Eric Volkman

1 week ago | fool.com | Eric Volkman

A bullish new analyst note was the news item rallying Datadog (DDOG 4.18%) stock on hump day. The stock ended the trading session more than 4% higher in price as a result, which looked especially good when placed against the S&P 500 index's marginal decline. Top of its classWednesday morning, Bank of America Securities pundit Koji Ikeda flagged Datadog as being the bank's top pick in the observability software segment.

1 week ago | fool.com | Eric Volkman

Plains All American Pipeline (PAA 4.00%) stock was the pipeline to increased gains for investors on Wednesday. They traded the shares up by nearly 4% on news of an important divestment, and that rate easily beat the essentially flat-lining S&P 500 index. Selling the Canadian NGL businessAfter market close on Tuesday, Plains and its majority owner, Plains GP Holdings (PAGP 4.22%), disclosed that they had finalized agreements to sell "substantially all" of their natural gas liquids (NGL) business.

1 week ago | fool.com | Eric Volkman

The intense take-up of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a powerful motor driving contract electronics manufacturer Jabil (JBL 8.89%) lately. It also helped power the company's latest quarterly results, which were published Tuesday morning. Investors very much liked what they saw in the numbers, and rewarded the company by boosting its share price nearly 9% higher on the day.

1 week ago | fool.com | Eric Volkman

Many parts of the U.S. were sunny on Tuesday, but that happy situation didn't extend metaphorically to solar energy stocks. Quite a few took major hits that trading session on the latest developments in the legislative sphere. One of the industry's victims was First Solar (FSLR -17.77%), which went dim with a nearly 18% decline in its share price. That decline was far steeper than the 0.8% slip of the S&P 500 index that day.

1 week ago | fool.com | Eric Volkman

To crib a quote from a great author, the demise of physical media is greatly exaggerated. That was the feeling many investors had with book publisher John Wiley & Sons' (WLY 10.02%) stock on Tuesday. The company reported earnings that trounced analyst estimates and was rewarded with a 10% share-price boost on the day. That was far more impressive than the S&P 500 index's 0.8% decline. Booking bottom-line gainsFor its fiscal fourth quarter of 2025, Wiley earned $443 million in revenue.