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3M, Lyft, Verizon, Lululemon, and More Stock Market Movers
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The Housing Boom Is Over. But Housing Stocks Could Still Be Winners.
Plunging orders. Widespread price discounting. Shrinking profits. These are just some of the factors weighing on home builders after surging mortgage rates burst the pandemic-era real estate boom. Hom...
Palantir Stock Is Sliding. One of Its Investments Just Went Bankrupt.
Palantir stock is coming under selling pressure amid concerns about the implications of a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last week by Fast Radius a provider of cloud-based manufacturing and supply chain...
Residential housing demand ‘cratered’ as mortgage rates spiked, analyst says
Raymond James analyst Buck Horne lowered ratings on all of the home-builder stocks he covers, as he believes the recent “relentless” climb in mortgage rates has ensured a housing recession. “Interest ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway closes $11.6 billion purchase of Alleghany insurance group
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company completed its largest acquisition in years Wednesday with its $11.6 billion purchase of the Alleghany insurance conglomerate. The purchase announced in March wil...
13 stocks whose built-in advantages shield them from the economic uncertainty pervading the market
Investors who have been unsure about the Fed’s no-mercy inflation policy, have likely got the message now. And as markets adjust to the prospect of more hikes from a central bank that plans to “keep a...
20 dividend stocks with high yields that are expected to raise payouts the most through 2024
There are different ways to select stocks based on dividends. An investor might look for companies paying high dividends, with the hope that payouts will keep rising. Or the investor might focus less ...
Novartis Looks Appealing, Based on Drug Pipeline and Planned Spinoff
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...
Stanley Black & Decker leads S&P 500 decliners after tool maker’s weak quarter leads it to slash guidance
Shares of Stanley Black & Decker Inc. tumbled 13.7% Thursday to lead S&P 500 decliners after the tool maker’s second-quarter earnings fell far short of estimates, it slashed its guidance and a...
D.R. Horton’s David V. Auld: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022
David V. Auld is CEO of D.R. Horton Courtesy of D.R. Horton Text size America has a big housing shortage, and no company is doing more to address it than D.R. Horton . Under David Auld’s leadership, t...
Home Builders Are the Cheapest Stocks Around. Is It Time to Buy?
Construction workers on a Toll Brothers home in Boca Raton, Fla. Toll and other home builders currently trade near book value. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Text size The housing market is still robust, but...
These 10 stocks have fallen at least 20% this year, but are expected to soar up to 66% from here
It sure has been a wild ride for investors over the past few weeks, with the benchmark S&P 500 rising 10% from March 8 through March 30. But the broader stock market is still down for 2022. Below ...
New home sales decline, surprising analysts, even though the inventory of properties for sale has hit the highest level since 2008
The numbers: U.S. new-home sales decreased 2% to an annual rate of 772,000 in February, the government said Wednesday. That figure represents the number of homes that would be sold over a yearlong per...
6 Dividend Growth Stocks That Beat Commodities for Fighting Inflation
Text size Verizon Communications has a towering yield of 4.8%. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Is there such a thing as a meme metal? Humble nickel, used mainly to make stainless steel more workable, rece...
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...
Opinion: Value has beaten growth by a huge margin — these are now top investment newsletters’ best value-stock picks
(Note: The dividend-yield column at the bottom of this story has been corrected. The correct yields are now shown.) Value will be especially valuable in 2022. I’m referring to the latest round in valu...
Home Depot Was the Dow’s Best Performer. Why the Gains Are Set to Continue.
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Home construction and improvement stocks are poised to continue their gains in 2022, as the work-from-home trend continues, mortgage rates remain low, and proper...
Intel’s dividend cut shows the need for quality. Here are 20 dividend stocks screened by UBS.
Stocks that pay high dividends can provide comfort during times of market turmoil. It is much easier to be patient if money is rolling in, and a strategy of reinvesting dividends may outperform when t...