Alphabet will report second quarter earnings after the stock market closes Wednesday. Analysts expect capex for the quarter to be $45.1 billion, a 101% increase from a year earlier.
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The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped over 5%, its best single-day gain in a month, as bargain buyers piled onto semiconductor stocks.
Alphabet and Apple both crushed their last quarters, but they are running completely opposite playbooks heading into earnings season. One is burning through cash to own the AI future while the other hands it back to shareholders, and only one setup looks sharp right now.
July 30 is Tim Cook's last earnings call as Apple's CEO. He's been running the company since 2011, and when he gets off that call, John Ternus takes over. That alone makes this quarter worth paying attention to, beyond the usual revenue-and-margins conversation. Bank of America published its ...
Apple Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL) valuation has officially shattered records, trading at an unprecedented 11 times its sales revenue just as CEO Tim Cook prepares to oversee his final earnings report. The technology behemoth touched an intraday all-time high of $334.99 on Friday, July 17, reflecting surging investor optimism in artificial intelligence and pushing the company to its “highest valuation level in company history.” Artificial Intelligence Drives Sentiment Shift Apple’s recent stock surge on
Strong services growth may offset weaker product margins
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.
Apple Drops Before Earnings Even as Bank of America Backs the Tech Giant
Apple nears a $5 trillion valuation ahead of July 30 earnings. Explore the latest AAPL forecast, catalysts and key price levels.
Apple shares hit an all-time high of $334.68 on July 16. The stock was up 23% on the year, the product pipeline was looking unusually stacked, and most of the analyst community already had a Buy on it. Then, on July 17, one of the banks that had been sitting on the sidelines decided it had seen ...
Semiconductor stocks came under renewed pressure as investors continued to digest Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)’s higher 2026 capital expenditure guidance.
GOOGL heads into Q2 earnings with AI-fueled momentum in Search, Cloud and YouTube, even as heavy infrastructure spending pressures near-term margins.
The world’s largest contract chip maker posted its fifth straight quarter of record earnings amid voracious global appetite for artificial-intelligence infrastructure.
With Q2 earnings closing in, Jefferies just named its top Magnificent 7 pick and the choice cuts across some of the most widely held retirement stocks in America. One of these three tech giants wins on valuation, one wins on income, and one barely shows up to the fight.
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.
Apple shares rose 4% to $327.50, a new all-time closing high. The Cyberspace Administration of China on Wednesday included Apple’s generative artificial intelligence on a list of newly approved providers. Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani wrote that the update clears the biggest regulatory hurdle for Apple Intelligence—the company’s AI software—in the world’s largest smartphone market.

JPMorgan (JPM), Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs (GS), and Wells Fargo (WFC) all reported second quarter earnings results on Tuesday. Whalen Global Advisors chairman, Chris Whalen, shares his take on the recent results and his expectations for Morgan Stanley (MS) on Wednesday.
Citi expects Apple to report higher margins for the third quarter due to recent price hikes across its product portfolio.
The company that builds the world's most advanced chips is about to tell investors how hot AI demand really is.

B. Riley Wealth chief market strategist Art Hogan shares his outlook for this earnings season and the opportunities he sees in Big Tech, while Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre discusses what recent Hindenburg Omens may be signaling for US markets (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC).
TSM stock is trading sideways after hitting a recent high. TSMC's profit is expected to rise 46% in its second quarter.
Shares of Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) are down 10% in Tuesday morning trading to $110, while Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) stock is off 8% to $508. The moves cap a sharp reversal after both names rallied Monday. The declines are part of a broader chip selloff triggered by Samsung Electronics’ quarterly report. Equipment maker Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) ... Intel and Applied Materials Dive 10%, AMD Craters 8% as Samsung Earnings Trigger Chip Selloff
