Month: April 2016

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. FOXA is slated to report third-quarter fiscal 2016 results on May 4, after the closing bell. The big question facing investors now is, whether the company will be able to deliver a positive earnings surprise in the to-be-reported quarter after posting in-line earnings in the previous quarter. […]

When analysts can’t stop extolling about the effectiveness of the most common and uncomplicated valuation metric – the price-to-earnings ratio, one could find another metric, the price-to-earnings-growth ratio (PEG), which is more effective in identifying value stocks. PEG, as its definition goes, uses three parameters – Price, Earnings and Earnings Growth Rate – and hence is a bit complicated to calculate. However, difficulty does not always mean you should avoid it […]

We expect The Kraft Heinz Company KHC to beat expectations when it reports first-quarter 2016 results on May 4, after the market closes. Last quarter, the company delivered a positive earnings surprise of 6.90%. Despite lackluster sales figures, the packaged food company delivered positive earnings surprises in three of the past four quarters with an average surprise of 1.08% […]

Kellogg Company K is set to report first-quarter 2016 results on May 5, before the market opens. Last quarter, the company delivered a positive earnings surprise of 5.33%. The cereal and snacks company delivered positive earnings surprises in each of the past four quarters with an average surprise of 3.84%. […]

We expect Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. MLM to beat expectations when it reports first-quarter 2016 results on May 5, before the market opens. Last quarter, the company delivered a negative earnings surprise of 14.18% […]

Fracking sand player and fuel processor Emerge Energy Services LP EMES is expected to release first-quarter 2016 results on May 2. Last quarter, the partnership had delivered a negative earnings surprise of 54.17%. […]

Xylem Inc. XYL is scheduled to report first-quarter 2016 results before the opening bell on May 3, 2016. […]

Church & Dwight Co. Inc. CHD is slated to report first-quarter 2016 results on May 5, before the opening bell […]

Shares of Pinnacle Foods, Inc. PF declined 1.84% on Apr 28 after the company reported dismal first quarter 2016 results. While earnings matched the Zacks Consensus Estimate, revenues missed the same. […]

Genworth Financial, Inc. GNW reported first-quarter 2016 net operating income of 21 cents per share, which handily beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 14 cents per share by 50%. However, earnings declined 32.3% year over year. […]

Shares of Avnet Inc. AVT went down more than 6% on Apr 28, 2016, after the company reported lower-than-expected third-quarter fiscal 2016 revenues. Also, a not-so-encouraging fourth-quarter guidance impacted the share price. […]

Molina Healthcare Inc. MOH reported first-quarter 2016 adjusted net income per share of 51 cents that missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 81 cents by 37.04%. […]

Groupon Inc. GRPN reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter of 2016. The reported loss was lower than expected […]

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. SPR posted first-quarter 2016 adjusted earnings of $1.29per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.06 by 21.7%. Earnings were also higher than the year-ago figure of $1.00 by 29% […]

In the last five trading sessions, the euphoria of Q1 earnings beat was replaced by the continued fundamental weaknesses in banks and a challenging operating scenario. Though majority of the banks were able to beat estimates this earnings season, overall results were not so good. As a challenging backdrop is expected to continue in the next few months, investor sentiments for banking stocks have turned negative again […]

Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. CHT declared mixed financial results in the first quarter of 2016 […]

Seattle Genetics, Inc. SGEN reported a loss of 15 cents per share, wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 11 cents but narrower than the year-ago loss of 17 cents. Revenues came in at $111.2 million, up 35.3% year over year, primarily due to strong sales of Adcetris. […]

Oil and natural gas driller Ensco plc ESV reported diluted first-quarter 2016 earnings (excluding one-time items) of 74 cents a share, which missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 80 cents. The figure, also, decreased from $1.49 a share earned in the year-earlier quarter. Total revenue declined to $814.0 million from $1,163.9 million in the year-ago quarter […]

Fomento Economico Mexicano S.A.B. de C.V. FMX , alias FEMSA’s first-quarter 2016 net majority income came in at 49 cents per ADS (Ps. […]

Pinnacle West Capital Corp . PNW reported adjusted earnings per share of 4 cents in the first quarter of 2016, lagging the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 13 cents by 69.2%. Reported earnings also plunged 71.4% year over year. […]