KBW recommends buying these 11 financial stocks, including First Republic, following federal backstop for banks

On a Monday following high-profile bank failures on Friday and Sunday, it may seem to be a strange time to recommend buying stocks of banks and other financial services companies, but Keefe, Bruyette ...

Asana says path to profitability is improving, forecasts narrower-than-expected losses

Asana Inc. on Wednesday reported and forecast narrower-than-expected losses, saying the figures reflected a firmer path to profitability. The project-management software provider — whose chief executi...

CrowdStrike stock rallies as forecast shows confidence in new approach

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. shares rose in the extended session Tuesday after the cybersecurity company’s earnings and outlook beat Wall Street, and executives said they are targeting the tough-to-close...

20 income-building stocks that numbers say may become elite Dividend Aristocrats

Back in January, we took a deep look into three groups of Dividend Aristocrat stocks to show which ones had increased their payouts most significantly over the past five years. Now it is time for a fo...

Silicon Valley Confronts the End of Growth. It’s a New Era for Tech Stocks.

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

In Tech’s New World, Layoffs and Buybacks Are In, Mergers Are Out

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

Opinion: Marc Benioff’s Salesforce fairy tale is crumbling down around him

Salesforce Inc. has been a unique tech company, able to sell itself as a “family” that has higher ideals than just profit to its employees while generating near-universal praise from Wall Street as we...

The 20 worst U.S. stocks in February: the biggest loser dropped 35%

Updated with month-end prices. The euphoria of January reversed in February, with broad declines for stocks across the board as interest rates continued to rise. Bond interest rates are more attractiv...

‘You can learn a lot from dead people.’ Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s 99-year-old partner, doles out investing wisdom.

You have to keep learning if you want to become a great investor. When the world changes, you must change. That was Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s long-time partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Ha...

How big is the storm in cloud? Salesforce, Zoom and Snowflake will tell you

Is a cloud recession forming on the horizon? Markets could soon find out as some of the biggest names in the cloud-software business report earnings in the week ahead after a storm for their stocks. T...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is the largest investor in these 8 stocks 

As 2022 wrapped, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was the largest shareholder of eight stocks that include traditional oil companies and financial-services giants. “Berkshire now enjoys major owner...

One laid-off tech worker’s odyssey: 5 months, 25 interviews, 100 job applications

At times, Todd Erickson’s search for a tech job felt more like an odyssey. But after five months, about 100 job applications and more than two dozen interviews with recruiters and companies — includin...

Nearing retirement? Here’s how to shift your portfolio from growth to income.

Over the decades, perhaps you’ve been very good at saving your money and investing it for long-term growth. But when the time comes for you to stop working or to step back to a part-time job, you migh...

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...

Tesla may get into the lithium-mining business, and these stocks are cratering

Tesla Inc. TSLA, -5.25% reportedly is on the prowl for its own lithium-mining company, and losses are piling up for the stocks of lithium producers. Shares of Albemarle Corp. ALB, -6.22% were down mor...

Redfin Is Upbeat About This Year. So Is Wall Street.

Text size Redfin reported a smaller earnings loss than expected for the fourth quarter and full year. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg Redfin has reported a smaller-than-feared earnings loss. Analysts respo...

Albemarle, Lithium Stocks Beat the Market for Years. Until Now.

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14 dividend stocks that rose 100% or more in 5 years as the payouts doubled

In basketball, a double-double is a combination of at least 10 or more of the following in a game: points scored, rebounds, assists, blocked shots or steals. For dividend stocks, you might find a scre...

Blackstone’s Big New Idea Leaves It Bruised

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Only 13 companies have issued upbeat profit forecasts for Q1, but earnings are due from this pessimism-resistant industry

A tough fourth quarter for corporate earnings is largely in the past, and the first quarter isn’t exactly looking great either, but upcoming results this week from the one industry spared by the pande...

Why MGM Resorts International Stock Is Worth a Wager

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...

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...

Disney, CVS, Uber, Chipotle, PayPal, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Amazon earnings: What to expect

Amazon.com Inc. is expected to deliver a profit for its holiday quarter, but not enough to offset its losses from earlier in 2022. Even with Amazon AMZN, +6.95% projected to report about $2 billion in...

Lithium Americas Soars After GM Invests $650 Million. EV War Is Escalating.

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Bear market unlike anything I’ve seen since starting on the Street in 1980, says short selling legend Jim Chanos

“I’ve been on the Street [since] 1980 [and] not one bear market has ever traded above nine times to 14 times the previous peak earnings.” That was short selling giant Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos As...

A Barron’s Roundtable Primer | Barron’s

To the Editor:Regarding “Primed to Prosper” (Roundtable Part II, Jan. 20), my advice is to listen to the macro suggestions and not always the micro. Decide which themes and industries discussed best a...

Deere, Dollar Tree, and 21 More Investment Ideas From Barron’s Roundtable Pros

The “January effect,” according to market lore, is the tendency of stocks to rise in the year’s first month. So far, so good: The S&P 500 is up 6% year to date and the Nasdaq Composite has gained ...

Energy Earnings Could Drop 11%

After two years of skyrocketing growth, oil and gas earnings are now past their peak. The good thing for the stocks is that the peak was remarkably high, and the decline is likely to be very gradual. ...

Opinion: 6 cheap stocks that famed value-fund manager Bill Nygren says can help you beat the market

These are tricky times in the stock market, so it pays to look to the best stock-fund managers for guidance on how to behave now. Veteran value investor Bill Nygren belongs in this camp, because the O...

Redfin and Zillow Stock Slide Shows Possible Shift in Home Listings Landscape

Text size Redfin’s stock fell 8.5% on Wednesday. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Redfin Shares of real estate companies Redfin and Zillow Group fell on Wednesday after news of a potential shakeup in...

Opinion: Microsoft gave Wall Street hope, but then the cloud forecast turned dark

Microsoft Corp. sparked a relief rally for the cloud Tuesday, then rained on that parade after less than two hours of joy. Microsoft MSFT reported slightly disappointing holiday-quarter results, but t...