Twitter Inc. TWTR 3.93% is re-examining Elon Musk’s $43 billion takeover offer after the billionaire lined up financing for the bid, in a sign the social-media company could be more receptive to a dea...
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Amid a storm in tech sector, Google is staying relatively dry and happy
While other tech companies have faced the fury of Wall Street because of a host of issues, Google parent Alphabet Inc. has largely withstood the storm, and analysts believe it will continue to do so w...
Apple Is the Last FAANG Standing
Apple is the last FAANG standing—and its earnings report this coming week could go a long way toward determining if the stock market bounces back or slides even further. As bad as this year has been f...
Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14
Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...
Opinion: Do poison pills work? A finance expert explains the anti-takeover tool that Twitter hopes will keep Elon Musk at bay
Takeovers are usually friendly affairs. Corporate executives engage in top-secret talks, with one company or group of investors making a bid for another business. After some negotiating, the companies...
Musk Says Twitter’s Board Owns Almost No Stock. Here’s How It Compares With Tesla.
Twitter’s directors are granted $225,000 of restricted stock units, plus at least $50,000 in cash, annually. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Elon Musk questioned Twitter directors’ alignment wit...
Elon Musk Isn’t Going Away if Twitter Rejects Him. Here’s What He Might Pay.
Text size Elon Musk Scott Olson/Getty Images Even if the Twitter board rejects Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social-media platform, he won’t go away immediately. There is more drama to come. ...
What Is a Poison Pill? Twitter Adopts Defensive Move to Fend Off Elon Musk.
Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. He currently has a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images Text size Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill Fri...
Will Twitter Accept Elon Musk’s $43 Billion Offer? His Options If Twitter Says No.
Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman, has some options if Twitter rejects his nearly $43 billion bid. Twitter (ticker: TWTR) co...
Musk’s Cannabis-Themed Twitter Offer Looks High but Not Wacky
Text size Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter. Al Drago/Bloomberg Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter —and you don’t need to work up a discounted cash flow anal...
Elon Musk and Twitter: What Happens Next
Text size Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk could continue to face legal questions over his new stake in Twitter. Win McNamee/Getty Images Elon Musk’s back and forth with Twitter took another turn this...
Facebook parent Meta set to take nearly 50% cut from virtual sales — and Apple is calling it out
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.’s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within its emerging metaverse is drawing widespread criticism from developers and longtime nemesis Apple In...
Meta Stock Might Have Another Round of Weaker Earnings Ahead
Text size Meta stock saw a couple of price target cuts as analysts worried about its coming earnings report. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Wall Street is bracing for another rough quarter for Facebook ...
Elon Musk Is Suddenly Twitter’s Largest Shareholder: Here’s a List of the Top 10 Holders
In 2021, billionaire CEO Elon Musk reached several milestones across Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink. WSJ reporters Rebecca Elliott and Micah Maidenberg break down some of his biggest moments in 2021 and w...
Elon Musk admits his Twitter investment isn’t passive and reveals that he began buying the stock in January
Elon Musk filed a new disclosure on his Twitter Inc. stake with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, admitting that he invested in the company with the goal of effecting change and that ...
Elon Musk Named to Twitter’s Board. He Can’t Own More Than 14.9% of the Stock.
Text size Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on Feb. 10, 2022. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Elon Musk w...
Elon Musk Is Already Dropping Hints on His Plans for Twitter. So Much for ‘Passive.’
The world’s richest person may have taken a ‘passive’ stake in Twitter , but he is clearly intent on playing an active role in pushing for change on the platform itself. There is a chance the stake wi...
Investors are fed up with Netflix and Facebook’s parent. Why this portfolio manager is digging in and buying more.
It has been a quarter to forget for two of the megacap tech giants, Netflix and Facebook parent Meta Platforms. The 34% decline for Meta FB was its worst on record — the 30% drop in the third quarter ...
How about a new FAANG? This grouping outperforms the tech giants
The FAANG grouping of stocks has been so 2021. Facebook parent Meta Platforms FB, -1.47%, Amazon.com AMZN, -0.90%, Apple AAPL, +0.82%, Netflix NFLX, -2.20% and Google parent Alphabet GOOGL, -1.14% hav...
Apple and Nvidia Are Picked by Robot Trader That Dumped Google and Meta
Text size The robot trader likes Apple and Nvidia stock. Fresco/Evening Standard/Getty Images Apple and Nvidia were two stocks singled out for gains in March by a fund with holdings picked by artifici...
Analysts Are Cutting Meta Targets. But They Can’t Keep Up With the Falling Stock.
Text size Investors fled shares of the social-media giant after its fourth-quarter earnings report. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Another analyst slashed his price target for shares of Facebook par...
Meta Is Fending Off TikTok, and Revenue Growth Will Slow, Morgan Stanley Warns
Text size A Meta Platforms sign Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Meta Platforms made clear on its latest earnings call that the company has growing concerns about competition in short-form video from TikT...
Tesla Stock Is Plunging. It’s Probably Musk’s Twitter This Time.
Text size Shares of Tesla have dropped more than 17% this week. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Recent declines in Tesla stock have deviated from market-related trading patterns, leavin...
Forget Apple and Google. Meta Has Another Existential Threat on the Horizon.
Text size Investors in Meta have been taken on a wild ride this month. There are more threats ahead. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ shareholders have had a lot to worry about recen...
Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper. Should I Buy the Former Facebook?
Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...
Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO
Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...
10 tech value stocks that at least 75% of analysts rate as a ‘buy’ right now
So far, 2022 is a year of value stocks. But some tech stocks fit that definition. Below is a high-conviction list of technology stocks among the S&P 500 SPX, +0.05% that have low valuations to ear...
Weekend reads: Inflation fear and opportunities for investors
U.S. consumer price inflation rose to a 40-year high of 7.5% in January. That pace is running way ahead of wage growth, and the official figures can mask even more pain, depending on a family’s circum...
This fund sold out of Facebook’s parent and PayPal before their earnings disasters. Here’s what it bought instead.
Facebook parent Meta Platforms was probably the least loved megacap tech stock before its slide over its weak first-quarter outlook, but its sheer size meant it was a widely owned holding — according ...
Facebook Stock Is Rising. Today’s the Day It Might End Its Slide.
Text size Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Alex Wong/Getty Images Wednesday just might be the day that shares of Meta Platforms , the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, bounce off rock bo...
Nvidia becomes 7th-largest U.S. company as it passes Facebook owner Meta for the first time
Nvidia Corp. became the seventh-largest U.S. company Monday as it overtook Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. for the first time. A reshuffling among the ranks of the most valuable U.S. companies ref...
Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.
Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...