We’re cutting our price target on Salesforce after disappointing guidance

We’re cutting our price target on Salesforce after disappointing guidance

Salesforce shares sank more than 16% Wednesday after reporting mixed earnings and revised guidance lower. The cloud software company is a high-quality stock in a rough neighborhood — at least for the near term. Revenue increased 11% year over year to $9.13 billion in the three months ended April 30, missing the $9.18 billion expected … Read more

Nvidia investors thinking about taking profits should ask 3 questions

Nvidia investors thinking about taking profits should ask 3 questions

Discipline trumps conviction. Those are perhaps the three most important words for Nvidia shareholders who are sitting on a grand slam. After more than tripling last year and more than doubling again so far in 2024, to say Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang have been on a roll would be the understatement of the century. … Read more

Here’s what adding Nvidia would mean for the 128-year-old Dow Industrials

Here’s what adding Nvidia would mean for the 128-year-old Dow Industrials

CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Nvidia last week announced a 10-for-1 stock split which will bring its share price from over $1,000 to a more affordable level for retail investors and company insiders alike. Nvidia joins a number of companies that have recently announced sizable stock splits, including Walmart earlier this year and … Read more

CHIPS Act last $6 billion in semiconductor award money

CHIPS Act last  billion in semiconductor award money

The rollout of the Biden administration’s CHIPS Act award money has so far focused on providing major awards for major companies, with just four leading-edge semiconductor manufacturers receiving the lion’s share of the $33 billion that has been allocated to this point. Now, with $6 billion remaining, the focus is shifting to sending smaller awards … Read more

Nvidia crushes earnings expectations, charts continued AI dominance

Nvidia crushes earnings expectations, charts continued AI dominance

In what was the most anticipated quarter this earnings season, Nvidia far outpaced lofty expectations on the top and bottom lines. Even better was a big revenue guide and a broader vision from CEO Jensen Huang that reinforced the notion that companies and countries are partnering with the AI chip powerhouse to shift $1 trillion … Read more

Microsoft announces new PCs with AI chips from Qualcomm

Microsoft announces new PCs with AI chips from Qualcomm

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a company event on AI technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft is touting new computers with advanced chips designed to run artificial intelligence features of software for Windows, without quickly using up battery life. The … Read more

What Nvidia must deliver in earnings this week to remain AI king

What Nvidia must deliver in earnings this week to remain AI king

It’s all about to happen. But until it happens, then no money should be made waiting for it. We have to see its success to invest in it. Otherwise, the heck with it. There. That had been the bear case against artificial intelligence, generative AI, accelerated computing and large language models (LLMs), all the essential … Read more

The year of AI PCs

The year of AI PCs

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Narayana Nadella speaks at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 26, 2016. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Microsoft‘s Build developer conference kicks off on Tuesday, giving the company the opportunity to showcase its latest artificial intelligence projects, following high-profile events this month hosted … Read more

Stocks on path to 40,000

Stocks on path to 40,000

People walk by the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on Dec. 29, 2023. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a key milestone on Thursday, the latest in a more than 100-year ascent that’s involved an everchanging group of stocks. The closely followed average on Thursday broke above … Read more

U.S. revokes some export licenses to sell chips to China’s Huawei

U.S. revokes some export licenses to sell chips to China’s Huawei

BERLIN, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: People arrive to attend the Huawei keynote address at the IFA 2020 Special Edition consumer electronics and appliances trade fair on the fair’s opening day on September 03, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. The fair is taking place despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, albeit in a reduced form and without personal … Read more