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Amazon joined Microsoft, Apple, and Google (Alphabet Inc) to rank among the wealthiest companies in the U.S. with a market cap of over one trillion dollars on February 4, 2020. Now it is a new member of the elite $1 trillion club.Amazon joined Microsoft, Apple, and Google’s parent Alphabet to tank among the wealthiest companies in the U.S. The other three entered the elite club for the first time in January 2020. All of them together make up the “Trillion Dollar Club.”Up to today, only these...

Snap’s revenue did not meet analysts’ expectations of $563 million which had a negative impact on SNAP stock price. However, the company managed to increase its daily active user base.Recently, Snapchat’s parent company Snap has published its Q4 2019 earnings. It has turned out the company has not lived up the revenue expectations of Wall Street analysts. As a result, Snap stock has dropped 11%.According to Snap, they have increased the fourth quarter revenue 44% year-over-year to $561...

Tesla had (and still has) a great day on Tuesday since its stock is growing at a faster pace ever and is closer and closer to $1000. At 3:10 pm ET the stock was growing by 21.21% to $945.The surge has been happening as soon as the market had opened, which means it had grown by almost $300 a share in just two trading sessions. The rise drove the automaker’s general value to more than $160 billion after it just got to $100 billion in value less than two weeks ago.Jesse Cohen, an analyst with...

UK-based oil and gas company BP has released its full-year underlying replacement cost profit, which is used as a substitute for net profit. The company recorded a net profit of $10 billion in 2019, 21% below the $12.7 billion it made in 2018, reports revealed on February 4, 2020.According to data from Refinitiv, the expectation of analysts was that BP’s net profit would come in at $9.7 billion. Although it failed to match the figures it released in the preceding year, the company still...

The coronavirus is still raging with its usual effects on not just human lives but also oil stocks. Many businesses all over the world, especially those with activity in China, have been affected. Now, the deadly virus is racing past the human factor and taking oil down with it.Coronavirus Shoots Down Oil StocksOil stocks began the year with a more promising outlook. Most of Wall Street had interesting things to say about oil stocks because of the trade problems between the U.S. and Iran. As...

Tesla’s market cap now stands at more than $140 billion as TSLA stock has already reached $780 (and is moving even higher in the premarket). Let that sink in for a bit. This is more than the famous U.S. automakers General Motors ($48.2B) and Ford ($35.7B) – together. And that’s not all folks. The best is yet to come.As per the ARK Investment Management, which has assigned an astronomical price target for the electric vehicle manufacturer of $15,000 by 2024. If that happens, it would make...

Google‘s parent company Alphabet released its Q4 2019 earnings report on Monday. February 3. With 2019’s total revenue standing at $162 billion, Alphabet also registered an 18% YoY growth.Surprisingly, Alphabet also unveiled the earnings of its popular video content distribution platform YouTube for the very first time. Youtube saw its quarterly Q4 earnings standing at $5 billion and its annual earnings standing at $15 billion. Youtube’s earnings saw a 36% jump in 2019 compared to its $11.2...

Visa’s quarterly earnings came through last week. The first-quarter results were exciting for many investors. But they have been in line with expectations. Revenues hit about $6.05 billion. Earnings per share were about $1.46 as well. This has led to many wondering if centralized payments are still the way to go. It is also a 10% increase from 2018. It has also reinforced the common belief that the payments industry is still going strong. This also is in line with post-earnings forecasts...

Sony managed to beat all analyst predictions by 5% for their annual profit outlook. The Japanese company went up to 880 billion yen in profit while 22 analysts from Refinitiv predicted 878 billion yen. Also, when looking at the October to December quarter, Sony profit mainly dropped, but it didn’t drop as much as the analysts predicted. The profit dropped 20% to 300.1 billion yen, while the analysts forecasted 271 billion yen.Sony controls almost half of the world’s smartphone image sensor...

Short-sellers are burning their hands on Tesla as the electric car maker released its strong Q4 2019 numbers last week. In less than a week, the Tesla stock has added over $200 to its price making it the first American automobile company to hit $100-billion valuations.On Monday, February 3rd, the Tesla stock surged 20% to $780 levels taking the company’s valuations at $140 billion. Indeed, with this move, Tesla has taken Wall Street and global investors by surprise. Monday’s stock price gain...