MKS reported Q2 non-GAAP EPS of $3.30, up 86% year-over-year, alongside 28% revenue growth to $1.25 billion and operating margin expansion of 480 basis points to 25.6%, but CFO Ram Mayampurath said the company’s equipment sales strategy is temporarily pressuring gross margin via lower equipment margins and facility ramp costs.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Royal Gold’s Q2 2026 revenue was $451M and net income was $236M—up 115% and 79% year over year—while it still repurchased 147,000 shares for $30M during the quarter, after paying $40M in dividends and repaying $200M on its revolver earlier in the year.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Samsung Galaxy Watch 8’s Antioxidant Index converts a 5-second thumb scan into a 0–100 score that estimates skin carotenoid levels, with carotenoids used as a proxy for fruit and vegetable intake.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Engadget
MercadoLibre reported Q2 net revenue up 50% year-over-year to $10B+ quarterly revenue milestone, but operating income fell from $825M to $683M and operating margin dropped from 12.2% to 6.7%, even as the stock remains about 30% below its high.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Frasers Group acquired Harvey Nichols on Aug. 13 via a pre-pack administration, allowing it to take control of the retailer’s operating assets while existing liabilities are handled through the administration process.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Dave Ramsey told a caller with $2,090/month mortgage costs on $4,200/month take-home pay that they should sell the house because the payment was 50% of their take-home income.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Matt Groening said at D23 that The Simpsons: Hit & Run “is coming back in some form,” while showrunner Matt Selman added “or not.”
Aug 15, 2026 ·
The Verge
Comparable hotel RevPAR rose 7% to $251.53 in the quarter, leading Host Hotels & Resorts to raise its 2026 RevPAR growth guidance midpoint by 125 basis points to 4.75%–5.25%.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Palantir shares were up 26% after the company reported earnings that beat expectations and increased guidance, with the market reacting more strongly than typical “beat” results this earnings season.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Honeywell Aerospace missed Q2 analyst revenue and earnings expectations and cut its full-year 2026 organic sales growth forecast to 4%–5% from 7%–9%.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Papa John’s (PZZA) shares fell 17.8% after Q2 results, with revenue down 8.8%, system-wide restaurant sales down 4.8%, and net income down to $8.7 million.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Diageo (DEO) has seen its stock fall 52% over the past five years while facing China sales down 34.9% in fiscal 2026, $20.5 billion of net debt, and North America net sales down 8.4%, whereas Constellation (STZ) posted fiscal Q1 beer sales of $2.28 billion (+2%) but had beer depletion down 0.3% and wine/spirits shipments down 11%.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ralph Lauren’s fiscal Q1 2027 revenue rose to $1.96B and adjusted earnings to $4.59 per share, topping estimates of $1.87B and $4.32, and the company raised its full-year fiscal 2027 revenue growth forecast to 5%–6% from 4%–5%.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NYT Connections for Aug. 16, #1162 grouped words as Musical performance (concert, gig, set, show), Participant (actor, agent, party, player), Family relationship modifiers (grand, great, half, step), and Descriptors for our human ancestors (Neander, handy, upright, wise).
Aug 15, 2026 ·
CNET
Jim Cramer said he would “hate to see any turmoil” at Salesforce right before Dreamforce after Marc Benioff promoted Miguel Milano to operating chief—Milano had previously been part of the major speech at the event.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Figma’s shares fell 14.9% on the day Jim Cramer discussed the stock after the company reported Q2 earnings, despite reporting $370 million revenue (+48% YoY) that beat estimates of $351 million and raising full-year revenue guidance to $1.463B–$1.467B.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bluetooth codecs are the audio “coder/decoder” method that determines the quality of the sound sent over Bluetooth between your source and headphones or speakers, subject to Bluetooth’s data-cap limits (about 2 Mbps, and true lossless requires Wi‑Fi).
Aug 15, 2026 ·Engadget
A woman alleges her stepfather used xAI’s Grok to turn a childhood photo taken when she was 11 into more than 7,000 explicit images, after which law enforcement uncovered the material in a raid and she says he died by suicide two days later.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Cramer said some traders shorted DoorDash on Uber “because they’ve got so much overlap,” calling it “obviously a bad trade.”
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
D-Wave Quantum’s Q2 earnings (reported August 6) coincided with its shares closing 9% lower, despite first-half 2026 bookings rising 1,120% to $35.5 million and 62% of Q2 revenue ($3.1 million) coming from commercial customers.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
