Toward 2023 as the Data Show Few Signs of a Clear Direction

Stocks limped on the low volumes of the pre-Christmas week, battered by conflicting data and leaving investors with a muddled outlook going into 2023. It’s a dynamic in which good news and bad news te...

GE Healthcare Plans to Reduce Debt and Costs, Pursue Tuck-In Acquisitions

General Electric Co.’s healthcare division plans to cut debt, bring down costs and pursue tuck-in acquisitions after its spinoff in early January, finance chief Helmut Zodl said Thursday at an investo...

D.R. Horton and 7 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Text size D.R. Horton plans to boost its quarterly payout by 11% to 25 cents a share. Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg It was a busy week for dividend increases among large U.S. companies across a varie...

Medtronic Is Doing a Spinoff. What It Means for Our Stock Pick.

Medical device maker Medtronic is spinning off two business units to try to drive higher growth. The market isn’t impressed.  In theory, it should be. Spinoffs are supposed to streamline operations of...

Opinion: The stock market is in no man’s land. Prepare to cash in when the turnaround comes

If you were too scared to buy stocks last week when investors panicked, I’d suggest doing a little selling now to free up your nerves — and capital. I’ll be a buyer on the next leg down, just as I was...

SmileDirectClub Doesn’t Have Much Time to Straighten Itself Out

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Walmart, Target, Cisco, Deere, Housing Data, and Other Things for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Earnings season continues next week in what will be an action-packed stretch for retail stocks. Walmart and Home Depot report results on Tuesday, followed by Bath & Body Works , Lowe’s, ...

Rivian, Illumina, Toast, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

Text size Rivian, the maker of electric trucks, maintained its production estimates for the full year. Courtesy Rivian Stock futures rose Friday amid more signs that inflation in the U.S. has been coo...

10 defensive stocks that can also provide you with growth and dividends over the long term

The S&P 500 Index has rallied 10% since June 22 from a deep decline, but there are different schools of thought about whether investors are out of the woods yet. Mark Hulbert has called the recent...

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...

Philips Cuts Guidance as Inflation and Supply Disruptions Hit Earnings

Text size Philips said it expects full-year sales growth of 1% to 3%, down from its previous forecast of 3% to 5%. AFP via Getty Images Shares of Philips fell sharply after the Dutch maker of Sonicare...

The Bear Market Has Brought ‘Fear and Uncertainty’ for Gen Z. How They’re Coping.

Ella Gupta made her first investment when she was 10. With the help of her parents, she took half the profits of her bracelet-making business and invested in the stock market. At 14, she opened a Roth...

15 stocks that have fallen at least 33% but by these measures are still standouts in their sectors

During a year in which more than half of the stocks in the S&P 500 Index have declined 10% or more, you have probably seen the term “oversold” being bandied about. But what does oversold really me...

Tesla, Nvidia, and 10 Other Beaten-Up Stocks That Look Like Opportunities

Nvidia qualifies as a growth stock. It trades for about 30 times estimated 2022 earnings. Dreamstime Text size Stocks are struggling. Everything is going down, even stocks with improving outlooks. But...

Bausch + Lomb, Year’s Second-Biggest IPO, Pops in Public Debut

Text size Bausch + Lomb’s IPO is the second-biggest so far this year. Scott Olson/Getty Images Eye-care company Bausch + Lomb and biotech PepGen kicked off their lives as public companies Friday...

PepsiCo Raises Its Dividend, and Marriott and Hilton’s Payouts Make a Comeback

Text size PepsiCo stock yields 2.7%. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Baxter International , Devon Energy , and PepsiCo were among the large U.S. companies that announced dividend increases this week. In addit...

Antares Pharma Stock Soars After $960 Million Halozyme Buyout

Text size Nasdaq-listed Antares Pharma is being bought by Halozyme Therapeutics in a deal valued at $960 million. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Shares of Antares Pharma surged more than 47% in premarket tra...

Starry’s Home Broadband Is Giving Consumers a New Way to Cut the Cord

Starry says its can build its broadband service—using wireless connections—at 1% of the cost of more traditional fiberoptic networks. Illustration by Barron’s Staff; (routers) Courtesy of Starry...