information technology

During times of turbulence and uncertainty in the markets, many investors turn to dividend-yielding stocks. These are often companies that have high free cash flows and reward shareholders with a high dividend payout. Benzinga readers can review the latest analyst takes on their favorite...

In a move to strengthen ties between the world’s two largest democracies, the Biden administration is set to ease visa restrictions for skilled Indian workers, The Reuters reports. What’s Changing? The State Department is expected to announce a pilot program that will allow a select...

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) announced game-changing news when unveiled the MI300X super chip. The MI300X is the company's latest development and a pure play on AI. The chip is intended to rival NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) chips, such as the H100, which run for around $30,000 each. That's...

Samsara, Inc. (NYSE: IOT) stock surges through 52-week highs on the heels of its fiscal Q1 2024 earnings and raised guidance. Samsara puts theory into action, making internet-of-things (IoT) a reality for companies with its Connected Operations Cloud (COC) platform. The company is a benefactor of...

Unsurprisingly, GitLab (NASDAQ: GTLB) posted a solid quarter and guided the market higher. The company has been gaining traction, and results from MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB) foreshadowed the news. MongoDB said that it was well-positioned to benefit from the rise of AI because of its developer tools,...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD), the company's first-quarter results and the price action they inspired echo a theme sounded by ID security firm Okta Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA) and cloud services firm Salesforce Inc. (NYSE: CRM). That theme is one of outperformance and...

HP Inc (NYSE: HPQ) is not a growth stock; it's not exciting to own, but it is a winner if you are an income investor. The business is down, and the outlook isn't all that rosy, but the business is solid, FCF is robust, and the dividend is as reliable as they come. The dividend is worth...

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), the publicly traded software company best known for its bet on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), said Monday that it supported a proposal from the Financial Accounting Services Board that would let firms use fair-value accounting for crypto held on their balance sheets...

The most overbought stocks in the information technology sector presents an opportunity to go short on these overvalued companies. The RSI is a momentum indicator, which compares a stock's strength on days when prices go up to its strength on days when prices go down. When compared to a stock...

The shift back from value to growth investments and fundamental upside potential make shares of Arista Networks Inc (NYSE: ANET) more attractive than Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO), according to Wells Fargo. The Network Equipment Analyst: Aaron Rakers upgraded the rating for Arista Networks to...

It may not be as large as the bond market or as ubiquitous as real estate, but the stock market is definitely the most talked about of the financial markets. And while this has pretty much always been the case, the rise of index investing and robo-advisors in the last decade or so has...

Luxoft Holding Inc (NASDAQ: LXFT) announced Tuesday its fiscal third quarter results, which included an earnings per share beat and a miss on the revenue line. The company slashed its sales outlook for the year from $920 million to a range of $900 to $905 million and its EPS outlook was also...

Notable Wall Street analyst Trip Chowdhry went straight to the point in a research report on Tuesday: The Information Technology (IT) sector "will be a dead sector" in 2017. According to Chowdhry, IT companies will suffer from a lack of revenue catalysts and continued industry challengers...

Leon Cooperman's Omega Advisors hedge fund published a letter detailing the fund structure and objectives. The fund's top holding is Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) and represents 4 percent of total assets. Cooperman noted that he expects U.S. equities to deliver a 6 to 8 percent total...