CrowdStrike (CRWD) is up 9% to start the week after delivering strong first-quarter earnings on the top and bottom lines. The stock is now up 154% in the past year and 51% through 2024 thus far. The cybersecurity company reported a 33% growth in revenue to $921 million, easily surpassing the forecast it set [...]
Shares of PayPal (PYPL) have risen roughly 7% in the past week, 5.5% of which came yesterday in the stock’s best performance since the very start of the year. There are a few things moving PYPL higher: 1) a bullish outlook by the company’s CEO and 2) investor excitement about new products being rolled [...]
The first half of 2024 has been rough for Lululemon Athletica (LULU), as the stock has fallen 40% in the past 6 months or so. However, the company delivered first-quarter earnings results that helped buoy the stock a bit - it regained 12% in the past week and is up 9% so far in [...]
Shares of Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) are up slightly in Wednesday morning trading as Elon Musk spoke to Tesla about relying on the company’s chips for its electric vehicles. Musk plans on ordering between $3 billion to $4 billion worth of chips throughout this year for Tesla, which will make up nearly two-thirds of the [...]
Hertz Global Holdings Inc. (HTZ) fell more than 7% yesterday after announcing that two key executives - who spent as little as 6 months with the company - were resigning. This follows the resignation of its CEO just a few months back after the car rental company struggled to gain footing in its new [...]
Online pet product retailer Chewy Inc. (CHWY) skyrocketed 30% last week after reporting an impressive first-quarter performance on both the top and bottom lines. The company’s sales were up 3% to $2.88 billion, driven in part by growth in auto-ship orders of 6%. Meanwhile, improvements in net sales per active customer of 10% suggest [...]
Gap Inc. (GPS) delivered an impressive Q1 performance, beating the analyst consensus on both the top and bottom lines. The stock has climbed 26% so far in Friday’s trading session in response. Sales grew 3% to $3.4 billion in the first quarter, driven in part by stronger sales in the Old Navy brand. Analysts [...]
Salesforce.com (CRM) is at risk of taking on its biggest single-day loss since August of 2008 today. The company’s Q1 earnings sent shares down more than 20% Thursday morning as the software industry continues to get battered and bruised. Fiscal first-quarter revenue came in at $9.13 billion, which was slightly below the FactSet consensus [...]
Late yesterday afternoon American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL) updated its profit outlook for the current quarter, sending shares plummeting. The stock is down 19% in the past week now, and it may be time to sell if you’re holding AAL. The real concern here is that this is supposed to be the airliner’s best [...]
Hess Corporation (HES), one of the world’s leading energy companies, could be merging with Chevron for $53 billion if all goes well in the shareholder meeting. It would represent one of the largest oil mergers in history. The stock is down more than 6% in the past month as the company’s internal turmoil has [...]
