Tuesday's Pre-Market: Zoom, Capital One Discover Acquisition, Amazon and the Dow Jones, Kroger-Albertsons, and Unity shares sink
- Mathieu Desfosses
- Feb 27, 2024
- 2 min read

Zoom shares jump as quarterly results beat on top and bottom lines
Zoom beat estimates for the fiscal fourth quarter.
Growth would have been faster in the fiscal fourth quarter if not for a sales reorganization.
Zoom shares rose as much as 13% in extended trading on Monday.
Jamie Dimon on Capital One’s $35.3 billion Discover acquisition: ‘Let them compete’
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon isn’t worried about the added competition from a bulked-up Capital One if its $35.3 billion takeover of Discover Financial gets approved.
Dimon acknowledged that if regulators approve the Capital One-Discover deal, his bank will be eclipsed as the nation’s biggest credit card lender.
“My view is, let them compete,” Dimon said. “Let them try, and if we think it’s unfair, we’ll complain about that.”
Amazon joins the Dow on Monday, giving the 127-year-old index a needed upgrade as it trails the S&P 500
The Dow is a smaller average than the S&P 500, with just 30 components, and it’s weighted by the share price of the stocks instead of the companies’ total market value.
The three largest tech stocks in the Dow by market capitalization as of Friday were Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce, while key companies such as Nvidia and Alphabet were excluded.
Over the past 12 months, the S&P 500 is up 28%, while the Dow is ahead 19%.
FTC sues to block Kroger, Albertsons merger, arguing deal would raise grocery prices and hurt workers
The FTC and a group of attorneys general have sued to block the merger of Kroger and Albertsons.
In a news release, the federal agency said the deal would result in higher prices for grocery shoppers and lower wages for workers.
Kroger and Albertsons had struck a deal to divest over 400 stores and other assets to try to overcome antitrust concerns.
Unity shares sink on weak guidance
Unity provided a disappointing first-quarter forecast in its earnings report.
The company said going forward, it would only provide revenue guidance for the company’s “strategic portfolio,” which includes its engine, cloud and monetization business units.
Fourth-quarter revenue jumped 35% from a year earlier.




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