Q2 earnings

In many countries, August is a sleepy month where people leave town for vacation. Some U.S. investors might be traveling, too. But anyone who escapes to the mountains this August might miss the market’s reaction to events ranging from an anticipated Fed rate cut to Apple Inc (NASDAQ:...

Hub Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HUBG) reported earnings per share (EPS) of $0.87, well ahead of the analysts' expectations of $0.74 and last year's $0.51. The multimodal supply chain solutions provider reported that consolidated revenue increased 3 percent year-over-year to $921 million. Operating income...

Ryder System Inc. (NYSE: R) reported record second-quarter total and operating revenue across its fleet management, dedicated transportation and supply chain segments. But traders pummeled its shares because of weakness in used heavy-duty truck sales and rentals. Company shares traded at $53.54,...

The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) reported its strongest quarter of organic sales growth in over a decade for the fourth quarter of 2019. The company reports on a fiscal year basis. The company beat analysts' expectations on both earnings per share (EPS) and net sales in the fourth...

Good day, Convoy is so confident in the quality of the carriers its platform attracts that the company recently performed a research project to see how they fared in key areas such as safety. What it found was that Convoy carriers have lower crash ratings and fewer cargo claims than industry...

TRATON SE, the parent company of the former Volkswagen Truck & Bus Group, reported higher revenue, net earnings and operating profit for the first half of 2019.  But it said new truck orders declined 6 percent between January and June. The newly public company is watching to see whether...

Earnings season is upon us! As the markets score fresh all-time highs, investors will be closely watching whether this year’s strongest sector, technology, can continue its 30% YTD run. More importantly, the FAANG stocks have failed to keep pace, causing some investors to question whether the...

U.S. industrial property markets remained tight in the second quarter of 2019, but a swath of supply coming on-line will ease some of that tightness in the latter half of the year and into 2020, according to a report from real estate services giant Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK). The report,...

A Fed meeting. Apple earnings. The monthly payrolls report. Renewed talks with China. This week has it all, and it starts with the stock market at all-time highs after solid results late last week from Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG), Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX), and Twitter Inc...

GDP growth slipped in the second quarter, and revisions reveal weaker 2018 growth Growth in the U.S. economy slowed during the second quarter, as accelerating consumer spending could not offset a reversal in the inventory cycle and weaker business investment. In addition, annual data revisions...

Here are four stocks to watch, three of them moving on strong earnings: Anika Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIK) popped $11.78, or 28.8%, to $52.60 on Thursday on 1.3 million shares, or about 8x its average volume. The small biotech beat analyst estimates in its second-quarter results released after...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) late Thursday reported second-quarter worldwide net sales of $63.4 billion, a 20 percent increase over the 2018 quarter, while shipping costs hit $8.13 billion, up 36 percent year-over-year, as the Seattle-based e-tailer invested heavily in its transport and...

Forward Air Corporation (NASDAQ: FWRD) reported second-quarter earnings after markets closed July 25. The Greeneville, Tennessee-based trucking company has a business mix of truckload, expedited less-than-truckload services, intermodal and consolidation/warehousing logistics services.  Forward Air...

With the market intently focused on what the Fed might do in its policy setting meeting next week, stronger-than-expected economic data has tended to weigh on sentiment because of its potential to keep central bankers more on the dovish side. But this morning, after gross domestic product data came...

Stocks continue to march higher as earnings season has given another boost to U.S. markets in another ‘Risk-On’ move into equities. The S&P 500 is up over 20% this year, but still only 6% higher from year-ago levels due to the December sell-off. Volatility is in its historically low...