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BLACK Anthropic is going public in just one week. Here's everything you need to know
The Claude chatbot people have on their phones is going public on November 19 and aims to raise up to $74 billion. Its revenue grew thirteenfold in a year. Its biggest buyers, meanwhile, are companies it itself owes more than $900 billion for chips and data centers.
Nu Holdings is down 33% from its peak. But it's still growing 40% a year.
Latin America's largest digital bank is earning more than ever, while its shares have lost more than a third of their value since their January peak. The market isn't questioning growth itself, but it has repriced the political, currency and credit risks that come with it. The key question is how…
Lycia stock +75% in three weeks: drug of the future, or a naive premium for one sample of data?
One injection cut the allergic antibody in six healthy volunteers by 96%. The company that developed it raised $365 million on the stock market and after three weeks is worth $1.6 billion. Its big pharmaceutical partner walked away in February.
Warren Buffett's brilliantly simple strategy earns Berkshire billions in Japan
Berkshire is sitting on $377 billion in cash. Even so, this week it's borrowing billions more in Tokyo, and has to offer lenders more than it did in the spring. Its shares are trading just below an all-time high.
Goldman and Citi are building their own digital dollar. Who loses out?
Goldman Sachs, Citi and 19 other banks have committed $270 million to their own digital dollar. Shares of the company whose digital dollar currently handles most payments in the industry have lost 81% from their peak. Yet for every dollar it earns, it passes 62 cents to someone else.
BLACK A Swiss Company That Could Spare You the Drill at the Dentist Is Going Public. It Won't Be Cheap
A liquid that heals early tooth decay in five minutes without a drill has already been sold to 20 000 US dental practices. Its Swiss maker is now heading for the stock market, and revenue is up 214 %. But it has just $19 million in the bank.
This company has paid a dividend of over 8% for 56 years in a row. Why has almost nobody heard of it?
It has raised its dividend for 56 years in a row, and its yield has just climbed above 8.5%, the highest in the past decade. It doesn't make cigarettes; it processes tobacco leaf for the companies that do. But right now, both its volumes and profit have slumped, and its banks have loosened its…
etoro gained 660,000 new clients and is preparing a quarter-billion-dollar share buyback
The popular investment app now has 4.39 million clients with money deposited and $1.2 billion in its coffers. Stock trading brought in a fifth more, and management decided to return some of the money to shareholders.
This Oil Stock Just Delivered Dream Results, Yet You Can Still Buy It at the Same Price as Buffett
Occidental just reported its best numbers in years, and the market barely noticed. The stock is falling along with oil, as if nothing had changed at the company. Either the market is right and the cheap valuation is a trap, or something is being sold here that is no longer a bet on the price of a…
The Company Pays a 10.8% Dividend, and Its CEO Says: “Our Stock Is Too Cheap”
Rithm Capital pays $0.25 quarterly and says it has earned enough to cover it for 28 consecutive quarters. But according to its financial statements, it pays out more than it earns. Both figures are true, and the difference between them will determine what happens to your dividend next.
This Influencer Favorite Stock Fell 41% in a Month. Is It an Opportunity?
Nebius shares have lost nearly half their value over the past month. After a sharp rally, the question hanging over the stock is whether the decline has finally created a more attractive entry point into specialized AI infrastructure, or whether it is simply beginning to price in more realistically…
The Biggest Gaming Launch in History Could Paradoxically Drag Down Take-Two's Stock
Ten days before GTA VI launches, Take-Two stock is down 16% year to date. Monday's results won't decide the game's fate, but whether it makes sense to pay $40 billion for a year that hasn't even begun.
Uber Has More Customers Than It Can Serve. Why Is the Stock Near Its Yearly Low?
The market sent Uber to a yearly low out of fear that robotaxis will take away its business. The results revealed a different problem: the company is short on drivers. And the very thing investors fear is also the only thing that could solve it.
Micron Stock Fell 37% in a Month. Who's Wrong: the Market or Its Customers?
A company raising the price of its own product, with more than a third of its revenue under contract through 2030, is trading at less than nine times earnings. Either this is the biggest bargain in AI, or the market knows something about its customers that the numbers don't show yet.
Will Pfizer's 5.6% Dividend Survive 2028?
Pfizer raised its outlook, the stock is near its yearly high, and a 5.6% yield is tempting. But most of the surprise came from a drug nearing the end of its patent protection, and the new CFO named capital markets among the sources of funding for the dividend.
How Is This Possible? McDonald's Stock Is Up 20% in a Month, Yet Customers Are Leaving
4.6% fewer people visited U.S. locations, and U.S. sales fell for the first time in five quarters. Yet the stock jumped 6.5%. The market is clearly paying for something other than fries - and that is exactly what makes it a defensive portfolio holding.
7.4% a year from a company that lends to people rejected by banks. Is it safe?
OneMain pays a yield that banks can only dream of, and this year it's growing faster than it has in years. Yet the stock is down 16% since January and the dividend has stalled. The secret lies in a single percentage point that determines half the payout.
The Fastest-Growing AI Stock Trades at 9 Times Earnings. What's the Catch?
Super Micro's revenue nearly quadrupled in a year, and its outlook points to $80 billion. Yet the market values the stock like a bank, not an AI leader. The reason lies in how much of every dollar the company keeps and who actually pays for its manufacturing.
Is This the Safest 5% Dividend in the Most Dangerous Sector?
A Panamanian airline raised its dividend, then a few weeks later war doubled its fuel costs. Profit fell by half, but the payout stayed the same. How long can it keep that up, and how can you tell when it's running on reserves?
Palantir Is Up 96%. Why Haven't Shareholders Made Any Money This Year?
Revenue +96%, commercial business surpassing government for the first time, and the outlook raised for the third time in a year. Yet the stock is flat since January. That's because the price of $178 already reflects something Palantir failed to deliver in the third quarter.