There was a lot to enjoy for investors in ServiceTitan’s (TTAN) most recent earnings release. Revenue also topped Wall Street estimates. Profit above forecasts. Free cash flow up about 50%. The software company’s main product based on artificial intelligence was adopted faster than the company’s management anticipated. The move wiped off about a third of
Stocks still have a ton of gains to show for in 2026. Through Sept. 10, the S&P 500 was up around 11%, the Nasdaq Composite 12.2%, and the Dow 8.3%, according to The Washington Post. But Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson sees a reason for investors to look at their next steps a lot more carefully.
Markets are built for stories that resolve quickly. Mines are not. A lithium deposit takes 10 or 15 years to travel from a geologist’s map to a truck full of battery-grade powder, and the stock attached to it has to survive every mood swing in between. Investors who bought the electric-vehicle boom in 2021 learned
A hundred years ago, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) built machines that helped the United States count its census. On September 10, 2026, it did something stranger. It opened a quantum computing lab tied to Swiss defense spending, then released an open-source AI model built to map the moon. Most companies pick one narrative and
Kohl’s is expanding a key partnership in its stores as its customers tighten their budgets and gravitate toward other retailers. In the second quarter of this year, the department store chain’s comparable sales dipped 0.9% year over year, while its operating income decreased 6.5%, according to its latest earnings report. Recent Placer.ai data also revealed
The U.S. economy is sending Americans plenty of puzzling signals lately. According to NPR reporting, employers added 162,000 jobs in August, but wholesale prices jumped 5.4% from a year earlier. That said, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said there’s a reason economic confidence remains tough to rebuild. For households, the test is pretty clear: Does their
If you own a dog or a cat, you almost certainly have a Chewy box somewhere in your house. Chewy has spent years building a loyal, subscription-driven customer base of pet owners who buy food, medicine, and supplies automatically, month after month. You might be that loyal customer. But the problem right now is that
While Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh faces an interest-rate showdown of doves and hawks next week that speaks to the credibility of the central bank as well as his own, investors are mulling how best to navigate the expected market volatility that awaits, regardless of his efforts. That’s in part because the Fed traditionally doesn’t
Warren Buffett spent six decades beating the market in a way almost every investor tries and fails to match. But the advice he gave everyday people investing on their own had nothing to do with picking the next great stock at all. His own portfolio at Berkshire Hathaway tells a more complicated story today, one
“Cheap” is the slipperiest word in investing. The word only describes a price sitting next to somebody’s forecast, and the forecast does most of the work. That is why the label keeps landing on stocks that have already run hard. A company doubles its revenue, the share price climbs to match, and the multiple ends