Reports for Thursday, July 23 Report for Friday, July 24 Under Armour (UA) Under Armour (UA) will report its FQ2 ’15 results before the opening bell on Thursday. For Under Armour, while sales are expecting to continue their streak of YoY double-digit growth, bottom-line growth is expected to be negative. Estimize is looking for EPS of…
The U.S. dollar is under pressure today. There are many small triggers but the news stream itself is relatively mild. Ultimately, the inability to extend last week’s momentum left the dollar bulls vulnerable. As we noted, that the momentum the dollar took place without the backing up of short-term U.S. interest rates to support the…
That’s actually an easy number to calculate. The problem is the number is totally misleading. First let’s answer the question straight up. Those Not Working Full Time The above very scary-looking chart shows the civilian non-instititional population minus those usually working full time. Noninstitutional means those over the age of 16, not in prisons, mental…
The world’s biggest technology companies are quietly embracing a huge new growth industry – one that was hatched with the birth of the internet and has soared ever since. You probably won’t read about it in the news, though. After all, these companies aren’t making or selling anything for consumer use. And it’s not what…
Technology giant Apple Inc. (AAPL) posted its third quarter fiscal 2015 earnings results on June 21, missing iPhone sales expectations. Despite this miss, however, Apple had a successful quarter with earnings per share of $1.85 on revenue of $49.6 billion, beating expectations of $1.81 per share on $49.43 billion in revenue. As such, Apple’s report…
Since it’s debut in 2007, iPhone sales have become one of the most watched line items in Apple’s quarterly report. With the iPhone segment making up over 70% of sales for the tech behemoth, it’s now become critical for the company to start diversifying their revenue stream. For their fiscal third quarter, 500 Estimize contributors have made…
A big topic of discussion in the finance and investing space is the Federal Reserve. During the depths of the financial recession of 2008 and 2009, the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates to an all-time low of 0.25%. However, we knew that the low rates wouldn’t last forever; and all of this year, experts have…
Some guys have all the luck. Or is it business acumen? In 2001, Koos Bekker – Chair of the South African media company Naspers (NPSNY) – put $34 million of his company’s money into a then-obscure Chinese web company, Tencent Holdings (TCEHY). Today, that stake (now diluted to 34%) is worth $66 billion, and Bekker is a billionaire….
Gold prices dropped $6.75 an ounce yesterday, giving back all of the gains made in the previous session, as a bounce in the dollar drew investors away from the precious metal. The XAU/USD pair headed south after the 1094 level was broken, however the expected support in the 1088/6 zone did kick in and held…
I recently had a call from a very opinionated so called investor. He explained to me every reason that the stock market will crash and gold will go up to $5,000. He further explained what is happening now is only short term that he is losing money. He clearly did not understand the concept of…
