📺 Warner Bros. Discovery expands. Warner Bros. Discovery $WBD continues to aggressively expand its streaming business, adding 6.4 million subscribers to its core MAX platform in the fourth quarter of 2024. This brings the total number of subscribers to 116.9 million, and the company expects to reach 150 million by the end of 2026.
🚀 Rolls-Royce at an all-time high: Strong results, dividend and record free cash flow! British aerospace and technology giant Rolls-Royce $RR.L has significantly exceeded market expectations for 2024 and reported exceptional profitability growth. The company benefited from strong demand in the aerospace sector, the successful implementation of strategic initiatives and... Read more
🌐Salesforce disappoints, weak earnings and outlook send stock down! Salesforce $CRM is a global leader in cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM ) solutions . Its platform enables companies to effectively manage sales, marketing, customer support and business process automation.
While the company beat earnings estimates in its most recent quarter, it fell short of... Read more
📉 Domino's shares fall after weak Q4 results! 🍕 Shares of Domino's Pizza $DPZ fell more than 6 %as the pizza chain reported worse-than-expected fourth-quarter results. While the company posted year-over-year sales growth of 2,9 % to $1.44billion, but analysts had expected a better performance. Same-store sales growth in the U.S. was only 0,4 % compared to the expected 1,72 %. ... Read more
📉 Hims & Hers shares fall by more than 20%! Shares of Hims & Hers Health $HIMS plummeted by more than 30 %, even though the company reported year-over-year revenue growth of 95 % to $481 million, beating Wall Street' s expectations . Important, however, were weaker gross margins and news that the company will likely discontinue sales of compounded semaglutide (a diabetes drug),... Read more
🧠Microsoft claims: Powerful quantum computers in a few years, not decades! 🚀
Microsoft $MSFT announced a breakthrough in quantum computer development last week that could yield practical applications in years, not decades. The main driver of this revolution is the new Majorana 1 chip , based on topological conductors, a unique material that enables more stable and powerful... Read more
📅 This week's key events: Corporate results, macro data and tech dominance !📊
The new week brings earnings season in full swing, along with important economic indicators. Personally, I'll be focusing on the results Nvidia, Dell, HP a Salesforcewhile macro data like GDP per Q4 and data on PCE inflation will certainly be key to future market direction.
📉 Block disappoints investors: earnings and revenue below estimates, shares fall! Block $SQ, faced a strong market reaction after its Q4 2024 results fell short of analysts' expectations. Revenue, earnings and growth in key segments all fell short of Wall Street forecasts , leading the stock to fall by more than 17 %!
⛏️ Rio Tinto: Profits steady despite iron ore slump, copper and lithium investments up!
Rio Tinto $RIO, one of the biggest mining giants, has kept profits at a similar level to 2023 even as iron ore prices fell by 11 %. This result underlines the diversification of the portfolio as higher profits from copper and aluminium helped offset losses from the core business.
🚗 Mercedes-Benz announces bad results: profit down, lower sales and pressure on electric cars!
Mercedes-Benz $MBG.DE announced results for 2024 that didn't please too much. Profit dropped by 28 % to 10.4 billion euros, mainly due to lower sales in the key markets of Germany and China. The carmaker is now trying to adapt to the new reality and plans to cut costs by 2027 by 10 %,... Read more
Medtronic $MDT, a leading medical technology company, reported mixed Q3 results . Although earnings per share beat expectations, sales fell slightly short, mainly due to weaker demand for surgical devices. Shares fell more than 7% in response!
🔥Rheinmetall on ATH: Europe is considering massive armament! 💣
Shares of Rheinmetall AG $RHM.DE, Germany's leading defense equipment maker, shot up yesterday by more than 13 %, their biggest daily gain in two years. The price hit €968 per share, an all-time high. The rise is part of a wider trend where European arms firms are experiencing a boom in response to geopolitical... Read more
$RHM.DE is overpriced right now, but I see an opportunity with $LMT. The stock has fallen quite a bit lately and the valuation already looks interesting.
🌐 GoDaddy: Better sales weren't enough, shares fall due to lower profits! 💻
GoDaddy $GDDY, a well-known domain and web hosting services provider, posted mixed results for Q4 2024. Although revenue beat expectations, lower-than-expected earnings per share (EPS) caused the stock to fall more than 14% on Friday.
📅 Key events of the week: What to watch out for in the markets? This week will bring key economic data, earnings reports and events that could impact global markets. Here's my round-up of the highlights:
🟥Monday: Presidents Day (Presidents Day) - US stock markets will be closed.
🗣️ Tuesday: Trump & Musk interview on Fox News - possible market reactions to topics related to... Read more
Awesome these posts are advisory, they always get me in the mood for the next week. Otherwise the Trump and Musk thing, well it may be interesting but I'm more interested in Apple and then the $VICI thing plus after the recent $CVS rise I'm also curious about the $MDT and Healthcare sector even if it doesn't have some direct effect on CVS. $OXY and $RIO I'm also holding so I'm curious.
🛠️ Applied Materials surprises on earnings, but stock falls on fears of sales decline in China! 📉
Applied Materials $AMAT, a key player in the semiconductor equipment industry, posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter 2025. Still, the stock fell by more than 8 %. The outlook for the next period was worrisome, especially due to export restrictions to C... Read more
I had the stock in my portfolio for a while, but it seems to me that the business hasn't changed much since then and the stock is stagnant.