Meta stock spikes despite earnings miss, as Facebook hits 2 billion users for first time and sales guidance quells fears
Meta Platforms Inc. shares soared in after-hours trading Wednesday despite an earnings miss, as the Facebook parent company guided for potentially more revenue than Wall Street expected in the new year and promised more share repurchases amid cost cuts. Meta META, +2.79% said it hauled in $32.17 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, down from $33.67 billion […]
UPS foresees ‘mild recession’ in 2023 and posts first revenue decline since the 2008 financial crisis
Shares of United Parcel Service Inc. rallied Tuesday, even after the package-delivery giant reported a surprise decline in fourth-quarter revenue, missing Wall Street expectations for the first time in 12 quarters, and warned of the first yearly decline in revenue in 14 years. Investors expressed relief, however, as UPS beat fourth-quarter profit expectations, raised its […]
Royal KPN posts forecast beating profit, begins $325.5 million share buyback program
Royal KPN NV on Tuesday reported a 21% rise in fourth-quarter net profit that beat forecasts, and said it has started a new 300 million-euro ($325.5 million) share buyback program. The Dutch telecommunications operator KPN, +0.92% made a net profit for the quarter of EUR190 million compared with EUR157 million for the same period a […]
Drug companies plan to raise prices on vital medicines to fund R&D, but they already spend more on shareholder returns
Drug companies planning to raise prices on cancer drugs and other life-saving treatments are justifying the move by claiming it’s necessary to fund research and development, but the claim rings hollow given that they spend more on shareholder rewards than on R&D, according to a new study. Accountable.US, a liberal-leaning consumer-advocacy group, found that in […]