General Motors’ first-quarter earnings are coming Tuesday morning. Investors will want to see progress offsetting higher wages following the 2023 labor negotiations with the United Auto Workers Union. For the first quarter, Wall Street is looking for earnings per share of $2.12 and an operating profit of $3.1 billion from sales of $42.1 billion. A
One of the first sovereign-wealth funds, and the largest at the state level in the U.S., just made a big bet on groceries as inflation continues to pressure American consumers. Alaska Permanent Fund tripled its investments in shares of Walmart and Kroger —the respective No. 1 and No. 2 players in terms of their share
In January 2022, financial advisor Andrew Fincher was working with a couple who wanted to invest the six-figure proceeds they made from selling one of their parents’ houses. They were concerned that the market could plunge after they bought in. Fincher of VLP Financial Advisors in Vienna, Va., recommended that they dollar-cost average. Instead of investing
This past year was more difficult than United Parcel Service imagined when it set its three-year goals back in 2021. UPS stock closed above $200 a share on June 9, after the 2021 meeting. Shares closed this past week at $156.27. On Tuesday, UPS is set to meet with analysts and investors in Louisville, Ky.,
Now Boeing investors, whether they like it or not, have to prepare themselves for Monday’s trading session with as much detail—and context—as possible. On Friday, a United Airlines flight was found to be missing an external panel when it landed in Oregon. The plane involved was a 25-year-old 737 NG, or Next Generation, model. Boeing’s
Many advisors are turning away from mutual funds in favor of exchange-traded funds and separately managed accounts to build client portfolios. But not Jeff Leonard, founder and managing partner of Leonard & Martens, a 25-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, practice under the Raymond James umbrella with $1.2 billion in assets under management. Leonard has tried SMAs and
The split is due to take effect April 2. A starting point in solving the valuation problem is to look at how similar companies trade in the marketplace. Today, General Electric trades for about 14.5 times estimated 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or Ebitda. That is very similar to nonfinancial and manufacturing
It might seem at times that investors care more about Jensen Huang than Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Huang is the longtime CEO of chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA , which stole the show last week by blowing away already lofty earnings expectations and leading stocks to new rounds of all-time highs, even as nagging
The Federal Reserve’s pushback on expectations for interest-rate cuts over the past two weeks has investors closing watching inflation data and piling more cash into money-market funds. Investors stashed a record $6.48 trillion away in U.S. money-market funds through the end of January, with the balance growing as euphoria in December over a Fed policy
Passive investing has become more popular than active investing in the U.S., but the trend may be changing soon, according to Jill Carey Hall, U.S. equity strategist at BofA Global Research. The amount of assets managed by passive funds have overtaken those overseen by active funds, according to data from BofA Global Research. Only 47%