Tesla battery supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology, or CATL, beat annual earnings expectations Friday, strengthening its status as the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery maker. The Chinese l...
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United Natural Foods Stock Plunges After Slashing Profit Guidance
United Natural Foods stock plunged more than 23% early Wednesday as the food distributor slashed its profit outlook for 2023 and withdrew long-term financial targets. The company (Ticker: UNFI), which...
Norwegian Cruise Line Misses Earnings Estimates. The Stock Is Falling.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings stock tumbled Tuesday as the company posted a wider-than-expected loss and provided disappointing guidance for 2023. Cruise operator Norwegian (ticker: NCLH) posted an a...
Autodesk stock is biggest loser on S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 as Wall Street focuses on cash flow
Autodesk Inc. shares suffered their worst drop in more than a year after Wall Street focused on how the computer-assisted design software company’s shift in billing customers became a major drag on it...
PepsiCo Beats Earnings Estimates and Hikes Dividend. The Stock Is Rising.
PepsiCo beat earnings and revenue estimates in the fourth quarter, driven by higher prices. It increased its annual dividend, sending the stock higher in premarket trading Thursday. The beverages and ...
Affirm Stock Drops. Company Slashes 19% of Jobs After Earnings Miss.
Affirm Holdings, a buy-now, pay-later fintech, is slashing 19% of its workforce after missing expectations for both its second fiscal quarter and its immediate outlook. Founder and CEO Max Levchin sai...
‘Patience will be rewarded.’ Here’s why Wall Street is not panicked over Amazon’s earnings slump.
Amazon.com Inc.’s worst annual loss ever was triggering a gentle gallop toward the exits among investors on Friday, but Wall Street analysts were stoic, urging patience on the long-term value offered ...
Exxon Earnings Are Coming Tuesday. Why a Record Year May Not Be Enough.
Exxon Mobil is on track to close out its most profitable year ever, with analysts projecting that the company earned $58 billion in 2022. But when the oil giant reports fourth quarter earnings on Tues...
Intel’s Data Warning Hits AMD and Nvidia Stock. A Chip Sector Upheaval Is Near.
Intel ‘s disappointing results and warning of a contracting data-center market knocked the stock in some of its key rivals on Friday. Intel (ticker: INTC) shares were down 10% in premarket trading af...
What will the Fed and Jerome Powell do next week?
Jittery U.S. investors are still in “bad news is good news” mode because they want to see interest rates decline. And they expect to get what they want, as shown by the inverse yield curve. Two-year U...
IBM’s layoffs aren’t helping the stock, as analysts still fret about cash flow
International Business Machines Corp. shares slumped Thursday after analysts picked apart Big Blue’s free cash flow results and outlook amid layoffs, and found a “mixed blessing” in the company’s driv...
Opinion: Intel just had its worst year since the dot-com bust, and it won’t get better anytime soon
Intel Corp. ended 2022 with its worst financial results since the dot-com bust more than 20 years ago, thanks to a double whammy of a downturn in both PCs and data centers that isn’t going to turn aro...
Nokia Earnings Top Expectations. India is Powering Its 5G Growth.
Nokia stock climbed on Thursday after the Finnish telecommunications company beat analysts’ expectations for its fourth-quarter earnings and sales, as 5G installation in countries such as India underp...
IBM posts biggest annual sales increase in more than a decade, announces layoffs
International Business Machines Corp. increased revenue more than 6% in 2022, the biggest sales increase for Big Blue in more than a decade, but its stock fell in extended trading Wednesday. Chief Exe...
AT&T Throws Off Cash as Earnings Top Expectations
AT&T ‘s fourth-quarter earnings beat Wall Street’s estimates. A key metric for the wireless company also came in higher than expected. For AT&T (ticker: T), the driver this earnings season is...
ASML Profit Tops Expectations. It Sees a Chip Market Rebound.
ASML Holding, a critical supplier to the global chip-making industry, said Wednesday that it expects to report more than 25% sales growth this year despite uncertainty in the semiconductor industry, a...
Bank of America’s Subramanian says S&P 500 earnings risk a 10% drop in 2023
“ ‘We are likely to see some downward revisions [to earnings] and our forecast for profits growth for 2023 is $200 for the S&P 500. That would mean about a 10% decline in earnings peak to trough.’...
Taiwan Semiconductor Braces for Downturn Despite Record Profit
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has reported a record net profit and beat analysts’ expectations for its fourth quarter but warned of waning demand in 2023. Taiwan Semiconductor (ticker: TSM), the...
BlackBerry’s third quarter tops Wall Street’s earnings expectations
Cybersecurity and Internet-of-Things company BlackBerry Ltd. late Tuesday reported quarterly results that topped Wall Street expectations, although shares did little in after-hours trading. BlackBerry...
Adobe Stock Rallies as Profits Top Expectations
Adobe shares gained ground after the provider of content development and marketing software tools posted better-than-expected quarterly profits. While the numbers for Adobe’s fiscal fourth quarter, en...
Oracle Stock Rises on Strong Earnings
Oracle shares were moving higher late Monday after the company posted better-than-expected financial results for its latest quarter. The enterprise software giant continued to see success in shifting ...
DocuSign stock shoots higher after big earnings beat
Shares of DocuSign were flying higher in aftermarket action Thursday after the e-signature company topped expectations with its latest financial results. The company posted a fiscal third-quarter net ...
CrowdStrike Earnings Show It’s a Top Cybersecurity Stock, Analyst Says
CrowdStrike’s strong fourth quarter earnings and upbeat guidance underlines its status as one of the top performing software security names, according to one analyst. D.A. Davidson analyst Rudy Kess...