Stock-Based Compensation Is the Latest Risk for Tech Stocks

For years, the lavish stock grants and options handed out by tech companies went largely ignored by investors. Now, the practice is finally getting attention, and it’s likely going to bring bad news f...

Stocks moving big after hours: SI, CRM, SNOW, OKTA

Pedestrians near Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell:  Salesfor...

Okta’s stock jumps more than 14% as earnings forecast doubles expectations

Okta Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Wednesday after the identity-management software company topped estimates by a wide margin, and executives predicted adjusted earnings that were more t...

Okta stock is up 15% in extended hours: what happened?

Shares of Okta Inc (NASDAQ: OKTA) jumped 15% in extended trading after the identity and access management company reported market-beating results for its fourth financial quarter. Okta stock up on exc...

Royal Caribbean Stock Could Rise 35%. How It Beat Other Cruise Lines With its Recovery.

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 views or rec...

Okta stock surges more than 25% as analysts approve of company’s profit heading

Okta Inc. shares surged by more than a quarter of its value Thursday after analysts praised the identity software company for heading in the right direction after it promised a profitable fiscal 2024 ...

Salesforce, Five Below, Okta, Costco and more

A shopper loads a car with bottled water at a Costco Wholesalers in Chingford, Britain March 15, 2020. John Sibley | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Salesforce — Sh...

Salesforce, Okta, Snowflake and more

Salesforce (CRM): Salesforce co-CEO and vice chair Bret Taylor is stepping down as of January 31, 2023, the company announced in its earnings release Wednesday. Co-founder Marc Benioff will become Sal...

Okta stock jumps 15%, CEO promises profit as sales reps get on same page

Okta Inc. executives on Wednesday said they will report an adjusted profit in the fourth quarter and, in a surprise, predicted profitability for all of next fiscal year, trumping profit concerns stemm...

Okta stock just popped up 15%: explained here

Okta Inc (NASDAQ: OKTA) is up more than 15% in extended trading after the identity management company said it broke even in its third financial quarter. Okta Inc issued upbeat guidance for the future ...

CrowdStrike, Okta And Zscaler Likely To Post Upbeat Quarterly Results, Analyst Says

Needham analyst reiterated Buy on CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: CRWD) with a $225.00 price target. CRWD’s broad platform, robust 120%+ DBNR, new solid products, strong Sales staffing growth...

Why Okta, Twilio and Salesforce are bucking the trend of cloud-software stocks’ slide

Cloud-software stocks continued to sell off Monday, following one of the space’s worst weeks ever, although not as fast as Friday selloff as a few beaten-up stocks received upgrades and giants like Sa...

Rising Pressure on Profits Darkens Outlook for Tech Shares

Micron Technology is among the companies that have warned about softening PC demand. Courtesy Micron Text size In early summer, I wrote a Tech Trader column previewing the June quarter earnings season...

Okta Stock Drops On Quarterly Earnings Report

Okta stock fell hard Thursday on second-quarter results that, while beating estimates, struggled with integration issues tied to its acquisition of Auth0 in 2021. Okta (OKTA) reported quarterly result...

Nvidia, Okta, Five Below, Bed Bath & Beyond and more

A Nvidia logo is seen on the company’s building at an industry park on February 7, 2019 in Tianjin, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in mid...

Okta, Nutanix, Five Below and more

The inside of one of Five Below’s existing locations. Five Below Check out the companies making headlines after hours. Pure Storage — The tech stock jumped 7% after the data storage developer su...

Okta, Disney, Five Below and more

Okta (OKTA): Shares fell in after-hours trading despite the company posting a narrower-than-expected loss. Okta reported an adjusted loss of 10 cents per share on revenue of $452 million. The street w...

Okta shares down 12% despite a strong Q2 and raised guidance

Okta Inc (NASDAQ: OKTA) reported market-beating results for its fiscal second quarter and raised future guidance on Wednesday. The stock is still down 12% after the bell. Why are Okta shares down in a...

Okta stock falls despite increased forecast, earnings beat

Okta Inc. shares fell in late trading Wednesday despite revealing an increase in the software company’s annual outlook and reporting a better quarter than Wall Street expected. Okta OKTA, +0.26%, whic...

Coinbase COO Choi joins Okta’s board

Emilie Choi, president and chief operating officer at Coinbase, joined identity firm Okta’s board of directors, according to an announcement today. Choi’s appointment is effective as of August 19. She...

Why an analyst says sell these four big software stocks

Salesforce Inc.’s stock gets a lot of love on Wall Street, with 43 of the 49 covering analysts tracked by FactSet rating the shares the equivalent of buy. But Guggenheim analyst John DiFucci bucked th...

Okta stock rally shifts into overdrive following hiked outlook as other software companies trim theirs

Okta Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Thursday, adding to gains in the regular session after the identity-management services company reported better-than-expected results and, unlike some ...

Okta stock jumped 20% in extended trading: explained here

Okta Inc (NASDAQ: OKTA) stock jumped nearly 20% in after-hours trading on market-beating Q1 revenue. The IT service management company also raised its guidance for fiscal 2023. Okta Q1 financial highl...

Lululemon, RH, Okta and more

People line up to enter a store during Black Friday shopping at Fashion Outlets of Chicago in Rosemont of Greater Chicago Area, Illinois, the United States, on Nov. 26, 2021. Joel Lerner | Xinhua News...

Okta Stock Tumbles Amid Breach Investigation As Cyber Risks Mount

Updated at 10:51 am EST Okta Inc.  (OKTA) – Get Okta, Inc. Class A Report shares slumped lower Tuesday after the tech group, which manages network access for thousands of U.S. companies, began i...

Nike, Okta, Alibaba and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Nike (NKE) – Nike reported quarterly profit of 87 cents per share, 16 cents a share above estimates. Revenue beat estimates as well, helped ...

Okta gained in a week of hyped tech stocks. Consider selling at the current prices

Okta Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA) spiked from $152.50 to $174.50 in a week when the key determinant of prices was market hype created by technology stocks. The spike in price is against the conspicuous bearish ...

Zoom, Salesforce, Target, Costco, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

U.S. stock and bond markets will have plenty of action on the last day of February with earnings from HP Inc., Lucid Group, and stay-at-home play Zoom Video Communications expected on Monday. Earnings...

Okta versus Deere is the best way to understand the market

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday stressed to investors that Wall Street is going through a sector rotation, turning away from formerly high-flying growth stocks in anticipation of tighter monetary p...