Saturday Night Quarterback (on a Sunday) says, For the week ahead expect…
The key sentiment barometer I’m watching is Palo Alto Networks (PANW), down 13% in the last month on fears that Microsoft (MSFT) is going to gobble up the revenue growth in the cybersecurity space. I think that fear is overblown, at least when it comes to Palo Alto Networks. The stock has long been a favorite of growth stock investors and, if sentiment on market direction for the rest of 2023 is positive I’d expect strong buying in the shares ahead of the Friday, August 18, earnings report. The Wall Street consensus calls for the company to report earnings of 54 cents a share against 15 cents a share in the fiscal quarter a year ago.
DocuSign’s 42% drop on Friday tells us a lot, unfortunately, about the current market
Shares of DocuSign (DOCU) should have dropped on Friday. After all, almost everything technology was down on the day and the company reported that growth in demand for its electronic document-signing products, which had soared during the Pandemic, had slowed as more workers went back to the office. Earning for the third quarter were 58 cents a share on an adjusted basis. That was above the 46 cents a share expected by Wall Street analysts. However, revenue, including revenue from acquisitions, rose “just” 42% to $545.5 million Analysts were expected revenue of $594 million for the quarter. But a plunge of 42.2%? I’d argue that something else is going on, something that’s related to the market as a whole and not to DocuSign in particular.
Saturday Night Quarterback (on a Sunday) says, For the week ahead expect…
It’s BIG TECH earnings week with earnings from Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), Facebook (FB) and Amazon (AMZN). Facebook kicks off earnings from this big tech group on Monday, October 25, after the close. Alphabet and Microsoft follow on Tuesday, October 26, after the close of trading with Amazon and Apple on Thursday October er 27 after the close. The stakes are high for these companies and their stocks and for the entire stock market.These five stocks account for almost 23% of the capitalization of the entire Standard & Poor’s 500. And the technology sector makes up 33% of the indexTo an extraordinary degree as goes the technology sector, so goes the market as a whole right now. And as these five stocks go, so does technology.
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