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By Geoffrey Smith
Investing.com — Stocks in focus in premarket trading on Wednesday, 25th January. Please refresh for updates.
- Microsoft (NASDAQ:) stock fell 3.1% after the software giant reported its slowest quarterly growth in six years and warned of further weakness ahead, even at its Cloud-hosting business Azure.
- Boeing (NYSE:) stock fell 2.6% after posting a surprise in the fourth quarter due largely to production delays with its 777-9 project. The company is taking extra care to avoid a repeat of the 737 MAX certification scandal. Boeing still reported positive annual cash flow for the first time since 2018 and forecast a further improvement this year.
- Capital One Financial (NYSE:) stock fell 3.2% after the consumer lender said its net income fell by a quarter in the final three months of 2022, hurt by a surge in credit provisions to $2.4 billion.
- ASML ADRs (NASDAQ:) fell 2.7% after the maker of chipmaking equipment said its first-quarter gross margin will come in between 49% and 50%, missing estimates.
- Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:) stock fell 5.2% after the tissue and towels group’s fell short of expectations. The outlook for 2023 is also muted, at only 2%-4% organic sales growth, with currency effects excepted to shave a couple of points off that.
- NextEra Energy (NYSE:) stock fell by 3.7% after the renewable energy giant said its long-serving CEO will retire. Quarterly were some 4% ahead of expectations at 51c.
- AT&T (NYSE:) stock rose 2.6% after forecasting a rise of over 4% in wireless service revenue this year and reporting slightly stronger-than-expected subscriber growth in the fourth quarter. Its bottom line, hurt by $25B in impairment charges and higher interest costs, was not a surprise, and underlying were slightly ahead of forecasts.
- News Corp (NASDAQ:) stock and Fox Corp (NASDAQ:) stock both rose after the sons of Rupert Murdoch abandoned tentative plans to bring the two businesses back together. The decision benefited News – the publisher of The Wall Street Journal – more, given that it escapes any liability for the libel suits Fox is currently facing from two makers of voting machines used in the 2020 election.
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