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Zoom’s multibillion-dollar stake in Anthropic will be investors’ key focus when the video-calling platform reports earnings on Tuesday afternoon.

D.A. Davidson Head of Technology Research Gil Luria talks with Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma about how traders should approach Nvidia (NVDA) ahead of its latest earnings report after enduring its longest losing streak since 2022.

The GPU giant's earnings report could serve as a bellwether for memory companies.

Nvidia (NVDA) is just days away from releasing second quarter earnings results this Wednesday, August 26, as Wall Street expects quarterly revenue of $92 billion. The Morning Brief's Jake Conley sits down with Barron's senior markets analysis writer Paul La Monica and Infrastructure Capital Advisors CEO Jay Hatfield to discuss why excellent earnings may still not be enough to impress investors in this stage of the AI cycle.

The company is reporting some of its best performance in years.
Nvidia will report its Q2 earnings after the bell on Aug. 26.
One earnings report could reset a soaring semiconductor stock

Walmart stock tumbled on weak comp sales. Is the stock in trouble?

Alibaba's (BABA) fiscal first-quarter earnings missed expectations even as revenue edged past Wall S

Just like individual investors, companies hold stock in other companies, and unrealized gains in these stocks can boost earnings numbers.

Just how encouraged are Target executives about the state of their turnaround project? Target executives said “encouraged” or “encouraging” 20 times on their analyst call Wednesday to discuss second-quarter results—nearly matching 21 such occasions in Q1 and pacing far ahead of the nine times executives used those words on the calls for the first half of last year. Chief Merchandising Officer Cara Sylvester cited progress with the center-store grocery overhaul, including more fresh produce, new focal points for seasonal offerings and added space for growth categories like functional coffee: “The response has been really encouraging.”

S&P 500 companies are winding up a banner quarterly earnings season, fueled in large part by surging profits at AI-related companies. The S&P 500 is on track for a 52% surge in aggregate second-quarter earnings from the year before, helped by a 74% profit jump in the technology sector. The figures include big mark-to-market boosts at Alphabet and Amazon, both of which recognized large gains in the period on investments in AI highfliers such as Anthropic.

S&P 500 companies are winding up a banner quarterly earnings season, fueled in large part by surging profits at AI-related companies. The S&P 500 is on track for a 52% surge in aggregate second-quarter earnings from the year before, helped by a 74% profit jump in the technology sector. The figures include big mark-to-market boosts at Alphabet and Amazon, both of which recognized large gains in the period on investments in AI highfliers such as Anthropic.
Investors will watch margins, rising HBM costs, China sales and the Rubin Ultra product roadmap.

S&P 500 earnings per share are on pace to climb more than 50% in the second quarter. Combining reported and yet-to-be-reported results, S&P 500 earnings are up 50.4%, according to the most recent data from FactSet. Profit growth is broad, too, with 10 of the 11 S&P 500 sectors posting year-over-year earnings growth.

Amazon spent years telling Wall Street that AWS could become a few hundred billion dollar revenue business. Then on its last earnings call, management revised that estimate up, significantly. The new figure was $1 trillion. Not as a stretch goal. As what they now believe is a real possibility. ...

Amazon and Alphabet are benefiting from their massive investments in AI and space companies, but those investments come with greater exposure to private-market valuations and liquidity constraints.





