August 1, 2024 @ 5:33 pm | Breaking News |
Global sales at McDonald’s (MCD) store locations open at least a year fell 1% in the April-June period, the first decline since the final quarter of 2020, the company reported in announcing second quarter earnings. In the United States, sales fell nearly 1%....
October 23, 2023 @ 5:35 am | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Hope you like earnings news. This week brings a ton of third-quarter earnings reports with news from Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Alphabet quite capable of moving the entire market. We’ll also get more consumer company (Coca-Cola and Kimberly-Clark for...
October 25, 2022 @ 7:46 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO |
This morning before the stock market open Coca-Cola reported earnings of 69 cents a share for the third quarter. That was up from 65 cents a share in the third quarter of 2021 and was above the 64 cents a share expected by Wall Street analysts. Revenue of $11.1...
July 26, 2022 @ 7:27 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, MCD |
With Walmart (WMT) shares down 7.74% as of noon New York time today, July 26, on the company’s warning yesterday about falling revenue, the pool of safe consumer stocks continues to shrink. Which is bad if you owned Walmart or Dollar General (DG), also down...
June 29, 2022 @ 11:43 pm | Breaking News, COST, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, PEP, WMT |
It’s not surprising given the greater than expected decline in U.S. first quarter GDP reported on Wednesday, which followed on the slump in consumer confidence reported Tuesday, that stocks in the consumer staples sector outperformed both consumer discretionary...
May 18, 2022 @ 5:12 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, PEP |
Ok, the bad news on profit margins from Target (TGT) was a big deal. No argument. When you’re operating margin falls to 5.37% when Wall Street was projecting 9.5%, it’s a big deal. And after yesterday’s earnings miss from Walmart (WMT), it’s...
April 26, 2022 @ 10:41 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, PEP |
Neither company crushed Wall Street earnings expectations, but both reported good enough news in a very tough environment. I own PepsiCo in my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio, where it was up 220.4% from my initial December 30, 2008 pick as of the close on April 26. I...
March 18, 2022 @ 7:38 pm | Breaking News, DAL, Jubak Picks Portfolio, KO, MGM |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My one-hundredth-and fourteenth YouTube video “Three great summer trades get tricky” went up today. Special extra video this week! Ahead of tomorrow’s Quick Pick (no,...
October 7, 2021 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My fifty-fifth YouTube video “Trend of the Week: “3 Picks for the Christmas Crunch” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video....
April 9, 2021 @ 7:09 pm | Breaking News |
Earnings reports for the first quarter of 2021 start rolling in on April 14 with JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) both reporting before the stock market open. The big question is how much of the huge year over year earnings growth is already in the price of...
March 24, 2021 @ 7:01 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
At 11:07 a.m. today the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 0.80%. At the close it was down 0.55%. Same picture for the small cap Russell 2000 index. Up 1.65% at 10:54 a.m. New York time. Down 2.26% at the close. What looked like one of the rotation markets...
March 8, 2021 @ 7:44 pm | Breaking News |
Two indexes will tell you what you need to know about today’s stock market action. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, driven by cyclicals, vaccine recovery stocks, and consumer stocks rose to an intraday record high. After a slight retreat at the end of the...
February 24, 2021 @ 7:07 pm | Breaking News, CAT, DIS, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, KO, MGM |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The twelfth YouTube video “5 Picks for the Next Six Months” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
April 30, 2020 @ 5:48 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, KO |
Today’s shocking announcement from Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-A) that it would cut its 10% dividend, to 16 cents a share is a brutal reminder of one of the big challenges facing dividend investors. Royal Dutch shares were down 12.02% as of 3 p.m. Nw York time today,...
April 21, 2020 @ 6:52 pm | Breaking News |
Coca-Cola (KO) beat on earnings and revenue in the first quarter. But, the company said today, April 21, monthly volumes have slumped in April by about 25% globally. The most likely cause of the pattern: Consumers stocked up on Coke products as the coronavirus...
March 1, 2010 @ 3:17 pm | Breaking News, Leading Indicators |
Gee, I really hate this deal. It’s not just that I question the price that Coca-Cola (KO) is paying to acquire the North American operations of its biggest bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE). The $12.7 billion price works out to about the same multiple that PepsiCo...
July 21, 2009 @ 1:47 pm | Breaking News |
Investors didn’t like Coca Cola’s (KO) second quarter earnings reported before the open on July 21. The stock was down around 2% at 1:30 p.m. ET that day. Â I’ve got to wonder what they’re been drinking. If you look beyond the problems created...
July 20, 2009 @ 5:32 pm | Breaking News |
Quite a set of economic indicators in tomorrow’s earnings reports. And all before the stock market rings the opening bell at 9:30 ET too. Caterpillar (CAT), an important indicator of prospects in the construction and industrial sectors, is expected to report earnings...