Month: January 2018

Anthem Inc. ’s ANTM fourth-quarter 2017 adjusted net income per share of $1.29 surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.25 by 3.2%. The bottom line, however declined 27% year over year […]

Value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment. After all, who wouldn’t want to find stocks that are either flying under the radar and are compelling buys, or offer up tantalizing discounts when compared to fair value? One way to find these companies is by looking at several key metrics and financial ratios, many of which are crucial in the value stock selection process. […]

Weyerhaeuser Company WY is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 2, before the market opens. The company delivered better-than-expected results in three of the last four quarters while lagged in one. […]

We expect ExxonMobil Corporation 's XOM fourth-quarter 2017 results to show an improvement in earnings from its upstream operations outside the United States. Over the first nine months of 2017, the largest publicly traded energy firm generated 48% of total profit from its non-U.S. based upstream businesses […]

Cirrus Logic, Inc. CRUS is slated to release third-quarter fiscal 2018 results on Feb 5. The question lingering in investors’ minds is whether this semiconductor company will be able to post a positive earnings surprise in the to-be-reported quarter. […]

Amdocs Limited DOX reported better-than-expected first-quarter fiscal 2018 (ended Dec 31, 2017) earnings. During the conference call, the company announced that it has inked a deal to acquire Vubiquity Inc. against roughly $224 million. […]

Packaging Corporation of America PKG reported fourth-quarter 2017 adjusted earnings of $1.56 per share, up 27% year over year. Earnings per share came in above management’s guidance of $1.50 as well as beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.51. […]

Amgen AMGN announced that it received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency, recommending addition of an updated overall survival (OS) data from a phase III head-to-head study on the label of its multiple myeloma drug, Kyprolis (carfilzomib). The phase III ENDEAVOR study was conducted on 929 patients. […]

Shares of TCF Financial Corporation TCF declined 1.68% in single-day trading following the fourth-quarter 2017 earnings release on Jan 30, before the market opened. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of 33 cents, lagging the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 35 cents. However, the figure compared favorably with the prior-year quarter figure of 27 cents. […]

Apple AAPL is set to report first-quarter fiscal 2018 results on Feb 1. The services segment is expected to be the key catalyst, courtesy of a robust product portfolio that is driving subscriber base expansion. Apple’s Services segment includes revenues from Internet Services, App store, Apple Music, Apple Care, Apple Pay, licensing and other services […]

Automatic Data Processing ADP reported second-quarter fiscal 2018 adjusted earnings of 99 cents per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a dime. The figure increased 13.8% from the year-ago quarter. Moreover, revenues of $3.24 billion beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3.18 billion and improved 8.3% on a year-over-year basis. […]

Facebook ’s FB attempts to protect the community indicate its new mission, which is to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together." Given this, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on the last earnings call, stated that the company was willing to forego profits in order to step up security on its platform. Facebook’s sizable investment to strengthen security on its platform is likely to drive user engagement in the soon-to-be reported quarter. Focus on User Engagement Facebook is striving hard to improve user engagement. […]

Autoliv, Inc. ALV reported adjusted earnings of $2.03 per share in fourth-quarter 2017, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.74. Also, the bottom line came in 18.7% higher than the prior-year quarter figure […]

The fourth-quarter earnings season is in full swing with 133 members of the elite S&P 500 index having already reported financial numbers so far. Per the latest Earnings Preview , performances of these index members indicate that total earnings have increased 12.3% on 8.8% higher revenues. The beat ratio is impressive with 81.2% companies surpassing bottom-line expectations and 78.9%, outperforming on the top-line front […]

Nasdaq, Inc . NDAQ reported fourth-quarter 2017 adjusted earnings per share of $1.05, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.01. […]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO reported better-than-expected performance in fourth-quarter 2017. […]

Textron Inc . TXT reported fourth-quarter 2017 adjusted earnings from continuing operations of 74 cents per share, which missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 77 cents by 4.1%. Adjusted earnings were down 7.5% from 80 cents in the year-ago quarter […]

Eli Lilly and Company LLY reported fourth-quarter 2017 adjusted earnings per share of $1.14, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.08 per share by 5.6%. Earnings rose 20% from the year-ago quarter backed by higher operating profits. Revenues Beat Quarterly revenues of $6.16 billion also beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5.96 billion by 3.4% […]