Applied Materials Raises Dividend, Increases Buybacks. Stock Climbs.

Applied Materials the largest chip-equipment maker in the world, announced Monday a 23.1% lift in its quarterly cash dividend, from 26 cents to 32 cents per share. The dividend is payable on June 15 t...

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...

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...

Big Fund Slashes Stakes in Chip Stocks AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Micron

Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Canada’s second-largest public pension, posted a negative annual return in 2022, the first time since the financial crisis. But the pension did beat the market....

Buy Boot Barn Stock. Cowboy Chic Is Hot, And It’s No Fad.

There are plenty of pitfalls when it comes to mixing form and function, but the latest wave of “Westerncore” sweeping the U.S. looks to have staying power. The scramble for shearling-collar coats and ...

Buy Chip Stock Broadcom on Strong Profitability, Analyst Says

Susquehanna is getting more bullish about the prospects for Broadcom stock, citing its robust profit margins and growth potential. On Wednesday, analyst Christopher Rolland reiterated his Positive rat...

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...

6 Best Semiconductor Stocks To Buy March 2023

Semiconductors are a vital part of virtually all industries. Here’s how to get exposure to them. Microchip getty “Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives,” says the familiar ope...

For Nvidia Stock, It’s Game On!

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...

Intel Cut Its Dividend. Home Depot, McDonald’s, and Other Stocks Could Be Next. 

Intel is cutting its dividend. In a treacherous environment for the economy and profits, more companies could do the same. On Wednesday, Intel (ticker: INTC) cut its dividend by 66% to an annual 50 ce...

Intel Cut Its Dividend. These Stocks Could Be Next. 

Intel is cutting its dividend. In a treacherous environment for the economy and profits, more companies could do the same. On Wednesday, Intel (ticker: INTC) cut its dividend by 66% to an annual 50 ce...

Intel Stock Looks Better After the Dividend Cut, Says Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is getting more optimistic about Intel stock following the chip maker’s decision to reduce its dividend. Earlier this week, Intel (ticker: INTC ) announced a 66% dividend cut, reducing ...

Intel stock has fallen enough, Morgan Stanley says in upgrade

Intel Corp.’s dividend cut helped earn the stock an upgrade Thursday, as Morgan Stanley now sees “limited downside” for the beaten-down name. Morgan Stanley’s Joseph Moore bumped his rating on Intel’s...

Nvidia’s stock-market hot streak is far from over, according to Wall Street analysts

Nvidia Corp.’s stock has been a massive outperformer lately, and the company’s latest results suggest to some analysts that the run-up is not finished. Taking into account a 12% Thursday gain as of mi...

Flush With Cash, Photronics (PLAB) Continues To Invest For Future Growth

Photronics provides cautious Q2 outlook, but long-term secular tailwinds remain. getty PhotronicsPLAB reported a solid start to fiscal 2023. Indeed, despite macroeconomic challenges and uncertain indu...

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...

Nvidia Reports Earnings Today. What to Expect.

Text size Nvidia stock has fallen about 11% over the past 12 months. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The excitement for a near- term revenue boost for Nvidia from the latest wave of artificial intelligen...

Nvidia earnings overshadowed by Microsoft, ChatGPT, OpenAI, gaming partnership

Nvidia Corp. earnings received a warmup Tuesday as Microsoft Corp. and the graphics-processing-unit giant announced a 10-year partnership to bring Activision Blizzard Inc.’s catalog as well as Xbox ga...

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...

Al Gore’s Firm Sells Alibaba Stock, TSMC, and Shopify. It Bought TI.

Generation Investment Management, chaired by former Vice President Al Gore, recently made big changes in its portfolio, reshuffling its holdings in the semiconductor business as its money managers cit...

Applied Materials’ Gloomy Memory-Chip Outlook Is Bad News for PCs

The outlook for memory chip demand keeps deteriorating. On Thursday, the largest chip-equipment maker in the world Applied Materials (ticker: AMAT ) reported slightly better-than-expected overall resu...

Nvidia Stock Can Endure a Slowdown, Analyst Says. AI Is Key.

Nvidia should be insulated from any slowdown in the broader economy by increased spending on artificial intelligence, said analysts at Oppenheimer and KeyBanc, who lifted their price targets on shares...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Swoops In to Buy Shopify Stock After Recent Slump

High-profile fund manager Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management has increased holdings of e-commerce company Shopify and shed chip maker Nvidia the group said in a statement. ARK snapped up about $3...

Applied Materials Beats Earnings. Stock Rises.

Applied Materials reported better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal first quarter, sending the stock higher in after-hours trading. The chip equipment maker reported adjusted earnings of $2.03 a s...

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...

Credo stock plunges toward record loss after largest customer cuts purchases

Shares of Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. plummeted toward a record one-day selloff after the data infrastructure networking company disclosed that its largest customer cut demand for its products...

Taiwan Semiconductor shares drop after Buffett reveals stake sale

Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. dropped on Wednesday following news that Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in the third-party silicon-wafer fabricator late last year. In Taipei, sh...

Is China-Decoupling A Myth?

2022 witnessed an historic high in U.S.-China bilateral trade. getty For the second year running, trade and investment between the U.S. and China have increased. This, despite Washington’s escalating ...

The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing

The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...

AI is dominating the action in the stock market right now

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is receiving billions of dollars in funding from Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.20%. The rollout of this new technology has been followed by similar efforts by Alphabet Inc...

SoftBank Plans Arm Holdings IPO in 2023

One strange twist in the current obsession with artificial intelligence is the trauma afflicting one of AI’s biggest fans—SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. In 2017, Son launched the world’s largest-ever ven...

Nvidia, Broadcom, and Marvell Are Chip Stocks to Benefit in AI Arms Race

J.P. Morgan says there are three semiconductor companies that will thrive from the rising demand for artificial-intelligence services and software. In a note to clients on Friday, analyst Harlan Sur s...