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Who Was It That Said Earnings Wouldn’t Save The Stock Market?

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Who Was It That Said Earnings Wouldn’t Save The Stock Market?

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Well, if there were any questions that a strong earnings season was not going to help lift stock, I think today’s price action officially blew that theoryย out of the water. Add on Amazon’s colossal beat, along with Intel and Microsoft, and tomorrow is likely shaping up to be another intense day.

One needs to remember companies like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet aren’t any companies,ย  these are among the most significant companies by market cap, within the top 5 of the S&P 500. When they go up big or down, they take the whole market with them.

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Amazon

Amazon just blew away numbers, and crushed it on the bottom line, reporting earnings per share of $3.27 per share versus estimates of $1.25. It seems impressive just how much control Amazon has over its bottom line, it comes down to if they want to make a profit or not, not if they can make a profit, and that is something quite frankly, I have never seen before.

Revenues also beat in a big way coming in at $51 billion, vs. estimates of $49.94 billion. But more importantly, the company is guiding revenue estimates next quarter to $51 to $54 billion, primarily inline with estimatesย of $52.24 billion.

I know the stock is up big after, and between its monster 4 percent before results, and 6 percent move after, it now up about 10.5 percent in total, to $1,615.

The revenue guidance is very impressive to me and there is plenty to like in the quarter, well have to see where estimatesย going forward start coming. If we start getting meaningful revenue upgrades, then an argument can once again be made that Amazon as plenty of room to continue rising.

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Microsoft

Microsoft also reported strong results as well, with earnings beating estimatesย by $0.10, coming in at $0.95 per share, while revenue also top expectations coming in at $26.82 billion, vs. estimates of $25.78 billion. Again very strong numbers, and impressive levels of growth. Microsoft is basically unchanged in the after hours.

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0 For 5, What!

So lets see I’m gonna give myself an 0-2ย as a follow-up to my five stock predictionย article.ย  ย It makes my total predictions at 0 for 5, with the immediate after hours market reactions. But in all fairness, lets see where all these stocks are in a weeks time.

Beside I am right sometimes aren’t? LOL. Of course, I am, I nailed Visa, eBay, Intel, Qualcomm, Verizon, American Express,ย Netflix, to name a few. Look we all get things right and wrong, it is just the way it goes. You have to go with the flow.

Anyway, moving on then.

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Intel

Intel reported a big beat, and the stock is also rocketing higher following results, and I continue to think this one is heading towards, $60.ย I targeted that level back in December.ย intel

I still think SQ has further to fall as well, perhaps towards $42.

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Visa

Visa had a big day, and is trading at all-timeย highs, I think a rise above that upper trend line, accerlates the rise. The numbers were that good. I think upgrades are still to come.

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MasterCard

Pretty much where Visa goes, so too does MasterCard, so I expect good results from MasterCard as well, and could it too could be getting ready for a big push higher.

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GE

Did you notice where GE stopped rising? Yeah at $14.85, I swear you really can’t make this stuff up!

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Good night, and thanks for reading!

-Mike

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