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U.S. stocks ended the day little changed after swinging between gains and losses as Tesla soared and investors braced for Meta (META) 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:earnings after the bell.
The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nasdaq Composite inched up 0.1% Wednesday, while the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:S&P 500 finished flat and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%.
Tesla (TSLA) shares surged after CEO Elon Musk committed the company to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:releasing new models, including a lower-cost model, by early next year. That came after the company reported 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:revenue fell 9% in the 🅘first quarter while profit was nearly halved from the year before.
Treasury yields rose on Wedne꧂sday, as did the dollar. Oil and gold futu🃏res dipped slightly.
Stocks rallied for a second consecutive day yesterday, with tech leading the way as investors bought the dip ahead of earnings from giants like Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL) later this week.
St🌠ock Indexes Wrap: Tesla, Analog Semiconductors Soar as Nvidia, Airlines Slump
The Dow
Coca-Cola (KO) and Walmart (WMT) led the index𒆙, rising 1.5% and 1.3%, respectively.
International Business Machines (IBM) t🍎icked up 1% ahead of its earnings report after the bell.&nbsꦐp;
Boeing (BA) shed 2.9% despite reporting a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:smaller-than-expected loss in the first quarter as it dealt with the fallout of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:January’s door plug blowout.
The S&P 500
Tesla (TSLA) soared 12.1% after Elon Musk said the electric vehicle maker would 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:accelerate its timeline to develop🦹 new models, including ꦿa long-promised low-cost option.
Hasbro (HAS) jumped 11.9% aft🦩er beating first-quarter earnings estimates.
Boston Scientific (BSX) beat forecasts with its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:first-quarter earnings, sending its shares 5.6% higher.
AT&T (T) advanced 1.9% after reporting slightly better-than-expected first-quarter earnings despite 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:missing revenue estimates.
Enphase Energy (ENPH) slid 5.6% after its earnings and current-quarter guidance 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:fell short of Wall Street’s expectat⛎ions amid cꩲontinued softness in U.S. solar demand.
Nvidia (NVDA) slid 3.3% after announcing it would 澳洲幸运5𒁏开奖号码历史查询:acquire Israeli AI software start-up Run:ai for an undisclosed sum.
Delta Air Lines (DAL) fell 2.6% after the Biden administration proposed new rules that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:target “junk fees” and would require airlines to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:automatically reimburse passengers for certain flight delays. United Airlines (UAL) and American Airlines (AAL) shed 2.5% and 2.2%, respectively.
The Nasdaq 100
CoStar Group (CSGP) gained 8.9% after reporting better-than-expected earnings thanks to the growth of its resiꦺdential property listing servic⛎e.
Texas Instruments (TXN) advanced 5.6% after its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:current-quarter sales forecast exceeded analysts’ expectations, raising hopes of a rebound in the analog chip market. Peers Onsemi (ON) and Microchip Technology (MCHP) rose 6.2% and 5.2%, respectively.
Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) fell 11.1% after its quarterly earnings raised concerns about a prolonged slump in the trucking industry. Fellow shipping company J.B. Hunt (JBHT) slid 1.7%.
Humana (HUM) lost 3.6% after withdrawing its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:2025 earnings guidance, citing the uncertain outlook for its Medica🃏re Advantage business.
Airline Stocks Slip as Biden Administration Takes Aim at Junk Fees,♑𝓀 Delays
Airline st⭕ocks fell Wednesday after the Biden administration finalized two new rules aimed at eliminating so-called junk fees and penalizing airlines for delays within their control.
The Department of Transportation 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:released a new rule on Wednesday that requires airlines and travel agencies to disclose upfront any fees for extra services critical to travel such as a first or second checked bag, canceling a flight, or changing a reservation.
Through this rule, customers will🤪 save more than $500 million per year by avoiding surprise fees on tickets that initially look cheaper than ꦿothers, the agency said. It will also curtail what the department said is a growing source of revenue for airlines, increasing 30% between 2018 and 2022.
The department also released a rule 澳洲幸运5💞开奖号码历史查询:requiring airlines to give cash refunds to customers whose flights were delayed or canceled, or who didn’t receive services they paid for. While many airlines already had policies offering refunds under those circumstances, the new federal rule sets a standard that 🎶all airlines must follow.
Delta Air Lines (DAL) and United Airlines (UAL) were both down more than 2.5% late in the session on Wednesday, while American Airlines (AAL) was about 2% lower.
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Boeiꦍng Slips as Revenu🌼e Misses Estimates Amid Safety Investigations
The Boeing Company's (BA) stock fell onꦰ Wednesday after the aircraft manufacturer reported first-quarter results that fell short of revenue estimates, but also included a smaller loss than analysts expected.
Boeing posted $16.57 billion in revenue for the quarter, below the $16.79 billion analysts expected, per estimates compiled by Visible Alpha. However, the company also reported an adjusted net loss of $1.13 per share that was much smaller than the anticipated $1.70-per-share loss.
The airplane maker had a rough first quarter, kicked off by a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:January incident in which a door plug detached from a Boeing plane being flown by Alaska Airlines, leading to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:grounding of the 737 Max fleet and a significant slowdown in Boeing's production so far this year. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Earlier this month, the company reported its lowest n♎umber ಌof deliveries since 2021.
Following the January incident, the company 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:suspended its 2024 guidance as it became the subject of a number of investigations from regulators and law enforcement 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:amid a number of other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:incidents involving Boeing planes.
Boeing shares were down 3.4% with about an hour left in the session on Wednesday. They have lost about 37% of tওheir val🌱ue this year amid the safety issues and investigations.
O♏ld Dominion Freight Sinks as Lower Volumes🌌 Weigh on Growth
Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) was the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 Wednesday after the trucking company reported lower-than-expected revenue for the first quarter as e𒅌conomic weakness crimped growth.
Old Dominion reported diluted earnings per share of $1.34, in line with analysts’ expectations and a 4% increase from the prior year. Less-than-truckload (LTL) revenue, the bulk of Old Dominion’s business, increased 1.6% to $1.45 billion, slightly less than the $1.46 billion analysts surveyed by Visible Alpha were expecting.
Volume, however,⛎ declined from the prior year as softness in the economy continued to weigh on shipping. LTL tons per day decreased 3.2%, the result of a ꦇ2.7% decrease in LTL weight per shipment and a 0.5% decrease in shipments per day.
Slowing economic activity in the face of high interest ra🍸tes has weighed on Old Dominion’s ship🀅ping business. However, management was cautiously optimistic about a turnaround.
“While challenges from the domestic economy have persisted for longer than we originally expected, there have been some recent developments to suggest th🧸at overall demand for our service may be improving,” said CEO Marty Freeman in the company’s earnings release.
Shar🌳es of Old Dominion were down 9.8% Wednesday afternoon, plunging them into negative territory for the year.
Humana Tumbles After Pulling 2025 Guidance
Humana (HUM) shares fell more than 4% in intraday trading Wednesday after it pulled its 2025 adjusted earnings guidance due to slower government healthcare spending.
The cancelled profit guidance offset better-than-expected results for the first quarter and a bullish outlook on costs and membership.
Humana shares are down by about a third this year, as healthcare insurers grapple with rising costs and payments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicai🐟d Services (CMS) for Medicare Advantage plans that are 澳洲幸运5开奖号🤡码历史查询:b🔥elow what the industry had hoped for.
Humana said Wednesday that looking to 2025, it expects benefit levels, plan stability and choice f📖or seniors to be negatively impacted as a result of the final Medicare Advantage rate notice from Washington, which it said “is not sufficient to address the current medical cost trend environment.”
Because of that, the company explained that it no longer believes that “$6 to $10 of Adjusted EPS growth is the appropriate target range for 2025,” and is 🌊“evaluating plan level pricing decisions.”
Enphase Stock Slumps After Q1 Earnings Disappoint Amid Soft US Solar De💮mand
Enphase Energy (ENPH) released quarterly earnings and sales that missed analysts’ forecasts and issued a downbeat current-quarter sales outlook amid ongoing softness in the U.S. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:solar energy mar🌳ket, sending its shares tumbling more t𓄧han 5% Wednesday.
For the three-month period ending March 31, the maker of microinverter-based solar energy solutions reported 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:adjusted earnings of 35 cents per share on revenue of $263 million, missing estimates of 41 cents a share in earnings on sales of $276 million.
The Fremont, California-based company said softening demand in the U.S. solar market, along with seasonality factors and a reduction in shipping, pressured the top line during the quarter. Geographically, the company’s U.S. revenue fell 34% in the period on a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:sequential basis, while sales in its European business grew 70%.
Turning attention to the current quarter, Enphase guided sales of between $290 million and $330 million, with the upper end of that forecast falling well short of $347 million Street view.
With Wednesday's decline, Enphase shares have lost more than 50% of their value in the last 12 months.
Boston Scientific Beats Forecasts, Boosts Outlook on Booming Heart 🎀Device Sales
Shares of Boston Scientific (BSX) hit an all-time high Wednesday as the maker of medical equipment reported better-than-anticipated quarterly results and boosted its guidance on demand for its cardiovascular devices, including a newly approved product to treat irregular h๊eartbeats.
The company posted first-quarter adjusted 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:earnings per share (EPS) of $0.56, with revenue up 13.8% year-over-year to $3.86 billion. Both were above estimates.
Boston Scientific’s Cardiovascular unit sales jumped 15.9% to $2.45 billion. The results got a lift from the January 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and the subsequent launch of the Farapulse pulse field ablation system.
The company sees full-year adjusted EPS in a range of $2.29 to $2.34, up from its earlier outlook of $2.23 to $2.27. It lifted revenue growth to 11% to 13%, compared to the previous prediction of a gain of 8.5% to 9.5%.
Boston Scien👍tific shares were up 6.3% to $73.34 at midday Wednesday after earlier hitting an all-time high of $74.39. They are up about 27% th🍌is year.
Texas Instruments Stock Jumpဣs on Strong Q1 Results, Guidance Amid Demand Recovery
Shares in Texas Instruments (TXN) jumped 6% to more than $175 on Wednesday morning after the analog chipmaker surpassed quarterly estimates and issued second-quarter sales guidance that came in ahead of Wall Street expectations amid a rebound in demand.
For the quarter ending March 31, the Dallas-based company posted earnings of $1.20 per share, handily above analysts’ forecast of $1.07 a share. Although revenue in the quarter of $3.66 billion contracted 16% from a year earlier and 10% on a sequential basis, the figure came in ahead of estimates modeled at $3.6 billion.
Looking ahead, the calculator maker projects current-quarter revenue of between $3.65 billion and $3.95 billion, with the $3.8 billion midpoint of that range surpassing the $3.77 billion expected by analysts. Earnings guidance in the period of $1.05 to $1.25 per share sits roughly in line with estimates.
Texas Instruments's share price broke down below the lower trendline of an 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:ascending triangle and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:200-day moving average last week but closed in the green 𝔉in the two sessions leading up to the company’s quarterly financial results.
Following the stock’s earnings pop, investors should monitor if the price can close above the triangle’s top trendline around $176, which would confirm a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:bear trap and potentially act as a catalyst♐ for a move up to a key horizontal tﷺrendline positioned around $185.50.
Tesla Stock Jumps on Accelerated Production Plans Des✅pite Earnings🌸 Miss
Tesla (TSLA) shares surged more than 12% in early trading Wednesday despite 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:an earnings miss as the electric vehicle maker said it would accelerate production of new models, including a lower-cost vehicle.
Tesla said it would "accelerate the launch of new models ahead of our previously communicated start of production in the second half of 2025," including "more affordable models." The new and more affordable models are set to use aspects of Tesla's next-generation platform and will be produced on the same production sites as Tesla's current offerings.
The company's revenue for the first quarter of 2024 was $21.3 billion, below analyst expectations and a 9% drop from the year-ago period. Adjusted net income and adjusted diluted 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:earnings per share (EPS) were also below analysts🔯' estimates and showed 48% and 47% declines, respectivel🥃y, from a year earlier.
Tesla was the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 in the first three months of the year. Even with Wednesday's gains, shares have lost about 34% of their value since year-to-date.
Stocks Making the Biggest Moves Premarket
Gains:
- Tesla (TSLA): Shares of the electric vehicle maker surged more than 11% after Elon Musk said the company had accelerated its timeline to produce new models, including a long-promised low-cost car.
- Texas Instruments (TXN): Shares of the analog chipmaker rose 7% after it 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:topped estimates with its quarterly earnings and forecast a rebound in chip demand in the coming quarters.
- AT&T (T): The telecom’s shares rose more than 4% after it reported slightly better-than-expected first-quarter earnings despite 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:missing on revenue.
Losses:
- Enphase Energy (ENPH): Shares of the solar energy company fell nearly 7% after it 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:missܫed🐈 first-quarter earnings estimates and offered a downbeat sales outlook amid a prolonged slump in U.S. demand for solar solutions.
- Bunge Global (BG): Shares of the agricultural commodities company fell 4% after reporting revenue fell 12% in the first quarter, more than analysts were expecting.
- Global Dynamics (GD): Shares of the defense and aerospace company slipped 1% after its first-quarter earnings 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:fell short of estimates.
Stock Futures Rise as Tech Rally Continues
Futures contracts c🐠onnected to the Dow 🐷Jones Industrial Average were little changed in premarket trading on Wednesday.
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S&P 500 futures were up 0.2%.
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Nasdaq 100 futures traded 0.6% about an hour 🎉before 🍌markets opened.
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