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A starter for 10: Why hasn’t social moved forward? benjaminjameskay.blogspot.in
Why hasn’t social moved forward?
As an industry we have ‘talked about’ social for many years. We have seen some great progression, with fantastic case studies along the way. We need to maintain strong …
Could Social Media Change The Way We Communicate At Work? businessinsider.com
This post is sponsored by IBM.
The workplace is rapidly evolving, but many companies struggle to keep up with the times. A large number of businesses are still using processes that don’t make the best use of their employees’ innovation an…
Man At Airport Pissed That Other People Had Same Idea To Go Home For Thanksgiving
5 Stocks to Watch This Week 11-24-14
Monday - Palo Alto Networks
Network security company Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is set to report earnings on Monday after the market closes. Contributing analysts on Estimize are expecting Palo Alto Networks to top the Wall Street EPS consensus by a penny per share on the bottom line and slightly over $4 million (2.4%) in revenue.
Over the past 2 years Palo Alto has consistently reported in-line or a 1 cent above the EPS consensus from the Street. 6 of the previous 8 reports have been 1 cent better, and 2 came in-line.
Coincidentally the 2 periods in which Palo Alto failed to maintain its quarter of quarter sequential earnings growth were both in its 4th fiscal quarter of the year. On Monday the Estimize community expects Palo Alto to shake of its 1 quarter stretch of flat earnings and get back to increasing profits by 1 cent per share.
Tuesday-Hewlett Packard Company
Last quarter HP (PHQ) announced that it will be dividing itself into two separate companies in one of the biggest tech breakups all time. One of the two companies will be dedicated to enterprise technology including servers and data storage equipment, the other will focus on selling printers and personal computers.
The split up is expected to be wrapped up by October of 2015 and the optimistic hope that by narrowing the two sides’ focus they may be able reinvigorate expansion after a long period of stagnation.
In the past couple of years HP has struggled with earnings, only reporting an advancement in the 3 most recent quarters while going up against soft comparable quarters caused by drops in 2013. Again this quarter the Estimize community expects earnings per share that are higher than last year’s results, but lower than the same quarter EPS reported in 2012.
Tuesday - Tiffany and Co.
Jewelry retailer Tiffany’s (TIF) has put up 2 impressive earnings beats in a row now and contributing analysts on Estimize are expecting another 5 cent beat on Tuesday.
Last quarter worldwide net sales were up 7% and same store sales increased by 3% which the company cited as due to strength in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions. Same store sales in the Americas were up 9% last period which helped the company insulate itself from the strong US dollar which hindered profits from international sales at other retailers due to the high cost of repatriating currency.
This quarter the Estimize community is looking for Tiffany’s to report 14% year over year earnings growth and 7% sales growth. This compares to 16% yoy earnings growth last quarter and consistent revenue revenue growth of 7%.
Tuesday - Ctrip.com
Chinese internet company Ctrip.com (CTRP) is set to announce earnings Tuesday. It’s been a huge year for Chinese internet companies including massive IPOs from Alibaba (BABA) and JD.com (JD). Those big names have already made huge returns, but many of the smaller companies are performing even better. It’s been a volatile year for Ctrip, but year to date the stock has climbed 19%.
(Graph from ChartIQ Visual Earnings)
CTrip is a mainland China focused online travel company which serves the world’s most populous nation’s emerging middle class. Over the past 4 quarters the company’s’ revenues have increased between of 35% and 37% each quarter on a year over year basis.
Profits have been up and down as the company has spent aggressively on advertising. Last quarter CTrip set aside $77 million for sales and marketing.
Although costs are higher and earnings have slid in the past 2 quarters, reservation volume was up 64% compared to the same quarter of last year, signaling healthy growth. On Tuesday the Estimize community is looking for continued sales growth of 35% while earnings drop 40% year over year, but still beat the Street’s view by 2 cents per share.
Wednesday - Deere and Co.
The morning before Thanksgiving the John Deere (DE) tractor company will announce its quarterly earnings. So far this quarter, the industrials have been doing great increasing earnings by an average of 12.5%. However, Deere is not expected to follow suit by crushing last year’s numbers.
Deere and Co. has surpassed the Estimize consensus in each of the previous 5 quarters and often by large margins. On Wednesday the Estimize community is setting the bar 9 cents higher than Wall Street is. If recent memory serves as an accurate guide, Deere shouldn’t have a problem beating those estimates.
The Estimize community is forecasting earnings of $1.68 per share which would represent a 20% decline compared to the company’s fourth fiscal quarter of last year. Over the past 2 quarters earnings have decreased 4% and 9% respectively and Estimize contributors expect the rate of decline to accelerate on Wednesday. Shares of Deere are down about 5% on the year.
Deep learning might help you get an ultrasound at Walgreens Derrick Harris, gigaom.com
Jonathan Rothberg, the founder and CEO of a startup called Butterfly Network, isn’t one for taking small chances. He has already founded and sold multiple genomics startups over the past couple decades and, by his own account, helped make possible…
At Melbourne hotel, regular guests can leave their luggage behind
For frequent fliers, it can be a pain to have to constantly be packing up belongings to get ready to spend time in a different city. We’ve already seen Singapore’s Packnadaservice store traveler’s wardrobes ready for delivery to their hotel of choice, and now the Grand Hyatt Melbourne has launched its own Leave it at Hyatt scheme, enabling visitors to safely store their belongings on site, ready for their next stay. READ MORE…
Daring director Angelina Jolie (and brilliant new star, Jack O’Connell) dish on the upcoming war epic, Unbroken.
Photo Credit: Alexei Hay for EW.
To celebrate Triumph Bancorp trading on Nasdaq today check out this fantastic #Infographic! $TBK
In Brazil, soccer pitch floodlights are powered by players’ energy on the field
Community sports facilities are vital to provide a space for communities to come together and keep fit, but they cost money to run and the resources aren’t always there to keep them in good shape. This is especially the case in Brazil, where the country’s disconnected communities where public spaces aren’t lit up at night, rendering them unusable. In Rio de Janeiro, soccer legend Pelé recently helped launch Shell’s Morro da Mineira Project has opened a soccer pitch in the favelas that captures the energy of players and uses it to sustainably power floodlights at nighttime. READ MORE…
I don’t get out of the office often (grown-up life, am I right?) but this morning I had the chance to check out a new personal finance seminar being test-driven by a community college in Brooklyn.
Given my line of work, I have had to sit through more “financial literacy”…
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The Retail Parade Begins Next Week
This week we saw a slew of results from media companies, which kicked off on Wednesday with reports from Time Warner, CBS and News Corp. Both Time Warner and News Corp were able to be both the Wall Street consensus and the higher Estimize consensus on the top and bottom-line, while CBS surpassed the Street’s expectations, but fell short of what we were calling for here at Estimize. Disney was the most anticipated release after yesterday’s closing bell, and results disappointed. While EPS of $0.89 and revenues of $12.39B met the Wall Street estimates, they missed the Estimize consensus by $0.04 on the bottom-line and $59M on the top-line. Stocks fell in after hours trading, and are still down 3% today.
Next week, the retail parade begins, with Fossil reporting Tuesday, Macy’s on Wednesday, and Wal-Mart, Kohl’s and Nordstrom on Thursday. All five of these retailers are anticipated to post year-over-year growth for both profits and sales. Those expected to be the biggest winners on the EPS front are Fossil and Macy’s, estimated to increase 16% and 12% from Q3 2013. On the revenue front, only Nordstrom is expecting double-digit growth of 10% for the third quarter. Of the retail industries within the S&P 500, internet retailers came in the strongest with 25% earnings growth year-over-year; all 5 companies from that industry have reported. The next best estimate comes from the specialty retailers, anticipated to increase 14.8% this quarter off of strength from Best Buy which is expected to show a profit increase of 52% when they report November 20, and from home improvement outfits such as Home Depot and Lowe’s both expecting growth of over 20%. The textiles, apparel & luxury goods industry is looking to grow 10.1%, incredible results from Michael Kors earlier this week helped to boost the industry. The biggest loser this quarter are the multi-line retailers, with low growth of 2.3% due to disappointing results and expectations from the discounters.
How Are We Doing?
Expectations for S&P 500 earnings growth for the third quarter stand at 11.6%. Revenues are anticipated to come in with 4.9% growth. All 10 sectors are anticipated to post positive YoY growth on both the earnings and revenue front.
Leaders
Earnings:
Energy (14.4%). Notable industry: Oil, Gas and Consumable Fuels (14.6%)
Consumer Discretionary (14.3%). Notable industry: Internet Retailers (25.3%)
Health Care (13.9%). Notable industry: Biotechnology (45.1%)
Revenues:
Health Care (12.1%). Notable industry: Biotech (39.0%).
Information Technology (7.1%). Notable industry: Software (15.7%)
Laggards
Earnings:
Utilities (3.0%). Notable industry: Electric Utilities (0.7%).
Telecommunication Services (1.4%): All five companies are within Diversified Telecom Services. Only Verizon posted yoy growth.
Revenues:
Energy (1.2%). Notable industry: Oil, Gas and Consumable Fuels (0.5%).
Materials (2.4%). Notable industry: Paper & Forest Products (-18.3%).
Beat/Miss/Match
Earnings: With over 80% of the S&P 500 reporting thus far, 56% have beaten the Estimize consensus, 34% have missed and 10% have met. This is compared to Wall Street estimates, of which 72% of companies have beat on the bottom-line, 21% have missed and 7% have met.
Revenue: 52% have beaten the Estimize consensus, 48% have missed, and 0% have met. For revenues, 59% of companies have beat the Wall Street estimate, while 41% have missed.
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Happy Halloween from everyone here at Nasdaq! What are you dressing up as? #TrickOrTreat #Halloween
George F. C. Searle in lab, late 1800s. Searle’s contributions include theory in velocity dependence of the electromagnetic mass, a precursor to Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
Results Pour in from XOM, COL, SBUX, GRPN and LNKD
This morning we saw a better-than-expected earnings report from Exxon Mobil, the second largest S&P 500 company by market cap. The oil behemoth reported Q3 EPS of $1.89, $0.04 higher than the Estimize consensus and $0.13 above the Wall Street consensus, growing 6% YoY. Revenues came in equally as strong, reporting an actual of $107.5B vs Estimize expectations for $104.1B and Street expectations of $100.9B, however this is still 4% lower than the year-ago result. Results were good enough to send the stock higher, up 1.5% so far for the day.The positive surprise was able to boost EPS growth for the Energy sector to 13.7%, but revs still remain in the red at -0.4% due to lower year-over-year oil prices.
Rockwell Collins also reported results before the bell, the last Q3 release from the S&P 500 Aerospace & Defense companies. Earnings came in at $1.30 per share, beating the Estimize consensus by $0.03 and the Wall Street consensus by $0.04. Revenues also came in stronger than expected at $1.4B, versus the Estimize and Street expectation of $1.34B. All 11 companies in the industry grew YoY with the exception of L-3 Communications. Overall the industry saw profits grow 10.3% during the quarter, which is not much of a surprise after seeing yesterday’s GDP report. The U.S. economy grew at a 3.5% pace in the third quarter, higher than our expectation of 2.9% growth, due in large part to stronger defense spending by the federal government.
Last night we also got reports from Starbucks, Groupon and LinkedIn. Starbucks was able to beat on the bottom-line, but top-line results fell about $63M below Estimize’s expectations. In addition, EPS guidance for fiscal year 2015 were a little light, and the stock tumbled as a result, still down over 2% today. Groupon was able to put up better results, beating on both the top and bottom-line, with those metrics seeing YoY growth of 27% and 50%, respectively. Even though the company issued forward revenue guidance that was slightly weaker than expectations, investors rewarded the company for great results and the stock is up 20% today. The mixed results for these two consumer discretionary companies also comes on a day when consumer spending for the month of September reports it’s biggest drop in 8 months, yet consumer sentiment improves to a level of 86.9, the highest since July 2007. We’ll get a better read on the health of the consumer as more retailers report results throughout November.
Lastly, results from LinkedIn after yesterday’s closing bell gave us more clues on the U.S. employment situation ahead of next week’s nonfarm payrolls and unemployment report. The company reported Q3 EPS of $0.52, beating the Estimize consensus by $0.02, the Wall Street consensus by $0.05, and even their own guidance by $0.08. Revenues also came in much stronger at $568.3M, beating Estimize, the Street, and guidance. The most promising results came from Talent Solutions products which help recruiters find the right candidates. That segment saw revenues increase by 45% YoY and now makes up 61% of all revenues which certainly bodes well for US jobs.
How Are We Doing?
Expectations for S&P 500 earnings growth for the third quarter stand at 11.7%. Revenues are anticipated to come in with 4.5% growth. All 10 sectors are anticipated to post positive YoY growth on both the earnings and revenue front.
Leaders
Earnings:
Health Care (14.2%). Notable industry: Biotechnology (45.1%)
Materials (14.0%). Notable industry: Metals & Mining (36.5%).
Energy (13.7%). Notable industry: Equipment & Services (13.9%)
Revenues:
Health Care (11.9%). Notable industry: Biotech (38.9%).
Information Technology (7.3%). Notable industry: Software (15.7%)
Laggards
Earnings:
Utilities (4.2%). Notable industry: Electric Utilities (3.1%).
Telecommunication Services (0.9%): All five companies are within Diversified Telecom Services. Only Verizon posted yoy growth.
Revenues:
Energy (-0.4%). Notable industry: Oil, Gas and Consumable Fuels (-1.2%).
Materials (2.6%). Notable industry: Paper & Forest Products (-14.4%).
Beat/Miss/Match
Earnings: 345 companies have reported thus far, 56% have beaten the Estimize consensus, 33% have missed and 11% have met. This is compared to Wall Street estimates, of which 73% of companies have beat on the bottom-line, 20% have missed and 7% have met.
Revenue: 52% have beaten the Estimize consensus, 48% have missed, and 0% have met. For revenues, 58% of companies have beat the Wall Street estimate, while 42% have missed.
Adjustable standing desk is made out of cardboard
Recent research indicates that humans are not designed to sit cramped behind a desk for hours on end. It’s seen as a new threat to our health and experts are now extoling the virtues of working wile standing up. The problem is that those looking to get in on this new health trend don’t have a lot of affordable options. Ikea recently released its own standing desk at the hefty pricetag of USD 489. Currently seeking funding through Kickstarter, Refold is a portable and sturdy standing desk made of cardboard that’s relatively affordable and good for the environment. READ MORE…
