Meme-Stock Investors Are Back! Sort of, Anyway

Individual investors have waded back into the stock market after laying low through the worst of this year’s selloff. But don’t call it a comeback yet.  So-called retail investors in the last two week...

Buy American Eagle Stock Even Though It Got Smacked in the Retail Carnage

An American Eagle Outfitters store advertises its Aerie line in Times Square in New York. Aerie is a fast-growing division of the retailer. Richard Levine/Corbis/Getty Images Text size Clothes that lo...

Rivian, Illumina, Toast, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

Text size Rivian, the maker of electric trucks, maintained its production estimates for the full year. Courtesy Rivian Stock futures rose Friday amid more signs that inflation in the U.S. has been coo...

Matterport Stock Jumps on Better Outlook, Hope for Relief on Parts Shortages

Text size Matterport builds cameras used to take 3-D images. It can take any space—from houses to high-rises—online. Matterport Matterport became the latest tech company to say a shortage of component...

Carvana rivals’ stocks plunge after earnings

While Carvana Inc. shares soared despite weaker-than-expected financial results last week, two of the online car-seller’s smaller rivals were not as fortunate Monday. CarGurus Inc. CARG, +0.12% and Vr...

CVS Plans to Bid for Signify Health

CVS Health is seeking to buy Signify Health according to people familiar with the matter, as the drugstore and insurance giant looks to expand in home-health services. Signify Health is exploring stra...

Coinbase Has Rallied 90% This Week. Could This Be Another GameStop Moment?

Text size Brian Armstrong, chief executive and co-founder, Coinbase (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Shares in beaten-down cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global have torn higher thi...

AMD, PayPal, Starbucks, Uber, Paramount, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

It’s the peak stretch of second-quarter earnings season, with roughly 150 S&P 500 firms scheduled to report this week. The highlights on the economic calendar will be a pair of purchasing managers...

Auto Makers Expect Car Sales to Defy Economic Gloom

Listen to article (2 minutes) Even as consumer spending cools, one place buyers continue to splurge is at the car dealership. Auto executives reporting earnings earlier this week displayed confidence ...

AMD, PayPal, Starbucks, Uber, Paramount, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It’s the peak stretch of second-quarter earnings season, with roughly 150 S&P 500 firms scheduled to report this week. The highlights on the economic calendar will be a pair of purchasing managers...

Starbucks, Uber, CVS to Report Earnings Amid Shrinking Economy

July 30, 2022 10:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) CVS Health Starbucks and Uber Technologies are among the companies headlining another busy earnings week as investors look for signs of a recess...

Climate Bill Stands to Give Green-Energy Investors a Lift

Listen to article (2 minutes) Investors were already returning to clean-tech and renewable-power stocks when the proposed $369 billion Senate energy and climate-spending package jolted the sector to i...

Ford Motor, Hershey, and McKesson Just Raised Their Dividends

Text size Bags of Hershey Kisses. The chocolate giant raised its quarterly dividend by 15%. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Ford Motor , Hershey , and McKesson were among the large U.S. companies that decl...

More Shoppers Buy Store Brands, Eating Into Big Food Companies’ Sales

Cost-conscious consumers are buying more store brands at the supermarket, raising pressure on big food companies that are dealing with their own rising costs. Lower-cost oatmeal, pickles, granola bars...

Bed Bath & Beyond Followed a Winning Playbook—and Lost

Mark Tritton arrived at Bed Bath & Beyond in 2019 with a plan to revive the home-goods retailer and ward off competition from Amazon.com Inc., Target Corp. and other large chains: sell what nobody...

GameStop Stock Is Splitting to $38. Trading Starts Today.

Text size GameStop has been hit hard as more people download games rather than using physical discs. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The GameStop saga is set to take another turn on Friday when shares be...

GameStop Stock Is Splitting to $38. Trading Starts Friday.

Text size GameStop has been hit hard as more people download games rather than using physical discs. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The GameStop saga is set to take another turn on Friday when shares be...

‘Squeezable’ AMC, GameStop stocks break out to multi-month highs

Shares of both AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and GameStop Corp. surged to multi-month highs Wednesday, as they extended breakouts above previous chart resistance levels. The rallies come after Ihor ...

GameStop, AMC, EV Startups, and Others Are Among the Most Shorted Stocks

Text size Lordstown Motors is on a list of squeezable stocks. Courtesy Lordstown Motors Investors who have bet against the electric-vehicle industry should take note. Five of 25 U.S. companies that th...

Carvana’s Share Price, Down 95% Since Pandemic Peak, Hits Another Roadblock

Few stocks suffered more after interest rates started rising than online used car seller Carvana its shares off 95% since their pandemic peak in August 2021. Carvana’s shares took their latest leg dow...

Expect gas prices to drop to $4 a gallon soon, Biden energy adviser says

After peaking above a record $5 a gallon in June, U.S. gas prices should continue to fall in the coming weeks, a top White House energy adviser said Sunday, predicting prices around $4 a gallon, on av...

What to Buy Right Now: 42 Picks From Barron’s Roundtable Pros

To everything there is a season: A time to hide in a bunker with a crash helmet on as stock and bond prices plummet, and a time to wade cautiously into the market in search of newly created bargains. ...

Gasoline Demand Is the Lowest in a Year. Blame Remote Work, Not Pump Prices.

Text size U.S. crude oil inventory levels still remain 5% below the five-year average for this time of year. Brandon Bell/Getty Images It isn’t just high oil prices, but Americans working from home th...

Bed Bath & Beyond Insiders Scooped Up Stock After an Awful Quarter

Text size Bed Bath and Beyond insiders snapped up shares of the home-goods retailer. Erin Cadigan/Dreamstime.com Everything but the kitchen sink has seemed to go wrong at Bed Bath & Beyond , but t...

Reddit Traders Haven’t Given Up on GameStop. Neither Have Short Sellers.

Text size GameStop announced a stock split, a CFO departure, and layoffs this week. Spencer Platt/Getty Images GameStop was back in the news this week after the company announced a stock split, a CFO ...

Crypto Rout Deflates Some Web3 Startups Buoyed by Push Into Digital Tokens

The cryptocurrency rout has spread to startups that offer users digital tokens, pushing down digital asset prices and driving away hordes of users. The startups—part of what has been called Web3—allow...

American Weed Stocks Are Cheap and About to Get a Sales Bump

The AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF is down 25% in the past month, while the S&P 500 dropped 7%. Courtesy of Trulieve Text size However bad the year has been for most stocks, it’s been especial...

Nordstrom’s Erik Nordstrom: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Erik Nordstrom, CEO of Nordstrom Courtesy Text size A darling stock, Nordstrom isn’t. Hardly any of the roughly 20 analysts who cover it recommend buying the shares. The century-old retailer is perhap...

Lowe’s Marvin Ellison: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Marvin Ellison, CEO of Lowe’s Courtesy of Lowes Text size Lowe’s was in need of retooling when CEO Marvin Ellison, 57, took the helm in July 2018. Four years later, the proof of his efforts is in the ...

Large Retailers Are Getting Hit Hardest by Overstocking

Big retailers are struggling to cope with large stockpiles of furniture, apparel and workout equipment, yet broad measures show inventories at American companies remain exceedingly lean by historical ...

Kohl’s Stock Lands in the Damaged Bin

Text size A Kohl’s department store in Lexington, Ky. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Wall Street has lost faith in Kohl’s , given problems facing nearly all retailers and a potential deal that was scru...

GameStop Will Split Its Stock. What Amazon and Google Suggest Happens Next.

Text size GameStop’s stock split will take effect this month. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images GameStop was flying on Thursday, but this time it was a stock split—and not a meme-driven frenzy—sendin...