Stock Market Nerd – Market Headlines – April 20, 2024

By Brad FreemanApril 22, 2024Posted in Stock Insights

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Stock Market Nerd – Market Headlines – April 20, 2024

TD Cowen sees Datadog (DDOG) comfortably beating earnings expectations this quarter following a bullish CIO survey that it ran.
For Shopify (SHOP), RBC channel checks and Morgan Stanley’s confidence in 20% revenue compounding for the next 6 years led to two bullish notes released this week.
Duolingo (DUOL) will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 index this quarter.
MercadoLibre (MELI) will hire 6,500 people this year in Brazil. That represents nearly 30% Y/Y growth in pace of hiring as it leans into that market.
Lululemon (LULU) is shuttering smaller distribution centers to consolidate into larger facilities. About 100 people will be laid off as a result.
Disney (DIS) received approval for Disneyland expansion from Anaheim’s City Council.
UBS sees continued stabilization in cloud spending for Amazon, Microsoft and Google. It thinks the three will modestly outperform expectations this quarter. The EU also cleared Microsoft’s proposed $13 billion OpenAI investment.

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Meet Brad Freeman, an independent financial analyst on the BBAE blog, and publisher of the popular StockMarketNerd newsletter. He's known for his thorough, candid takes on many of the most widely-held stocks’ earnings reports — and some less-known companies that Brad feels hold promise. When this University of Michigan finance grad isn't sharing his financial wisdom with his readers, he passionately supports his hometown Detroit sports teams. Keep an eye out for Brad's market analysis and insights.

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