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In this article MCD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A McDonald’s restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, on Oct. 23, 2024. Mario Tama | Getty Images McDonald’s is set to report its fourth-quarter earnings before the bell on Monday. Here is what Wall Street analysts surveyed by LSEG are expecting the company to report: Earnings per

In this article AFRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Affirm shares jumped more than 15% in extended trading on Thursday after the provider of buy now, pay later loans reported better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results. Here’s how the company did, compared to analysts’ consensus estimates from LSEG: Earnings per share: 23 cents vs. an expected loss

In this article PINS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Pinterest shares surged 19.1% after the company beat Wall Street’s fourth-quarter sales estimates and showed robust user growth from a year ago. The image-sharing company reported revenues of $1.15 billion, ahead of a $1.14 billion estimate from analysts

In this article AMZN GOOGL MSFT META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A picture shows logos of the Big Tech companies named GAFAM, for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, on June 2, 2023. Sebastien Bozon | AFP | Getty Images Megacap technology companies funneled billions of dollars into artificial intelligence last year to

In this article ELF EL ULTA COTY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Estee Lauder counter is seen on the floor of a department store in Brooklyn on Feb. 5, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Several beauty stocks posted major losses this week, as companies such as E.l.f. Beauty

In this article AFRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and chief executive officer of financial technology company Affirm, arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Affirm shares jumped 22% on Friday after

Amazon shares fell roughly 4% on Thursday evening despite the e-commerce and cloud giant reporting a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter after the closing bell. The market participants during extended trading took issue with a first-quarter 2025 forecast that missed estimates and a larger-than-expected capital expenditure plan. However, we don’t see either item as thesis-changing. Revenue increased

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is slated to report fourth-quarter earnings Thursday after the market close. Here’s what analysts are expecting: Earnings: $1.49 per

In this article FISV Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Fiserv CEO Frank J. Bisignano at the New York Stock Exchange on June 7, 2023. Source: NYSE Shares of Fiserv jumped more than 7% on Wednesday to a record after the payments company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and issued guidance that also topped estimates. The

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google I/O. At the developer conference, everything revolved around the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). Christoph Dernbach | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Alphabet shares dropped more than 8% on Wednesday after the search giant fell short of Wall

Shares of Alphabet were under pressure in after-hours trading Tuesday, following the tech giant’s quarterly revenue miss and much higher-than-expected 2025 capital expenditure guidance. Revenue for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 climbed 12% year over year to $96.47 billion, short of the $96.56 billion consensus estimate compiled by LSEG. Adjusted earnings-per-share jumped 31% year over

In this article SPOT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Spotify’s Co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek attends a live recording panel at Acquired, a technology podcast, at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, U.S., Sept. 10, 2024. Laure Andrillon | Reuters Spotify shares climbed 10% on Tuesday after the music streaming company recorded its

In this article PLTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., during a Bloomberg Technology television interview during the FoundryCon event in Palo Alto, California, US, on Thursday, March 7, 2024.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir shares surged more than 10% in extended

Hiroki Takeuchi, co-founder and CEO of GoCardless. Zed Jameson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Financial technology unicorn GoCardless more than halved losses in 2024 and said it’s aiming to reach full-year profitability by 2026. The London-based startup, which helps businesses collect recurring payments such as subscriptions, reported a net loss of £35.1 million ($43.8 million)

In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Customers shop at a Samsung mobile store inside a shopping mall in New Delhi. Reuters | Anindito Mukherjee Samsung Electronics on Friday reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue and operating profit, though its operating profit sharply dropped from last quarter. Here are Samsung’s fourth-quarter results compared with LSEG

An office building designed by Frank O. Gehry at the Novartis AG headquarters campus in Basel, Switzerland. Bloomberg | Getty Images Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Friday reported better-than-expected sales in the fourth quarter, but falling short of its own guidance over the full-year stretch. Fourth-quarter net sales rose 16% on a constant currency basis

A “mild recession” is on the cards, according to Commerzbank CEO Manfred Knof. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Commerzbank on Friday unexpectedly released quarterly results, touting “record” annual profit and announcing a new share buyback scheme. The bank said it achieved a 20% increase in net profit to 2.68 billion euros ($2.78

Dado Ruvic | Reuters Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella commented on its “real innovations.” OpenAI’s Sam Altman described it as “clearly a great model.” Apple CEO Tim Cook said “innovation that drives efficiency is a good thing.” And Palantir’s Alex Karp said it shows the importance of “an all-country effort.” The tech CEOs were all talking