For years, the lavish stock grants and options handed out by tech companies went largely ignored by investors. Now, the practice is finally getting attention, and it’s likely going to bring bad news f...
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Tech Stocks Could Keep Falling but IAC Stock Already Looks Like a Buy
With the Nasdaq Composite down more than 30% over the past 12 months, almost every tech stock is cheaper than a year ago, and there is temptation to bottom-fish. There’s a big difference between cheap...
It’s Time to Buy Tech Again. Here Are 20 Stocks to Start With.
One cruel truth the stock market confirmed this past week is that trying to pick the bottom for technology stocks is a fool’s errand. The Nasdaq Composite’s terrible September—it was down 10.5% on the...
Rising Pressure on Profits Darkens Outlook for Tech Shares
Micron Technology is among the companies that have warned about softening PC demand. Courtesy Micron Text size In early summer, I wrote a Tech Trader column previewing the June quarter earnings season...
Tech Stocks Are Due for Another Fall
Text size Technology fundamentals are getting worse, not better. One example is weakening demand for consumer electronics. Illustration by Barron’s (Dreamtime 4) For years, tech investors seemed...
9 Chip Stocks That Look Like Buys
Text size Nvidia now expects July quarter revenue to be $6.7 billion, up only 3% from the year-ago period. The company had previously forecast $8.1 billion in revenue. Dreamstime These are troubling t...
The Best Tech CEOs: What Matters Most
Text size Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke spent years programming before he co-founded the e-commerce software firm. He has said he knows how long projects will take—and which initiatives to choose—because of ...
Oracle Stock Looks Like a Buy Even in a Recession
Text size Oracle expects its cloud business to grow at least 30% in its next fiscal year. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Amid a devilish brew of rising rates, high inflation, and recession fears, the tec...
2 Tech Stocks That Now Look Impossibly Cheap
Text size Memory chips from Micron Technology are increasingly vital in the cloud, as well as in the automotive, industrial, and networking markets. Jeremy Erickson/Bloomberg Historically, companies l...
2 Stocks to Buy Amid Tech’s Wreckage
Text size Tens of billions of investors’ capital has been vaporized inside some top tech hedge funds. It could be the quickest collapse of dollar value in hedge fund history. Dreamstime Warren Buffett...
Buffett Gave HP Stock a Boost. Why It’s Still a Buy.
Text size Shares of HP jumped 15% this past week after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a large stake. Why the stock still looks cheap. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg When Bill Hewlett and Dave ...
Buy Micron Stock. The Chip Stock Deserves Better.
Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...
Micron Deserves Better. Why the Stock Is a Buy
Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...
Cloud Stocks Have Become a Haven in Tech. 4 Stocks to Buy.
As the world emerges from the pandemic, tech companies have been put in a tough spot. They’re under pressure to sustain pandemic-era boosts, and many of them have struggled to meet the challenge, incl...
The Chip Shortage Has Made These 4 Stocks a Buy
Text size GlobalFoundries, which makes basic chips for everything from cars and phones to toys and power tools, says chip capacity is growing at half the needed pace. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomber...
Tech Stocks to Buy as Interest Rates Rise
Text size Chip stocks look like good bets in th new world for tech stocks. Maika Elan/Bloomberg Tech stocks finally showed a little fight last week, aided by an impressive batch of earnings reports. B...
Netflix Stock Might Be a Buy After Earnings Selloff
Text size Netflix added 8.3 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, but the company’s first- quarter forecast came up well short of Wall Street’s estimate. Dreamstime And just like that, Netflix pr...
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 ...
Tech Stocks Get a Bear-Market Scare. What Could Come Next.
As Russian forces were pouring over the border into Ukraine, the tech sector briefly tumbled into a bear market on Thursday. Both the Nasdaq 100 and the Nasdaq Composite fell enough that morning to ex...