Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.

Other analysts seem to agree. Out of 58 analysts that cover the stock on Wall Street, 39 rate it a "buy" and 14 rate it a "strong buy," according to Yahoo! Finance. The software giant is preparing to spend $80 billion on data centers specifically for training, deploying, and operating cloud-based AI applications.

Wall Street was heading for more gains before the open on Friday as markets try to log their first winning week of 2025 on the final day of trading during

U.S. stock indexes are drifting higher following a mostly encouraging batch of profit reports from big companies.

But one Wall Street analyst thinks investors should take advantage of that lull. Oppenheimer 's Rick Schafer just made the company one of his top picks for 2025 in the semiconductor sector. His firm's price target of $175 per share would represent a 27% gain from recent levels.

U.S. stocks are ticking higher following an encouraging update on inflation. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% in early trading Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 163 points, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.

Nvidia is once again the most valuable U.S. company, outranking Apple for the first time since late November. A rise in the chip maker's stock meant it ended Tuesday with a market capitalization of $3.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock posted significant gains in Wednesday's trading following bullish artificial intelligence (AI) news. The company's share price closed out the day up 4.4% amid the backdrop of a 0.

The past few years have been undeniably profitable for Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) investors. The stock price has surged more than sevenfold over the past two years, and today, it topped the charts as the world's most valuable company in terms of market cap.