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Despite strong earnings, both stocks are down for the year.

Retail used to be a fairly simple proposition where store owners stocked their shelves with merchandise, competed with rivals over price, and tried to entice customers through the doors. Larger retailers, of course, have always had a pricing advantage because they can make larger orders. A chain ...

You ever move into a new place and realize you don’t even own a fork? Now imagine that feeling…but you’re 7-foot-1, freshly traded, impatient, and worth millions. That’s exactly where Shaquille O’Neal found himself in 2008 — standing in an...

Walmart Inc. (NASDAQ:WMT) was among the stocks Jim Cramer commented on as he advised investors on how to take advantage of Wednesday’s market rotation. Cramer highlighted the stock’s recent decline. He remarked: Alright, here’s one: how about Walmart? Did you see that? At one point, it was down 5%. Closed down 3.9% today. Do you […]

Kroger has agreed to acquire grocery chain Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion.

Target is about 50% below its all-time high but sells at a massive discount to its peers.

New Jersey will begin charging companies whose workers rely on Medicaid, as Democratic-led states look for new ways to fund the growing cost of public healthcare amid tightening federal rules, according to the Associated Press. Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) signed...

Synchrony provides card services to retailers, which can leave the company exposed to riskier consumers.

Investing.com -- Delivery speed is emerging as a key competitive advantage for retailers as AI-powered shopping assistants become more common, with Morgan Stanley’s latest analysis finding Walmart offers the strongest overall fulfillment model. At the same time, Amazon Now leads on raw delivery speed.

Shareholders of the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ) aren't getting the tech exposure they think they are. This pure-play ETF is better.

These five unusually active July 10 out-of-the-money calls are priced below $0.20. Stellantis offers the highest probability of profit at 26.23%, while Chewy, Broadcom, PayPal, and Walmart round out the list of cheap, speculative bets for next week's expiration.

Walmart (NasdaqGS:WMT) is integrating Google Gemini AI into its checkout process. The rollout targets both physical checkout lanes and digital checkout flows in its e commerce and marketplace channels. The company aims to use Gemini AI to refine customer interactions, reduce friction at payment, and support merchants on its platforms. For investors, this move places Walmart’s core retail and marketplace operations at the center of a broader push into AI supported commerce. As one of the...

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) has quietly built one of the most convincing defensive setups in the market. With consumer sentiment at recessionary levels and grocery spending still climbing, the world’s largest retailer is executing across omnichannel, advertising, and membership at the same time. Our proprietary model sees room for the stock to keep grinding higher over the ... Walmart’s Defensive Appeal and 89% Analyst Support Point to 17% Upside

When an AI agent browses, recommends, and buys on a shopper's behalf, the retailer is just one piece of a much larger value chain. Five public companies sit at the center of that infrastructure, but they are not all created equal.

Kroger agreed to acquire Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion, adding 197 stores and $9 billion in annual revenue across five states after its Albertsons merger collapsed.

Everyone is watching the slowdown in new sign-ups, but the real power is coming from a much more valuable group of shoppers.

Before the online marketplace rocketed higher, it was running a successful turnaround experiment in plain sight, and the results were already in.

The massive retailer has evolved in ways that strengthen its position in the industry.

The 2026 Top 100 Retailers ranking from the National Retail Federation confirms that Walmart and Amazon remain the two leading forces in US retail by sales.

Kroger Co (KR) agreed on Wednesday, July 1, to acquire Giant Eagle, the family-owned grocery and pharmacy chain based in Pittsburgh, according to Kroger investor relations. The price tag is $1.65 billion, a fraction of the $24.6 billion merger Kroger tried to complete with Albertsons before courts ...

U.S. recruitment slowed significantly in June, dampening some of the employment growth momentum observed earlier this year.

Amid Walmart's 19% correction, yesterday’s unusually active options included Aug. 21 $100 and July 17 $110 puts. The short diagonal put spread looked to secure near-term downside protection, but with undefined risk if shares keep falling below $100 by August.

Walmart just handed Google's Gemini AI the keys to its checkout lane, and the ripple effects stretch far beyond one retailer. Five stocks across logistics, robotics, payments, and merchant platforms stand to capture the most value as AI agents take over the shopping cart.

The manufacturer’s “Wear the Future” exhibit presented Hansae’s vision for robot clothing design.

The first major humanoid robotics company just went public. Agility Robotics completed its public debut through a merger with SPAC Churchill Capital Corp XI, and the supply-chain names that feed the robotics buildout are already moving. The clearest tell: Ouster (NASDAQ:OUST) has run 149.86% year-to-date, with a 13.43% gain on June 30 alone. The names ... The First Major Robotics IPO Is Here: 5 Robotics Stocks That Could Run in the Second Half of 2026

With the digital/TV divide collapsed by CTV, digitally driven linear will be the next explosion in performance TV.

Cost inflation, pricing pressure and cautious shoppers weigh on the Retail - Supermarkets industry, but omnichannel growth, retail media and scale position WMT and KR to navigate industry woes.

The Vanguard Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VTV) has turned into one of the best large-cap stories of 2026, trading near $218 with a 16% year-to-date gain and a 27% advance over the past year. That run rests on a narrow set of legs: a healthcare snapback led by UnitedHealth, a financial-sector grind led by JPMorgan, and energy ... VTV’s Next 12 Months Hinge on One Fed Inflation Signal: Here’s What to Watch

Even if a company is profitable, it doesn’t always mean it’s a great investment. Some struggle to maintain growth, face looming threats, or fail to reinvest wisely, limiting their future potential.

In late June 2026, Cleveland Research flagged signs of slowing U.S. comparable sales at Walmart and highlighted the retailer’s use of price cuts and tariff refunds to manage inventory, raising questions about near-term sales guidance and operating margins. At the same time, Walmart has been expanding higher-margin and ecosystem-supporting activities, from marketplace growth and nuclear power procurement to advertising and AI shopping tools, creating a more complex balance between short-term...