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...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GlaxoSmithKline

Text size AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy company Sierra Oncology for $1.9 billion in cash, as it looks to boost its portfolio of new specialty medicine...

Kohl’s Stock Climbs on Reports of a $9 Billion Offer From Franchise Group

Text size Kohl’s stock has risen this year on hopes for a buyout. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s stock climbed on a report Tuesday that Franchise Group is the latest company to throw its ha...

Why Apple’s Stock Buybacks and Its Dividend Could Get a Big Boost

Text size Apple stock has faced headwinds in 2022 but is still up 26% from this time a year ago. Dreamstime Apple ’s quarterly earnings reports frequently hog the spotlight on days when they drop. The...

Warren Buffett Showed Tough Negotiation Skills in Alleghany Deal

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Warren Buffett is known as a tough negotiator, and that was apparent in Berkshire Hathaway ’s negotiations to buy the insurer Alleghany when the Berk...

Cisco Stock Slumps. It Faces Competition From Arista and Juniper, Analyst Says

Text size Cisco Systems logo Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images Shares of Cisco Systems were falling Tuesday after the networking hardware and software giant was downgraded to a Sell by Citi. Analyst ...

How the AT&T Spinoff Has Complicated Trading in Its Stock

Text size Photograph by Mike Mozart Trading in AT&T stock on Monday may confuse some investors, because the base share price has been adjusted to reflect the closing on Friday of the merger of AT&...

Warner Bros. Discovery Stock Is Now Trading. Why It’s a Buy.

Warner Bros. Discovery is the new kid on the media block, with the assets to be a winner in the streaming wars and a cheap stock to get investors interested. Merger-related cost savings and content li...

AT&T Stock Rises After the Merger. What Do the Charts Say?

Shares of AT&T  (T) – Get AT&T Inc. Report are higher on Monday, at last check about 8% up, after the company completed its merger with Discovery on Friday. The split leaves the pure-pla...

Elon Musk May Have Nasty Surprises for Twitter Soon

Investors have become accustomed to Elon Musk, Tesla’s  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report chief executive, making spectacular announcements.  He has a knack for surprising them when they least...

How to Handle the Taxes on the AT&T Spinoff of Warner Bros.

Text size The Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. AT&T shareholders have received a 0.242 share of Warner Bros. Discovery for each AT&T share. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg Bing Guan/B...

Rivian Gets Its First Sell Rating From Wall Street. The Stock Is Rising.

Text size Rivian is expected to produce fewer cars than Wall Street had anticipated this year. Courtesy Rivian Wall Street has been pretty positive on Rivian Automotive stock, despite some rocky tradi...

Pfizer’s New CFO David Denton Negotiated One of the Biggest Healthcare Deals in History

Pfizer on Monday named a new chief financial officer with a resume that hints at the company’s plans to spend big with its Covid-19 vaccine windfall. David Denton is taking up the CFO role at Pfizer (...

Make A List, But Don’t Go Shopping Yet

The big fish eats the small fish. getty Mergers and acquisition volume in 2021 was the highest on record. But acquisitions may not be the smart thing for business leaders in today’s economic environme...

Do I resist refinancing my $160,000 federal student loan at a lower rate in the hope there will be loan forgiveness? What are the chances it will happen?

I graduated from college in 2017 with more than $210,000 in federal student-loan debt thanks to out-of-state tuition, a master’s program, and not fully understanding this cost at that time. I’ve chise...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes 11% Stake in HP

Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated an 11.4% stake worth $4.2 billion in HP Inc. , the maker of personal computers and printers, ...

The Sandbox Contemplates New Funding Round, Considering New Mergers and Acquisitions

The Sandbox is considering a new funding round this year to carry forward its plans to expand further exponentially.  The company is looking toward organizations developing compelling metaverse experi...

These 6 ‘Dividend Aristocrats’ Have a Strong Pipeline for Cash. That’s a Plus.

Text size Exxon Mobil is among the companies whose yield on free cash flow indicates strong support for the payout’s resilience. Here, an Exxon refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dean Mouhtarop...

Elon Musk admits his Twitter investment isn’t passive and reveals that he began buying the stock in January

Elon Musk filed a new disclosure on his Twitter Inc. stake with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, admitting that he invested in the company with the goal of effecting change and that ...

Carvana Stock Tumbles as Analyst Sees Risk of Car Boom Becoming Car Bust

Text size An eight-story car-vending machine, operated by Carvana, in Huntington Beach, Calif. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images Car sales have are slowing after their pandemic-fueled boom and have le...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Snaps Up Nearly $20 Million of UiPath Stock

Text size Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath on Monday. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath , th...

Elon Musk Is Already Dropping Hints on His Plans for Twitter. So Much for ‘Passive.’

The world’s richest person may have taken a ‘passive’ stake in Twitter , but he is clearly intent on playing an active role in pushing for change on the platform itself. There is a chance the stake wi...

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...

3 Energy Companies That Should Buy Back Stock: Analyst

Text size High oil prices have left producers awash in cash. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil-and-gas companies are pumping out billions of dollars in cash because of high commodity prices. Many of them...

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...

Cathie Wood Sold Tesla Stock. She Is as Bullish as Ever.

Text size Tesla stock remains the biggest position in Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF sold about 22,000 Tesla shares Thursday, according to her...

These 3 Energy Companies Should Buy Back Stock, Analyst Says

Text size High oil prices have left producers awash in cash. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil-and-gas companies are pumping out billions of dollars in cash because of high commodity prices. Many of them...

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...

These 10 S&P 500 Stocks Have Solid Dividends, Not Just Big Buybacks

Last week’s Income Investing column focused on shareholder yield, which combines dividends with stock buybacks, by sector. This week, Barron’s decided to drill down and look at the shareholder yields ...

Warren Buffett Has Amassed Over 90% of His Wealth Since He Turned 65

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Who says you can’t get really rich when you’re old? One of the Warren Buffett’s remarkable achievements is that he has generated over 90% of his weal...

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub Buys Stock After Warren Buffett Did

Text size Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum has had quite a year, and CEO Vicki Hollub just bought shares of the energy explorer on the open mar...