Kraft Heinz increases prices but experiences negative organic growth of -1.1%

Kraft Heinz issued a press release on its third quarter results before the market opened. Organic growth was -1.6% in the US and -1.1% for the whole business. Revenue and income by geographic and product segment Revenue growth was impacted negatively by negative organic growth, currency headwinds and divestitures. The natural cheese business being sold …

AB InBev increases prices in South Korea and Brazil and sees volume decline

AB InBev issued a press release on their quarterly results before the market opened. The two most important headlines of the quarter were probably the listing of Budweiser APAC on the HKEx and implementation of price increases in South Korea and Brazil that drove volume declines. Whereas revenue and revenue per hectolitre were up, volume …

Amazon operating income drops and AWS margins contract

Amazon issued a press release on their third quarter results after the market closed. Revenue increased by 24% to $70B, but operating income was down and margins for AWS and North America contracted. In terms of cloud Microsoft Azure grew 59% YoY in the previous quarter. Microsoft is definitely catching up, and there might be …

Chr. Hansen and Novozymes both tumble

The two Danish enzyme manufacturers Chr. Hansen and Novozymes both saw their share price tumble following third quarter earnings. Chr. Hansen released earnings on October 10th and Novozymes released earnings on October 23nd. This followed the October 9th profit warning from Novozymes. Chr. Hansen, which traded and continues to trade at higher multiples, fell from …

Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives First Quarter Results

Microsoft issued a press release on its 2020 first quarter results after the markets closed with the following bullet points. Revenue was $33.1 billion and increased 14% Operating income was $12.7 billion and increased 27% Net income was $10.7 billion and increased 21% Diluted earnings per share was $1.38 and increased 21% The figures below …

P&G raises 2020 guidance amidst shining beauty and trimmed grooming

Procter & Gamble [$PG] issued a press release on its first quarter results prior to the market opening. The company raised its full year guidance. The share price jumped by 2.6% from $119.08 to a 52 week high of $122.18. Financials All segments except grooming displayed positive organic sales growth. The main contributors to top …

Bank OZK misses revenue and earnings estimates

Bank OZK [$OZK] issued a press release after the closing bell on its quarterly results accompanied by the following comment from the CEO George Gleason. “We are very pleased to have once again delivered financial metrics among the best in the industry for the quarter just ended.  We continue to maintain our focus on our …

Netflix beats on profit but misses on number of new subscribers

Netflix issued a press release on its quarterly results after the closing bell. In Q3, we grew to $5.2 billion in revenue, up 31% over the prior year, and operating income doubled to$1.0 billion. Paid net adds totaled 6.8m compared to our 7.0m forecast and prior year Q3 of 6.1m. As we’ve improved the variety, …

Roche reports very strong sales growth in the first nine months of 2019 – outlook raised

Roche issued a press release on its nine month sales with the following headlines. Group sales increase 10% at constant exchange rates and 9% in Swiss francs, due to new products Pharmaceuticals Division sales up 12%, driven by high demand for recently launched medicines, mainly Ocrevus, Hemlibra, Tecentriq and Perjeta  Diagnostics Division sales grow 4%, primarily …

J&J tops estimates

Johnson & Johnson [$JNJ] issued a press release before the market opened on its third quarter results with the following headlines: Sales of $20.7 billion reflecting growth of 1.9%, operational growth of 3.2%* and adjusted operational growth of 5.2%* EPS of $1.81 increased 25.7%; adjusted EPS of $2.12 increased 3.4%* Company increasing Full Year Sales …