Johnson Controls moves closer–maybe–to breaking out of doldrums
Johnson Controls (JCI), a member of my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio, hasn’t done much of anything for a year now. Over the last 12 months the shares are up just 0.66% and in 2017 to date they’re down 0.1%. That performance isn’t surprising. The...
Will PayPal be a FinTech winner?
When eBay (EBAy) and PayPal (PYPL) split up in July 2015 (with eBay shareholders getting one share of eBay and one share of PayPal) I told myself (and readers) that I wanted to keep PayPal in my long term 50 Stocks Portfolio but would one day sell eBay out of that...
Tech giants crush earnings after close today: AMZN, GOOG, MSFT, INTC
Just the bare facts. And on the bare facts of earnings from Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel it’s hard to see the market doing anything but climbing tomorrow. Â Alphabet (GOOG) beats by $1.17 a share on earnings. Revenue climbed 23.7% yer over year to...
Visa beats on earnings and revenue as payment volumes climb by 9.8%
Today October 25 Visa (V) reported September quarter earnings of 90 cents a share, 5 cents a share above Wall Street projections. Revenue climbed 13.9% year over year to $4.86 billion vs. Wall Street projections of $4.63 billion. Â Payments volume, on a constant...
Jubak Picks Danaher reports breakout quarter
On October 16 Jubak Picks Danaher (DHR) reported third quarter earnings of $1.00 a share, five cents a share above Wall Street expectations. Revenue grew by 9.7% year over year to $4.53 billion, above Wall Street projections of $4.47 billion. The company raised its...
Kinder Morgan affirms 2018 dividend hike
Kinder Morgan (KMI) ) reported third quarter earnings today a scant penny a share above Wall Street’s projections at 15 cents a share. Revenue slipped 1.5% year over year to $3.28 billion but still exceeded expectations of $3.21 billion. Most...
The heavy truck market takes a another big step toward recovery–and that’s good for Cummins
North American orders for Class 8 heavy trucks jumped 62% year over year in September and analysts and economists are predicting that a strong U.S. economy will push orders even higher in the fourth quarter. Net orders for heavy trucks, the semis that haul freight on...
Some signs the bottom is in for Incyte
This qualifies as a horrendous six months for any stock: Shares of Incyte (INCY) are down from $152.66 on March 15 to $115.19 at the close today, October 2. The shares have been even lower, which is one thing giving me some hope that the pain is coming to an end. The...
How much risk and reward are there in Schlumberger’s new business model? Does this stock remain a long-term 50 Stocks portfolio pick?
Schlumberger’s (SLB) next quarterly earnings report on October 20 will be a major test of the company’s new business model. I hold the shares in my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio. For me the quarter will provide an early indication of how much volatility...
Chesapeake Energy lowers production forecast
Today, Chesapeake Energy (CHK), the second largest U.S. producer of natural gas, said that it expects to see production in the third quarter of 542,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day versus the previous estimate of 550,000. The company also lowered its forecast for...
Facebook cancels plans for Class C stock; Zuckerberg to sell 35-70 million shares in next 18 months
The good news is that Facebook (FB) has cancelled plans to create a new C class of shares. Let’s be very clear, Class C shares like these that give a seller, such as CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the ability to sell millions of shares while continuing to control voting...
Wall Street starts to pick at the new iPhones–and at Apple shares
Wall Street has started to pick at the details of Apple’s (AAPL) September 12 iPhone event. And it’s not liking all the details on second (or third) look. Apple’s shares finished down 0.86% today, September 14. Apple has closed lower in all three...
Autoliv soars on news that the company might split its auto businesses in two
Shares of Autoliv (ALV) soared today, closing up 12.26% to $127.14, on news that the company’s Board of Directors has authorized management to conduct a strategic review of splitting the current company into two new companies focused on passive auto safety and...
Nothing but good news for markets from European Central Bank today
At today’s meeting the European Central Bank announced that it would leave interest rates at their current low levels and continue to buy debt assets at the current monthly rate. Â In his post-meeting press conference ECB president Mario Draghi noted that...
What? Wait a minute! Not everything is perfect at Alibaba?
I’m on vacation until September 6. I wrote this post on August 24 before I left. On August 17 Alibaba Group Holding (BABA) reported another blowout quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per share climbed 65% and revenue rose 56%. And… on its conference call Alibaba...
Cummins reports solid second quarter and shows progress in moving to electric truck market
I’m on vacation until September 7. I wrote this update on portfolio holding Cummins on August 22. Â On August 1 Cummins (CMI) reported second quarter earnings of $2.53 a share. That was 3 cents a share below Wall Street estimates. Revenue climbed 12% year over...
Tencent crushes revenue growth; margins slip
I’m on vacation until September 7. I wrote this update on portfolio holding Tencent Holdings on August 21. Â On August 16 Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) reported second quarter year over year revenue growth of 59%. That was the highest revenue growth in the last seven...
Pioneer earnings got the whole oil shale worry thing started
Back on August 1 Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) reported second quarter earnings of 21 cents a share, beating the Wall Street consensus by 10 cents a share. Revenue climbed 107% year over year to $1.63 billion, way ahead of the Wall Street consensus at $1.06 billion....
Chesapeake Energy beats and then shares drop–it’s tough being a natural gas stock right now
There’s really nothing wrong with Chesapeake Energy (CHK) that an increase in natural gas prices wouldn’t fix. Yesterday, August 3, Chesapeake reported second quarter earnings of 18 cents a share after subtracting one-time events. In the second quarter of...
Xylem raises guidance for fiscal 2017 after slight earnings beat in second quarter
On August 1 Xylem (XYL) reported second quarter earnings of 59 cents a share (excluding one-time items), beating Wall Street earnings estimates by 2 cents a share. Thanks to recent acquisitions revenue of $1.16 billion climbed 24.9% year over year, slightly missing...
Long-term pick Bunge gets motivated
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” James Boswell quotes Samuel Johnson as saying upon the occasion of the hanging of William Dodd in 1777 for a loan scam. CEOs don’t...
Huge earnings beat can’t save Alphabet from metrics miss
Alphabet (GOOG) dropped 3.1% in after hours trading in spite of reporting earnings of $5.01 a share, well ahead of the $4.49 expected by Wall Street. Revenue of $26.01 billion, up 21% from the second quarter of 2016, also beat the Wall Street consensus of $25.6...
Good news on two fronts from dividend pick Kinder Morgan
Yesterday, July 19, Kinder Morgan (KMI) reported earnings per share of 15 cents, in line with Wall Street expectations. Revenues of $3.37 billion were ahead of the consensus estimate of $3.12 billion and represented year over year growth of 7.1%. Â That was item one...
One less worry hanging over shares of Jubak Pick Cheniere Energy
One worry hanging over shares of Cheniere Energy (LNG), the first company to get an unrestricted license to export liquified natural gas (LNG) to any country in the world, was what would happen if some of the customers that signed a long-term contract to buy LNG from...
HAIN spikes 8.56% on news that an activist investor is pressing the company to sell itself
I’ve been waiting for this for more than a year. And so have a lot of other investors and traders from the market reaction today. Shares of Hain Celestial Group (HAIN) jumped 8.56% today on news that activist investor Engaged Capital had accumulated almost 10%...
Visa: It you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em
Visa (V) is defending its turf in the financial processing market by buying and/or partnering with the new generation of fintech companies. Visa’s latest deal is the purchase of a stake of less than 10% in Finland’s Klarna, The still-private company...
Alibaba blows the top out on growth forecast; raising my target price
Yesterday, June 8, Alibaba (BABA) forecast that revenue would climb by 49% for fiscal 2018. That’s a solid 10 percentage points above the recent projection from Wall Street analysts. The New York traded ADRs climbed almost 10% on the news yesterday....
Deere beats on earnings, raises guidance, soars 7.3% on the day
Before the market open today, Deere (DE) reported fiscal second quarter earning of $2.14 a share. (That excludes the gain from the sale of SiteOne Landscape Supply for $111 million.) Those earnings were 45 cent a share better than the Wall Street consensus of $1.69 a...
Incyte up on positive trial results
Shares of Incyte (INCY) are up 7.1% as of 12:30 p.m. New York time on data released before the June meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology showing that Incyte’s epacadostat, which is an IDO inhibitor, has proved effective when used in combination...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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