Adobe shares surge and head for sharpest rally since 2020

Adobe shares surge and head for sharpest rally since 2020

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., February 20, 2024.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Adobe shares surged 15% on Friday, the biggest gain since March 2020, after the software maker reported earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ … Read more

Wells Fargo hiring spree to boost investment banking improves our stock outlook

Wells Fargo hiring spree to boost investment banking improves our stock outlook

Wells Fargo is breaking out of its lending roots. The bank has quietly gone on a hiring spree to grab a bigger slice of the profitable investment banking business long dominated by its Wall Street rivals. Since the start of 2023, a CNBC analysis found that Wells Fargo made at least 17 senior-level hires in … Read more

Xponential Fitness sees stock whipsaw after CEO ousted

Xponential Fitness sees stock whipsaw after CEO ousted

Anthony Geisler, CEO, Xponential Fitness at the NYSE Source: NYSE Shares of Xponential Fitness, the parent company of Cyclebar and Pure Barre fitness studios, bounced around in trading Monday after the company announced late Friday that CEO Anthony Geisler would be suspended indefinitely without a return date and would become an inactive member of the … Read more

How 6 Club stocks, including Meta and Apple, fared in Piper Sandler teen survey

How 6 Club stocks, including Meta and Apple, fared in Piper Sandler teen survey

Who better than teenagers to know what’s trendy? Piper Sandler has released the spring edition of its semiannual “Taking Stock With Teens Survey,” with solid results for several names in our portfolio. We love scanning the report, which looks at a wide swath of Generation Z, roughly defined as people aged 11 to 26. In … Read more

Activists eyeing tech stocks ahead of expected M&A rebound after lull

Activists eyeing tech stocks ahead of expected M&A rebound after lull

Paul Singer speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Activist investors are circling the tech market. That’s because, after a two-year plunge in mergers and acquisitions across the industry, there are signs of life to start 2024, with expectations that many more deals are … Read more