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The rebound comes after weeks of intense selling, partly due to concerns that hyperscalers would continue investing the massive sums in AI development they had committed at the start of the year.
The Magnificent Seven will again reign supreme over S&P 500 earnings, but their dominance is fading. As second-quarter earnings reports start to flow in, analysts expect the Magnificent Seven companies to grow earnings by a combined 31.1%. The other 493 S&P 500 companies are expected to increase earnings 22.8%, FactSet Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters wrote in a report.
Big Tech earnings are on deck this week. The Opening Bid panel breaks down what to expect from Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) and Tesla (TSLA). Truist CIO and chief market strategist, Keith Lerner, and Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporters Ines Ferré discuss the key themes and risks heading into earnings.
The unwind in artificial intelligence and momentum stocks is entering its maturing stage and should not trigger prolonged market weakness, according to JP Morgan. The bank's equity strategists, led by Mislav Matejka, noted a challenging few weeks for AI-linked groups, with Korea's market down...
Micron just posted one of the most explosive quarters in semiconductor history, yet the stock has cratered nearly 14% in a single week as three distinct threats converge on the memory giant. Whether this selloff is a gift or a warning depends entirely on which scenario plays out next.
Micron Technology has become a key artificial-intelligence trade bellwether. Now analysts are trying to game out what peak earnings will look like for Micron if the AI cycle continues. A Trivariate Research analyst team, led by Adam Parker, on Thursday called Micron “the most important stock in the market,” writing that shares of the memory-chip maker have become a “proxy for the AI cycle and risk-taking.”
U.S. stocks remain deep in the throes of a major rotation heading into the teeth of the second-quarter earnings season, and the traditional August lull that follows, as investors take money from highflying tech sector and spread that cash across a host of old-economy bets. What’s happening alongside that “great rotation,” however, is also interesting, and likely keeping stocks afloat amid the broader tech declines.
July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Thursday as investors paused after a two-day rally, while chip stocks remained under pressure ahead of fresh economic reports and another
Investing.com -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) reported a 77% year-on-year surge in Q2 2026 net profit to a record T$706.6 billion ($21.99 billion) on Thursday, blowing past Wall Street's EPS estimate of $3.80 with a print of $4.31, yet the stock was indicated about 4% lower in premarket trading as investors weighed a sharply expanded capital spending plan against near-term margin pressure.
While we are still in the opening stages of the Q2 reporting cycle, the early results strongly reinforce the robust corporate earnings trend we've been seeing, with the big banks starting off the Q2 earnings season with remarkable momentum.
Dell, Sandisk and Micron led an AI sell-off, masked by megacaps such as Apple. SpaceX undercut its IPO price. Taiwan Semi, GE Aerospace earnings are due.
A spectacular run for chip makers, server suppliers, and memory and storage names seems to have investors on edge.
ASML stock has surged this year and Wall Street thinks it could raise its sales guidance when it reports earnings Wednesday.
Walser Wealth Management Chief Investment Officer Rebecca Walser joins Market Domination Overtime to discuss what investors can expect from the upcoming earnings season.
John Coogan spent Wednesday’s TBPN segment arguing that the largest AI hardware IPO no US retail investor can buy yet might also be the cheapest name in the entire complex. SK Hynix, the South Korean memory giant, is preparing what could be a $28 billion NASDAQ listing, potentially ranking among the largest ever New York ... A $28 Billion AI IPO Trading at Just 7x Earnings: Too Cheap or Too Cyclical to Trust?
After earnings failed to lift Micron's shares, a stock split may be in order.
Micron's growing list of long-term supply agreements could make its business more predictable and give investors an early read on future demand ahead of earnings.
Can anything slow the memory giant down?
S&P 500 companies are expected to report 23.3% earnings growth for Q2, the second straight quarter above 20% and far above the average growth rate of 16.4% over the past five years, according to FactSet. The key question for markets, according to famed investment strategist Ed Yardeni, is whether analysts got carried away after Q1 earnings and set the bar too high. "The big risk up ahead is that technology companies, especially the hyperscalers, won't beat analysts' overly optimistic earnings growth estimates for the quarter," Yardeni wrote in Monday note.
Memory and storage stocks are selling off sharply in early trading Tuesday, reversing Monday’s rebound. Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) shares are down 7% to $917, SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) stock is off 7% to $1,616, and Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) shares are dropping 7% to $537. The selling extends across the group. Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) stock is down 5% ... Micron, SanDisk, and Western Digital Sink 7% as Samsung Earnings Spark a Memory Selloff
Samsung Electronics stock dived even after it forecast a 19-fold increase in operating profit from the same period a year earlier.
