Oracle’s cloud strength, ‘resilient’ revenue, prompt analysts to raise targets

Oracle Corp.’s stock fell following the software giant’s fiscal third-quarter results released late Thursday, although analysts have highlighted strong momentum in the company’s cloud business. The co...

Oracle Stock Is Dropping. Earnings Topped Views, but Revenue Disappointed.

Oracle stock is falling after the software company posted slightly worse-than-expected revenue results for its latest quarter. “Our strong quarterly earnings growth was driven by 48% constant currency...

United Natural Foods Stock Plunges After Slashing Profit Guidance

United Natural Foods stock plunged more than 23% early Wednesday as the food distributor slashed its profit outlook for 2023 and withdrew long-term financial targets. The company (Ticker: UNFI), which...

As chip sales dry up, Nvidia CFO says spending on AI will save companies money

Nvidia Corp.’s financial chief reasons that the efficiencies businesses need are not from spending less money, but from spending more on technologies like artificial intelligence, even as chip sales d...

Lordstown Motors’ Sales Were Dreadful. The Stock Is Rising Anyway.

Sales and earnings from electric vehicle start-up Lordstown Motors show just how hard it has been to launch a new electric truck. Results look rough, but the beaten-up stock is rising in early trading...

Twitter Reports 40% Drop in Revenue and Adjusted Earnings to Investors: WSJ

Elon Musk’s Twitter told investors its revenue and adjusted earnings fell approximately 40% year-over-year in December, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Journal, citing people familiar ...

Ford to raise production as U.S. auto sales start to recover

Ford will increase production of six models this year, half of them electric, as the company and the auto industry start to rebound from sluggish U.S. sales in 2022. The automaker announced Friday tha...

Plug Power stock dips on revenue miss, but execs stick with annual sales forecast as new factory ramps up

Green-energy provider Plug Power Inc. on Wednesday stuck with its full-year sales forecast, despite fourth-quarter sales missing expectations. The company — which sells renewable hydrogen fuel and fue...

Lowe’s Earnings Beat Estimates. Why the Stock Is Dropping.

Lowe’s earned more than expected in the fourth quarter but fell short in terms of revenue, warning of a slowdown in the home-improvement market and sending the stock tumbling. The company reported adj...

Rivian Stock Tumbles After Earnings. Why Wall Street Isn’t Worried.

Electric truck start-up Rivian Automotive expects to deliver 50,000 units in 2023, while Wall Street was looking for closer to 60,000 units. Shares were falling early on Wednesday. Rivian (ticker: RIV...

AMC stock tumbles after 14th consecutive quarterly loss, fourth straight year in the red

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. reported a loss for a 14th consecutive quarter and fourth consecutive year Tuesday, and shares fell in after-hours trading. The movie-theater chain and meme-stock pheno...

For Nvidia Stock, It’s Game On!

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Stellantis Stock Rises After Earnings Top GM, Ford, and Even Tesla

Stellantis finished up 2022 stronger than expected. By some measures, the company had a better year than even Tesla Stellantis stock climbed in early Wednesday trading. Stellantis (ticker: STLA) repor...

PayPal CEO’s ‘unusual’ $2 million stock purchase is ‘certainly a positive’ signal

PayPal Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Dan Schulman just did something “unusual” for a departing executive. Often, executives and other insiders begin to trim their company stock exposure when they’re p...

Walmart Reports Earnings Tuesday. What to Expect.

Keep an eye out for Walmart stock when the market opens on Tuesday, analysts say. The retail giant is poised to deliver another strong quarter, fueled in part by a strong holiday season, and shares ma...

Just how bad were holiday sales? The world’s biggest retailers are about to tell us

The nation’s retailers limped into last year’s holiday season with too much stuff that people didn’t want. We’re about to find out how much of it they were able to get rid of, and how much an avalanch...

Wall Street Expects Brutal Coinbase Earnings. Why an Analyst Upgraded the Stock.

Wall Street is mostly muted ahead of earnings from Coinbase Global expecting to see deep losses and the lowest quarterly sales in two years from the cryptocurrency broker when the group reports earnin...

Lenovo shares jump as tech giant guides for second-half rebound

Lenovo Group Ltd. shares 992, +4.72% jumped in early trade on Monday, as investors shrugged off the latest drop in the Chinese technology giant’s quarterly profit and looked forward to an expected reb...

Deere’s stock is having its best day in 2 years

Shares of John Deere parent Deere & Co. powered up to their best one-day performance in two years after the maker of agricultural, construction and forestry equipment reported a big fiscal first-q...

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...

Cisco stock adds more than $10 billion in a day, but is supply or demand driving strong performance?

Cisco Systems Inc. shares added more than $10 billion in market capitalization Thursday, but Wall Street analysts were still debating whether promises of strong sales growth in the coming months were ...

Shopify stock falls nearly 7% as forecast disappoints amid escalating Amazon rivalry, price increases

Shopify Inc. produced a better holiday quarter than expected according to a Wednesday earnings report, but a forecast for slowing revenue growth hit the stock in after-hours trading. Shopify SHOP, +6....

Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Falls After Earnings Beat Estimates. Here’s Why.

Steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs had a tough finish to the year as prices for its products fell. Still, quarterly results came in better than expected, but investors Tuesday weren’t giving the company muc...

Disney Plans to Reinstate Its Dividend and Cut 7,000 Jobs. Nelson Peltz Declares Victory.

Walt Disney stock jumped after the entertainment company topped earnings expectations, while also announcing it was planning to cut jobs and reinstate its its dividend. Disney (ticker: DIS) reported n...

Lyft stock sinks 30% after sales outlook falls short of $1 billion

Lyft Inc. posted record revenue for a second consecutive quarter Thursday, but the company’s worse-than-expected forecast tanked its stock in extended trading. Lyft LYFT, -3.16% expects first-quarter ...

Disney Plans to Reinstate Its Dividend and Cut 7,000 Jobs. The Stock Jumps.

Walt Disney stock jumped on Wednesday after the entertainment giant topped earnings expectations, while also announcing it was planning to cut jobs and reinstate its its dividend. Disney reported non-...

Ford Mach-E Sales Fall 45%. The Reasons: High Prices, Incentive Confusion.

Text size Ford sold 2,626 Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles in January, down from 4,775 in December. Scott Olson/Getty Images Electric-vehicle sales at Ford Motor dipped to start the new year, showing ...

Pfizer Is Moving Beyond Covid. Why Its Stock Is a Buy.

Pfizer probably did more than any other company to help the world normalize from the pandemic, and it reaped a financial windfall from its twin Covid-19 franchise—the top-selling vaccine and the leadi...

Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Ford, Nordstrom, and More Stock Market Movers

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What Happens to Buybuy Baby if Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy?

As Bed Bath & Beyond faces a growing risk of bankruptcy, the question of what will become of its strongest asset, Buybuy Baby, has loomed large. The chain, which sells strollers, car seats, and ot...

Eli Lilly and Novo Stock Sold Off. Don’t Blame Their Diet Drugs.

Stock in Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk outperformed last year, largely because of remarkable demand for new drugs that drive weight loss in patients afflicted with diabetes and obesity. Both stocks were ...

Ford Missed Earnings, Will Pay Special Dividend, and Sold Rivian Stake

Ford Motor’s earnings for the fourth quarter weren’t good enough even though guidance for 2023 was just about right. The stock is falling even as strong cash flow has the company paying a special divi...