Dot-com bubble The largest sectors and companies of the S&P 500 by market capitalization have changed over time. Prior to the dot-com bubble bursting in March 2000 the technology sector made up a third of the S&P 500 thanks to companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Lucent Technologies, IBM, America Online and Oracle. 2007-2008 financial …
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Mylan/Viatris and Teva at the 38th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Mylan presented on Viatris at the 38th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Below are selected slides from the presentations of Mylan and Teva at the conference and figures comparing the existing business entities prior to the merger with Upjohn. Teva has closed many manufacturing sites, but still have more than Viatris; ~60 and ~50 respectively. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 $1.38 and increased 21% The figures below …
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P&G raises 2020 guidance amidst shining beauty and trimmed grooming
Procter & Gamble [$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 …
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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$1.0 billion. Paid net adds totaled 6.8m compared to our 7.0m forecast and prior year Q3 of 6.1m. As we’ve improved the variety, …
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J&J tops estimates
Johnson & Johnson [$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 $2.12 increased 3.4%* Company increasing Full Year Sales …
UnitedHealth beats estimates and raises outlook
United Healthcare [$UNH] issued a press release on its quarterly results before the market opened with the following headlines: Total Revenues of $60.4 Billion Grew by 7% or $3.8 Billion Year-over-Year Operating Earnings Grew 9% to $5.0 Billion, Including Double-Digit Growth Rates in Each Optum Business Net Earnings Per Share were $3.67, Adjusted Net Earnings …
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