Salesforce beats on earnings, declares dividend. Sellers are missing big picture

Salesforce beats on earnings, declares dividend. Sellers are missing big picture

Salesforce finished its fiscal 2024 on a strong note, as the enterprise software giant continued to deftly balance sales and profit growth. The company also boosted its stock buyback program, and management even tossed in its first-ever dividend — a sign of its confidence in the business. We’re still believers, too. Revenue increased 11% year-over-year … Read more

Investors get more reasons to like Apple after scrapping EV plans, AI update

Investors get more reasons to like Apple after scrapping EV plans, AI update

Apple offered investors more reasons to like its stock after the company reportedly canceled its decadelong electric, self-driving car project and CEO Tim Cook talked up the iPhone maker’s artificial intelligence vision. The tech giant announced the end to its autonomous EV pursuits internally Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported , citing people with knowledge of the … Read more

TJX’s quarter delivers and what Cramer hopes to hear from Salesforce

TJX’s quarter delivers and what Cramer hopes to hear from Salesforce

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. 1. U.S. stocks were trending lower as investors awaited important inflation data and mulled over more quarterly earnings. January’s PCE price index – the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation … Read more

Cramer says Alphabet needs to streamline its business like Apple did

Cramer says Alphabet needs to streamline its business like Apple did

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday told investors he’d like to see more transparency about Google-parent Alphabet‘s various ventures, saying a more streamlined approach to businesses would help the stock. “It’s time for Google, Alphabet — whatever, I don’t even care — to stop running as a skunkworks for all sorts of ideas that may or … Read more

How Ford can challenge a powerful Chinese EV maker’s potential entrance in the U.S.

How Ford can challenge a powerful Chinese EV maker’s potential entrance in the U.S.

Forget Tesla , the real competition in electric vehicles is low-cost Chinese automakers. That’s what Ford CEO Jim Farley recently told Wall Street. He said he has a plan as one such EV maker looks to break into America. BYD — short for Build Your Dreams — could pose a threat to Ford and other … Read more

Jim Cramer names companies approaching $1 trillion market cap

Jim Cramer names companies approaching  trillion market cap

In the wake of Nvidia‘s rapid ascension, CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday picked companies he thinks could have a chance at breaking $1 trillion in market capitalization. “There is no next Nvidia — it’s what we call at law school sui generis — and you might not see another story this strong for a generation,” … Read more

Here’s how I see the Fed’s rate-cut dilemma playing out

Here’s how I see the Fed’s rate-cut dilemma playing out

The following passage has been adapted from Jim Cramer’s opening monologue at Saturday’s annual meeting of the CNBC Investing Club. The single biggest issue we will be struggling with for the rest of the year is not how many Federal Reserve interest rate cuts we will have but whether the Fed can stand pat, or … Read more

Fed’s favorite inflation gauge looms next week — plus, 2 portfolio earnings reports

Fed’s favorite inflation gauge looms next week — plus, 2 portfolio earnings reports

Wall Street returned to its winning ways this week — and Nvidia ‘s blowout earnings report Wednesday night was a big reason why. All three major U.S. stock benchmarks closed the holiday-shortened week higher, led by the S & P 500 , which rose 1.66% and ended Friday at a record high. The tech-heavy Nasdaq … Read more

Nvidia’s wild ride and induction into the $2 trillion market cap club in two charts

Nvidia’s wild ride and induction into the  trillion market cap club in two charts

The $2 trillion club has a new member: Nvidia . The leading artificial intelligence chipmaker’s market capitalization briefly topped $2 trillion on Friday, becoming only the third U.S. company in history to do so; it closed the session worth $1.94 trillion. Fellow Club names Apple and Microsoft are the others. Apple became the first, in … Read more

Earnings from Salesforce, Snowflake, Domino’s

Earnings from Salesforce, Snowflake, Domino’s

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday guided investors through next week’s market action, advising them to pay attention to earnings reports from companies including Salesforce, Snowflake and Domino’s. “I don’t know if the rosy hue from Nvidia has staying power for next week,” Cramer said. “But there are plenty of good companies here that can carry … Read more