Jeffrey Smith, CEO and chief investment officer at Starboard Value LP. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Starboard Value, the activist fund run by Jeff Smith, has taken a sizable stake in graphics-design firm Autodesk and has spoken with the company’s board in recent weeks over a number of serious concerns involving its disclosures around an…
Investors worried about concentration risk in the market may want to consider value-oriented investments. Avantis Investors chief investment strategist Phil McInnis suggests taking a more diversified approach than simply looking at index funds such as the S&P 500. He thinks his firm’s exchange-traded fund strategy can provide better returns in the long run, emphasizing companies…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Adobe — The software stock surged 14% on stronger-than-expected quarterly results. Adobe posted adjusted earnings of $4.48 per share on $5.31 billion in revenue and boosted its full-year guidance. JPMorgan also upgraded shares to overweight from neutral. RH — The luxury retailer plummeted 18.6% after reporting…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. GameStop — The meme stock dipped 1.1% after Keith Gill, known as “Roaring Kitty,” seemingly increased his ownership in GameStop. He appears to be holding 9.001 million GameStop shares and over $6 million in cash, according to a screenshot he posted to Reddit. Adobe — The software…
Miragec | Moment | Getty Images A startup that uses technology to stop employees from abusing corporate expenses just raised 8 million euros ($8.6 million) of funding from investors, defying a slump in investment for the financial technology industry. CleverCards, a Dublin-based firm, uses a digital platform linked to configurable expense cards to give companies…
Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, hosting a YouTube livestream on June 7th, 2024. Source: Roaring Kitty | YouTube Meme stock champion Keith Gill, known as “Roaring Kitty” online, seemed to increase his ownership in GameStop‘s common stock and appears to be holding more than 9 million shares. Gill posted a new screenshot of his E-Trade…
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Tesla — Shares jumped 7% after CEO Elon Musk said his $56 billion pay package and a resolution to move the company’s incorporation to Texas were both set to pass a shareholder vote. The former garnered criticism heading into the vote, with notable shareholders publicly sharing…
A holding page for Keith Gill, a Reddit user credited with inspiring GameStop’s rally, before a YouTube livestream arranged on a laptop at the New York Stock Exchange on June 7, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images A sell-off in GameStop shares intensified in afternoon trading Wednesday, and that coincided with a spike…
Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell announces that interest rates will remain unchanged during a news conference at the bank’s William McChesney Martin building on May 01, 2024 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Federal Reserve on Wednesday projected only one rate cut for the remainder of 2024, down from its March…
This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting that concluded May 1. Text removed from the prior statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle. Text appearing for the first time in the June statement is in red and underlined. Black text appears in…
