Mega tech earnings grab attention

Information about Facebook stock shares is displayed on a monitor as traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the closing bell, November 19, 2018 in New York City.  Drew Angerer | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC … Read more

Cloud back at Amazon, putting stock on a path back to Covid-era record highs

Amazon shares jumped after-hours Thursday, following the e-commerce and cloud computing giant’s strong fourth quarter. Results like this happen when Amazon shifts its mindset from an “investing” cycle to a “harvesting” phase, which usually leads to big profit numbers like what we saw in the quarterly print and what was forecasted in the future. Revenue … Read more

Knockout Meta profit wasn’t even the best surprise of the quarter

Meta Platforms delivered a home-run earnings report after the closing bell Thursday — beating on sales and earnings while declaring its first-ever dividend and boosting its buyback. The bullish combination sent shares soaring in extended trading and fortified our belief in one of our largest positions. Revenue in the three months ended Dec. 31 rose … Read more

More mega tech earnings in spotlight

The share price of Facebook stock is seen at the Nasdaq stock market in New York. Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can … Read more

Tim Cook teases Apple AI announcement ‘later this year’

Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the Wonderlust event at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Sept. 12, 2023. Loren Elliott | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook teased that Apple may have an artificial intelligence announcement later this year during a call with analysts after the company reported fiscal first-quarter earnings. While Cook’s remarks on … Read more

Meta is paying first-ever dividend, authorizes $50 billion buyback

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta announced on Thursday that it will pay a quarterly dividend for the first time, and said it authorized an expanded $50 billion share buyback … Read more

AWS Q4 earnings report 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky speaks at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, on March 7, 2023. F. Carter Smith | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon said on Thursday that its cloud division grew revenue 13% year over year in the fourth quarter, exactly in line with analysts’ projections. The company … Read more

Meta’s Reality Labs loses $4.65 billion in Q4 ahead of Vision Pro

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, demonstrates the Meta Quest Pro during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York on Oct. 11, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta continues to sink billions of dollars a quarter into developing the metaverse, and is just now facing its first real competitive threat from … Read more

Amazon (AMZN) Q4 earnings report 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is slated to report fourth-quarter earnings Thursday after the closing bell. Here’s what analysts are projecting: Earnings per share: 80 cents, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv Revenue: … Read more

Apple (AAPL) earnings report Q1 2024

Apple reports fiscal first-quarter earnings after the bell. The quarter, which ends in December, is Apple’s biggest of the year by sales and the first full sales period for the iPhone 15, which launched in September. Apple faces significant challenges, coming off four straight quarters with revenue declines. Investors will be closely watching to see … Read more