Top 10 things to watch Friday, July 7
1. Surprising jobs miss in June after Thursday’s blowout ADP hiring number. Nonfarm payrolls: 209,000 versus 240,000 anticipated with 110,00 damaging revisions for the prior two months. Average hourly earnings are a little sizzling: up 0.4% month over month and up 4.4% 12 months over 12 months. Bond yields retreated instantly dropped in response to the report after which stabilized. Stocks are set to open modestly decrease.
2. Biogen(*10*) (BIIB) and Eisai’s early Alzheimer’s therapy Leqembi will get full approval by the FDA and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) confirms broader protection is out there underneath the authorities registry system. All as anticipated, so not new information, however units the stage for Club fave Eli Lilly(*10*)‘s (LLY) rival Alzheimer’s drug donanemab to acquire approval at a later date. Eli Lilly is now world’s largest well being care firm by market worth.
3. Costco(*10*) (COST) June gross sales outcomes: Total firm gross sales dropped 1.4% and dropped 2.5% in the United States. Excluding impacts from adjustments in gasoline costs and currencies, whole firm gross sales rose 3% and rose 2% in the United States. Estimates had referred to as for up 2.5% and up 2.3%, respectively. Food nonetheless doing higher than non-food — not a shock as spending on discretionary gadgets has been weak. Traffic remains to be robust, up 4.2% globally and three.6% in the U.S. Baird raises worth goal on Investing Club identify COST to $550 per share from $535 and retains outperform (purchase) score).
4. Wolfe Research shakes up its financial institution rankings: downgrades Wells Fargo(*10*) (WFC) to peer carry out from outperform (maintain from purchase) on dangers to 2024 web curiosity revenue (NII) and industrial actual property publicity. Wolfe upgrades JPMorgan(*10*) (JPM) to outperform on the perception that the First Republic accretion is just not mirrored in Wall Street estimates and a extra favorable mortgage combine. Want to take the different aspect of the WFC commerce. Morgan Stanley analysis analysts increase WFC worth goal by $3 per share to $47. Club identify Wells Fargo and JPMorgan kick-off the second quarter earnings season subsequent Friday earlier than the bell.
5. Humana(*10*) (HUM) loses a bull after JPMorgan downgrades HUM to impartial from chubby (maintain from purchase) with a worth goal of $540 per share, down from $576. The analysts cite issues about Medicare Advantage (MA) cost-trend uncertainty and the upcoming election cycle. Even as Club identify Humana continues to acquire share in MA, it is arduous to argue in opposition to the name as a result of the previous playbook is: do not personal medical insurance shares in an election 12 months. The group is a simple goal of criticism from each side. JPMorgan prefers Dow stock UnitedHealth(*10*) (UNH) however lowers PT to $527 from $562.
6. Club identify Meta Platforms (META) sees its new Twitter-killer app, Threads, now up to greater than 50 million customers. Elon Musk’s Twitter threatens to sue Meta, alleging Mark Zuckerberg’s firm stole commerce secrets and techniques.
7. Paramount(*10*) (PARA) downgraded to underperform from peer carry out (promote from maintain), with a $14 worth goal by Wolfe Research. The analysts cite issues about linear promoting publicity. The media firm is the worst positioned for a secular downturn in the linear advert market, in accordance to Wolfe as a result of it has the highest publicity to non-sports.
8. Wells Fargo reiterates Club identify Disney (DIS) as a Signature Pick with a $147 worth goal however cuts its earnings-per-share (EPS) estimates. The analysts say that numbers want to cease happening for the stock to lastly work. Disney experiences earnings on Aug. 9 after the bell.
9. Morgan Stanley raises its worth goal on Ford(*10*) (F) to $16 from $14 and General Motors(*10*) to $41 from $38 on larger earnings estimates. We broke down quarterly auto gross sales at Ford and what the numbers revealed about Club identify’s electrical car ambitions. Ferrari(*10*) (RACE) stays Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas’ Top Pick as he raises his RACE worth goal to $340 from $310.
10. MoffettNathanson raises its worth goal on card firms: Mastercard(*10*) (MA) to $490 from $460 and Visa(*10*) (V) to $320 from $290. The analysts maintain outperform (purchase) rankings on each.
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