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AT&T stock has its best week since 2000: ‘There is at least a plausible case for optimism’
Shares of AT&T Inc. recorded their best weekly performance since 2000 after the telecommunications company offered some reassurance to Wall Street with its latest earnings report. AT&T’s stock...
Verizon Stock Slips on Earnings Beat. It’s Not AT&T
Verizon Communications delivered third-quarter results that largely beat expectations and maintained its financial forecast. That doesn’t seem to be enough for the market—and it looks worse compared w...
Can AT&T earnings help stop the stock’s ‘bleeding’?
Telecommunications names are usually seen as defensive in periods of economic stress, but that hasn’t played out recently. Can AT&T Inc.’s upcoming earnings report help change the tone? AT&T’s...
Verizon has hit a speed bump, but earnings could show a better road ahead
For Verizon Communications Inc., the pain likely isn’t over yet. After posting net losses of wireless retail postpaid phone subscribers in its consumer business during each of the past two quarters, V...
Tesla, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, AT&T, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
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Buy Verizon Stock for a Turnaround and Its Big Dividend, Says Analyst
Text size The Verizon logo is seen at a Verizon Wireless store in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Oppenheimer believes Verizon Communications stock is now too cheap to ignore. On Wednesday...
Verizon’s ‘attractive’ dividend and growth potential earn stock an upgrade
Verizon Communications Inc. shares are fresh off their worst quarterly performance in two decades, but one analyst thinks the name deserves a fresh look. Oppenheimer analyst Timothy Horan upgraded Ver...
AT&T, Verizon and Comcast stocks just had their worst quarter in two decades
Some of the biggest telecommunications stocks just posted their steepest quarterly declines in two decades amid pressures both new and old on the cable and wireless industries. Shares of wireless comp...
Verizon hasn’t been a very defensive stock lately, but here’s how things could flip
Telecommunications stocks are said to be defensive, but Credit Suisse analyst Douglas Mitchelson wrote that Verizon Communications Inc. hasn’t quite lived up to that billing lately. The stock has narr...
Verizon is ‘not going to throw away money’ to woo consumers with cheaper phones, CEO says
In a competitive market for wireless deals, Verizon Communications Inc.’s chief executive says the company is “not going to throw away money” on promotions. The company recently rolled out its deals f...
AT&T CEO says Wall Street critics are wrong about the company’s promotions
““We are actually gaining customers in a lot of different places and a lot of different ways, and there isn’t any single answer to it. And I know folks want to continue to go back and say, well, it’s...
T-Mobile Stock Market Value Has Been Rising. It’s Bigger Than Verizon.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size There’s a new top dog in U.S. telecom. This past Tuesday, T-Mobile US nosed ahead of Verizon Communications , and AT&T in market capitalization—an exclamation...
Verizon says it’s ‘very challenging being the premium brand’ but that new efforts will pay off
The iPhone 14 arrives during a tough climate for the U.S. wireless market, but a Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, +0.58% executive is upbeat about the efforts her company has taken both before and in r...
AT&T’s Dividend-Loving Investors Are Dialing the Wrong Number
AT&T income-hungry shareholders should have seen it coming. In April last year, a month before announcing the spinoff of its media division to shareholders in the form of shares of a 71% stake in ...
Verizon Hikes Its Dividend for the 16th Straight Year
Text size Verizon stock’s yield of around 6.2% far exceeds that of the broader market. Scott Olson/Getty Images Verizon Communications already offered a very big yield. The company sweetened the...
Deutsche Telekom Stock Is a Cheap Play on T-Mobile’s Dominance
The launch of Deutsche Telekom’s 5G network in Dusseldorf in June. Getty Images Text size An alternative way for investors to play T-Mobile ’s growth and future buyback program is via shares of ...
Verizon Faces Growing Price Pressures: Analyst
Text size Competitive concerns are weighing on Verizon stock, which was trading down 2.8% Thursday. Cindy Ord/Getty Images Shares of Verizon Communications were falling in Thursday trading after an an...
The SoftBank Experiment Has Failed. Time to Go Private?
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son on $24 billion of new losses: “I am quite embarrassed and remorseful.” Str/Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images Text size The stock market can be a humbling place—just ask Masayoshi ...
‘I must humbly and honestly acknowledge that things are really bad’ — SoftBank CEO on $23 billion loss.
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology company SoftBank Group posted a $23.4 billion loss in the April-June quarter as the value of its investments sank amid global worries about inflation and interest rate...
SoftBank Is Ready to Slash Its Massive Stake in Alibaba. Here’s Why.
Text size SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son was a major early investor in Alibaba. Koki Nagahama/Getty Images SoftBank is positioned to sharply sell down its stake in Chinese tech giant Alibaba through a...
Warner Bros. Discovery stock slammed after earnings debut
In its first earnings report since bringing in HBO Max and other WarnerMedia properties, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Thursday missed revenue expectations by roughly $2 billion and reported a large ...
5 things Warren Buffett does to save money — that you should too
Warren Buffett is known to be frugal. Getty Images Warren Buffet is worth about $100 billion, and clearly doesn’t need to worry about how much money he spends on a daily basis. But the famed billionai...
AT&T Stock Will Outpace Verizon, Raymond James Says, Upgrading the Stock
AT&T stock comes with its risks but the telecom company will outpace rival Verizon Communications over the next few months, according to Raymond James’s Frank Louthan. On Monday, the analyst lifte...