Text size Barron’s praised AT&T’s Warner Bros. spinoff in a May 2021 cover story. Both stocks are attractive now. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T has officially closed the book on a tumultuo...
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AT&T Cut Its Dividend With the Spinoff. Why It’s Still Generous.
Text size AT&T’s dividend commitment will total around $8 billion annually. Dreamstime AT&T has officially spun off its media business, with Warner Bros. Discovery trading on its own for the f...
AT&T Stock Rises After Completion of WarnerMedia Spinoff
Text size AT&T has completed the spinoff of WarnerMedia. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T wrapped up its WarnerMedia spinoff late last week, and the stock was rising on Monday. The stock jump...
How to Handle the Taxes on the AT&T Spinoff of Warner Bros.
Text size The Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. AT&T shareholders have received a 0.242 share of Warner Bros. Discovery for each AT&T share. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg Bing Guan/B...
AT&T Boss Sees Room to Raise Prices, Cut Costs After Media Exit
AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Stankey says inflation could prompt the wireless and broadband company to raise prices for some core services while it continues to cut costs after getting 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...
Pipeline Stock Dividends Are Rising as Oil Prices Surge. Here’s How to Play It.
Sanctions on Russia are upending global energy markets, pushing up crude oil above $100 a barrel and sending U.S. gasoline prices to an average $4.30 a gallon, up nearly 50% in the last year. It has a...
Ford Stock Is Down For a Very Odd Reason. No, Production Guidance Wasn’t Cut.
Auto investor nerves are frayed as they deal with Russia, inflation and the persistent chip shortage. Scott Olson/Getty Images Text size Automotive News incorrectly reported over the weekend that Ford...
The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down
Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...
Nvidia Calls Off Acquisition of Chip-Designer Arm. It’s Not a Surprise.
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Nvidia fell in premarket trading Tuesday after the graphics chipmaker and Japan’s SoftBank agreed to call off Nvidia’s deal to buy microprocessor desig...
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 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...
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...
AT&T ‘Looks More Like Verizon.’ What Wall Street Is Saying About the Stock.
Text size AT&T has spun off WarnerMedia. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Investors sent AT&T stock up nearly 8% on Monday after the spinoff of WarnerMedia. Wall Street analysts seem to be just as upbe...