Chewy Co-Founder Ryan Cohen Takes Large Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond, Pushes for Changes

Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of online pet-products retailer Chewy Inc., CHWY 2.91% has a big stake in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY -3.40% and is pushing the housewares retailer to stream...

Intel Is Still Struggling. Here’s Another Way to Play Chips.

Text size Intel stock was downgraded by Morgan Stanley. Courtesy Intel Corporation Shares of Intel and GlobalFoundries went in opposite directions Thursday after analysts at Morgan Stanley downgraded ...

Opinion: These 10 dividend-paying stocks show why cash isn’t trash in a brutal market

The best shareholders love dividend stocks —and anyone concerned about the current global financial market turmoil should consider them. Dividend stocks give shareholders regular cash payouts year aft...

Alibaba Stock: The ‘Cheapest Company in the World’ Outside Russia

Text size Alibaba’s market value is under $300 billion, against about $1.5 trillion for its U.S. counterpart, Amazon.com. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding is probably “the cheapest com...

Costco stock falls as retailer’s sales pace slows

Costco Wholesale Corp. late Thursday reported quarterly results and sales that topped Wall Street expectations, but the stock headed lower as same-store sales growth slowed. Costco COST, +0.96% said i...

Costco Stock Is Slipping Because Investors Wanted More Than Strong Earnings

Text size Shoppers in a Costco store Joe Raedle/Getty Images Costco Wholesale stock is edging lower in late trading even as the discount retailer reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that came in a...

Intel faces ‘all-or-nothing’ situation, analyst says in downgrade

Intel Corp. may have gotten a callout in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address earlier in the week, but on Thursday it fell further down Morgan Stanley’s list of chip names. Morgan Stanley’...

Best Buy Stock: Earnings Reveal Tough Christmas Quarter. Company Raises Dividend.

Text size Best Buy is contending with short-term headwinds, but the electronics retailer is expecting business to pick up by fiscal 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images Best Buy stock rose Thursday despite ...

Semiconductor, PC stocks rally after Biden touts importance of U.S. chip manufacturing

Chip-related stocks and shares of computer makers surged Wednesday following a push by President Joe Biden to pass legislation that would result in more than $50 billion in government subsidies to bui...

Coupang falls short of expectations for holiday quarter, but gives upbeat earnings outlook

Coupang Inc. fell short of earnings and revenue expectations with its fourth-quarter results Wednesday, though the South Korean e-commerce company forecast a slimmer-than-anticipated loss for the full...

Retailers’ Wage Increases to Attract Workers Aren’t Yet Denting Profits

Large retailers and other employers that hire hourly workers are continuing to lift wages, and so far have kept profits growing as well. On Monday, Target Corp. TGT 0.28% said it plans to spend up to ...

Viatris stock slides 24% as analysts say sale of biosimilars to Indian partner removes key growth driver

Viatris Inc. said Monday it has agreed to combine its biosimilars portfolio with privately held Indian company Biocon Biologics Ltd. for up to $3.335 billion, as part of a broader overhaul of its busi...

Viatris to Sell Biosimilars Business for $3 Billion. Shares Tumble.

Viatris will sell the biosimilars business of the former Mylan to the Indian drugmaker Biocon for as much as $3.3 billion. Dreamstime Text size Viatris , the company formed in 2020 through a merger of...

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...

Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Face a New Rival as GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Prepare to Enter the Ring

As new Covid-19 cases fall, the postpandemic vaccine market grows more interesting. On Wednesday, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, two of the world’s largest vaccine makers, said they would submit a Covid ...

Alibaba Stock Is in the Dumps. Here Are 2 Requirements for a Turnaround.

Alibaba is down in the dumps again. While tech stocks at large staged a turnaround Thursday—with the Nasdaq index ending 3.3% higher after opening almost as much in the red—the Chinese internet giant ...

Ukraine Invasion Sends Chill Through TSMC Shares

Text size Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing saw its share slide Tuesday even as those of most other chipmakers rose. Sam Yeh / AFP via Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares dropped T...

Alibaba’s Earnings Are Today. What to Expect.

Text size Alibaba investors had it tough in 2021. So far, 2022 is shaping up to be better. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Earnings from Alibaba  will be closely watched by investors after a tumultuou...

Alibaba’s Quarterly Profit Is Set to Plummet 60%. Here’s Why.

Text size Alibaba earnings are due Thursday. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Alibaba ‘s quarterly profit is expected to fall almost 60% year over year when the Chinese tech giant reports earnings on Thursday. In...

Here Are the 10 Highest-Yielding S&P 500 Stocks

High dividend yields are a nice offset to inflation, now running at more than 7%, the highest rate in four decades. Barron’s screened the S&P 500 for the 10 highest-yielding stocks based on data f...

Alibaba earnings to come amid macro pressures on Chinese e-commerce

As Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. works through a flurry of challenges, it will once again look to restore investor confidence in its long-term vision when it reports earnings Thursday. The Chinese e-comm...

Lowe’s Stock Rises. The Retailer Had Strong Earnings and Sees Higher Profits Ahead.

Text size Lowe’s same-store sales grew 5% in the fourth quarter. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Lowe’s reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that topped analysts’ estimates and raised guidance f...

Lowe’s Beats Profit Estimates and Boosts Fiscal-Year Forecast. The Stock Rises.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Lowe’s reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that topped analysts’ estimates and raised guidance for the next fiscal year. Shares of home-improvement retailer ...

Home Depot leads the list of 20 worst performers in the S&P 500 on Tuesday

Slightly positive isn’t good enough for this stock market. While market jitters on Feb. 22 were driven by Russia’s movement of troops into Ukraine, the U.S. stock market was also adjusting to the idea...

Home Depot Stock Dips Despite Earnings Beat and Dividend Hike

Text size Home Depot posted better-than-expected sales and profits Tuesday. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Home Depot stock lost steam Tuesday even as the home-improvement retailer reported stronger-t...

Moderna, Alibaba, Coinbase, Home Depot, Etsy, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday. Fourth-quarter earning season resumes when Wall Street returns, with results from Agilent Technologies , H...

Moderna, Alibaba, Coinbase, Home Depot, Etsy, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday. Fourth-quarter earning season resumes when Wall Street returns, with results from Agilent Technologies, Home Depot, and Medtron...

Coke, Walmart, and 8 More Companies That Boosted Their Stock Dividends

Text size Things go better with Coke, as the company’s long-ago jingle proclaimed. Things are also going better for the beverage company’s stockholders, thanks to the news that its dividend will be in...

Shopify Stock Tumbles After Forecasting Slower Revenue Growth

Shares of Shopify Inc. tumbled 16% Wednesday, after the e-commerce software provider told investors that the forces that made it one of the biggest winners of the Covid-19 pandemic are starting to slo...

Warren Buffett Lieutenant Ted Weschler Makes a Big Score on Dillard’s

Text size Ted Weschler, portfolio manager for Berkshire Hathaway. Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Ted Weschler, an investment lieutenant for Warren Buffett, sold out of a hugely successful invest...

ViacomCBS Is Changing Its Name. More Subscribers Joined, but at a Cost.

Text size ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount Global. Dreamstime ViacomCBS reported a very solid quarter of streaming-subscriber gains on Tuesday, but that growth didn’t come cheaply. The comp...