Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.
Wall Street's main indexes rose on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow closing at their highest levels in more than a month as investors assessed Donald Trump's first actions as U.S. president and were encouraged that he did not start his second term with blanket tariff increases.
U.S. stock indexes are drifting higher following a mostly encouraging batch of profit reports from big companies.
Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Tuesday, with the blue-chip Dow at a more than one-month high, as investors assessed President Donald Trump’s executive orders after taking office and awaited his first move on trade policy. In morning trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 423 points, or 1%, to 43,911.
Freight delivery company Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) in Q4 CY2024, with sales falling 3.5% year on year to $1.86 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.36 per share was 10.1% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Billionaires Ken Griffin and David Shaw run the most successful hedge funds in history, and both bought Nvidia and sold Palantir in the third quarter. Nvidia shares currently trade at a reasonable price,
WSJ’s ranking is also in line with the most recent North America Airline Passenger Satisfaction Study that J.D. Power released in May. That list named Delta the top airline for customer satisfaction, while Southwest scored the top spot in the economy segment.
Some of the Oracle of Omaha's most-popular buys -- as well as Berkshire's largest holding -- offer robust upside potential in 2025.
Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) has struggled in recent years as its pivot to streaming has been messier than investors hoped, and its legacy media business has declined in the meantime. Now, one Wall Street analyst is taking notice,
These five top gold-mining stocks come with dependable (sometimes big) dividends and are rated Buy at top Wall Street firms.
The biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 were easyJet, down 26.4p to 484.8p, United Utilities, down 26.6p to 973p, Centrica, down 3.55p to 134.9p, Severn Trent, down 53p to 2,472p, and Vodafone, down 1.44p to 68.2p.
What Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research found was that income stocks more than doubled the average annual return of non-payers -- 9.17% versus 4.27% -- and did so while being less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. However, high-quality dividend stocks don't grow on trees and require some effort by investors to uncover.