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.
Manufacturing services provider Proto Labs (NYSE:PRLB) reported Q4 CY2024 results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, but sales fell by 2.6% year on year to $121.8 million. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $124 million was less impressive, coming in 1.1% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.38 per share was 18.8% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
U.S. President Donald Trump's ability to swiftly impose, and then delay, tariffs on top trading partners has left world markets swinging one way and then another. Last weekend, for example, he announced sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, and then on Monday he announced one-month delays for Canada and Mexico.
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L'Oreal has taken stakes in clinics in China and North America in order to observe and understand the medical aesthetics market, L'Oreal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus said in an earnings call on Friday. The company had announced in August the acquisition of a 10% stake in Swiss skin care firm Galderma. Hieronimus added that L'Oreal would be entering the nutricosmetics market with a new product and said more would be coming.
Bumble has been treading water for the past six months, recording a small return of 1.7% while holding steady at $8.20. The stock also fell short of the S&P 500’s 16.8% gain during that period.
Zuora trades at $10 per share and has stayed right on track with the overall market, gaining 19.5% over the last six months. At the same time, the S&P 500 has returned 16.9%.