Earnings Growth

Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI) reported adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of C$1.17 (a Canadian dollar is currently valued at $0.74) per share for the first quarter 2019, 17 percent better than the same period a year ago. This result excludes $0.09 per share in increased...

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) reported first quarter earnings per share (EPS) of $1.22 compared with $1.11 in the first quarter of 2018, and an adjusted EPS of $1.20 compared to $1.17 last year, defying analyst expectations. In the earnings report released April 23, the...

Union Pacific's (NYSE: UNP) first quarter net profit rose nearly 8 percent despite lower revenue. First quarter 2019 net income increased 7.7 percent to $1.4 billion, or $1.93 per diluted share, compared with $1.3 billion, or $1.68 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2018. Meanwhile,...

J.B. Hunt's (NASDAQ: JBHT) earnings report has some questioning if the truckload (TL) carriers are likely to miss earnings now and how will the stocks perform moving forward. FreightWaves believes that the concern may be a little overdone, as explained in a transportation earnings preview....

Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) said its first quarter 2019 net profits rose nearly 16 percent amid its ongoing transition to precision scheduled railroading (PSR). Adjusted net income for the first quarter of 2019 totaled $154.9 million, or $1.54 per share, compared with $133.8 million, or $1....

Marten Transport, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRTN) posted its best-ever first-quarter operating revenue, operating income and net income in the company's 74-year history in the first quarter of 2019, the company said in its April 16 earnings release. The Mondovi, Wisconsin-based truckload carrier...

Wall Street took on a slightly green tint early Wednesday as investors sorted through another bag of hot, fresh earnings. Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE: MS) latest quarter got an early thumbs up from investors, but Netflix.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) appeared to get a thumbs down. Morgan Stanley...

Everybody loves a good comeback story, as golf fans might tell you following Tiger Woods’ unexpected victory at the Masters over the weekend. The markets have also staged quite a comeback since the end of 2018, and there was more evidence of that Friday when the S&P 500 Index (SPX) closed...

Earnings season started with a bang early Friday as two major U.S. banks shared Q1 results and the market reacted positively. Big beats from JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) really help set a positive tone for earnings overall. JPMorgan Chase earned...

Until recently, two of the banking sector’s major revenue rainmakers—mortgages and initial public offerings (IPOs)—were suffering a drought. A slumping housing market that coincided with last fall’s higher mortgage rates had some analysts worried about big banks’ Q1....

As investors appear to be awaiting the ramp-up of earnings season with bank quarterly reports tomorrow, they have some incremental geopolitical news to digest. Trade negotiations between the United States and China continue. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC that the U.S. and China...

The way Info Tech stocks outperformed the market over the last three months, investors might be expecting the sector’s Q1 earnings growth to be sky high. That won’t necessarily be the case, however, if analysts have things pegged right. Info Tech firms, on average, could see a slight-to...

That sound you’re hearing might be a sigh of relief from investors reacting to this morning’s monthly payrolls report. After a weak showing in February that raised fears of an economic slowdown, job creation bounced back in a big way with 196,000 jobs added by the U.S. economy in March...

With Financial sector earnings season looming, a shot got fired across the bow last week when Tim Sloan, CEO of Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) announced his retirement. This unexpected move created some drama in a sector where it’s mainly been an interest rate game for the last year....

How can Wall Street follow up its best day in nearly two months? That’s the question Tuesday after the S&P 500 (SPX) touched a nearly six-month high Monday amid growing enthusiasm about both the U.S. and Chinese economies. If anything stands in the way of continued gains, it might be...