Netflix and Other Stocks to Buy Before the Market Bottom

The stock market hasn’t hit its lows just yet, but there are stocks worth buying before the trough, says Morgan Stanley There is a debate on Wall Street as to whether the stock market is set to rally ...

Micron Suspends Executive Bonuses. The Stock Was Upgraded, Too.

Micron Technology has suspended bonuses for executives, and the stock earned an upgrade, though the two don’t appear to be connected. Micron (ticker: MU) said late Thursday a board committee had appro...

Chip Stocks Like Nvidia Keep Plunging to New Lows. It’s No Time to Bargain Hunt.

Text size Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said business may be a “little bit worse” since they gave guidance on second quarter earnings call in late July. Courtesy Intel Corporation With semiconductor stocks ...

Seagate Warns Disk Drive Demand Continues to Erode

Text size Seagate has been hurt by weakening demand for its disk drives in China, among other places. Dreamstime Seagate Technology continues to see weakening demand across the disk-drive business, CE...

Rising Pressure on Profits Darkens Outlook for Tech Shares

Micron Technology is among the companies that have warned about softening PC demand. Courtesy Micron Text size In early summer, I wrote a Tech Trader column previewing the June quarter earnings season...

Seagate’s Earnings Miss Estimates as Demand for Disk Drives Worsens

Text size A Seagate hard drive from an Apple laptop computer. Demand is weakening in consumer-related markets. Brent Lwein/Bloomberg The disk-drive company Seagate Technology posted sales and profits ...

Seagate and Western Digital Should Top Estimates On Cloud Demand, Analyst Says

Text size Nearline drives account for between 70% and 80% of overall revenue for the disk-drive industry. Dreamstime Thanks to strong demand from cloud computing providers, the June quarter should be ...

2 Tech Stocks That Now Look Impossibly Cheap

Text size Memory chips from Micron Technology are increasingly vital in the cloud, as well as in the automotive, industrial, and networking markets. Jeremy Erickson/Bloomberg Historically, companies l...

These 10 S&P 500 Stocks Have Solid Dividends, Not Just Big Buybacks

Last week’s Income Investing column focused on shareholder yield, which combines dividends with stock buybacks, by sector. This week, Barron’s decided to drill down and look at the shareholder yields ...