W hen GlaxoSmithKline spins off its enormous division selling drugstore staples like Advil and Tums next month, it will represent more than just the latest shuffling of assets among corporate giants. ...
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Apple Is Delving Into ‘Buy Now Pay Later,’ or BNPL. How to Play It.
Many of us are glued to our iPhones. If Apple has its way, the device will get stickier. The company announced a new “tap to pay” feature this past week—aiming to get consumers to pull out their iPhon...
Schlumberger, Shell, SunRun, and 3 Other Energy Stocks to Consider in a Hot Market
Two years ago, oil companies were global pariahs, banished not only from the high-minded peaks of Davos but also from lowly index funds. Energy’s weight in the S&P 500 fell below 2%, an astonishin...
Costco, Home Depot, and 3 Other Retail Stocks to Scoop Up Now—and 1 to Avoid
Home Depot is one of the retail stocks that are worth buying after the sector’s latest selloff. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Text size Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike. The same co...
6 Energy Stocks to Consider in a Hot Market
Two years ago, oil companies were global pariahs, banished not only from the high-minded peaks of Davos but also from lowly index funds. Energy’s weight in the S&P 500 fell below 2%, an astonishin...
5 Retail Stocks Worth a Look, and 1 to Avoid
Home Depot is one of the retail stocks that are worth buying after the sector’s latest selloff. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Text size Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike. The same co...
Stocks to Buy Now: Alphabet, Facebook, and 4 More Bargains
When the stock market gets pounded, bargains abound—or so it seems. But in a bear market, the key to investing success is separating the thoughtlessly discarded from the overpriced junk. With about tw...
The Stock Market Has Avoided a Bear. But the Selloff Isn’t Over
The S&P 500 indexrefuses to fall into a bear market—but that doesn’t mean it’s found a bottom just yet. Not that it wasn’t a painful week. The S&P 500 dropped 3% and has now fallen 18.7% from ...
Buy Genco Shipping & Trading Stock. The Shipping Company Is About to Pay a 14% Dividend Yield.
The shipping industry is undeniably cyclical, a feature that has kept away legions of investors burned by too many sudden downturns with no clear pattern of recovery. But for Genco Shipping & Trad...
Robinhood and 4 Other Broken IPO Stocks That Could Be Buys
After a bubbly year for initial public offerings, 2022 looks like a bust. Shares of many companies that came public last year are down 80% or more from their peaks. “This is the IPO market’s worst sel...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Buys More of the Stock
Text size Starbucks stock has seen pressure from the pandemic, supply-chain disruptions, and unionization efforts. CEO Howard Schultz has been buying shares. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Howard Schultz isn...
Buy Citizens Financial Stock. Its Shares Could Gain 29%.
Bigger is better in banking—and Citizens Financial Group has been taking steps that should allow it to play with the bigger boys. Its stock looks like a winner. These days, it’s nearly impossible for ...
The Stock Market Has Tumbled. The Best Stocks to Buy Now.
Investors are on pace for their worst year in history, declared strategists at one U.S. bank this past week. Their reasoning? Stocks and bonds are off to terrible starts, while consumer prices have ro...
The Future of Transportation Is a Lot More Than Tesla. How to Invest.
We once thought the future of transportation meant George Jetson’s flying car. Instead, we got Elon Musk’s Tesla—the company and the electric car—whose twin successes jolted the global automotive indu...
Toyota Is Trying to Catch Up in the Crowded EV Race. It May Be Too Late.
Toyota Motor became the world’s most successful car company through the spirit of kaizen, or continuous improvement. Now, with electric vehicles on the rise, kaizen might prove to be its undoing. Kaiz...
Buy Lithia Motors Stock. The Used-Car Dealer Could Rise 65%.
Lithia Motors owns about 280 dealerships nationwide and has a market capitalization of $8.2 billion. Courtesy Lithia Motors Text size Good luck finding a bargain on a used car—but you can get one in t...
Buy Under Armour Stock. Shares Can Climb 50% From Here.
In sports, there’s nothing like a good underdog story. The same might be true of investing. Under Armour checks both boxes. For years, investors had good reason to avoid the athletic-apparel and footw...
Buy JPMorgan Stock. Despite Losing Some of Its Swagger, Shares Are Cheap.
There is a little less swagger than usual at JPMorgan Chase these days, and that’s probably good news for investors. Shares of the bank, the industry leader in market value and profits, are down 17% t...
Six Dividend Stocks to Help Beat Inflation
The hot new investment theme isn’t socially nuanced crypto space finance or metaverse charging networks for virtual vehicles. It’s dividends—cash payments to shareholders. This year, U.S. equity divid...
Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.
Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...
Buy Progyny Stock. The Small-Cap Could Be a Big Winner By Tackling Infertility.
Illustration by JuanBernabeu Text size Infertility is a big problem—and that makes Progyny ’s stock a big opportunity. The inability to have children isn’t a niche problem. About 19% of women ages 15 ...
Sustainable Investing Failed Its First Big Test. A Reckoning Is Coming.
The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in investing based on environmental, social, and governance factors, or ESG. Lured by the promise of doing well by doing good, investors poured bi...
The Pandemic Made These Retailers Stronger. Their Stocks Are Buying Opportunities.
Far from killing retail, as initially feared, Covid-19 wound up being a boon for the industry. It’s the recovery that looks more perilous. The pandemic was a great time for retailers. Consumers were f...
Stock Splits Are Popular Again. 5 Companies That Could Split Their Stocks Next
Stock splits are back in vogue, and the market is quickly rewarding companies that divide their shares. Google parent Alphabet , Amazon.com , Tesla , and GameStop are among the latest companies to see...
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...
The Case for Building Wealth With Stocks, Not Homes
Illustration by Barron’s staff; Cynthia Farmer/Dreamstime Text size Once upon a time, a young family bought a modest three-bedroom Cape, the worst house in the best location in a prosperous subu...
How Rising Oil Prices Turned This Texas Scrubland Into an Energy Stock Worth Fighting Over
An unexpected consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was to turn a Gilded Age Texas failure into a modern jackpot. The demand for non-Russian oil and natural gas has ignited the value of 880,000 ...
Is the Housing Market Going to Crash? With Rising Mortgage Rates and Sky-high Home Prices, First-Time Buyers Are Being Locked Out
When Kellie Stofko and her fiancé, Liam McRae, started house hunting last August, it was with the vision of trading their 800-square-foot Atlanta apartment for a roomier home of their own in time for ...
This Small-Cap Stock Is Cheap and Growing Fast. It’s Time to Buy.
nVent Electric CEO Beth Wozniak, left, and Chief Financial Officer Sara Zawoyski. Courtesy of nVent Text size Tucked away just off the Post Road and I-95 in Greenwich, Conn., sits Valbella, an upscale...
Food Prices Keep Going Up. The Impact May Be Felt Far Beyond the Supermarket.
An economic maelstrom is brewing. A few months ago, it cost Rachel Lee about $150 to buy two weeks of groceries for her family of four. Lately, she says, it takes almost $100 more to buy the same food...
Deere, Hershey and More Stocks to Buy to Combat Food Inflation
The highest inflation in decades is hitting consumers and rippling through the food industry, from farm equipment to packaged food, grocers, and restaurants. At-home food costs climbed 8.6% and out-of...
Yes, GM Needs to Do More to Challenge Tesla. But the Stock Is a Buy.
General Motors has grand ambitions and a cheap stock. That could be a winning combination for investors. But to realize it, the pace of the giant car maker’s electric-car launches must catch up to the...