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Mixed Bag: Better Outlooks From Lockheed, United Technologies, But McDonald's Misses
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 9:14am | 2509If you normally check the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJI) for a quick read on the market, you might get a skewed view today. That’s because several major $DJI stocks could come under pressure from disappointing earnings and plain old fundamental news even as the broader S&P 500 (SPX)...
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Boeing And Lockheed Martin To Report Q3 Earnings, With 737 MAX Still Key
Friday, October 18, 2019 - 1:49pm | 2116As if there weren’t enough drama already surrounding Boeing Co (NYSE: BA), the company reports Q3 earnings Wednesday with investors waiting to hear more about why BA’s board ousted CEO Dennis Muilenburg from the chairman post earlier this month. It was a move Muilenburg told the media...
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737 MAX Top Of Mind As Boeing Q2 Nears, While F-35 In Focus For Lockheed
Monday, July 22, 2019 - 11:12am | 1737It’s a tale of two planes this week as Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) earnings line up on the runway. After months of grappling with 737 MAX troubles, Boeing (BA) doesn’t seem likely to get much of a lift from earnings season when it reports...
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After Crashes, 737 MAX Could Take Center Stage As Boeing Reports
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 1:06pm | 1520There’s an elephant in the room—an elephant arguably the size of a 737 MAX airliner—as Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) prepares to report Q1 earnings this coming Wednesday morning. Investors could be on the edge of their seats waiting for Boeing to provide more clarity on aircraft...
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Lockheed And Boeing Earnings: Questions On China Trade, Defense Demand
Monday, January 28, 2019 - 1:18pm | 1294Whether it’s fair or not, shares of a few major U.S. multinational companies are often seen as bellwethers for the progress of U.S./China trade negotiations. Boeing Co (NYSE: BA)—which reports Q4 earnings before the market open on Wednesday and counts China among its major...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Barrick Gold, Costco, Disney, GE And More
Saturday, January 19, 2019 - 1:00pm | 682This weekend's Barron's cover story features the top picks from the 2019 Barron's Roundtable. Other featured articles offer bargain gold mining stocks and how to play the life sciences boom. Also, the prospects for office REITs, a retail stock on sale and a battleground stock. "...
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7 Things The US Could Do With Apple's Strategically Avoided Taxes
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 4:09pm | 740Through “stateless” subsidiaries and shadow companies, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) amassed $252 billion in offshore cash subject to foreign tax rates far lower than the U.S.’s 35 percent, according to BBC News. In 2017 alone, the firm made $44.7 billion outside the U.S. and...
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Pentagon Gives Boeing, Northrop Grumman Nearly $700 Million To Develop Next-Gen ICBMs
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 12:18pm | 465With tensions rising around the world, the U.S. government has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) nearly $700 million to begin working on the next generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, upgrading the Cold War-era rockets. The deals, reported in...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Starbucks, Lockheed, Motorola And More
Sunday, August 20, 2017 - 9:06am | 595This weekend's Barron's cover story provides a look at how the leading coffee chain can teach Silicon Valley a lesson. Other featured articles discuss a top defense contractor that should benefit from increased military spending and a radio maker whose products could be supplanted....
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Citigroup, Honeywell, Twitter And More
Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 3:34pm | 679This weekend's Barron's offers a look at a financial giant that has laid out some ambitious goals. Other featured articles discuss an industrial giant with a new chief executive and a specialty retailer that is turning things around. The prospects for a pair of social media giants...
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Mixed Earnings Expectations For Merger Hopefuls Dow And DuPont
Monday, January 23, 2017 - 1:43pm | 647Two merging chemical giants are expected to report their earnings this week. Consensus Wall Street forecasts see very different results from each of them. Both have handily topped earnings estimates in recent quarters. We are in the heart of the fourth-quarter earnings reporting season. Among the...
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Trump Helps Knock Lockheed Martin Down A Few Bucks
Friday, December 23, 2016 - 8:21am | 359Shares of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) fell nearly 2 percent during Thursday's after-hours trading session after another president-elect tweet. Trump tweeted Thursday that the "tremendous cost and cost overruns" of Lockheed Martin's fighter jet program prompted him...
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Trump's Lambasting Tweet Toward Lockheed Martin's F-35 Elicits Company Response
Monday, December 12, 2016 - 1:35pm | 351President-elect Donald Trump isn't playing around when it comes to taxpayers money. Championing himself as a master negotiator, Trump tweeted and called out Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) on Monday, blasting the F-35 program and costs as "out of control." "Billions...
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Facebook And Amazon: More Earnings From The FANG Stocks
Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 3:38pm | 741Two of the so-called FANG stocks offered up disappointing quarterly results last week. The other two FANG stocks are on deck to share their latest results this week. Wall Street analysts continue to look for strong earnings growth from both of them. The so-called FANG stocks were the momentum...
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Chrysler And Ford Earnings: Following In GM's Footsteps?
Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 3:38pm | 725Upcoming earnings highlights include the latest results from two automaker giants. Wall Street analysts are looking for strong earnings growth from both of them. However, estimates have been slipping for one and rising for the other. Expectations were already high for the latest earnings from...