Amazon wants to spend $104 billion, and the stock gets clipped: What Wall Street is saying
Amazon's light guidance overshadows an otherwise solid quarter.
Amazon's light guidance overshadows an otherwise solid quarter.
Expedia also approved the reinstatement of a quarterly cash dividend after suspending it in the second quarter of 2020 due to the uncertainty amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Excluding items, Seattle-based Expedia posted quarterly earnings per share of $2.39, higher than average analyst estimate of $2.04, as per data compiled by LSEG. "Travel demand remained healthy in Q4 despite price increases... Like last quarter, international demand was stronger than in the US," said Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin on the company's post-earnings conference call.
Civil infrastructure company Construction Partners (NASDAQ:ROAD) reported revenue ahead of Wall Street’s expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales up 41.6% year on year to $561.6 million. The company’s full-year revenue guidance of $2.7 billion at the midpoint came in 5.9% above analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.25 per share was 68.5% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
E.l.f. Beauty shares are sinking in premarket trading, a day after the cosmetics retailer lowered its outlook for its fiscal full year following soft sales in January.
(Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. strategists expect US stock-market outperformance to continue to fade after a relentless run was halted in the early part of 2025.Most Read from BloombergCitadel to Leave Namesake Chicago Tower as Employees RelocateNice Airport, If You Can Get to It: No Subway, No Highway, No BridgeNYC Sees Pedestrian Traffic Increase in Congestion-Pricing ZoneHow London’s Taxi Drivers Navigate the City Without GPSTransportation Memos Favor Places With Higher Birth and Marria
(Bloomberg) -- The US payrolls figures due later on Friday need to be just right — not too hot, and not too cold — for US stocks to keep rising, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Market Intelligence.Most Read from BloombergCitadel to Leave Namesake Chicago Tower as Employees RelocateNice Airport, If You Can Get to It: No Subway, No Highway, No BridgeNYC Sees Pedestrian Traffic Increase in Congestion-Pricing ZoneHow London’s Taxi Drivers Navigate the City Without GPSTransportation Memos Favor Pla
Life sciences company Avantor (NYSE:AVTR) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales falling 2.1% year on year to $1.69 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.27 per share was 4.5% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Pinterest shares are jumping more than 20% in premarket trading Friday, a day after the social media service reported record monthly active users and fourth-quarter revenue that topped estimates.
Defying fears of a pandemic-driven Great Depression and bucking Federal Reserve interest rate hikes as well, the U.S. job market has hit what U.S. central bank officials are characterizing as a moment of stable full employment, with balanced wage and job growth and a low unemployment rate. As the job market signaled growing weakness last year and the unemployment rate rose, "the question was, are we going to settle in at full employment, or crash through" to yet higher joblessness, as has typically been the case when the unemployment rate rises, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said on Thursday.
Yum China’s New York-traded shares jumped by 9.1% on Thursday, after the company reported resilient earnings and an expanded dividend.