Compensation consultant Johnson Associates dubs it “The Year of the Bank” in a recent report, with year-end incentive pools 5% to 20% higher than 2025 at major investment and commercial banks. “Everything is shaping up to be a fantastic year for the banks,” says the firm’s managing director Chris Connors. Record earnings driven by equity trading, underwriting, and advisory are fueling the bountiful year-over-year increases in bank bonuses.
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Rather than simply clearing reduced consensus hurdles, reporting companies are offering encouraging reads on order trends, margin resilience, and full-year demand. This fundamental health is driving a steady stream of upward revisions for Q3 and future quarters.
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The cloud infrastructure giant still has a bright future.
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After a sharp pullback, Meta Platforms is testing a price floor that has held strong on seven prior occasions. The business arriving this time is different, setting up a classic standoff between history and today's reality.
Firefox developer Mozilla is warning that it could be forced to "exit the browser and browser engine markets" if it can no longer receive payment from Google for distributing its search engine.
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In a “shrinkflation” world, investors might want to stop and appreciate the stock market, which is giving them more for less. While the is up 22% in the past year, valuations have actually come down, with the forward price/earnings ratio falling from 22.1 times forward earnings to 20 times, per Bloomberg data. Simply put, the “E” is rising faster than the “P.” Second-quarter earnings season has been one for the ages, with 86% of companies beating earnings estimates, above the average of 78%, and S&P 500 companies growing earnings by a startling 50.4% from one year ago, per FactSet.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s shares are up by 80% over the past year and by 12.3% year-to-date. Cramer has turned increasingly positive on the firm over the past couple of months. Most of his praise has focused on Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s cloud computing business and its AI platform. The shares dipped after the firm reported its […]
Alphabet (NasdaqGS: GOOGL) announces a US$25b bond offering to fund AI expansion following its first recorded period of negative free cash flow. The debt deal marks a shift in Alphabet's capital structure as it leans on bond markets to support large scale AI infrastructure investment. The move comes while Google DeepMind faces executive turnover, leadership reshuffles and delays in certain AI model releases. Investors are weighing the larger balance sheet commitment to AI against execution...
The live commerce platform's valuation has nearly doubled since its $11.5 billion Series F round last October
The Trump administration’s contradictory AI policies undermine its goal to beat China in the AI race, Sam Bresnick writes.
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Berkshire Hathaway's mountain of cash and Treasury bills hit a record amount just above this level at the end of March. This Saturday morning, when Berkshire reports earnings, I'll be watching where that number goes next—and where the company is putting its cash to work. Berkshire CEO Greg Abel inked two megadeals in the past few months that might have made a small dent in the cash pile—a $6.8 billion purchase of the home builder Taylor Morrison Home and a $10 billion investment in Alphabet shares.
Lyft (LYFT) posted a "solid" Q2 as rides and gross bookings grew across its US rideshare, Freenow an
Apple has surged nearly 50% in a year and just posted its ninth straight earnings beat, so the $400 question is back on the table. Our model has a clear answer, and it might surprise the bulls.
The tech sector is chock-full of companies with high-quality earnings growth.
Google Cloud just posted 82% growth while the stock sits 4% below its all-time high, and our model has a very specific date when that gap closes.
Aswath Damodaran, the NYU Stern professor known as the “Dean of Valuation,” says Big Tech is “collectively overinvesting” in artificial intelligence, driven as much by fear of being left behind as by any clear path to profit. Speaking on the...
The true competitive advantage in the race for artificial intelligence dominance is not found in the raw performance of a seventh-generation chip, but in the cost of capital required to deploy it. A structural 2.2 percentage point borrowing cost advantage separates Google-backed infrastructure projects from those reliant on Nvidia-backed neocloud financing. While the industry fixates […]
Four of the sharpest institutional investors on the planet converged on the same three stocks in Q1 2026, and one of those picks is down nearly 17% this year. Here is what they are seeing that most retail investors are missing.