This brand-name company has soared more than 6,000% since its IPO (including dividends), and it's checked all the right boxes for the now-retired Oracle of Omaha.
Megacap stocks dominate their sectors and their actions influence economies worldwide.
The flip side though is that their sheer size means they have less room for explosive growth as scale works against them.
On February 17, 2026—just days after the launch of its flagship Claude Opus 4.6—Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, heralding it as the "most capable Sonnet model yet." This mid-tier powerhouse is now the default for Free and Pro users on claude.ai, Claude Cowork, and via APIs on platforms like Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI. [...]
Investors are looking ahead to a slew of economic data on Wednesday, including housing starts, building permits, durable-goods orders, and industrial production.
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has officially entered uncharted territory, reporting a fiscal year 2025 that saw the tech giant surpass $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time in its history. This milestone was propelled by a staggering 48% year-over-year surge in Google Cloud revenue during the fourth quarter,
The opening weeks of 2026 have witnessed a tectonic shift in global capital markets, marking what analysts are calling the "Great Sector Rotation." After three years of relentless dominance by artificial intelligence and cloud computing giants, the tide has abruptly turned. Investors are staging a massive exodus from high-multiple Software-as-a-Service
The architectural landscape of the American media industry shifted decisively today, February 17, 2026, as the board of Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA) officially entered a high-pressure "best and final" negotiation phase with two of the world’s most powerful content engines. In a move that has stunned Wall Street, Netflix
Shares of enterprise software giant Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) fell 4% in the afternoon session after investor fears over artificial intelligence disrupting the software industry sparked a broad sell-off.
As the sun rises on the first full trading day after the 2026 Presidents' Day long weekend, all eyes on Wall Street are fixed on Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW). Scheduled to report its fiscal second-quarter 2026 results after the market closes today, February 17, the cybersecurity titan finds itself
The "Magnificent Seven" companies are pivoting aggressively toward a capital-intensive future dominated by artificial intelligence infrastructure. In a definitive signal of the insatiable appetite for high-quality corporate debt, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) successfully closed a massive $20 billion U.S. dollar bond offering on February 10, 2026. The sale, which
As the sun rises over Silicon Valley on February 17, 2026, the financial world is bracing for what many are calling the most consequential earnings report in the history of the semiconductor industry. NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is set to release its fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 results on February 25, an event
February 17, 2026 The media landscape has reached a fever pitch. Today, Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY) finds itself at the epicenter of a tectonic shift in global entertainment. Following months of speculation and a high-stakes bidding war with Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), news has broken that Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) has officially reopened acquisition [...]
Big tech spending on equipment and AI appears to be close to $400 billion over the four quarters. Are there losers outside the free-spending tech titans?
The dawn of 2026 has brought a stark realization for the tech sector: the "AI Revolution" is as expensive as it is transformative. Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) recently reported its results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, revealing a financial profile that would, in any other era, be celebrated
In a move that has recalibrated expectations for the corporate credit market, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) successfully executed a massive $32 billion multi-currency debt sale in mid-February 2026. The offering, which was significantly upsized from initial targets, highlights a staggering divergence between the cautious sentiment currently seen in global equity
AUSTIN, Texas — Shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) surged 9.6% this week, marking one of the tech giant's strongest trading sessions of the year. The rally was ignited by a high-profile analyst upgrade and sustained by the official announcement that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has
The second week of February 2026 will be remembered in financial history as "Software-mageddon," a period of unprecedented volatility that saw the S&P 500 Software Index plummet by 13% in just five trading sessions. This massive selloff, which erased more than $800 billion in market value, was fueled by
