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The Realest founder and CEO Scott Keeney joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss why high-end memorabilia remains "wildly undervalued" despite market bubble concerns.
Apple keeps beating earnings while its Mag 7 rivals burn billions on data centers, and one investor thinks he has found the reason the gap will only widen from here.
Apple's federal lawsuit against OpenAI looks like a trade secret dispute on the surface, but one analyst thinks it signals Apple spotted something alarming in OpenAI's hardware roadmap and moved to get ahead of it.
All three main equity indexes were in the green to start the trading week, but questions about war overtook optimism about earnings.
Strong services growth may offset weaker product margins
Is Apple stock heading for a margins meltdown?
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL, XETRA:APC) is expected to beat consensus estimates for its fiscal third quarter, according to Bank of America, even as the bank takes a more conservative view of iPhone seasonality tied to a staggered launch schedule. BofA said investor focus will center on component...
Apple's iPhone and Services growth, JPMorgan's banking strength and ExxonMobil's energy portfolio headline today's featured analyst reports.
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 overtook NVIDIA after its stock rose 0.4% while NVIDIA fell 3.7% on Friday.
Apple nears a $5 trillion valuation ahead of July 30 earnings. Explore the latest AAPL forecast, catalysts and key price levels.
While Apple's Magnificent Seven peers race to burn billions on AI infrastructure, one investor keeps hitting the buy button for the opposite reason, and the quarterly receipts are piling up fast.
FDVV owns Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft at the top of a fund marketed as a dividend play, and that unusual construction forces a real choice between tech-driven compounding and the straightforward income that cheaper rivals promise.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot made waves last week after showcasing its new Kimi K3 AI model, which is being hailed as the world's largest publicly available large language model available for download. Investors speculated whether this reveal was another DeepSeek moment for the AI landscape. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) senior fellow for China and emerging technologies, Chris McGuire, speaks with Julie Hyman about the tightening AI race between China and the US and what these low-cost models from China represent for the global AI build-out.
Apple (AAPL) could be gearing up to offer consumers a more enticing reason to upgrade their iPhones: artificial intelligence technologies that perform better on newer hardware. That might add to the much-talked-about iPhone 18 “supercycle” possibility. But investors need to be mindful of that ...
The couple had been trading options together for three years on a popular zero-commission app, convinced they were paying nothing to invest. When the wife finally sat down with a year of trade confirmations, she found their broker had collected...
Investing.com -- Bank of America reiterated a Buy rating on Apple with a price target of $380 per share in a note on Monday, expecting the company to beat consensus in its fiscal third-quarter results, which will mark Tim Cook's last earnings call as CEO.
Headquarters move reflects changing priorities across the business
Arizona buildout and advanced chips support long-term growth
Apple's management has quietly swapped a known, managed risk for an unquantified new one, a subtle shift that puts the company's record-high profitability directly in the crosshairs.
FEATURE Nvidia stock was gaining early on Monday. The chip maker has steadied above $200 a share but could do with Big Tech companies reaffirming their commitments to spending big on its artificial-intelligence processors to spark a rally.
Recent performance of small-cap index funds proves that mega-cap stocks don't drive the market by themselves.
Apple is likely to reclaim the lead again, although it's anyone's guess how long it will last.