Opinion: This record number in Nvidia earnings is a scary sight

Nvidia Corp.’s financial results had a bit of a surprise for investors, and not on the good side — product inventories doubled to a record high as the chip company gears up for a questionable holiday ...

Nvidia earnings chopped in half, but tweaked servers to China offset earlier $400 million warning

Nvidia Corp. shares ticked higher in the extended session Wednesday after the chip maker said modified servers to China mostly made up for an expected $400 million shortfall due to a U.S. ban on certa...

Alibaba, Tencent, lead Hong Kong tech stocks higher after upbeat China online retail sales data

Shares of Chinese internet giants jumped in Hong Kong, after official data showed better-than-expected October retail sales in the world’s second-largest economy. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA, +0.7...

Walmart Is Flexing Its Muscle Again

America’s biggest retailer has a new message for its suppliers: We’re not going to pay higher prices anymore. Walmart Inc. Chief Executive Doug McMillon delivered the warning in person last month in a...

Buy Bumble Stock. The Dating App’s Shares Haven’t Met Their Match.

Bumble has been getting the cold shoulder from investors, who are worried that singles have cooled on its dating apps. The company, though scruffy, remains attractive—and its stock could be just the t...

Retail analysts foresee holiday-season sales growth. Now we’ll hear from retailers themselves.

Even as price increases squeeze shoppers, analysts expect holiday-season sales to increase this year. With Walmart Inc., Target Corp. and discounters TJX Cos. and Ross Stores Inc. reporting results in...

Nvidia Can Outperform Its Peers, Analyst Says. Earnings Are Coming.

Restrictions on chip sales to China and falling demand for PCs are problems for Nvidia right now, but Piper Sandler wants investors to focus on growth in its key data center business in 2023. The chip...

Big Pharma Stocks Are Breaking Out. Here Are Some Winners.

Big pharma stocks are trying to break out to new heights. They have reported more-than-satisfactory earnings and are expecting further progress on new pipelines of drugs.   These stocks had been outpe...

Opinion: Tesla investors have been the biggest losers in Elon Musk’s Twitter deal, and those losses continue

Twitter users have complained a lot about Elon Musk’s early moves after taking control of the social network, but their complaints seem tiny compared with what Tesla Inc. investors have had to suffer....

Plug Power Missed Sales Estimates By a Mile. Wall Street Isn’t Worried.

Hydrogen fuel-cell technology company Plug Power reported third-quarter results that fell way short of Wall Street expectations, but analysts still believe the company’s future is very bright. Tuesday...

Lucid Stock Plunges as Reservations for Cars Drop

Electric-vehicle maker Lucid turned in respectable third-quarter earnings and stuck with its forecast for vehicle shipments this year, but the stock was dropping. Reservations were the issue. Lucid (t...

Elon Musk Sold $4 Billion More Worth of Tesla Stock. The Timing Is Odd.

Investors were waiting for stock sales from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, guessing he needed to sell more shares to finish his Twitter purchase. He sold more stock, but it happened after the Twitter deal close...

Berkshire Sold $5 Billion of Financial Stocks, Possibly Citigroup and Bank of NY

Berkshire Hathaway likely unloaded nearly $5 billion of financial stocks from its portfolio in the third quarter, and two possible candidates for the trimmed positions are Citigroup and Bank of New Yo...

Self-Driving Technology Provider Luminar Just Hit a Big Milestone

After 10-plus years of moonshot R&D, Luminar Technologies has made it into automotive production with its radarlike systems. Wednesday evening, lidar maker Luminar (ticker: LAZR) reported third-qu...

Fisker details sales ramp, says Ocean SUV production set to start this month

Fisker Inc. late Wednesday reported a quarterly loss that was wider than Wall Street expected, but kept some of its milestones unchanged, including the start of production of its electric SUV, and gav...

SoFi Stock Leaps on Narrower-Than-Expected Loss and Revenue Beat

SoFi Technologies was surging after posting a narrower-than-expected third-quarter loss and revenue that exceeded forecasts.  SoFi (ticker: SOFI), the financial-technology company, reported third-quar...

ZoomInfo Shares Tumble on Concern Over Soft Billings

Business information services provider ZoomInfo posted better-than-expected third-quarter results, but the company’s shares are nonetheless trading sharply lower in late trading Tuesday, apparently on...

Adidas Bails From Yeezy. Why That Packs a Punch.

Times are tough at Adidas The German company has too much inventory and falling China sales. It’s slashed guidance, and earnings ran about half what Wall Street expected. The stock is down by more tha...

AMD lowered the bar for earnings, but there is still intrigue in one result

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has already slashed expectations for its financial performance with a warning, but there is still some intrigue with the chip-maker’s earnings report. AMD AMD, +5.82% is sc...

AbbVie Stock Slips as Sales Miss Expectations And Bigger Challenges Await.

Stock in AbbVie slipped after the drug company reported a higher profit than expected, while sales fell short. The revenue shortfall may have reminded investors of a challenge AbbVie (ticker: ABBV) fa...

‘Pretty much Google 2.0’ — Amazon price targets reduced by analysts, though they say the long-term story is intact

Analysts downgraded their price targets for Amazon.com after it reported missing its third quarter sales expectations alongside a weak sales forecast for the upcoming festive season. Amazon AMZN, -10....

Amazon stock sinks after holiday forecast and cloud growth, profit disappoint; $150 billion in market cap at risk

Amazon.com Inc. predicted Thursday that holiday sales and profit would come in well lower than analysts expected as cloud growth slowed and Amazon Web Services profit missed expectations by nearly $1 ...

Intel stock rises on earnings beat, plans for layoffs, billions in cost cuts planned

Intel Corp. shares rose after hours Thursday after the chip maker topped Wall Street earnings estimates for the quarter and PC-chip sales came in slightly higher than expected, while the company trimm...

Facebook earnings cut in half, Meta stock sinks toward lowest prices in more than 6 years

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday became the latest tech titan tattooed by a precipitous drop in digital advertising, reporting less than half the profit it had in the same quarter a ye...

Teladoc stock surges after earnings as losses narrow

Shares of Teladoc Health Inc. were up about 13% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the telemedicine company posted a narrower loss than analysts were anticipating for its latest quarter, while sli...

Boeing’s Earnings Are Coming. This Is What to Watch.

Boeing has reported positive free cash flow in only one quarter in more than three years. Whether the company generated more than it burned through in the three months through September, and how much ...

Microsoft stock slammed by cloud-growth fears, taking Amazon down with it

Microsoft Corp. shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading Tuesday as the company’s cloud-computing growth hit a sudden deceleration and executives guided for holiday-season revenue to come in mo...

Google ad sales take a hit and widely miss estimates, Alphabet stock drops 6%

Alphabet Inc. is feeling the sting of a downturn in digital-ad spending. Google’s parent company reported just 6% sales growth year-over-year Tuesday and missed widely on its advertising revenue, push...

Opinion: This one stock stands out when looking at key data from the FAANG+ group

This has been a difficult year for tech-oriented stocks, but smart long-term investors often look for bargains. Why not buy quality merchandise when it is on sale? The FAANG group of stocks is well-kn...

EV sales are getting hotter, these are the cars catching up to Tesla

Americans bought more than 200,000 electric cars in the third quarter — a first. Electric car sales grew faster than any other segment of the auto industry. Americans bought 67% more electric cars in ...

Mortgage rates surge to a 20-year high, leading to steep decline in home sales

The numbers: Mortgage rates have risen to the highest level in 20 years. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.94% as of October 20, according to data released by Freddie Mac on Thursday.  That’s...

Tesla Stock Could Rebound in 3 Months. Here’s What it Would Take.

Elon Musk says that Tesla could someday be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco, combined. First, it needs to get through the next few months. Before Tesla (ticker: TSLA) reported third-quarter earn...