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Tuesday's Pre-Market: Zoom, Capital One Discover Acquisition, Amazon and the Dow Jones, Kroger-Albertsons, and Unity shares sink

  • Writer: Mathieu Desfosses
    Mathieu Desfosses
  • Feb 27, 2024
  • 2 min read

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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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