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☆ Stanley Black & Decker's earnings beat fails to satisfy Wall Street. Here's why we bought the dip
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Stanley Black & Decker Why we own it: Stanley Black & Decker is in the later innings of a multi-year restructuring plan. The one problem is the broader demand environment is still mostly soft, preventing management from raising the midpoint of its outlook. This dynamic makes Stanley Black & Decker one of the more interest-rate-sensitive stocks we have in the portfolio. Stanley Black & Decker has been paying a dividend for 147 consecutive years, with increases in each of the past 56. Stanley Black & Decker power drills are displayed for sale at a Home Depot store in Colma, California.

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☆ Bausch Health investors are left in a holding pattern as 2 major overhangs remain unresolved
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Bausch Health Companies on Tuesday morning reported first-quarter top- and bottom-line misses — putting embattled shares under pressure. BHC YTD mountain Bausch Health YTD Bottom line Along with quarterly results, Bausch Health reaffirmed forward guidance. While not necessarily expected to see a massive increase in adoption in the future like Lilly's GLP-1s, Xifaxan currently accounts for 41% of Bausch Health sales, excluding B+L. Breaking that down: $4.7 billion to $4.85 billion are attributable to Bausch Health (implying 2% to 5% organic growth), with $4.6 billion to $4.7 billion attributable to Bausch + Lomb. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

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☆ Microsoft shares jump 4% after the big AI winner delivers in all the right places
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

However, momentum from AI services will keep Azure growth stabilized at these high levels, outperforming the market's expectations. AI services continue to be a large source of revenue growth, contributing seven percentage points of growth. The Office Commercial Products and Cloud Services revenue rose 12%, while the Office Consumer Products and Cloud Services revenue grew 4%. Windows Commercial Products and Cloud Services revenue increased 12%, driven by demand for Windows 365. The company guided Azure's constant currency revenue growth to 30% to 31%, which is higher than estimates of 29%.

Persons: OpenAI, Satya Nadella, there's, we're, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Satya Narayana Nadella, Lucas Jackson Organizations: Microsoft, Revenue, Google, Fortune, Productivity, Products, Cloud Services, Consumer Products, Novo Nordisk, Nvidia, Activision, Windows, Management, CNBC Locations: OpenAI, ChatGPT, Novo, Manhattan, New York City

☆ P&G's initial decline had nothing to do with earnings. The market later agreed
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

For the full year, the overall sales growth rate was reiterated at 2% to 4% as was the organic growth target of 4% to 5%. On the call, Schulten said growth across categories continues to be broad-based with 8 of 10 product categories holding or growing organic sales in this quarter. In North America, organic sales rose 3% on the back of a 3% increase in volume. In Europe, focus markets rose 7% on the back of a 4% increase in volume, and in Latin America, organic sales were up 17% versus the year-ago period. Weakness continued in Greater China, with organic sales declining 10%.

Persons: Dow, Andre Schulten, Schulten, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Pantene, Justin Sullivan Organizations: Procter, Gamble, Procter & Gamble, Colgate, Palmolive, Unilever, Management, CNBC Locations: United States, American, North America, Europe, Latin America, Greater China, China, San Anselmo , California

☆ Linde shares pop as industrial gas giant underpromises and over-delivers — again
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

We expect another year of strong earnings growth from this best-of-breed industrial stock. Quarterly results As we can see in the chart below, this was an all-around strong quarter for Linde. In APAC (27.6% of sales), growth was led by end markets in chemicals, energy, and manufacturing. Updated expectations are for a mild recovery in a few end markets in China for the first half of 2024. EMEA (29.3% of sales) showed growth across all "resilient" end markets, which Linde defines as more consumer-related (healthcare, food and beverage, and electronics), while industrial end markets (manufacturing, chemicals and energy, and metals and mining) lagged.

Persons: Linde, shouldn't, —, haven't, We'll, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim Organizations: Linde, LIN, EMEA, Electronics, CNBC, Tanks, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: Americas, Africa, APAC, Asia, China

☆ DuPont sets a low bar and hops over it — the quarter is a step in the right direction and investors scoop up shares
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

While the recovery time may vary buy end market, it's important to note that on a consolidated basis, management does believe that the first quarter 2024 will represent the bottom. They expect to see a pickup in sales as we exit the second quarter of 2024. DD 1Y mountain DuPont 1 year Guidance Management's forecast for the current quarter (first quarter of fiscal 2024) was unchanged from what we got on the preannouncement. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

Persons: Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Jeff Fusco Organizations: DuPont, Electronics, DuPont's Semiconductor Technologies, Semiconductor Technologies, Industrial Solutions, Protection, Safety Solutions, Solutions, Management, CNBC Locations: China, Wilmington , Delaware

☆ Microsoft gets a price target hike after posting a great quarter driven by AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Microsoft reported strong fiscal second-quarter results Tuesday, boosted by the strength of AI. Cloud unit Azure was better than expected thanks to organizations running AI applications on its cloud. That's double from last quarter as Azure AI customers grew to 53,000 from more than 18,000 last quarter. What's fascinating about Azure AI is that over one-third of its customers are completely new to Azure, according to Microsoft, highlighting the importance every organization has in understanding its AI strategy. Microsoft guided Productivity and Business Processes revenues to $19.3 billion to $19.6 billion, ahead of the consensus of $19.45 billion.

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☆ Caterpillar is upgraded on strong quarterly results — and a misguided sell-off
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

It's true the operating margin is expected to contract a bit from Tuesday's results. Latin America sales fell 31% due to lower sales volume that was only partially offset by higher prices. Higher prices also aided profitability, despite the dual headwinds of lower volumes and an unfavorable product mix. The adjusted operating profit margin for the fourth quarter is expected to be lower versus the third quarter result. All told, we believe the operating margin consensus on Wall Street needs an upward revision.

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☆ Stanley Black & Decker just delivered the quarter we've been waiting for. Wall Street agrees
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) reported solid third-quarter results Friday, with cash generation and improved margin performance on full display. SWK YTD mountain Stanley Black & Decker YTD Stanley Black & Decker shares soared roughly 8% on the print, boosting their year-to-year gains to more than 11%. Stanley Black & Decker's marginally weaker-than-expected sales in the quarter were more than offset by further improvement to inventory levels. The company is targeting further gross margin expansion in 2024 as the work to get over the 35% by 2025 threshold continues. Stanley Black & Decker drills are displayed for sale at a Home Depot store in Emeryville, California.

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☆ Microsoft's quarterly results and guidance showcase its AI prowess
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Nadella touted Azure's AI leadership on the post-earnings conference call, calling its AI infrastructure the best for both training and inference, while noting it has deployed its AI services in more regions than any other cloud providers. Gaming was also a strong, with Xbox content and services revenue increasing 12% on a constant-currency basis. Rounding out the quarter, revenue at the productivity-and-business-processes unit increased about 13%, to $18.59 billion, beating estimates of $18.19 billion. Some key highlights include the 17%-constant-currency increase in Microsoft Office commercial revenue growth, which benefitted from a 10% increase in seat growth. Second quarter Azure revenue growth is expected to be 26% to 27% in constant currency.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Nadella, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Omar Marques Organizations: Microsoft, Revenue, LSEG, Club, Fortune, Gaming, Activision Blizzard, CNBC, Getty

☆ Why we bought more Danaher even after it lowered the forecast for a key business
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

But shares of the life sciences and medical diagnostics company remain under pressure after management was forced to lower expectations for one of its key businesses. We used Tuesday's sell-off in Danaher shares to add to our position . Driving this forecast is an expectation for biotechnology sales drop in the mid-20% range, life sciences sales to decline by mid-single digit percentage points, and for diagnostics to be down about 20%. Assuming no additional headwinds in the fourth quarter, management reiterated their full year outlook for the bioprocessing base business to be down 10% on a full-year basis. The life sciences unit was hampered by pressure in the instruments business.

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☆ We're upgrading this beer stock after an unwarranted post-earnings slide
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Net sales for the three months ended Aug. 31 climbed 7% year-over-year, to $2.84 billion, ahead of Wall Street's expectations of $2.82 billion, according to Refinitiv. Quarterly results Beer sales climbed 12% year-over-year, to $2.4 billion. Those factors more than offset tailwinds of sales growth, positive pricing dynamics and efficiency gains. Modelo Especial remains the top brand share gainer and leading brand "in the entire U.S. beer category in dollar sales." The company expects "net sales growth and operating income growth of that business to ramp up through the remainder" of fiscal year 2024.

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☆ Danaher cut its outlook for 2023, but we're maintaining our rating — here's why
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Life sciences and medical diagnostics company Danaher (DHR) delivered a second-quarter earnings beat on Tuesday, but lowered its outlook for the year. When excluding the impact of Covid-related tests and products, Danaher realized base-business core sales growth of 2%. As a result, management was once again forced to downwardly revise their sales growth outlook for the year. We predict a bioprocessing bottom this year, early next year at the very latest, setting us for a rebound in organic revenue growth. This updated outlook represents a downward revision from the high-single-digit percentage decline previously expected on a core basis and the mid-single-digit percentage growth previously expected for the base business.

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☆ Why we're raising our price target on Microsoft despite a softer revenue outlook
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Revenues beat across the board, Azure's revenue growth decelerated in line with expectations, and companywide operating margins expanded nicely from last year. But total revenues fell a little less than expected, at 4%, mostly due to a 12% decline in Windows OEM revenue and a 18% drop in devices revenue growth. Gaming revenue grew 2%, with Xbox content and services revenue up 6%, offset by a 13% decline in Xbox hardware. In the productivity and business processes segment, revenue increased about 10% from last year thanks to a 15% increase in Office 365 Commercial Revenue growth. Microsoft sees Azure revenue growing 25% to 26% in constant currency, including roughly 2 points from all Azure AI services.

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☆ How investors can get ahead by listening to a company's earnings conference call
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +20 min

Commentary on the results Almost all calls begin with a discussion of the reported results. The reported quarter ended May 31 and the call was hosted on June 30, a full month after the quarter ended. By listening into the call, an investor could see that the reported results did not tell the full story around Wynn's business in China. As with the reported results, any comments on supply chains and customer dynamics could prove relevant to the direction of the stock. It can be quantitative, by which management provides actual targets for sales, earnings, and/or industry metrics.

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☆ Halliburton was a cash machine in its latest quarter — and we're making a price target change
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

On the call, management reiterated that growing free cash flow is a top priority, and they expect over 50% of it to be "returned to shareholders this year." Speaking of cash returns, the company repurchased $248 million worth of shares during the quarter while returning another $144 million to shareholders via dividends. The team also guided for full-year free cash flow generation to be above what analysts were looking for — a material positive for the stock in the back half of the year. While maintaining our 2 rating , we're nudging up our price target to $42 per share from $40), reflecting about 18 times 2024 free cash flow per share estimates or about 11.5 times 2024 earnings estimates. With 2022 free cash flow coming in at $1.43 million, this forecast amounts to about $1.93 million at the midpoint, above Wall Street's $1.84 million expectation.

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☆ Here's why Jim Cramer is sticking with Foot Locker despite terrible quarter and big stock drop
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Club holding Foot Locker (FL) reported disappointing fiscal 2023 first-quarter results and guidance before the opening bell Friday. Foot Locker, which announced the Eastbay closure in December, will concentrate on its namesake and Champs stores. Unfortunately, the rebound from these headwinds has also proven weaker than management previously expected. When starting a position in Foot Locker in March, we knew the company would not be fixed quickly. Shoppers and pedestrians pass in front of a Foot Locker store on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California.

☆ We remain bullish on Constellation Brands despite a top-line miss last quarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Constellation Brands (STZ), the maker or Corona beer and other alcoholic drinks, reported mixed quarterly results on Tuesday. Bottom line Despite the top-line miss, we like what we're seeing this current quarter, which includes Cinco de Mayo, a big day for beer sales. Beer operating margin contracted as higher prices were more than offset by higher packaging, raw materials, logistics and other costs. Additionally, operating cash flow is expected to come in between $2.4 billion and $2.6 billion, below the 3.06 billion expected coming into the quarter. Taking out capital expenditures of $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion, the free-cash-flow forecast comes in between $1.2 billion and $1.3 billion, also a bit short versus the $1.4 billion expected coming into the print.

☆ Here's what makes cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks tick and why we like the stock so much
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +22 min

Palo Alto Networks (PANW) last month had its best single trading day in about a year, exactly one week after the next-generation cybersecurity company became our newest Investing Club holding. Why Palo Alto Networks? PANW YTD mountain Palo Alto Networks (PANW) 1-year performance Palo Alto Networks is a great way to play a secular growth industry. Taking all of these segments together, Palo Alto Networks is a company capable of delivering on every aspect of cybersecurity under one roof. Palo Alto Networks' ESG practices, meanwhile, are overseen by the ESG and Nominating Committee, which provides counsel to the board in these matters.

☆ Danaher's stock drop looks like a buying opportunity after it reported a solid quarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

When excluding the impact of declining Covid testing sales — but keeping in revenue from products that support vaccines and therapeutics — Danaher's base business saw core growth of 7.5%. Guidance Management expects overall core revenue growth to be down mid-single-digits on a percentage for the first quarter. For the full year 2023, management expects overall core revenue growth to be down mid-single-digits. Previously, only revenues related to Covid testing were excluded. On the call, management pointed to roughly 10% core revenue growth in both North America and Europe.

☆ P&G's uneventful quarter and guidance overshadows compelling execution in a tough environment
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Club holding Procter & Gamble (PG) reported fiscal second-quarter results largely in line with expectations before the opening bell Wednesday. During the December quarter, management returned roughly $4.2 billion to investors via $2 billion share repurchases and another $2.2 billion via dividends. Guidance Management raised their fiscal year 2023 sales guidance, now expecting sales to be in a range of down 1% to in-line. On the bottom line, management reaffirmed EPS guidance to be in line to up 4% versus fiscal 2022 earnings of $5.81 per share, better than the 0.3% growth the Street has been modeling. We made a table (see above) of the reported numbers versus estimates and how each line item compares to the year-ago quarter and the prior fiscal quarter.

☆ TJX hits an all-time high as reason we own off-price retailer played out in the quarter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Club holding TJX Companies (TJX) reported stronger-than-expected fiscal third-quarter 2023 earnings and U.S. sales before the opening bell Wednesday, boosting shares of the off-price retailer by nearly 4% to an all-time high. While U.S. customer traffic was down in the quarter, management noted that it improved sequentially and improved throughout the quarter. Speaking to the inventory glut at full-price retailers, TJX management said on their post-earnings call, "The marketplace is absolutely loaded with quality branded merchandise across good, better and best brands." That guide also represents a tightening around the $3.09 midpoint versus the $3.05 to $3.13 per share range provided with the prior quarter's release. This excludes new stores, stores closed permanently or closed for an extended period of time as well as e-commerce results.

☆ There's no good reason to allocate more capital to chipmaker Qualcomm right now
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

This represents a significant long-term opportunity for the company beyond handsets: Management estimates a total addressable market opportunity in automotive of $100 billion by 2030. There isn't a good reason to prioritize the allocation of capital to the semiconductor industry right now. Segment results Qualcomm reports results in two primary segments, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) and Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL). Radio frequency front-end : $992 million, a decrease of 20%, versus $1.04 billion expected. Internet of things (IoT): Record revenues of $1.92 billion, up 24%, versus $1.83 billion expected, with growth driven by edge networking and industrial.

☆ We're disappointed by Amazon's terrible results, stock plunge; but sticking with it for now
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Considering all the cross currents and a terrible initial stock reaction, we're going to sit tight on the stock for now. Segment Q3 sales Online Stores: $53.49 billion, up 13% year over year excluding-FX, missed the $54.27 billion expected. Physical Stores, mostly Whole Foods: $4.69 billion, up 10% from last year ex-FX, in line with the $4.71 billion expected. AWS: $20.54 billion, up 28% year over year excluding-FX, and a miss versus the $21.2 billion expected. Advertising Services: $9.55 billion, up 30% year over year excluding-FX, and a slight beat versus the $9.481 billion expected.

☆ Danaher shares slide after knockout quarter. Here's why it's a buying opportunity
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

That trend is expected to continue and result in high-single-digit core revenue growth for the bioprocessing business for the full year. Driving the gains was 30% core revenue growth at Cepheid as the businesses respiratory testing revenue of about $875 million exceeded management's expectations of roughly $325 million. Guidance Management expects overall core revenue growth to be flat to down low-single-digits for the fourth quarter. For the full year 2022, management continues to forecast base business core revenue growth in the high-single-digit percent range. That's better than the 5.9% full-year core revenue growth expected on the Street.

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