Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...

Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...

15 Ways Consumers Can Deal With—and Even Benefit From—Rising Inflation

We are feeling the squeeze everywhere—from the groceries we buy to the gas we pump into cars. Inflation stood at 8.3% in April, remaining close to a four-decade high of 8.5% reached in March from the ...

3 Off-Price Retailers That Look Like Bargains in the Stock Market’s Wreckage

T.J. Maxx’s parent TJX reported earnings that were above Wall Street expectations. Cindy Ord/Getty Images Text size Two of the three major off-price retailers posted quarterly earnings this week, with...

Robinhood and 4 Other Broken IPO Stocks That Could Be Buys

After a bubbly year for initial public offerings, 2022 looks like a bust. Shares of many companies that came public last year are down 80% or more from their peaks. “This is the IPO market’s worst sel...

The technician who called the 2020 market bottom says a ‘shocking rally’ is in store

It’s been a terrible week in an awful year for the stock market. Walmart WMT, -0.82%, Target TGT, -0.62%, and Tencent 700, +3.53% each reported disappointing results to add fuel to the worries about i...

If you thought Walmart and Target had disappointing results, these retailers did so much worse

Retail stocks fell hard this week as bellwether companies disappointed investors with sagging profits. And now, a review of retailers sheds light on companies that put up worse numbers than those repo...

Will the stock market drop 20% or 48% from the peak? Here’s the key factor, says this strategist.

“Is the economy under control or is it spiraling out of control? That’s the million-dollar question traders continue arguing over,” sums up CrackedMarket blogger Jani Ziedins. Clearly, the latter argu...

Why this investor who paid $650,000 to lunch with Buffett isn’t buying or selling stocks right now

It’s 13-F season, and you’re not going to find many like Guy Spier’s Aquamarine Capital in the first quarter —- zero buys, zero sells. “Pathetic, isn’t it,” quips Spier in an interview. Spier says he ...

Home Depot Raises 2022 Guidance After Record First-Quarter Sales

Text size Home Depot tops first-quarter earnings expectations. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Home Depot exceeded earnings expectations as sales rose to the highest ever for the first quarter of the yea...

GameStop Names New Chief Operating Officer

Text size A pedestrian walks by a GameStop store. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images GameStop , the videogame retailer, named a new chief operating officer on Monday. Nir Patel will take up the role of oper...

Gloomy Goldman offers 20 ‘safety’ stocks with valuations below the previous 2 bear markets

It’s tight quarters in Wall Street’s bear sleuth these days. Goldman Sachs just downgraded their 2022 U.S. growth forecast (to 2.4% from 2.6%) and 2023 (to 1.6% from 2.2%), as senior chairman Lloyd Bl...

Walmart, Moderna, Target, Deere, Home Depot, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size It’s the tail end of first-quarter earnings season, with mostly retailers left to report this week. Government data on U.S. retail sales will also be released. Home Depot and Walmart report ...

Opinion: This giant pension scandal is hiding in plain sight

Hard working Americans, many on low wages, are losing pension dollars they earned. It affects millions. And it’s legal. In a nutshell: Some of America’s biggest companies run their shop floors so that...

Carvana laying off 12% of workforce, execs to forego salaries for rest of year

DETROIT — Online automotive retailer Carvana Co. says it’s letting go about 2,500 workers, roughly 12% of its workforce, as it tries to bring staffing and expenses in line with sales. The Phoenix comp...

GoodRx Beat Quartely Estimates. Here’s Why the Stock Is Falling.

Text size GoodRx had a strong first quarter but effectively removed 2022 guidance. Piksel/Dreamstime News that a large grocer is no longer accepting GoodRx’s pharmacy discount cards has wrecked the st...

GoodRx stock tanks after company says it’s unlikely to achieve 2022 outlook amid issue with grocery chain

Shares of GoodRx Holdings Inc. sank in after-hours trading Monday after the company, which offers tools that help consumers compare drug prices, exceeded expectations with its March-quarter results bu...

These 10 stocks in the S&P 500 soared at least 8% after the Fed made its big move — but only 3 have gains for 2022

Wednesday turned into a big day for stocks — the S&P 500 index had its largest one-day percentage gain in nearly two years — after the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by half a perce...

These stocks soared during the pandemic, and then crashed. Ten are now expected to double in price.

A screen of stocks that popped during the coronavirus pandemic highlights dozens that have crashed. But some are considered worthy of purchase by a majority of analysts. You might want to keep an eye ...

Buy Lithia Motors Stock. The Used-Car Dealer Could Rise 65%.

Lithia Motors owns about 280 dealerships nationwide and has a market capitalization of $8.2 billion. Courtesy Lithia Motors Text size Good luck finding a bargain on a used car—but you can get one in t...

Gas prices are up roughly 40% from just a year ago. So you may want to try this method to get ‘basically free money’ for gas — but there’s a catch

Is a gas credit card right for you? Getty Images Amid high inflation, rising prices of crude oil and the war in Ukraine, gas prices have jumped from an average of about $2.88 per gallon a year ago, to...

JCPenney owners offer $8.6 billion to acquire rival Kohl’s

The owners of JCPenney have made an offer to acquire archrival Kohl’s in a deal that could value the department-store chain at upwards of $8.6 billion, The Post has learned. Under the proposal, shoppi...

Why semiconductor stocks are ‘almost uninvestable’ despite record earnings amid a global shortage

The PHLX Semiconductor Index SOX, +1.76%, which hit a record high of 4,039.51 on Dec. 27, fell 13% over the first quarter of 2022, and as of Monday, is down about 24% year to date, putting it firmly i...

Kohl’s Stock Is Rising. Another Bidder May Have Emerged.

Text size A Kohl’s store Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Are two department stores better than one? The owners of JCPenney may think so, if reports that they are the latest potential suitors for Ko...

These Stocks Got Hot During the Pandemic. Now They’re Cooling.

The pandemic spawned a new universe of stock-market stars. Some are now coming back to Earth. The onset of Covid-19 changed the way people worked, shopped and dined, helping companies such as videocon...

Gap stock sinks 18%, heads for lowest close since July 2020

Gap Inc. stock plunged 18% in Friday trading after the company announced Old Navy’s Chief Executive Nancy Green is leaving the role, and the company lowered first-quarter sales expectations. Green is ...

Buying the Dip Can Be a Retiree’s Best Friend. Here’s How Seniors Can Safely Shop.

Photo illustration by Barron’s Staff; (reference) Dreamstime (4) Text size It’s hard at any age to buy stocks when prices are falling, but for retirees it can be especially nerve-racking because...

Carvana stock claws back despite ‘uniquely difficult environment’ that hit earnings

Shares of Carvana Co. were bouncing back in after-hours trading Wednesday after the used-car retailer admitted that both industry-wide and company-specific issues impacted its business in the first qu...

Dividend Aristocrat stocks can help you keep ahead of inflation. These 15 take top prizes for raising payouts.

Some investors are interested in stocks that pay high dividend yields for a source of income. Others believe it is better to focus on total returns over long periods. The Dividend Aristocrats are a gr...

Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Other Stocks That Can Keep Climbing—Even If the Housing Market Slows

Text size Home improvement retailers like Home Depot will thrive even if the housing market has peaked. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Home improvement stores were big beneficiaries of the white-ho...

Here are 30 stocks that Goldman Sachs likes when the economy stutters and markets gyrate

Wall Street is finding some traction for Tuesday, as investors wade through big earnings and ample, gloomy distractions. Fighting has ramped up again in Ukraine as the battle begins for the country’s ...