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IRVINE, Calif., July 16, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) plans to announce its operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 after the market closes on Thursday July 23, and will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. ET that day to discuss those results. To participate in the conference call, dial (877) 704-2848 or (201) 389-0893. The call will also be available live and archived on the "Investor Relations" section of the Edwards website at ir.edwards.com. About Edwards Lifesciences Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. Through breakthrough technologies, world-class evidence and partnerships with clinicians and healthcare stakeholders, our employees are inspired by our patient-focused culture to deliver life-changing innovations to those who need them most. Discover more at www.edwards.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Edwards, Edwards Lifesciences, and the stylized E logo are trademarks of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260716585231/en/ Contacts Media Contact: Amy Meshulam [email protected] Contact: Gerianne Sarte [email protected]

The social media giant is pouring record sums into an artificial intelligence future, forcing investors to decide if they are buying a proven profit machine or funding an unproven science project. Meta Platforms (META) is a company you know, but it may not be the company you think it is anymore. For years, it was the undisputed king of social media advertising. Today, it’s in the middle of a pivot into one of the most expensive, ambitious artificial intelligence builds the world has ever seen. After gaining 20% over the past month, the stock still trades about 13% below its 52-week high, leaving investors to weigh whether they are buying a dominant business at a reasonable price or funding a very expensive vision with no clear path to profit. When you look at Meta’s valuation, the market seems to be telling two different stories. On one hand, the stock trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.7, roughly in line with the S&P 500’s 24.2. On cash flow, it even looks a bit cheaper, at 13.5 times operating cash flow versus the market’s 15.3. But on the other hand, its price-to-sales ratio of 7.8 is more than double the market average of 3.3. Investors are paying a steep premium for Meta’s phenomenal sales growth, which has averaged 22% annually over the last three years compared to 5.9% for the S&P 500. At the same time, the more modest earnings and cash flow multiples suggest a deep-seated caution about the large spending required to keep that growth engine running. What you get for that price is a business of genuinely rare quality. The core engine, the Family of Apps, including Facebook and Instagram, reaches an estimated 3.56 billion people daily and is a profit powerhouse. In the most recent quarter, revenue grew 33% year over year. The company runs an operating margin of 41%, more than double the S&P 500’s 18.4%, and converts a remarkable 58% of its revenue into operating cash flow. Management’s plan is to funnel this gusher of cash into its next act: building what it calls “personal super intelligence” through its new Meta Super Intelligence Labs. This involves developing its own foundational AI models, to power a new generation of personal and business agents. This vision is backed by a balance sheet built for exactly this kind of large project; with debt at just 5.2% of its market value and $124.0 billion in operating cash flow generated over the last y...

Big Tech earnings kick off next week with Google (GOOG, GOOGL) and Intel (INTC) set to report results on July 22 and 23, respectively. And investors will have their eyes on AI spending and returns, as well as chip sales. Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta (META), in particular, have been punished for their heavy investments in AI data center capacity, though Google and Amazon (AMZN) have dodged the same fate, as of late. Wall Street will want to hear more about how Microsoft is expanding its Copilot service and AI growth via its Azure platform. Meta watchers will be looking into how the company is using AI to improve ad sales and user engagement. Google and Amazon will need to deliver more of the same to keep Wall Street on their sides, while also ensuring they can keep their spending in check. Keep an eye on the hyperscalers' remaining performance obligations (RPOs), a measure of contracts they've signed but haven't realized revenue from yet, to get a sense of where growth is headed. On the chip side, it'll be all about sales and forward guidance. Nvidia (NVDA), Intel, AMD (AMD), and memory makers will need to show demand is keeping pace or accelerating. But even that might not be enough to satisfy investors who have recently sold the news on results from the likes of Nvidia. Apple's (AAPL) results will be interesting for a handful of reasons. While iPhone sales are always the most important number in the company's earnings, commentary on who is buying and why will be just as noteworthy. Analysts will be watching to see whether customers are buying now to get ahead of potential future price hikes or holding out to get their hands on the company's rumored foldable iPhone, set to launch this fall. Post-earnings discourse will also center around the impact of rising memory and storage costs on Apple's margins and future device pricing. Email Daniel Howley at [email protected]. Follow him on X at @DanielHowley. Click here for the latest technology news that will impact the stock market. Read the latest financial and business news from Yahoo Finance

Step onto Meta Platforms’ Menlo Park campus, and you might feel as though you’ve entered a virtual reality (VR) game. The expansive, 250-acre campus looks more like a utopian town than a corporate hub: one that’s filled with uniquely designed spaces, Instagrammable green spaces, and dozens of restaurants, candy shops, video arcades, fitness trainers, and even hair salons that are completely free for employees to enjoy. Inside its office buildings, however, Meta's work environment switches to a different kind of game — one that’s built on pressure to perform and stay two steps ahead of everyone else. Employees undergo grueling performance reviews, frequent reorganizations, and mass layoffs that spell “game over” for tens of thousands of employees with little notice. Meta even recently experimented with worker surveillance: monitoring their clicks and keystrokes in order to train AI models — a program that workers hotly contested. Much of that intensity reflects Meta's race to dominate artificial intelligence. As the company pivots away from the “metaverse,” it is now pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, data centers, and new business products. But in Silicon Valley, change often happens with low latency and high throughput; translated from tech-speak, that’s really, really fast. When it was known as Facebook, the company’s early business motto was “move fast and break things,” and even as it matured, its core philosophy remains the same. Meta’s headquarters was designed around a similar theme: creating an environment where employees can collaborate, innovate, and adapt as quickly as their technology evolves. Meta’s headquarters is located about 32 miles south of San Francisco, in Menlo Park, California. The area is known as the heart of Silicon Valley and is the epicenter of the venture capital industry. Alphabet (GOOG), Intel (INTC), HP (HPQ), and Apple (AAPL) helped put Silicon Valley on the map as the global hub for technology in the 1980s and 90s; when it arrived in Menlo Park in December 2011, Meta helped lead the area’s second tech boom, pivoting momentum away from hardware and into social media and advertising. Meta had moved from Palo Alto to the former Sun Microsystems campus so that it could have room for its quickly expanding employee base. Prior to Palo Alto, Facebook operated out of founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dor...

MENLO PARK, Calif., July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) announced today that the company's second quarter 2026 financial results will be released after market close on Wednesday, July 29th, 2026. Meta will host a conference call to discuss its results at 1:30 p.m. PT / 4:30 p.m. ET the same day. The live webcast of the call can be accessed at the Meta Investor Relations website at investor.atmeta.com, along with the company's earnings press release, financial tables, and slide presentation. Following the call, a replay will be available at the same website. Transcripts of conference calls with publishing equity research analysts held on July 29th, 2026 will also be posted to the investor.atmeta.com website. Disclosure Information Meta uses the investor.atmeta.com and meta.com/news websites as well as Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile (facebook.com/zuck), Instagram account (instagram.com/zuck) and Threads profile (threads.net/zuck) as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. About Meta Meta is building the future of human connection, powered by artificial intelligence and immersive technologies. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward experiences that foster deeper connections and unlock new possibilities. Contacts Investors:Chad [email protected] / investor.atmeta.com Press:Matt [email protected] / meta.com/news View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/meta-to-announce-second-quarter-2026-results-302825578.html

Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St. US stock futures are pointing higher this morning, with E-mini S&P 500 contracts up about 0.4%, as investors digest a mix of cooling inflation and uneven growth signals abroad. Softer price data in countries like France, where inflation sits at 1.8%, suggests global cost of living pressures are easing, which can take some pressure off central banks to keep lifting interest rates. At the same time, weaker industrial output in places such as Italy and Turkey hints at slower factory activity worldwide. The key question now is whether this mix helps interest rate sensitive sectors like real estate and utilities more than it hurts globally exposed manufacturers and commodity linked stocks. With inflation cooling but global growth looking uneven, many investors are gravitating toward 79 resilient stocks with low risk scores. Cerebras Systems (CBRS) jumped 8.34% after announcing expanded manufacturing and new European AI infrastructure capacity. Meta Platforms (META) rose 5.97% as investors focused on its AI chips, models, and cloud compute plans. SBA Communications (SBAC) gained 4.14%. Is Cerebras Systems still a smart investment or just hype? Read our most popular narrative and get all the answers you need. Moderna (MRNA) fell 10.83% as investors reacted to renewed political focus on vaccine skepticism and policy. Okta (OKTA) declined 6.86%. MongoDB (MDB) dropped 5.73% despite recent analyst price target increases and supportive research coverage. For a broader view of how yesterday's selling pressure fits into overall risk, it can help to scan across sectors and compare balance sheets, cash flows, and volatility metrics in one place using 79 resilient stocks with low risk scores. Look past the noise - uncover the top narrative that explains what truly matters for Okta's long-term success. Big bank earnings are about to dominate the US market narrative, setting the tone for financials and credit trends. Big Bank Earnings: JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), Citigroup (C), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Bank of America (BAC) on Tuesday will spotlight lending, trading and fee income trends. Asset Management Focus: BlackRock (BLK) on Wednesday will highlight flows into funds and investor appetite for risk assets. Banking Services Snapshot: PNC Financi...

Google is reportedly expanding sales of its custom TPUs to independent cloud providers, moving beyond exclusive use within Google Cloud. According to The Information, Google is pitching TPUs as offering more stable performance and simpler networking than competing GPU-based systems. The reported expansion comes while Wall Street reassesses AI spending, with UBS lowering price targets on Alphabet and Meta ahead of earnings. Alphabet-led (GOOG, GOOGL) Google is reportedly expanding efforts to sell its custom AI chips to independent cloud providers as a direct challenge to Nvidia's (NVDA) dominance in AI hardware. The report from The Information comes as Wall Street has trimmed price targets on Alphabet, Meta Platforms (META) and Amazon (AMZN), even as other analysts raise long-term AI capex forecasts across the sector. See what 10M+ investors are talking about. Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox GOOG stock edged 0.5% lower in midday trade on Monday amid a broader market sell-off following rising oil prices after tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated over the weekend. The tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 took the biggest hit compared to the S&P 500 and Dow Jones. The Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ), which tracks the tech index, fell as much as 1.8% in midday trade. On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around Alphabet’s shares trended in ‘bearish’ territory over the past day. Meanwhile, NVDA’s stock fell nearly 3% in midday trade, with retail sentiment trending in ‘extremely bullish’ territory over the past day. According to The Information, Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) have so far been housed almost entirely in Google's own facilities and rented out only through Google Cloud. Now the company is trying to sell its custom AI chips directly to "neoclouds," young companies built around renting out Nvidia GPUs. It said that one of Google’s targets was Nscale, a two-year-old neocloud in which Nvidia is a major investor and preferred shareholder. The report added that Google’s pitch centers around offering more stable performance and simpler server networking than with GPUs, particularly as Nvidia's newer Grace Blackwell and upcoming Vera Rubin systems have caused deployment headaches for buyers. However, Nvidia reportedly caught wind of the Google talks and discussed financial incentives with Nscale that one sour...

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. HSBC identified 10 Buy-rated stocks it believes are well positioned ahead of the second-quarter earnings season, citing favorable trends across technology, financial, consumer and industrial sectors. HSBC named Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), Alphabet (GOOGL), AbbVie (ABBV), Caterpillar (CAT), Marriott International (MAR), Vertiv (VRT), NextPower (NXT) and Wells Fargo (WFC) as its preferred earnings-season ideas. The firm said the selections reflect company-specific growth drivers rather than a single sector theme. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 5 Warning Sign with AMZN. Is AMZN fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. HSBC expects Amazon to benefit from continued cloud computing demand and AI infrastructure investments, while Microsoft could see further momentum from Azure AI services. The brokerage also pointed to Meta's AI-powered advertising tools, Alphabet's cloud and search businesses, and Vertiv's exposure to expanding data center spending. Outside technology, HSBC said AbbVie's immunology portfolio, Caterpillar's exposure to AI-related power demand, Marriott's asset-light business model and Wells Fargo's improving earnings outlook could support results. The brokerage also highlighted NextPower's project backlog and expansion efforts as potential growth catalysts heading into the reporting season.

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) was among Jim Cramer’s stock calls on Mad Money, as he highlighted the AI opportunities in neoclouds. Cramer highlighted the future valuation of the company according to some analysts, as he said: Photo by Adam Nowakowski on Unsplash Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) provides cloud and on-premises software, databases, and IT infrastructure to help businesses manage operations. While we acknowledge the potential of ORCL as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 33 Stocks That Should Double in 3 Years and 15 Stocks That Will Make You Rich in 10 Years Disclosure: None. Follow Insider Monkey on Google News.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 09, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Effective July 9, 2026, the Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.505 per share on its common stock to be paid August 14, 2026, to stockholders of record as of July 24, 2026. About Unum Group Unum Group (NYSE: UNM), a leading international provider of workplace benefits and services, has been helping workers and their families thrive for more than 175 years. Through its Unum and Colonial Life brands, the company offers disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental, and vision insurance; leave and absence management support; and behavioral health services. In 2025, Unum Group reported revenues of $13.1 billion and paid $8.3 billion in benefits. The Fortune 500 company is recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere®. Visit the Unum Group newsroom for more information, and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260709968539/en/ Contacts MEDIADottie [email protected] INVESTORSMatt [email protected]

Internet, Everywhere, July 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ, TSX: SHOP) plans to announce financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 before markets open on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Shopify’s management team will host a conference call to discuss second-quarter results at 8:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. The conference call will be available via webcast on the Investor Relations section of Shopify’s website at https://www.shopify.com/investors/events. An archived replay of the webcast will be available following the conclusion of the call. About Shopify Shopify provides essential internet infrastructure for commerce. Shopify’s all-in-one platform makes it easier to start, run, and grow a business, powering sales online, in store, and everywhere in between. Millions of businesses in 175+ countries use Shopify—from entrepreneurs to brands like Aldo, BarkBox, Carrier, Meta, Vuori, SKIMS, and Supreme. For more information, visit www.shopify.com

Aptos (APT) is burning more of its own token than ever before, and the numbers behind that milestone tell a bigger story about the blockchain network's growth. A high-performance layer-1 blockchain, Aptos is built for speed, scalability, and low-cost transactions. Originally developed by former Meta engineers who worked on the Diem project, it launched its mainnet in October 2022 and has since grown into one of the most active networks for real-world asset tokenization, DeFi, and institutional finance applications. Related: Aptos, Visa and BlackRock among 140 firms launching new stablecoin Every transaction on Aptos generates a fee, and every fee is burned, meaning the APT token used to pay it is permanently removed from circulation. This is not optional or selective. It is built into the protocol. The more the network is used, the less APT exists. Aptos has by now burned cumulative 1.4 million APT tokens since mainnet launch, a milestone that reflects years of compounding network activity. In fact, 235,200 APT tokens were burned in the last 30 days alone, one of the highest monthly burn rates the network has recorded. At the same time, the network hit a new quarterly high of 16 million transactions in a single day, a signal that usage is not just growing but accelerating. Despite a 10-fold increase, the average transaction fee remains just $0.0005, keeping Aptos among the most affordable networks for high-frequency applications. Coinbase CEO has one-word response to sheriffs group's sudden shift Michael Saylor's shocking Bitcoin sale triggers a lawsuit against Polymarket Billionaire investor reveals key reasons behind Bitcoin's decline The burn mechanism ties network activity directly to token supply. As more applications, from tokenized funds to onchain prediction markets to AI-driven infrastructure, run on Aptos, the burn rate increases and the total supply decreases. Growth on the network and scarcity of the token move in the same direction. Aptos has a total supply of 1.2 billion tokens. With 1.6 million APT emitted per month and 235,200 tokens burned during the same period, the burn rate currently offsets roughly 15% of new emissions, a figure that rises as the network scales. Related: Chad taps Aptos blockchain to bring sovereign climate assets to international markets This story was originally published by TheStreet on Jul 7, 2026, where it first app...