Tech Roundup: Earnings experiences, and traders’ responses, dominate week’s exercise

Earnings, earnings, earnings.

It appeared like no matter space of know-how was of curiosity to you, this was the week for earnings to take heart stage, as extra big-name sector leaders turned in a combined bag of quarterly experiences.

Two of the most important names reporting outcomes have been Superior Micro Units (NASDAQ:AMD) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), and the chipmakers initially acquired reverse responses from traders on Wall Road.

AMD (AMD) had already lowered its third-quarter forecasts almost a month earlier than releasing its official outcomes on November 1, after which proceeded to report earnings and gross sales that fell simply shy of its already lowered estimates. Nonetheless, traders put extra religion in AMD’s fourth-quarter outlook than its third-quarter report, and gave the chipmaker’s shares a slight enhance in response.

In the meantime, Qualcomm (QCOM) watched its shares take successful after the communications chipmaker mentioned its cellular handset enterprise will decline at a greater-than-expected fee via the top of the 12 months. The corporate has been transferring to diversify its enterprise past cell phones, however the dimension of the unfavorable response from traders instructed how a lot cell phones nonetheless matter to Wall Road with regards to Qualcomm (QCOM).

Different notable earnings experiences got here from streaming TV platform operator Roku (ROKU), which slumped as a consequence of a disappointing fourth-quarter outlook; Digital Arts (EA), which slipped after reducing its bookings forecast; Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), which gave some extra particulars about its future streaming plans, however nonetheless did not instantly discover favor with traders; Fortinet (FTNT) and Rapid7 (RPD), which each slumped after giving weaker-than-expected enterprise outlooks, and led different safety firm shares into the purple, and FuboTV (FUBO), which obtained a raise after beating earnings expectations and giving an upbeat enterprise outlook.

ServiceNow (NOW) additionally obtained on Wall Road’s good aspect, as its shares climbed greater than 14% within the quick wake of its third-quarter earnings experiences.

However, Twilio (TWLO) may need had the worst of any of the earnings-related decliners, as its shares fell greater than 34% on Friday as Wall Road punished the communications software program firm for its third-quarter outcomes and weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter outlook.

However, earnings experiences weren’t the one happenings happening within the tech sector in the course of the week.

Experience-sharing firm Lyft (LYFT) confirmed in a regulatory submitting that it’s going to lower 13% of its workforce, or simply below 700 jobs, in its second spherical of job cuts since July. Lyft’s (LYFT) job lower announcement got here lower than every week earlier than the corporate is ready to ship its personal third-quarter earnings report.

Chinese language tech corporations akin to Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), JD.com (JD) and Baidu (BIDU) ended the week on an upbeat notice as a consequence of experiences that Beijing could be contemplating an easing of a few of its Covid restrictions.

Nonetheless, uncertainty about Beijing’s intentions remained, particularly following experiences of a widespread Covid-related lockdown in an space the place Foxconn, which is one in all Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) largest producers of iPhones, is positioned.

And presumably in response to ongoing points that preserve affecting its product traces in China, Apple (AAPL) was reported to be including new manufacturing services in India for the iPhone 14.