When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock's price, but are they really important?

Although the revenue and EPS for AutoZone (AZO) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended August 2025, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.

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When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock's price, but are they really important?

When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock's price, but are they really important?

When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock's price, but are they really important?

The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price.

The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price.

Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?

Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?

Texas-based utility stock Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) is slipping today, down 5.7% at $205.49 at last glance, after suffering a downgrade from Jefferies to "hold" from "buy.

Nvidia Corporation announced a $100B strategic partnership with OpenAI to build AI-optimized Data Centers, stacked with Nvidia's GPUs, reinforcing Nvidia's leadership in AI GPU technology. The deal secures OpenAI's access to NVDA's next-gen Vera Rubin platform, highlighting surging demand and visibility for NVDA's GPU supply pipeline. NVDA's recent partnerships, including a $5.0B investment in Intel and a $6.3B CoreWeave cloud computing agreement, underscore the secular growth characteristics in AI infrastructure CapEx.

Tuniu Corporation (TOUR) is a China-based online travel agency trading below net cash and investments, offering a margin of safety. TOUR has a strong balance sheet, no debt, and management owns over 60% of shares, aligning interests with shareholders. Despite a challenging environment and historical unprofitability, TOUR is returning capital via dividends and aggressive share repurchases.

The volatile biotech industry has done reasonably well so far in 2025 amid the ongoing tariff saga. Most pharma/biotech bigwigs are now investing heavily in manufacturing plants/operations in the United States as the Trump administration threatened of levying heavy tariffs on pharmaceutical imports (upto 250%) in a bid to boost domestic production.

CRWD's Pangea buyout powers the launch of AIDR, aiming to secure the full AI lifecycle and expand Falcon's growth potential.

Clean Energy ETF PBW hits a 52-week high, surging about 121% from its low as industry momentum and easier Fed policy fuel gains.

Salesforce's AI and Data Cloud ARR jumps to $1.2B in Q2, with surging customer adoption fueling its next growth phase.

NVDA's Networking revenues surge to $7.3B in Q2 as AI data center demand fuels record growth in Spectrum-X and InfiniBand solutions.

Shares of Tesla Inc. NASDAQ: TSLA opened this week around the $430 mark, continuing a remarkable run that has seen them more than double in value since April. The stock is at its highest level since December last year, fueled by renewed optimism around growth drivers such as autonomous driving and robotics.

T Stamp Inc (NASDAQ:IDAI, EURONEXT:AIID), doing business as Trust Stamp, announced what it called a “pioneering advancement” in digital identity and age verification with the introduction of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) for remote human presence. The company said the innovation addresses the growing need for secure, privacy-preserving solutions in Know Your Customer (KYC) and age assurance processes.