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Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) is expected to deliver second quarter results above Wall Street expectations when it reports earnings on July 29, according to Bank of America analysts, who believe that healthy advertising demand and AI-driven improvements should support...
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.
The parabolic AI trade has sent many chip stocks to the moon, as investors have bet that hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will continue to aggressively expand AI capital expenditures. However, the rally now faces significant headwinds, with valuation and revenue sustainability concerns resurfacing amid rising competition from cheaper Chinese models. The […]
Three numbers on Meta's income statement keep pulling my money back before the July 29 earnings call, and one of them proves something no other hyperscaler has managed to pull off yet.
Analysts say Netflix is losing control of its own story, and a single line buried in Friday's earnings report about future disclosures is making Wall Street more nervous than the guidance miss itself.
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.
According to a report by The Information, the company is said to be specifically looking at "neocloud" providers to increase the adoption of its custom TPUs, including Nvidia-backed Nscale.
T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund portfolio manager Tony Wang examines the back-and-forth activity appearing in semiconductor stocks, especially as the bar remains high for memory chip makers and SK Hynix's (000660.KS) US IPO listing is seven-times oversubscribed.
On a recent episode of Barron’s Streetwise, host Jack Hough answered a listener named William who was nervous about how much money he had made in AI-adjacent names like Dell (NYSE:DELL) and HPE (NYSE:HPE). Hough’s answer had a number in it that should probably make everyone else nervous too. “You can look at the S&P 500 right now ... The S&P 500 Looks Pricey at 22x Earnings. On Cash Flow, It’s a Terrifying 32x.
Shares of Meta Platforms (META) have struggled in 2026, despite the company's aggressive push into artificial intelligence. The stock is down 11.7% year to date through July 2, trailing the S&P 500's roughly 9% gain over the same period. On July 2, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that ...
U.S. stock futures were lower as AI-related stocks fell across the globe ahead of Thursday’s crucial jobs data.
Investors are entering the second-quarter earnings season focused on whether heavy artificial intelligence spending by major technology companies will begin translating into stronger revenue growth, according to Wedbush Securities analysts. Wedbush wrote that recent weakness in large-cap...
(Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc.’s earnings report on Wednesday afternoon is shaping up to be one of the most important in months as investors find themselves suddenly on edge over the sustainability of the AI rally.Most Read from BloombergStocks Slide as Wall Street Gets AI Wake-Up Call: Markets WrapOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some Roles‘FOMO Really Got Me’: Taiwanese Go Deep Into Debt to Amp 100% Stock RallySpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Marke
Micron Technology's stock has risen by almost 9x over the past twelve months, taking its market capitalization above $1.2 trillion - among the largest single-year gains in the company's four-decade trading history. The rally is driven by surging demand and a shortage of high-bandwidth memory that is used alongside AI accelerators in data centers. Hyperscalers, including Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), and Meta (META), are projected to spend roughly $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year,
Regulators may outline who pays for grid upgrades needed to support surging AI power demand.
$1.3 trillion S&P 500 companies reported that level of capex for 2025, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. That figure includes $412 billion for just five large hyperscalers: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle.
The stock market is salivating over big increases in corporate earnings, but there’s a catch. Analysts expect S&P 500 companies’ earnings growth to top 20% for a second consecutive quarter in the current period, in part because of soaring profits by semiconductor makers and other AI-infrastructure companies. This combination has worked wonders for corporate earnings broadly.
As states like Ohio move to increase their regulation of data centers and reduce their subsidies for the businesses behind them, the costs of building and operating them could increase significantly.
The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:SMH) closed Friday at $599, capping a stretch in which SMH has returned roughly 146% over the past year and tacked on nearly 20% in May alone. SMH is up about 66% year to date, and the rally has been driven less by NVIDIA than most holders assume. Because the fund ... SMH ETF Investors: Watch Hyperscaler Capex Guidance at July Earnings Calls
Bernstein’s Stacy Rasgon spent years as a skeptic on Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD). On a recent episode of The Real Eisman Playbook, he flipped the script.”I’m looking at 2028 and I’m pretty close to $20 in earnings, which was their 2030 target.” Read that again. The 2030 number, pulled forward two years. Rasgon is not ... AMD Just Hit 2030’s Earnings Target Two Years Early. Here’s What Happens Next
Investors must decide whether Meta's remarkable ad business outweighs its eye-watering AI spending.
Moby summary of Ciena Corporation's Q2 2026 earnings call
Snowflake delivered a blockbuster quarter, and SNOW stock is rallying higher. Here's why this data cloud giant is becoming one of the most compelling AI plays in the market right now.