U.S. stock-index futures rose on Wednesday, as inventors assessed a raft of earnings reports, while awaiting the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Global Stocks:
Index/commodity | Last | Today's Change, points | Today's Change, % |
Nikkei | 28,523.26 | -110.20 | -0.38% |
Hang Seng | 29,962.47 | +320.19 | +1.08% |
Shanghai | 3,583.09 | +16.71 | +0.47% |
S&P/ASX | 6,770.40 | +27.80 | +0.41% |
FTSE | 6,714.32 | +1.37 | +0.02% |
CAC | 5,618.65 | +20.04 | +0.36% |
DAX | 13,914.27 | +99.21 | +0.72% |
Crude oil | $53.75 | +1.45% | |
Gold | $1,849.80 | +0.52% |
(company / ticker / price / change ($/%) / volume)
3M Co | MMM | 169.88 | 0.76(0.45%) | 3591 |
ALCOA INC. | AA | 23.4 | 0.31(1.34%) | 22160 |
ALTRIA GROUP INC. | MO | 41.38 | 0.15(0.36%) | 23392 |
Amazon.com Inc., NASDAQ | AMZN | 3,160.00 | 39.24(1.26%) | 54873 |
American Express Co | AXP | 127.18 | 0.43(0.34%) | 2752 |
Apple Inc. | AAPL | 128.55 | 0.72(0.56%) | 687255 |
AT&T Inc | T | 29.05 | 0.10(0.35%) | 69065 |
Boeing Co | BA | 212.65 | 1.94(0.92%) | 88139 |
Caterpillar Inc | CAT | 192.55 | -1.51(-0.78%) | 27292 |
Chevron Corp | CVX | 94.85 | 0.34(0.36%) | 16413 |
Cisco Systems Inc | CSCO | 45.28 | 0.09(0.20%) | 32340 |
Citigroup Inc., NYSE | C | 63.92 | 0.23(0.36%) | 38212 |
Deere & Company, NYSE | DE | 295.78 | 0.79(0.27%) | 21264 |
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co | DD | 83.95 | -0.51(-0.60%) | 2365 |
Exxon Mobil Corp | XOM | 49.1 | 0.26(0.53%) | 107589 |
Facebook, Inc. | FB | 266.8 | 5.70(2.18%) | 274880 |
FedEx Corporation, NYSE | FDX | 251.47 | 1.95(0.78%) | 5640 |
Ford Motor Co. | F | 10.18 | 0.16(1.60%) | 538514 |
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., NYSE | FCX | 31.9 | 0.19(0.60%) | 150127 |
General Electric Co | GE | 11.51 | 0.08(0.70%) | 297556 |
General Motors Company, NYSE | GM | 56.2 | 1.36(2.48%) | 1014391 |
Goldman Sachs | GS | 295.54 | 1.34(0.46%) | 24227 |
Google Inc. | GOOG | 1,812.49 | 21.63(1.21%) | 12879 |
Hewlett-Packard Co. | HPQ | 25.16 | 0.02(0.08%) | 372 |
Home Depot Inc | HD | 273.75 | 0.56(0.21%) | 5841 |
Intel Corp | INTC | 58.23 | 0.24(0.41%) | 102979 |
International Business Machines Co... | IBM | 129.7 | 0.68(0.53%) | 18186 |
International Paper Company | IP | 50.45 | 0.07(0.14%) | 320 |
Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 163.36 | 0.58(0.36%) | 11918 |
JPMorgan Chase and Co | JPM | 138.31 | 0.27(0.20%) | 29244 |
McDonald's Corp | MCD | 209.9 | 0.81(0.39%) | 8656 |
Merck & Co Inc | MRK | 83.55 | 0.36(0.43%) | 12120 |
Microsoft Corp | MSFT | 217.8 | 1.36(0.63%) | 145526 |
Nike | NKE | 139.8 | 0.53(0.38%) | 15931 |
Pfizer Inc | PFE | 36.85 | 0.12(0.33%) | 180176 |
Procter & Gamble Co | PG | 133.98 | 0.38(0.28%) | 255814 |
Starbucks Corporation, NASDAQ | SBUX | 102.64 | 0.10(0.10%) | 6888 |
Tesla Motors, Inc., NASDAQ | TSLA | 857.05 | 12.50(1.48%) | 663203 |
The Coca-Cola Co | KO | 48.87 | 0.36(0.74%) | 121790 |
Twitter, Inc., NYSE | TWTR | 46.27 | 0.34(0.74%) | 180099 |
UnitedHealth Group Inc | UNH | 353 | 0.81(0.23%) | 17042 |
Visa | V | 203.01 | 1.35(0.67%) | 22366 |
Wal-Mart Stores Inc | WMT | 143.79 | 0.40(0.28%) | 20548 |
Walt Disney Co | DIS | 176.05 | 3.79(2.20%) | 93387 |
Yandex N.V., NASDAQ | YNDX | 67.98 | -0.10(-0.15%) | 1919 |
Procter & Gamble (PG) reported Q2 FY 2021 earnings of $1.64 per share (versus $1.42 per share in Q2 FY 2020), beating analysts’ consensus estimate of $1.51 per share.
The company’s quarterly revenues amounted to $19.745 bln (+8.3% y/y), beating analysts’ consensus estimate of $19.228 bln.
The company also issued upside guidance for FY2021, projecting EPS of +8-10% y/y to ~ $5.53-5.63 versus analysts’ consensus estimate of $5.59 (up from prior guidance of +5-8%) and revenues of +5-6% y/y to ~$74.50-75.21 bln versus analysts’ consensus estimate of $74.61 bln (up from prior guidance of +3-4%).
PG rose to $136.48 (+2.16%) in pre-market trading.
UnitedHealth (UNH) reported Q4 FY 2020 earnings of $2.52 per share (versus $3.90 per share in Q4 FY 2019), beating analysts’ consensus estimate of $2.39 per share.
The company’s quarterly revenues amounted to $65.467 bln (+7.5% y/y), roughly in line with analysts’ consensus estimate of $64.979 bln.
The company also reaffirmed its guidance for FY21, projecting EPS of $17.75-18.25 versus analysts’ consensus estimate of $18.19.
UNH fell to $352.00 (-0.05%) in pre-market trading.
Netflix (NFLX) reported Q4 FY 2020 earnings of $1.19 per share (versus $1.30 per share in Q4 FY 2019), missing analysts’ consensus estimate of $1.41 per share.
The company’s quarterly revenues amounted to $6.644 bln (+21.5% y/y), roughly in line with analysts’ consensus estimate of $6.624 bln.
Netflix also reported global streaming paid net adds in Q4 FY2020 of +8.51 mln versus its prior guidance of +6.00 mln and versus +2.20 mln in Q3 FY2021.
The company issued upside guidance for Q1 FY2021, projecting EPS of approx. $2.97 versus analysts’ consensus estimate of $2.15 and revenues of approx. $7.129 bln versus analysts’ consensus estimate of $7.03 bln. It also guided Q1 global streaming net adds of +6.00 mln.
NFLX rose to $569.46 (+13.49%) in pre-market trading.