Remington's parent company's profit forecast misses, Spectrum Brands stock price falls
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Shares of Spectrum Brands (SPB), the parent company of Remington and George Foreman brands, fell on Friday after lower-than-expected earnings per share and lackluster sales guidance for next year.
Spectrum reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $28.6 million, up from $16.8 million, on revenue of $773.7 million. These exceeded analyst estimates compiled by Visible Alpha for net income of $27.3 million and sales of $750 million.
However, earnings per share (EPS) lagged behind expectations. The company's EPS for the quarter was $1.01, below the consensus estimate of $1.07, and its adjusted EPS was $0.97. This is lower than the expected $1.05.
Spectrum offered a relatively subdued outlook for this year. The company said it expects net sales to grow in the “low single digits” and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) to grow in the “mid to high single digits” in fiscal 2025. Ta. .
Spectrum Brands stock fell more than 6% Friday afternoon, but remained up 10% for the year.
-Nisha Gopalan
Why is Warren Buffett selling so many stocks?
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Warren Buffett is hoarding cash, a regulatory filing revealed Thursday.
His holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A; BRK.B), dumped about 25% of its Apple (AAPL) stock and raised its cash pile to a record $320 billion in the third quarter. was a net seller.
Investors are focused on the potential of Berkshire's money as “dry powder.” One potential reason Buffett is avoiding such situations is that the Oracle of Omaha may not see much room for growth in the market.
The stock market capitalization to GDP ratio, also known as the “Buffett indicator,” is used to determine whether the overall market is undervalued or overvalued. On Monday, the stock market's total value hit an all-time high of $58.13 trillion, “an unprecedented 198.1% of U.S. GDP in the previous quarter.” business insider I wrote this citing data from the Wilshire Index.
This number is a major red flag for Buffett. in famous places luck In a 2001 article, Buffett said, “When that ratio approaches 200%, as it did in 1999 and parts of 2000, you're playing with fire.”
-Andrew Kessel
Vaccine maker stocks plummet after RFK Jr. is named to lead the Department of Health
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Shares of several vaccine makers fell on Friday after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was nominated to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
After his nomination, Kennedy said he looked forward to “working with HHS's more than 80,000 employees to liberate the agency from the shrouding cloud of corporate takeovers.”
The former presidential candidate had a career as an environmental lawyer before joining the “anti-vaccine” movement around 2005, according to reports. of New York Times. Kennedy has promoted the long-debunked theory that vaccines cause autism. times It reported that an organization founded by Kennedy was promoting misleading and disproven theories about the harmful effects of vaccines.
Shares of several drug companies fell on Friday, including Pfizer (PFE), Eli Lilly (LLY), and Novavax (NVAX).
The decline also extended to international companies operating in the US market, including AstraZeneca (AZN), BioNTech (BNTX), and weight loss drug giant Novo Nordisk (NVO).
-Aaron McDade
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Palantir stock soars after listing on Nasdaq
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Shares of Palantir Technologies (PLTR) soared Friday after the analytics software provider announced it would move its listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq.
The company, popular with individual investors, announced that it will move the listing of its Class A common stock to the Nasdaq Global Select Market and begin trading on November 26th. The company's common stock will continue to trade under the symbol “PLTR.” , it was written.
“Following the transfer, Palantir expects to meet the eligibility requirements for the Nasdaq 100 Index,” the company said.
The Nasdaq 100 is a collection of the 100 largest, most actively traded companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, including the three largest companies in the world by market capitalization, Apple (AAPL), and Microsoft. (MSFT), and Nvidia (NVDA). The cornerstone of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
The index is tracked by the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ), one of the largest and most actively traded exchange-traded funds in the United States.
Palantir stock was up 9% Friday morning. They started 2024 at $16.58 each and are currently trading around $64.80 each.
-Nisha Gopalan
Markets are less confident that the Fed will cut rates again in December
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Expectations that the Fed will cut rates again in December have diminished as economic data continues to show strength and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank will move cautiously toward monetary easing. .
According to the CME FedWatch tool, which predicts interest rate movements based on federal funds futures trading data, market participants are currently pricing in a 55% chance that the Fed will cut the benchmark rate at next month's policy meeting. This is down from 72%. That possibility was priced in yesterday, ahead of Chairman Powell's comments.
The Fed cut its influential federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point last week. This follows a half-point rate cut in September, the Fed's first rate cut in four years, as inflation remained close to the central bank's target and the labor market showed signs of weakness.
Disney expands after revenue surge — keep an eye on these levels
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Disney (DIS) stock rose in early trading on Friday, adding to the big gains posted yesterday after the entertainment giant beat Wall Street's quarterly expectations and presented a positive long-term outlook.
About 30 minutes after the opening bell, the stock was up 3.5% to $113.
The stock broke out of a pennant pattern last week and gained momentum this week after the company's better-than-expected quarterly results.
Investors should keep an eye on the key overhead levels near $123, $137, and $153 on Disney's chart, as well as keep an eye on the key support area near $85.
Read the full technical analysis here.
–timothy smith
Major indexes expected to start declining weekly
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The S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones Industrial Average are on record weekly declines, as the post-election rally that pushed major indexes to record highs has lost momentum.
On Monday, the S&P 500 closed above 6,000 and the Dow closed above 44,000 for the first time in history. As the chart below shows, the stock price has fallen since then.
For the Dow and S&P 500, this is the third of the past four weeks that the indexes have lost weekly.
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Major index stock futures suggest opening price at low price
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Futures, which track the Dow Jones Industrial Average, fell 0.4%.
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S&P 500 futures fell 0.5%.
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Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.9%.
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