Pixelbizz/iStock Editorial via Getty Images ASML ( ASML ) approved a final dividend payment of $3.17 per ordinary share during its Annual General Meeting in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Combined with the two interim dividends paid through the 2025 financial year and the interim dividend paid in February 2026, each for $1.88 per ordinary share, the total dividend paid per ordinary share in 2025 co...
Pixelbizz/iStock Editorial via Getty Images ASML ( ASML ) approved a final dividend payment of $3.17 per ordinary share during its Annual General Meeting in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Combined with the two interim dividends paid through the 2025 financial year and the interim dividend paid in February 2026, each for $1.88 per ordinary share, the total dividend paid per ordinary share in 2025 comes to $8.81. During the meeting, voters also authorized t he Board of Management to repurchase up to 10% of ASML's issued share capital during the period stretching from April 22, 2026, to Oct. 22, 2027. In addition, PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V. was approved as the external auditor for the 2027 financial statements and to carry out the assurance of ASML's sustainability statements for the reporting year 2027. Terri Kelly and An Steegen were reappointed as members of the Supervisory Board, and Benjamin Loh was added to the board. Meanwhile, Roger Dassen and Frédéric Schneider-Maunoury were reappointed to the Board of Management, and Marco Pieters was added to the board. More on ASML Holding ASML: Why I'm Not Buying Here ASML: The Most Important Company In AI ASML: Critical EUV Bottleneck Holding Back The AI Boom Top global stories this week: ASML, Tesco, Taiwan Semiconductor among notable names Corporate America’s big job cuts in 2026 - What do we know so far?
Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF, where 17,500,000 units were destroyed, or a 2.0% decrease week over week. And on a percentage change
Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF, where 17,500,000 units were destroyed, or a 2.0% decrease week over week. And on a percentage change
What does it mean to monetize your offspring? To turn their childhood into content? In Like, Follow, Subscribe Fortesa Latifi explores what drives parents to become family influencers.
What does it mean to monetize your offspring? To turn their childhood into content? In Like, Follow, Subscribe Fortesa Latifi explores what drives parents to become family influencers.
Retirement advice usually comes with a calculator and a warning. Elon Musk brought neither. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is floating a future where the entire idea of grinding toward a nest egg might not even apply by the time...
Retirement advice usually comes with a calculator and a warning. Elon Musk brought neither. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is floating a future where the entire idea of grinding toward a nest egg might not even apply by the time...
Small group reportedly accessed Mythos via third-party vendor environment as demand grows among companies and government agencies for early testing access.
Small group reportedly accessed Mythos via third-party vendor environment as demand grows among companies and government agencies for early testing access.
A New Iran (Military?) Base Case By Michael Every of Rabobank Our central assumption for the Iran war had been that by end the third week of April at latest, the Iranian regime faction willing to make a deal in line with Trump’s tweets would have asserted itself over those who won’t, Hormuz would slowly reopen, and energy markets gradually normalise. As neither the Iranian nor US negotiating teams...
A New Iran (Military?) Base Case By Michael Every of Rabobank Our central assumption for the Iran war had been that by end the third week of April at latest, the Iranian regime faction willing to make a deal in line with Trump’s tweets would have asserted itself over those who won’t, Hormuz would slowly reopen, and energy markets gradually normalise. As neither the Iranian nor US negotiating teams traveled to Pakistan for the second round of peace talks yesterday, that cannot happen. Our new geopolitical base case is of an extended closure of Hormuz (in the range of 2-4 weeks). However, the likelihood of escalation to achieve that de-escalation is very high, which risks more energy supply damage. Trump just unilaterally and indefinitely extended the ceasefire, “based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured,” which the Iranians didn’t request, but Pakistan did. In the Middle East, making a threat and not following through smacks of weakness, and will be noted (again) by Tehran’s hardliners. He added US attacks would be held off “until such time as their leadership and representatives can come up with a unified proposal.” That’s as a Saudi tweet claimed Ghalibaf and Pezeskhian, willing to negotiate with Trump, have been arrested by the IRGC. If true, that points to a unified Iranian position of defiance. That would then require a US response - either an attack or a 1956 Suez Crisis retreat . Of course, Iran may be incapable of a unified answer until its factions turn on each other (which is likely part of the US strategy) - that would also suggest the need for a US attack, to ‘shake the box’. Or this ceasefire extension can be a US deception as its forces continue to fly or sail into the region. Meanwhile, the US economic blockade of Iran and the de facto Iranian blockade of Hormuz remain in place: critical energy and goods are not going to flow for longer, with exponentially rising economic damage. Indeed, the US says it will ramp up Operation ...
The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEMKT: SCHD) is back in a big way in 2026. Over the past few years, the artificial intelligence (AI) driven rally in tech and growth stocks rendered its conservative dividend strategy moot. Now that we've seen a big rotation away from the mega-cap tech leaders, the fund's quality-focused dividend stock selection strategy has made it the best-performing U.S. d...
The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEMKT: SCHD) is back in a big way in 2026. Over the past few years, the artificial intelligence (AI) driven rally in tech and growth stocks rendered its conservative dividend strategy moot. Now that we've seen a big rotation away from the mega-cap tech leaders, the fund's quality-focused dividend stock selection strategy has made it the best-performing U.S. dividend ETF year to date (as of April 16, 2026). One of the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF's key advantages is that it seems to draw in new money regardless of how it's performing. Over the past three years when it was mostly one of the worst-performing dividend ETFs around, the fund had over $25 billion of net inflows. It's up to $86 billion in total assets and it's just starting to regain its momentum. While the fund's methodology -- focusing on dividend growth, balance sheet quality, and high yield -- is perhaps the biggest selling point, some aspects of the current environment also work in its favor. And it's attracting the smart money right now. Continue reading
As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy -- they expect to make money. So let's look at two noteworthy recent insider buys. On Tuesday, Badger Meter's CEO, Kenneth Bockhorst, made a $258,573 purchase of BMI,
As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy -- they expect to make money. So let's look at two noteworthy recent insider buys. On Tuesday, Badger Meter's CEO, Kenneth Bockhorst, made a $258,573 purchase of BMI,
jaanalisette Twilio ( TWLO ) and GitLab ( GTLB ) were in focus on Wednesday as Bank of America changed its ratings on the software companies ahead of their respective earnings. Twilio was upgraded to Buy from Underperform as the investment firm said it does not see a risk of disruption coming from artificial intelligence. “We think Twilio will prove to be one of the key infrastructure players for ...
jaanalisette Twilio ( TWLO ) and GitLab ( GTLB ) were in focus on Wednesday as Bank of America changed its ratings on the software companies ahead of their respective earnings. Twilio was upgraded to Buy from Underperform as the investment firm said it does not see a risk of disruption coming from artificial intelligence. “We think Twilio will prove to be one of the key infrastructure players for AI-driven voice and messaging uses cases, where scale and reliability are critical,” the analysts wrote in a note to clients. “We think its key growth metric, gross profit dollar growth will continue accelerating, as we forecast growth of +10% y/y for FY28E, up from +9% for FY26E. This should also drive strong free cash flow margin expansion, which we expect to reach 21.9% in FY28E, up from 18.6% in FY26E. We believe all of this is not yet fully reflected in the stock.” The firm raised its price target on Twilio to $190 from $110. GitLab was downgraded to Neutral as the firm said the risk-reward is now “balanced” until they see strong proof the company's agentic orchestration software development platform strategy is working. The firm lowered its price target on GitLab to $27 from $58. More on Twilio and GitLab Twilio: A Transition Story Caught Between Growth And Maturity GitLab: Finally Time For A Bullish Stance GitLab: Growth Is Slowing, But Cheap Enough To Keep Buying GitLab pops as it deepens AWS collaboration PayPal gains amid activist investor speculation
Earnings Call Insights: Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. (ORRF) Q1 2026 Management view “Orrstown achieved another successful quarter, delivering strong results across the board. Net income increased to $21.8 million or $1.12 per diluted share. Return on average equity and return on average assets continued to exceed peer multiples. Fee income of $15.6 million contributed 24.1% of the total opera...
Earnings Call Insights: Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. (ORRF) Q1 2026 Management view “Orrstown achieved another successful quarter, delivering strong results across the board. Net income increased to $21.8 million or $1.12 per diluted share. Return on average equity and return on average assets continued to exceed peer multiples. Fee income of $15.6 million contributed 24.1% of the total operating income. Noninterest expense declined, highlighting our continued commitment to creating efficiencies within the company. Our net interest margin remained near the top of all peers.” (President, CEO & Director Thomas Quinn) “Loan growth was steady during the quarter, coming in at 4% on an annualized basis. Loan production was excellent, but overall growth was impacted by unexpected loan prepayments. Growth has occurred across our footprint and our product set, a mix of C&I and CRE. Our pipelines continue to be robust and support our growth targets.” (Senior EVP & COO Adam Metz) “Deposits increased by $98.7 million… This shift from borrowings to deposits reduced our go-forward funding costs, which we expect to become more apparent in the second quarter.” (Senior EVP & COO Metz) “We started 2026 off strong with net income of $21.8 million or $1.12 in earnings per diluted share… the net interest margin was 3.90% in the first quarter, down from 4.00% in the fourth quarter of ’25. This was driven by a combination of the impact of the December Fed rate cut on interest income, reduced purchase accounting accretion and temporarily elevated funding costs.” (Executive VP, CFO & Head of Investor Relations Neelesh Kalani) Outlook “With a full quarter of impact, I expect funding costs will decline further in the second quarter of ’26.” (Executive VP, CFO & Head of Investor Relations Kalani) “The previous guidance for net interest margin in the range of 3.90% to 4.00% for ’26 remains with an expectation of the margin increasing from here.” (Executive VP, CFO & Head of Investor Relati...