8 Stocks That Are Negative Since Pandemic Low—and 1 That Just Turned Positive

Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...

The 8 Stocks in the S&P 500 That Are Still Negative Since the Pandemic Lows

Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...

What AT&T Is Giving Investors in WarnerMedia Spinoff⁠ and How It Will Work

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This article originally appeared on MarketWatch. AT&T Inc. detailed its plans for the spinoff of WarnerMedia on Friday, with investors eventually expected to...

Here is what AT&T is giving investors in WarnerMedia spinoff, and how it will work

AT&T Inc. detailed its plans for the spinoff of WarnerMedia on Friday, with investors eventually expected to receive a share of the new streaming-media entity for every four AT&T shares they o...

T-Mobile Stock Gets an Upgrade. It Has an Edge Over Verizon and AT&T.

Text size T-Mobile’s stock was upgraded to Overweight. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg T-Mobile US shares were ticking up on Wednesday after KeyBanc Capital Markets upgraded the wireless company’s s...

AT&T Is Too Cheap to Ignore While Others ‘Wait and See’

I imagine the last idea investors want to hear about is AT&T (T) . The company’s stock has been a perennial dog, amid ill-advised acquisitions, broken promises from management and tough comp...

Chris Cuomo Demands at Least $125 Million in Arbitration With CNN

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is seeking at least $125 million from his old employer, claiming the network wrongfully terminated him and smeared his journalistic integrity in the process. Mr. Cuomo co...

Here Are the 10 Highest-Yielding S&P 500 Stocks

High dividend yields are a nice offset to inflation, now running at more than 7%, the highest rate in four decades. Barron’s screened the S&P 500 for the 10 highest-yielding stocks based on data f...

How to Handle Taxes After AT&T’s Spinoff of WarnerMedia

Text size AT&T holders are due to receive about 0.24 share of Warner Bros. Discovery for each AT&T share. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Income-oriented investors in AT&T face a choice when t...

AT&T Spent a Decade Buying Things. Now It’s Cleaning House.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size AT&T cast light on its pending spinoff of WarnerMedia to Discovery this past week—a big step toward putting a decade of misguided mergers and acquisitions beh...

AT&T’s Dividend Cut Puts It in an Unenviable Club

A company cutting its dividend after a spinoff is uncommon, but not unprecedented. The longer-term outcomes can vary markedly. AT&T (ticker: T) joined this club on Tuesday, when it said it expects...

CNN President Jeff Zucker Resigns, Citing Relationship With Colleague

CNN President Jeff Zucker has resigned from the cable news network, citing his failure to disclose a consensual relationship with a close colleague, according to an email he sent to staff on Wednesday...

AT&T Is Getting Closer to a Clean Slate. Here’s What Comes Next.

Text size After a saga of misguided M&A, there’s still work to be done for AT&T. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images AT&T shed some light on its pending exit from the media business on ...

AT&T CFO Defends Spinoff, Saying It Benefits Retail Investors

Text size AT&T’s chief financial officer, Pascal Desroches. Courtesy AT&T AT&T is defending its move to spin off its big stake in WarnerMedia rather than pursue a split-off, or excha...

AT&T’s Move to Spin Off WarnerMedia Disappoints Investors

Text size AT&T plans to pay a $1.11 annual dividend, down from the current $2.08 a share. Stefani Reynolds /AFP via Getty Images AT&T ‘s decision Tuesday to spin off its stake in WarnerMedia t...

AT&T to Spin Off WarnerMedia, Plans Deep Cut to Its Dividend

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T said Tuesday it would spin off its interest in WarnerMedia following WarnerMedia’s merger with Discovery . AT&T (ticker: T) also said its board appr...

Opinion: AT&T and 4 more unloved dividend stocks to buy in a ‘risk-off’ era

With stocks off to one of their worst starts to the year since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, it’s no longer crazy to talk about a sustained period of market volatility or a prolonged “risk off” envi...

Why AT&T May Be Leaning Toward a Spinoff of Its Discovery Stake

AT&T may be leaning toward a straightforward spinoff of the 71% stake in the new Warner Bros. Discovery in the coming months rather than a complex “split-off,” or exchange offer. A transaction in ...

Giant Bank Bought Up Apple, Comcast Stock. It Dropped AT&T and Visa.

Text size German banking giant Commerzbank bought up Apple stock in the fourth quarter. Dreamstime A German banking giant made some abrupt changes in its U.S.-traded investments. Commerzbank initiated...

Stocks Are on a Wild Ride. 20 Bargains to Buy Now, According to Barron’s Roundtable Experts.

Fed be nimble, Fed be quick. The quicker, the better, in fact. Hike interest rates, shrink your balance sheet, and let’s be done with it all before the stock market sinks even further. The market’s re...

AT&T Earnings Beat Forecasts. The Stock Can’t Get Past Spinoff Uncertainty.

Text size AT&T stock rose despite a “disappointing” earnings outlook. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T ‘s reported fourth-quarter results on Wednesday that continued a streak of s...

AT&T stock rises after earnings beat expectations

A leaner AT&T Inc. topped earnings expectations Wednesday as the company continued to narrow its focus on its core strengths. The company generated net income of $5.0 billion, or 69 cents a share,...

Dividend Aristocrats Lose AT&T but Gain Church & Dwight and Brown & Brown

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, a benchmark for longevity of dividend increases, is welcoming two members while losing longtime member AT&T. S&am...

Verizon’s Earnings Were Good Enough. What You Need to Know.

Text size Verizon offered better-than-expected guidance for 2022. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications delivered as-expected results for the 2021 fourth quarter on Tuesday morning, and m...

Tesla, AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, Visa, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It will be a packed week of fourth-quarter earnings releases, with more than 100 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. IBM and  Halliburton are Monday’s highlights, followed ...

China’s XI Doesn’t Want the Fed to Raise Rates Either

China’s President Xi Jinping urged the world’s major economies not to rapidly raise interest rates at the virtual Davos summit, warning such action could threaten the global recovery. The yield on the...

Spin or Split? AT&T Has a Big Decision to Make on Discovery Stake.

Text size An AT&T store on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Spin or split? That is the decision that AT&T (ticker: T) faces as it considers what do with a 71% stake...

DirecTV to Drop OAN Conservative News Channel

DirecTV said Friday it plans to drop conservative news channel One America News Network, a move that could sharply reduce the pro-Trump channel’s audience. “We informed Herring Networks that, followin...

Satellite TV Can’t Be Saved With a DirecTV-Dish Merger

Text size In some parts of the country where cable access is limited, Dish and DirecTV remain the only way to get pay-TV subscriptions. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg For 20 years now, Dish Network and rival ...

AT&T Stock Can Close Gap With Verizon. Why Shares Might Be a Buy.

Text size A sign is posted in front of an AT&T retail store in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T could finally start catching up to its main rival, prompting analysts a...

Netflix and 10 Other Stocks That Expanded Profit Margins—Despite Inflation Pressure

Text size Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Americans are paying higher prices for almost everything—which could spell bad news for many companies. The producer price index, which measures the costs domes...

AT&T Stock Has ‘Limited’ Downside as Bear Case Largely Played Out

Text size The AT&T logo is displayed on the shirt of an employee at an AT&T store. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Shares of AT&T were rising Friday after receiving an upgrade from Wells Fargo on ...