British oil major British Petroleum (BP) is up against a few different challenges right now, ranging from currency fluctuations to a dramatic drop in price for oil and gas. These could take as much as $1.2 billion away from the bottom line in a worst case scenario. However, the company quelled investor fears by [...]
Levi Strauss & Co. (LEVI) is up around 15% on the day so far after delivering a solid quarterly performance coupled with an optimistic outlook for the remainder of the year. The jeans maker saw a jump in sales as it narrowed focus on its direct-to-consumer segment. The company’s fiscal first quarter saw revenue [...]
The return of Bob Iger to the Disney throne was highly anticipated, and for the most part, well-received. DIS is up more than 22% in the past year and recent earnings reports have suggested that Iger is steering the ship in the right direction. The stock is up more than 33% through 2024. However, [...]
Merck (MRK) received US FDA approval on Tuesday after the market’s close for Winrevair to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), causing the stock to climb 4.6% pre-market. The company’s market cap is around $332.7 billion, indicating any notable movement is a result of a significant event, so the approval demonstrates a pretty big win [...]
Krispy Kreme (DNUT) is up more than 30% in Tuesday trading after the Winston-Salem, NC company announced a strategic partnership with worldwide fast-food chain McDonald’s. The rollout will begin in the back half of this year, at which point customers will be able to buy Krispy Kreme doughnuts at select McDonald’s. The partnership will [...]
Last week we saw a bit of a sell-off in the AI and tech industries as a whole, but one stock actually managed to gain about 5% - Dell Technologies Inc. (DELL). This came after the hardware manufacturer got a shout-out from Wall Street darling Nvidia. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a GTC Keynote [...]
FedEx (FDX) is ending the week with a bang. The stock is up more than 8% Friday morning after the company beat the expectations for third-quarter earnings and announced a massive stock buyback program. The company did disappoint in revenue, with a 2% slip year over year to $21.7 billion. However, the bottom line [...]
Shares of Micron Technology (MU) surged more than 15% Thursday after the company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings easily beat the consensus, driven by the AI craze. The company doubled down on these results with an upbeat outlook for the road ahead, too. The memory and storage chip manufacturer grew revenue from just $3.69 billion this [...]
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) climbed 6% higher Wednesday morning after announcing that its board of directors had approved a 50 to 1 stock split. This will make the stock more accessible to employees along with other retail investors, as it currently trades at around $2,973/share. If the company gains shareholder approval for the move [...]
Shares of Oracle Corp. (ORCL) are up more than 11% this Tuesday morning after the company delivered solid Q3 earnings, outpacing analysts on the bottom line despite coming up a bit short on the top line. The company grew revenue 7% to 13.28 billion, but this fell just shy of the $13.3 billion analysts [...]
