Good MorningThe earnings-driven rebound continued on Wednesday with all of the major indices moving up more than 0.5%. The Blue Chip Dow Jones Industrial Average led the day on strength in shares of Coca-Cola. The global beverage giant reported better than expected earnings and guided the market higher driving to stock up more than 3% at the high of the day.
Thursday's action may see a continuation of this trend due to reports released after the bell on Wednesday and before the open on Thursday. Among them is consumer products giant Whirlpool who is expected to report robust year-over-year gains and another increase to an already ballooning backlog. The risk for Whirlpool, and the market, is that systemic shortages of raw materials and shipping capacity may cut into the top and bottom-line results.
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Knight-Swift Transportation Is A Buy On Post-Earnings Weakness
Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE: KNX) is one of the nation's largest trucking outfits and one bent on growth. The company has been actively acquiring businesses across the country for the past few years and that can be seen in the r... Read the Full Story |
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Finance | | Long-term care and mortgage Insurer Genworth Financial (NYSE: GNW) stock has been in a sharp downtrend along with the rest of the peers stocks in the mortgage insurance sector. The U.S. mortgage insurance business division named Enact was originally scheduled to IPO in the $22 to $24 price range but... Read the Full Story |
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I wrote about Nucor (NYSE: NUE) prior to its first-quarter earnings report. At that time, I said investors should pay attention to the stock’s floor than its ceiling. NUE stock was already up about 50% for the year. However, in the month prior to its earnings call it wasn’t doing much.... Read the Full Story |
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Retail/Wholesale | | As we begin to head deeper into earnings season, it’s always a good idea to keep an eye out for companies that deliver positive surprises and are executing their business strategy at a high level. That way, you can potentially adjust your investment plans to account for stocks that could becom... Read the Full Story |
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According to Factset, second-quarter earnings growth is expected to be above 60% for S&P 500 companies. If analysts’ prediction holds true to form, it would be the best profit growth since the fourth quarter of 2009.
Mid and small-cap companies are also expected to deliver some stellar ... Read the Full Story |
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Construction | | Homebuilder DR Horton (NYSE: DHI) topped analysts’ views when it reported its third-quarter Thursday, showing that the housing boom is nowhere close to slowing down.
The company cited strong new construction as a revenue driver. Earnings came in at $3.06 per share on revenue of $7.3 billion.... Read the Full Story |
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They say cats have nine lives and the same may be true of AT&T (NYSE:T). On more than one occasion in the last 12 months, investors have put some pep in the step of T stock. But nothing has been enough to prevent the downtrend in the trajectory of the stock.
In fact, over the last five year... Read the Full Story |
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It's A New Era For Harley-Davidson
The last few years have not been easy for Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG). The combined effects of the Trump/Xi trade War end the pandemic took a bite out of Revenue the company is only just now getting back. The key takeaway here is that the company is getting that... Read the Full Story |
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The Coca-Cola Company Gets A Lift From Multiple Tailwinds
In the head-to-head comparison, we prefer Pepsico (NASDAQ: PEP) to The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) but that does not mean The Coca-Cola Company is not a great investment. The two companies are not exactly comparable anymore because they h... Read the Full Story |
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. This segment also offers various technologies, including epitaxy, ion implantation, oxidation/nitridation, rapid thermal processing, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, electrochemical deposition, atomic layer deposition, etching, and selective deposition and removal, as well as metrology and inspection tools. The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices. It operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. The company was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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