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Henry Schein, Inc. reported past Q2 2026 results with sales rising to US$3,458 million and net income to US$94 million, alongside higher basic and diluted earnings per share from continuing operations versus a year earlier. Importantly for long-term watchers, management also raised its 2026 total sales growth guidance, signaling greater confidence in the company’s operating initiatives and demand trends. Now we’ll examine how Henry Schein’s raised 2026 sales outlook reshapes its existing...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average weathered a slide in a handful of key stocks on Wednesday to notch its third closing high in a row. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.8%. While the S&P pulled back from its previous closing high, the Dow marked its 24th of the year and third in as many days.

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Sandisk shattered Wall Street estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter as relentless hyperscaler demand for AI data storage triggered severe capacity bottlenecks and surging memory chip prices.

Amazon's cloud business is growing at a historic pace, but its plan to spend a fortune on new data centers was the only thing analysts wanted to talk about.

Artificial intelligence is driving growth in more than one corner of Amazon's sprawling business.

At $190.99, Salesforce (CRM) looks set up for roughly 24% of upside over the next three years under a conservative scenario. Not a big number, and most of what the business is doing is already in the price. The question is whether even this modest move is defensible. Revenue compounding does all the work; the multiple is asked to do nothing. Here is the operational reality the math is built on.

While investors focus on subscription seats, a different engine is firing up. Adobe is aggressively pivoting to a freemium model, nearly doubling its Creative Freemium monthly active users in a single year. This strategic shift is designed to capture a new generation of users through products like Firefly and Express. The company is trading near-term growth for a much larger top-of-funnel.

Market Domination Overtime Host Josh Lipton welcomes Blanke Schein Wealth Management chief investment officer Robert Schein to discuss why he believes the S&P 500 (^GSPC) can finish the year above 8,000 and the key catalysts that could drive the market higher.

If you hold shares, you're already carrying exposure to a potential swing that could redefine the stock's value over the coming year.

The company's exposure to OpenAI remains the main talking point among equity and bond investors.

Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley sits down with Microsoft (MSFT) Copilot EVP Charles Lamanna to discuss the rapid growth of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which has surpassed 30 million paid users. Lamanna breaks down what's driving adoption as Copilot usage nearly doubles year over year and reaches engagement levels comparable to Outlook and Teams.

Citadel Securities projects up to $500b in debt issuance by 2028 to fund AI chip infrastructure, with Microsoft expected to be a major participant in this build out. Microsoft is expanding AI driven product integrations across Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure with companies such as LegalZoom, Paychex, and ArcelorMittal. The company is deepening its role in enterprise workflows and cloud partnerships as businesses adopt AI tools across legal, HR, and industrial use cases. Microsoft, traded...

Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley explains how the AI boom is driving up the cost of consumer electronics.

Tech stocks were mixed late Wednesday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR

Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre examines the comeback seen across the semiconductor landscape over the past five trading days, while also analyzing which companies are emerging as leaders in the renewed AI rally.

A sweeping AI leadership overhaul sent Alphabet shares sliding Wednesday, rattling investor confidence despite a blowout earnings quarter. The path to $400 hinges on something far less obvious than executive rosters or earnings beats.

NOW's 23% YTD drop reflects AI competition and valuation concerns, even as subscription growth and AI monetization remain strong.

The customer list now includes Microsoft and Nvidia. The hard part is building fast enough to serve them.

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Big Tech just closed out its second-quarter 2026 earnings season, and the results looked, on paper, like a triumph. Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet all posted numbers that blew past Wall Street's estimates, and headlines celebrated growth rates that haven't been seen in years. Dig one layer deeper, ...

Cloud computing giants are back in favor as investor support for artificial intelligence (AI) capital expenditures grows.

The likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have spurred concern about how much they’re spending on their AI clouds. But there’s another metric that bodes well for the AI trade.

The storage and memory maker is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter financials after the stock market closes on Wednesday.

Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow continue to see strong demand, despite the sell-off in their share prices.

The Dow maintained gains in afternoon trading, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq slid. The blue chip index was up 0.7%, or 461 points, despite sharing some of the same components dragging on the Nasdaq and the S&P 500. The key to the Dow's resilience during Wednesday's session is its price-weighted structure.

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In this segment of the AI Investor Podcast from 24/7 Wall St., Eric Bleeker lays out his framework for evaluating the AI trade, describing it as a stool resting on three legs: technological progress, real-world adoption, and the ability to finance the buildout. Two legs he considers extremely strong. On progress, he points to Nvidia's backing of a straight-shot superintelligence effort, ongoing gains in training and model capability, and expectations of highly capable autonomous models at roughly human level, at scale, within a year. On adoption, he cites OpenAI's monthly revenue now exceeding its prior full quarter, Microsoft noting that 90% of cloud demand comes from outside the frontier labs, and Google's 82% cloud growth. Adoption is uneven, concentrated among a relatively small group of heavy users, but strong. Financing is the weak leg and the source of most current fear. Bleeker estimates $700 to $800 billion in AI data center spending this year, growing to roughly $1.2 trillion next year, against a financing ceiling he places somewhere between $1.5 and $2 trillion annually. With 2028 expectations near $1.4 trillion, the market is approaching that ceiling, which is why valuation now dominates stock selection. A company historically worth 15 times earnings trading at 40 times its 2028 or 2029 numbers is hard to defend. He closes with three points: the selloff is likely closer to its end than its beginning, macro risks remain including a possible September rate rise and soft GDP, and for anyone sidelined by prior valuations, this is arguably the most attractive entry point since spring 2025.

AMD's data center sales exploded while the stock slipped, and retail investors are scratching their heads. Here is why the math behind the confusion points to a very specific price target.